STRIVE
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
STRIVE is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Internet. STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged, hands-on role.
- Total investments:
- 159
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $10B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries STRIVE invests in
Stages STRIVE invests in
Countries STRIVE invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $560k–$6.5M
- Series A
- $1.2M–$20M
- Series B
- $3.3M–$37M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (10%)
- Internet 15 (9%)
- E-Commerce 15 (9%)
- SaaS 14 (9%)
- Marketing 12 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 50 (31%)
- Series A 41 (26%)
- Series B 17 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 13 (8%)
- Series C 9 (6%)
Country
- Japan 63 (40%)
- India 10 (6%)
- Indonesia 8 (5%)
- Singapore 8 (5%)
- United States 4 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajith Isaac
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nikhil Kapur
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
|
Reuven Mirlis
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sean Clifford
Angel Investor
|
Angel Investor | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Siddharth Verma
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios. | Seed / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. | $26.7M / Series C / Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| Testsigma is a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses automate testing for web, mobile, and API applications. It allows testers to create and run tests faster and easier, with features like natural language processing and AI-powered maintenance. Testsigma integrates with popular CI/CD tools and offers a freetrial. | $8.2M / Series A / Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change. | Series C / May 13, 2024 | ||
| Mercado Único is a B2B platform for the distribution and management of opportunistic sales of Consumer Goods that are close to expiration and slow-moving, connecting suppliers (manufacturers/distributors) to buyers (retailers/distributors) with items that have predictable and immediate use at discounted prices. | $395K / Pre-Seed / Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers | $6.5M / Seed / Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Testsigma is a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses automate testing for web, mobile, and API applications. It allows testers to create and run tests faster and easier, with features like natural language processing and AI-powered maintenance. Testsigma integrates with popular CI/CD tools and offers a freetrial. | Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers | $1.3M / Seed / Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Bytebeam is a one stop IoT platform providing solutions such as over the air updates, device to mobile sync, data visualization, alerting, etc | $3M / Seed / May 12, 2022 | ||
| SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers | $1M / Seed / May 01, 2022 | ||
| See all 159 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does STRIVE invest in?
STRIVE invests primarily in Software, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 159 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 STRIVE invest in?
STRIVE typically joins rounds of $560k–$6.5M at Seed, $1.2M–$20M at Series A and $3.3M–$37M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not STRIVE's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds STRIVE took part in.
How do I contact STRIVE?
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Who are the partners at STRIVE?
The team at STRIVE includes Ajith Isaac (Investment Manager), Nikhil Kapur (Partner) and Reuven Mirlis (Investor), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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