# KDDI Open Innovation Fund

> KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Internet. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kddi-corporation
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/au_official
- Website: http://www.kddi.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aubykddi

KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.3M–$142M |
| Series B | $8M–$553M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 22% |
| Internet | 13 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 12% |
| Mobile | 9 | 9% |

160 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 27 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 19 | 19% |
| Series A | 17 | 17% |
| Seed | 13 | 13% |
| Series C | 11 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 49 | 49% |
| United States | 22 | 22% |
| Israel | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| South Korea | 2 | 2% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RevComm | RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management. | $20.5M | Series B | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Starlight Engine | Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies. | $37.4M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Recho | Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent. | $1.3M | Series A | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Resemble AI | Resemble AI creates custom voices using proprietary deep-learning models that can produce realistic speech synthesis. It allows users to transform their voice into the target voice with real-time speech-to-speech. Granular control over every inflection and intonation. | $13M |  | Dec 07, 2025 |  |
| Antway | Antway operate a food delivery service called Tsukurioki.jp for busy dual-working households. | $21.1M | Series D | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| SKY FARM | Sky Farm is a platform for restaurants' and shops' ordering systems. They provide an ordering system to make delivery, takeout, and table orders. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Deeping Source | Our core technology is data anonymization. More specifically, we delete all personally identifiable information (PII) from image/video and keep data usability for AI inference and training. We owns the IP and world-wide patents on that area. Based on the core data anonymization technology, we developed two AI products. 1. AI video analyticssolution (+Insight): Thank to using our technology, we can enable existing CCTV video footage without violating privacy law to understand people journey and dwell time in any space. This solution is mainly applied in retail, exhibition center, showroom to provide insights about visitors in the space. 2. Data anonymization for autonomous driving AI (SEAL): to develop high accurate autonomous driving solution, gathering huge amount of image/video dataset from real field is a crucial task. However, collecting such image/video data from real field by using camera sensor cause violation of privacy law like GDPR. Our data anonymization technology makes it possible. We delete all personally identifiable information (PII) from image/video during data collection process or from existing stored dataset. So a company who need to collect huge amount of real field dataset can use our solution to make their own dataset. |  | Series B | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| New Innovations | New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack oftalent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin. | $8M | Series B | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Findy | Findy Japan helps engineering organizations and individuals improve their development experiences. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing technology to provide innovative human resources services, with a focus on engineering recruitment. Findy was created by fusing algorithms and humanity. will build a universal platformon which all engineers can take on challenges without fear. Individual opportunities should be created, organizational productivity should be improved, and a virtuous cycle for human resources in society should be established. | $14.4M | Series D | May 26, 2025 |  |
| 10x | 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping. | $14.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 28, 2025 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 57 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [KDDI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kddi) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [NTT DOCOMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ntt-docomo-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does KDDI Open Innovation Fund invest in?

KDDI Open Innovation Fund invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is KDDI Open Innovation Fund's check size?

KDDI Open Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$142M at Series A and $8M–$553M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KDDI Open Innovation Fund participates in.

### When did KDDI Open Innovation Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for KDDI Open Innovation Fund closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 101 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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