# Kanosei Ventures

> Kanosei Ventures is a VC fund backing Bitcoin, Content and Fashion. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Kanosei Ventures is a VC fund focused on Bitcoin and Content. WEB3

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.5M–$7.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 17% |
| Content | 1 | 17% |
| Fashion | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 1 | 17% |
| Croatia | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oyl | Oyl offers customers access to the latest trading tools in a single application. Oyl additionally provides an eponymous browser-based wallet enabling inscription swapping within the wallet. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| CYBR Magazine | CYBR Magazine is a augmented reality enabled magazine and collective focused on future and tech-culture |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Tribute Brand | TRIBUTE BRAND is a high-end digital fashion brand and a fashion tech house known as one of the biggest pioneers in this field and famous for its characteristic contactless & cyber aesthetics. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| ARTISANT | ARTISANT - is a web3 digital fashion House. We unite artists, digital fashion designers, traditional brands, and tech to provide an opportunity not only to purchase wearable art as NFT but instantly use it. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| ARTISANT | ARTISANT - is a web3 digital fashion House. We unite artists, digital fashion designers, traditional brands, and tech to provide an opportunity not only to purchase wearable art as NFT but instantly use it. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Aww | Aww Inc. is Japan's first virtual human company. (https://aww.tokyo/)Our company has produced several virtual humans since 2018, including "imma" , "plusticboy" and "Ria".Since "imma" was born on social media in 2018, more than 1 million fans have followed our virtual humans’ socialmedia channels, and our virtual humans have been featured in more than 5000 media outlets across 50 countries. Our most popular human, "imma" has starred in campaigns for well-known global brands such as Porsche, SK-II, IKEA, Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino, and Amazon Fashion, and most recently appeared in a 2020 TV commercial for the global ice cream brand "Magnum" broadcasted throughout China.- Campaigns in which imma participated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnOqerPGxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oZDUjqmUDUIn order to develop the world's highest quality virtual humans, our company has developed our own proprietary "MASTER MODEL™", the essential technology optimized to create virtual humans. We will not only continue to produce our own virtual humans, but also work with partner companies and celebrities for new virtual human productions. With support from Epic Games’ MegaGrant program and using their Unreal Engine, we hope to pioneer “real-time 3DCG” and “digital fashion” in the 5G and XR era. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Red DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/red-dao) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antalpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antalpha) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arca-5fb9) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avid3](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avid3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kanosei Ventures invest in?

Kanosei Ventures invests primarily in Bitcoin, Content and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kanosei Ventures's check size?

Kanosei Ventures typically joins rounds of $4.5M–$7.5M 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 Kanosei Ventures participates in.

### When did Kanosei Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kanosei Ventures closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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