# Hirofumi Miki

> Hirofumi Miki is a seed investor at Ipoca (Shibuya) backing Content and Internet. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ipoca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ipoca)
- Location: Shibuya, Japan
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hirofumi.miki

Hirofumi Miki is a seed investor at Ipoca in Shibuya focused on Content and Internet. After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $764k–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 4 | 15% |
| Internet | 3 | 11% |
| Marketing | 3 | 11% |
| Task Management | 3 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 11% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 74% |
| Angel | 5 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Compass | Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology | $1.5M | Series B | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| Ai-Dounyu.com | Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free. | $319.6K | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Go Visions | Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 30, 2020 |  |
| Epicbase | Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology. | $763.6K | Seed | Mar 19, 2020 |  |
| AceRNA Technologies | AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Smartround | Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 06, 2019 |  |
| WATASHIHA | WATASHIHA is a communication company. | $6M | Seed | Dec 25, 2018 |  |
| Elaly | Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy. | $2.8M | Seed | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| GMO Flatt Security | Flatt Security is a cyber security company for all developers. | $3.8M | Seed | Apr 17, 2018 |  |
| Voicy | Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations, the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from favorite voices. As it enters the age of IoT, interfaces have begun to evolve into seamless forms, such as AR, that allow to access information without stopping daily lives, but in this era,it has focused on the ear. | $4M | Angel | Feb 02, 2018 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [STRIVE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beyond Next Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-next-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ipoca

VC Fund · Shibuya, Japan

Ipoca is a digital solution business for retail and distribution companies. It offers an in-store information platform for real stores. Ipoca contributes to the revitalization of the local economy and the Japanese economy by encouraging the mobility of people by discovering the charm of the town.The company was established in 2007 and isheadquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

5 contacts available at Ipoca.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hirofumi Miki | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hirofumi-miki |
| Ichinose Taku | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ichinose-taku |
| Jun Inada | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-inada |
| Kazumasa Yamauchi | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazumasa-yamauchi |
| Shuji Kono | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shuuji-kawano |

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## FAQ

### What does Hirofumi Miki invest in?

Hirofumi Miki invests primarily in Content, Internet and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hirofumi Miki's check size?

Hirofumi Miki typically joins rounds of $764k–$16M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hirofumi Miki participates in.

### When did Hirofumi Miki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hirofumi Miki closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 27 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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