# Shinji Kimura > Shinji Kimura is a seed investor at AnyPay (Tokyo) backing FinTech and Software. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [AnyPay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anypay) - Location: Tokyo, Japan - Total investments: 27 - Last investment: Nov 2024 - Lead investor: 33% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shinzizm - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shinzizm2 - Website: https://x.com/shinzizm2 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shinzizm Shinji Kimura is a seed investor at AnyPay in Tokyo focused on FinTech and Software. Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Seed | $150k–$107M | | Series B | $5M–$220M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | FinTech | 6 | 22% | | Software | 5 | 19% | | Financial Services | 5 | 19% | | E-Commerce | 4 | 15% | | Information Technology | 4 | 15% | 48 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 8 | 30% | | Series B | 5 | 19% | | Funding Round | 5 | 19% | | Series G | 2 | 7% | | Angel | 1 | 4% | 9 stages tracked in total. ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 6 | 22% | | India | 4 | 15% | | Japan | 4 | 15% | | Sweden | 1 | 4% | | Thailand | 1 | 4% | 6 countries tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Easy Home Finance | Easy Home Finance is a mortgage-tech startup. | $35M | Series B | Nov 05, 2024 | | | Drifting in Space | Drifting in Space develops server infrastructure for designing browser-based tools. The company develops Jamsocket, a platform for building applications with session-lived backends and also publishes open-source libraries, like Spawner and Aper. Its platform aims at deploying session-lived backends technology without building infrastructure suchthat every request sent from the frontend to the backend contains all the information needed to fulfill it.The company was co-founded in 2022 by Taylor Baldwin and Paul Butler and is headquartered in New York. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 11, 2022 | | | slice | slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. | $220M | Series B | Nov 29, 2021 | | | slice | slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 28, 2021 | | | Brhino | Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $62.2M | | Dec 15, 2020 | | | slice | slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. | $6.1M | Series B | Jun 25, 2020 | | | slice | slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. | $6.1M | Series B | Jun 25, 2020 | | | slice | slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. | $1.4M | Debt Financing | Oct 20, 2019 | | | Easy Home Finance | Easy Home Finance is a mortgage-tech startup. | | Seed | Jul 29, 2019 | | | Instamojo | Instamojo is an on-demand payments platform that enables entrepreneurs to build, manage, and grow their business online. With transactions being a key part of every business, Instamojo pioneers 'Payment Links' in India, an easy-to-start and easy-to-integrate​ payment solution, enabling entrepreneurs and businesses to quickly get startedwith collecting payments online.Instamojo also provides a suite of services and products which enable sellers to create a store online, uncover insights into their store behavior, and use that to scale their business further. | $7M | Series B | Jan 16, 2019 | | 10 of 27 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Gunosy Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gunosy-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About AnyPay VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan AnyPay is developing business in the blockchain and settlement spaces, its mission is "To create a society enveloped by technology." In the payment business, the company provides settlement service. In the blockchain arena, it is developing ICO advisory business and has established blockchain specialist JV LayerX with Gunosy Inc. Inaddition to business development, it is also developing investment business, investing in companies and projects in and outside Japan in the fintech and sharing economy fields. 3 contacts available at AnyPay. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Shinji Kimura | Chairman/Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kimura-shinji | | Takafumi Inoe | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takafumi-inoe | | Tomohiro Nakamura | Director and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomohiro-nakamura | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund - [Citi Impact Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-impact-fund) — VC Fund - [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund - [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund - [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [LGBT Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/lgbt-angel-investors) - [LGBT Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/lgbt-investors-united-states) - [LGBT Angel Investors in United States](https://shizune.co/investors/lgbt-angel-investors-united-states) - [LGBT Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/lgbt-investors) - [Recruiting Investors in Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/recruiting-investors-japan) - [Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/artificial-intelligence-angel-investors-japan) ## FAQ ### What does Shinji Kimura invest in? Shinji Kimura invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Shinji Kimura's check size? Shinji Kimura typically joins rounds of $150k–$107M at Seed and $5M–$220M 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 Shinji Kimura participates in. ### When did Shinji Kimura last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Shinji Kimura closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 27 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? 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