# Hack Ventures

> Hack Ventures is a VC fund in Osaka-shi backing Software and Manufacturing. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka-shi, Japan
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $660M
- Last fund: Apr 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.hack-ventures.com/

Hack Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in the fields of rehabilitation, support business, and advice on initial public.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 10% |
| SNS | 2 | 7% |
| Sales | 2 | 7% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 23% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 25 | 83% |
| China | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BitClout | BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users.BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network datalike posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale. | $200M | Initial Coin Offering | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| BABY JOB | BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses. | $4.6M |  | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| On The Slope | On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society. | $117.8M | Series G | May 14, 2021 |  |
| On The Slope | On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society. | $7.6M | Series C | May 14, 2021 |  |
| Bankers Holding | Bankers Holding controls the bankers group companies that provide financial services via internet. | $7.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2021 |  |
| LBB | LBB is a mobile order app that allows customers to use their smartphones to order to ease queues when crowded. It also provides a shopping style where customers can order from anywhere and receive them without lining up. It will dramatically improve the customer's store experience and enable new consumption on a daily basis by increasingcustomer satisfaction. It aims to create added value for new experiences so that they can improve the labor force shortage, environmental problems, and the immediate future with LBB solutions, and in the future, they will also carry out various demonstration experiments, considering cooperation with robot technology. | $1.7M | Series A | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| REMODELA | REMODELA provides cloud services to real estate management companies. They can place orders for restoration work, receive estimates for construction projects, and monitor progress on the job site, while contractors choose jobs using a smartphone app. It enables clients to complete building projects more quickly and cheaply while also increasingoperational efficiency. | $468.9K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Lestas | Lestas develops and operates an EC site that produces and sells custom-made products. Their operations listed on their website include a personalized calendar factory, a towel factory, new year's card printing, and greeting card printing websites. The company's objective is to build a future in which everyone can play an active part byeliminating custom order tasks, offering confidence to every business and every person, and celebrating their uniqueness. | $10.7M | Series A | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| Bonx | Bonx provides wearable outdoor sports group-talk technology. Bonx creates and develops Bonx Grip, a water and shock proof unit that enables group conversations between outdoor athletes. | $2.9M | Series C | Apr 27, 2020 |  |
| Trois-re | Trois-re is a Educational Platform | $899.3K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 19, 2020 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Miraidoa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-sumitomo-insuarance-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Senshu Ikeda Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/senshu-ikeda-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation-54d8) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ajinomoto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajinomoto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hack Ventures invest in?

Hack Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hack Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hack Ventures closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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