# Fuji Startup Ventures

> Fuji Startup Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo backing E-Commerce and News. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 32%
- Fund size: $736M
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.fujistartup.co.jp

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$28M |
| Series A | $4.3M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 23% |
| News | 3 | 14% |
| Internet | 3 | 14% |
| Social Media | 3 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 9 | 41% |
| Seed | 5 | 23% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 18 | 82% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Osamu Kanemitsu | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/osamu-kanemitsu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PeaceTecLab | PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business. | $20.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Tasogare | Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee. | $41.1M | Series B | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| The ROOM4D | The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company. |  | Series A | Aug 07, 2020 |  |
| TRiCERA | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |  |  | Apr 05, 2019 |  |
| CAPSULE Japan | Capsule is a global company that supports the next generation. Focusing on support for creators, |  |  | Apr 05, 2019 |  |
| JX Press | 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 | Machine Learning Solutions is a Artificial Intelligence platform. |  | Seed | Sep 27, 2017 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DK Gate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dk-gate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Globe Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globe-advisors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mobile Internet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobile-internet-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pony Canyon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pony-canyon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B Dash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-dash-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CBC Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cbc-group-b40f) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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 Funding Round 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 is Fuji Startup Ventures's check size?

Fuji Startup Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$28M at Seed and $4.3M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fuji Startup Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Fuji Startup Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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