# Kintetsu Venture Partners

> Kintetsu Venture Partners is a VC fund in Osaka backing Software, SaaS and Travel. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/近鉄グループホールディングス（株）
- Website: https://www.kintetsu-g-hd.co.jp/venture/

Kintetsu Venture Partners is a corporate venture capital of the Kintetsu Group. The firm aims to create new businesses and opening up a bright future through collaborative creation with venture companies. Kintetsu Venture Partners was founded in 2018 and based in Osaka, Japan.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1.2M–$6.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 36% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Travel | 2 | 14% |
| Reservations | 2 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 14% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 36% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 11 | 79% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nagasuna Mayu | Nagasuna Mayu is a manufacturing firm that also conduct research on their silk material. | $1.2M | Series B | Sep 27, 2024 |  |
| Alt | Alt is an AI technology company that develops “Personal Artificial Intelligence” systems. Their product suite includes AI GIJIROKU (automatic transcription), altBrain, CLONEdev, altTalk, and the EMETH GPU Pool infrastructure. They also offer enterprise AI solutions and cloud infrastructure for data storage and processing. | $269.3M |  | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Silva Compass | Silva Compass offers business support systems for businesses in the medical and nursing care fields that use software applications. They also offer planning, development, sales, and consulting for big data collection and analysis businesses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Bravesoft | bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service. | $6.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| KabuK Style | KabuK Style provides services that combines co -working spaces, accommodation facilities and cafes.Our service will be started from Nagasaki and We aim to expand the services all over the world. | $1.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Timee | Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company. | $12.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2020 |  |
| SORA | MagicPrice - Pricing AI for Hotels |  | Series B | May 12, 2020 |  |
| ATOUN | ATOUN is a robotics company that manufactures robots for humans for more physical freedom. They put their knowledge of robots and experiences gained through power assist machinery development to further use, by working on prototyping, commissioned developments and consultancies. Its major product is POWERED WEAR, a wearable robot. |  |  | Dec 10, 2019 |  |
| AirX | AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. | $18.4M | Series A | Aug 07, 2019 |  |
| Wovn Technologies | WOVN Technologies offers website localization service that translates a website into multiple languages. The company aims to make website multilingualization and localization straight-forward, simple, and accessible to anyone from a website developer, to a blogger. | $198.4M |  | Jun 05, 2019 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mynavi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mynavi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ag-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bonds Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonds-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ENEOS Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eneos-innovation-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kintetsu Venture Partners invest in?

Kintetsu Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Travel startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kintetsu Venture Partners's check size?

Kintetsu Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$6.3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kintetsu Venture Partners participates in.

### When did Kintetsu Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kintetsu Venture Partners closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 14 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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