# Kemuri Ventures

> Kemuri Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Agriculture and Food Processing. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Fund size: $138M
- Last fund: Oct 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kemuriventures/
- Website: https://www.kemuriventures.co.jp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kemuriventures

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$1.9M |
| Series A | $2.1M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 6 | 35% |
| Food Processing | 5 | 29% |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 29% |
| Restaurants | 3 | 18% |
| AgTech | 2 | 12% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 47% |
| Seed | 5 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiroki Okada | Representative Partners | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroki-okada |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AccordX | Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms. | $1.4M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Quantum Flowers & Foods | Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies. | $2.1M | Series A | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| HarvestX | HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production | $2.7M | Series A | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| AlgaleX | AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Towing | Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services. | $6.1M | Series A | May 17, 2023 |  |
| Tablecross | Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants. | $2.2M | Series A | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| byFood.com | ByFood is Japan’s one-stop food platform for food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences, and tastings. ByFood strives to offer rare experiences and make Japanese food accessible for all with filters for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal, and kosher experiences. In doing so, byFood brings locals and visitors together through food andcelebrates Japanese cuisine.In addition, byFood also gives to children in need through our Food for Happiness Program. When you book an experience on byFood, a portion of the proceeds goes toward NGOs that support children in developing countries, giving them access to necessities like nutritious meals, schools, and housing. | $2.2M | Series A | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| AGRIST | AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products. | $6.7M | Series A | Oct 07, 2022 |  |
| Eco-Pork | Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite. | $4.7M | Series A | Apr 22, 2022 |  |
| Integriculture | Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $7M | Series A | Jan 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kemuri Ventures invest in?

Kemuri Ventures invests primarily in Agriculture, Food Processing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Kemuri Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$1.9M at Seed and $2.1M–$7M 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 Kemuri Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Kemuri Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Kemuri Ventures?

The team at Kemuri Ventures includes Hiroki Okada (Representative Partners). 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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