# kaonavi

> kaonavi is a VC fund in Osaka backing Sales, Bitcoin and Finance. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaonavi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kaonavi_jp
- Website: http://www.kaonavi.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaonavi/

kaonavi is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Sales and Bitcoin. Kaonavi is provide cloud human resource management.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for kaonavi. Shizune tracks 9 team members at kaonavi. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/kaonavi?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$2.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sales | 1 | 25% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 2 | 50% |
| Singapore | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiroki Yanagihashi | Founder, President & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroki-yanagihashi |
| Takehito Fujita | Executive officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takehito-fujita |
| Adachi Masaharu | Outside Audit & Supervisory | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adachi-masaharu |
| Hiroyuki Sato | Executive Vice President and COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroyuki-sato-94e6 |
| Hiroyuki Yamada | Outside Corporate Auditors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroyuki-yamada-3bf0 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Panalyt | Panalyt bridges the People-Data Gap, enabling real-time, uniform access to relevant people data, reports and insights for CxOs, HR and business managers.People data, including employee interactions and connections is combined with business data, catalyzing new insights and intelligence.Predictive analytics moves the business from reactive toproactive, identifying correlations and points of intervention.The People Enhanced Data movement empowers businesses to leapfrog to data-driven HR decision making, eliminating bias and improving engagement, sales effectiveness, productivity and, as a result, business performance.“Panalyt is the only multi-source analytics platform in our study that also offers ONA to analyze digital collaboration and communication based on passive data. The company further integrates sales and business data, allowing line managers to identify and focus on areas critical to them.” - RedThread Research's People Analytics Tech 2020 Report | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 28, 2021 | https://www.panalyt.com/ |
| Communitio | Community tail, is a service that can issue the original in-house currency wearing a company-specific name. | $36.9M |  | Jun 23, 2021 | https://communitio.jp/ |
| Communitio | Community tail, is a service that can issue the original in-house currency wearing a company-specific name. | $2.3M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 | https://communitio.jp/ |
| HALEURTO | HALEURTO is an agricultural labor management system manufacturing, selling, and support company. |  | Seed | Aug 24, 2020 | https://haleruto.com/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [XTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xtech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chiba Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chiba-dojo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does kaonavi invest in?

kaonavi invests primarily in Sales, Bitcoin and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is kaonavi's check size?

kaonavi typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$2.4M 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 kaonavi participates in.

### How do I contact kaonavi?

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### Who are the partners at kaonavi?

The team at kaonavi includes Hiroki Yanagihashi (Founder, President & CEO), Takehito Fujita (Executive officer) and Adachi Masaharu (Outside Audit & Supervisory), among 9 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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