Fuji Startup Ventures
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Fuji Startup Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on E-Commerce and News. Fuji Startup Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings, specializes in startup to early stage investments.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
- Fund size:
- $46M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Fuji Startup Ventures invests in
Stages Fuji Startup Ventures invests in
Countries Fuji Startup Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $978k–$2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.6M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (23%)
- News 3 (14%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
- Social Media 3 (14%)
- Information Technology 3 (14%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (27%)
- Seed 5 (23%)
- Funding Round 4 (18%)
- Series A 3 (14%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
Country
- Japan 18 (82%)
- China 1 (5%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Osamu Kanemitsu
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business. | $20.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee. | $41.1M / Series B / Apr 29, 2021 | ||
| The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company. | Series A / Aug 07, 2020 | ||
| TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide. | $14.9M / Series A / May 14, 2020 | ||
| TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide. | $978K / Seed / May 14, 2020 | ||
| Picable is a developer of a mobile application intended to help users watch videos and browse websites while chatting with people who are far away. The application offers users the ability to synchronize the scroll position and see the same screen as the other party is looking at, enabling them to do multiple functions at the same time. | Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2020 | ||
| CAPSULE provides digital promotion support services. They also provide human resource development, SNS marketing track record, social media marketing, website design, and digital promotion services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 05, 2019 | ||
| Capsule is a global company that supports the next generation. Focusing on support for creators, | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 05, 2019 | ||
| The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters | $3M / Series C / Apr 12, 2018 | ||
| Machine Learning Solutions is a Artificial Intelligence platform. | Seed / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| See all 22 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Fuji Startup Ventures invest in?
Fuji Startup Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, News and Internet startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Fuji Startup Ventures invest in?
Fuji Startup Ventures typically joins rounds of $978k–$2M at Seed and $1.6M–$21M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fuji Startup Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fuji Startup Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Fuji Startup Ventures?
The team at Fuji Startup Ventures includes Osamu Kanemitsu (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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