# STRIVE

> STRIVE is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and E-Commerce. See 145 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 145
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 32%
- Fund size: $10B
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/strive-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/strive_jp
- Website: https://strive.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/strive.vc/

STRIVE is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and E-Commerce. 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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for STRIVE. Shizune tracks 11 team members at STRIVE. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/gree-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$33M |
| Series A | $2M–$142M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 13 | 9% |
| SaaS | 12 | 8% |
| Internet | 12 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 7% |

154 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 44 | 30% |
| Series A | 38 | 26% |
| Series B | 16 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 11% |
| Series C | 8 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 59 | 41% |
| India | 10 | 7% |
| Indonesia | 8 | 6% |
| Singapore | 6 | 4% |
| United States | 4 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ajith Isaac | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajith-isaac |
| Nikhil Kapur | Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikhil-kapur |
| Reuven Mirlis | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reuven-mirlis |
| Sean Clifford | Angel Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-clifford-47e5 |
| Siddharth Verma | Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siddharth-verma-ed5d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Recompound | 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 | Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. | $26.7M | Series C | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Testsigma | 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 | YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change. |  | Series C | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Mercado Único | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 145 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Globis Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globis-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [GMO VenturePartners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gmo-venturepartners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [ITOCHU Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does STRIVE invest in?

STRIVE invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 145 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is STRIVE's check size?

STRIVE typically joins rounds of $800k–$33M at Seed and $2M–$142M 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 STRIVE participates in.

### How do I contact STRIVE?

Public channels for STRIVE include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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