# IT-Farm

> IT-Farm is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Health Care. See 127 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 127
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/it-farm-corporation/
- Website: https://www.it-farm.com/en/

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7.5M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 18% |
| Health Care | 17 | 13% |
| Medical | 12 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 9% |
| Biotechnology | 9 | 7% |

135 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 34 | 27% |
| Series A | 26 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 18 | 14% |
| Series B | 14 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 46 | 36% |
| Japan | 16 | 13% |
| Germany | 6 | 5% |
| Vietnam | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Nguyen | General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-nguyen |
| Morio Kurosaki | Founder & President | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morio-kurosaki |
| Shinya Kasuga | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shinya-kasuga |
| Takashi Mukaibayashi | VP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-mukaibayashi |
| Takehiro Shirai | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takehiro-shirai |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luup | Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $28.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| Instalimb | Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business. It uses advanced 3D printing, 3D-CAD, and machine-learning technologies to produce affordable, high-quality prosthetic legs. By integrating these tools into its manufacturing process, the company delivers reliable and low-cost 3D-printed prosthetics and orthotics. | $7.3M | Series B | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| CROSS SYNC | The company was founded in October 2019 by Dr. Takaki, a Japanese intensivist with more than 20-year experience in critical care medicine, from his strong desire of wanting to decrease preventable death and sudden changes in patient conditions while in the ICU. CROSS SYNC’s vision is to provide ICU-level medical treatment anywhere. The mission isto help and assist medical professionals utilizing the power of technology so that they can provide high-quality medical care even in an environment where there is a shortage of specialist physicians, and to ensure the best patient outcomes. As a Yokohama University certified startup, CROSS SYNC develops a variety of AI clinical assistant tools in collaboration with affiliated hospitals, the school of medicine, and the department of health data science. By delivering our AI-based platform to acute care settings all over the world, we aim to create a world without avoidable deaths and preventable acute changes for in-patients. | $966.5K | Series A | Jan 31, 2025 |  |
| EMobi | EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do. | $36M | Series B | May 07, 2024 |  |
| EV Motors Japan | EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry. | $10.8M | Series D | Mar 29, 2024 |  |
| Ac-Planta | Ac-Planta manufactures the product Skeepon, which can promote the adaptability of plants to heat and drought conditions. Skeepon is a radical agricultural solution that can address climate change issues by using cutting-edge epigenetics technology. The company aims to maximize the potential of plant epigenetics to improve how humans and plantsinteract in climate change. | $3.2M | Series A | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| TopoLogic | TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials. | $99.2M |  | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| TopoLogic | TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials. | $4.7M | Series A | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| German Bionic | German Bionic is backed by renowned international technology investors such as Samsung Catalyst Fund, Storm Ventures, and MIG, which is also invested in Covid-19 vaccine developer BioNTech. The company and its products are regularly featured in top-tier publications and are the recipients of numerous awards, including the German Entrepreneur Award,the Land of Ideas Award, the Automatica Award, as well as a nomination for Hannover Messe’s coveted Hermes Award.The German Bionic Cray X is the world’s first connected exoskeleton. Linked to the Smart Factory, it self-learns to reinforce lifting movements and prevent incorrect posture, thus becoming an intelligent link between humans and machines. In doing so, it delivers data that underscores its ability to protect the health of workers, measurably reduce the risk of accidents, and thereby make quantifiable improvements to work processes. | $16.1M | Series A | Dec 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 127 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Darwin Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-venture-management) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Arkitekt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arkitekt-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NFP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfp-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Phoenix Insurance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phoenix-insurance) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [UTokyo Innovation Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utokyo-innovation-platform) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IT-Farm invest in?

IT-Farm invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 127 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is IT-Farm's check size?

IT-Farm typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7.5M at Seed and $1.6M–$16M 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 IT-Farm participates in.

### How do I contact IT-Farm?

Public channels for IT-Farm include LinkedIn 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 IT-Farm?

The team at IT-Farm includes Julien Nguyen (General Partner), Morio Kurosaki (Founder & President) and Shinya Kasuga (General Partner), among 6 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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