# FreakOut Holdings

> FreakOut Holdings is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/freakoutholdings/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FreakOut_Garage
- Website: https://www.fout.co.jp/en/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freakoutholdings

FreakOut Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Information Technology. FreakOut is a marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms. Its products include DMP that is used to analyze data; and demand-side platform (DSP), a platform for real-time ad inventory transactions in internet advertising. The company also offers RTB (real-time biting), to analyze the web browsing information of a user;FreakOut DSP which is used to collect marketing information; and FreakOut DMP, a DMP corresponding to the smartphone and PC to optimize digital marketing.FreakOut, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $747k–$14M |
| Series A | $102k–$47M |
| Series B | $10M–$59M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 20% |
| Internet | 4 | 16% |
| Marketing | 4 | 16% |
| Finance | 3 | 12% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 32% |
| Seed | 5 | 20% |
| Series B | 4 | 16% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 12 | 48% |
| India | 2 | 8% |
| Singapore | 2 | 8% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yuzuru Honda | Founder & Global CEO | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuzuru-honda |
| Akashi Nobuyuki | Executive officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akashi-nobuyuki |
| Keiji Tokiyoshi | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiji-tokiyoshi |
| Koji Mizoguchi | Executive officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koji-mizoguchi |
| Kotaro Yokoyama | CFO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotaro-yokoyama |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FLASH | FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup. | $8.2M | Seed | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Coco | Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat. | $2M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| 91springboard | 91springboard is a co-working company that provides part-time office solutions for startups, business owners, and small to large companies. The company offers 24×7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.91springboard was founded in 2012 by Anand Vemuri, Pranay Gupta, Varun Chawla,and Deepak Sharma. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 23, 2020 |  |
| Progate | Progate is a service that you can learn programming online. | $2.7M | Series A | Feb 17, 2020 |  |
| StaffAny | StaffAny is a computer software company that specializes in providing technical software solutions for timesheets scheduling, payslips, and human resources. Its platform focuses on workforce management solution for companies that engage in hourly workers. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore. | $747K | Seed | Aug 18, 2019 |  |
| CAMPFIRE | Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people. | $20M | Series C | May 10, 2019 |  |
| Stockbit | Stockbit adalah komunitas investasi di Indonesia. Stockbit memberi ruang bagi investor dan trader untuk berbagi ide, berita dan informasi keuangan lainya secara real-time. Pengguna bisa membuat profil dan mengikuti saham tertentu atau investor favorit untuk mendapatkan informasi berharga dan bertukar pikiran. | $4M | Series A | May 03, 2019 |  |
| Creator Ninja | Creator Ninja is a software and application development company. |  | Seed | Apr 10, 2019 |  |
| SilverPush | SilverPush offers artificial intelligence-powered advertising technology solutions. Helping some of the largest brands globally, to understand and reach their customers, like never before. With its deep learning and computer vision powered platform MIRRORS, SilverPush helps brands discover their most relevant audience through context-relevantvideo ad placement targeting, in a fully controlled and brand-safe environment. And Parallels, a real-time moment marketing platform helps brands and consumers connect meaningfully through a multitude of real-life live moments. |  | Series B | Feb 19, 2019 |  |
| 91springboard | 91springboard is a co-working company that provides part-time office solutions for startups, business owners, and small to large companies. The company offers 24×7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.91springboard was founded in 2012 by Anand Vemuri, Pranay Gupta, Varun Chawla,and Deepak Sharma. | $10.2M | Series B | Dec 17, 2018 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ceres](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceres-inc-) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FreakOut Holdings invest in?

FreakOut Holdings invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FreakOut Holdings's check size?

FreakOut Holdings typically joins rounds of $747k–$14M at Seed, $102k–$47M at Series A and $10M–$59M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FreakOut Holdings participates in.

### How do I contact FreakOut Holdings?

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### Who are the partners at FreakOut Holdings?

The team at FreakOut Holdings includes Yuzuru Honda (Founder & Global CEO), Akashi Nobuyuki (Executive officer) and Keiji Tokiyoshi (Chairman), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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