# Ken Soga

> Ken Soga is a seed investor in Tokyo backing Music, Content and E-Commerce. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Ken Soga is an individual investor.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $457k–$9.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 2 | 20% |
| Content | 2 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Service Industry | 2 | 20% |
| Art | 1 | 10% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kids Snack Lab | Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children. | $456.7K | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Tooon | Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools . |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| iiba | Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing. |  | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| Monoun | Mono.un provides users with opportunities to meet authors and collaborate on tales and specializes in bringing exciting experiences full of stories of Japanese culture to the world. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2024 |  |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $6.2M | Series D | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Best Beer Japan | Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018. | $608.9K | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Univrs | UNIVRS is a popular market and entertainment platform. | $9.9M | Seed | Oct 08, 2019 |  |
| SAKELOGY | SAKELOGY is a platform enables restaurants and retailers to easily create cloud-based sake menus. | $6M | Seed | Jun 26, 2019 |  |
| Best Beer Japan | Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 31, 2018 |  |
| Volve Creative | Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [mixi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mixi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Adlib Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adlib-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Regional Revitalization Solution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asu Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asu-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chihou Sousei Solution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chihou-sousei-solution) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CUEBiC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cubic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ken Soga invest in?

Ken Soga invests primarily in Music, Content and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ken Soga's check size?

Ken Soga typically joins rounds of $457k–$9.9M 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 Ken Soga participates in.

### When did Ken Soga last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ken Soga closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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