# Kips

> Kips is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.kips.co.jp/

Kips is a venture fund focused on investing in early-stage startups in Japan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| Travel | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Task Management | 2 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ecommit | Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis |  | Series A | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| AVA Intelligence | AVA Intelligence provides AI development, internet service development, and provisioning services. Their services include travel information site that allows searching by travel purpose and conditions, all trip information including sightseeing spots, restaurants, hotels, and activities, and AI offers personalized travel suggestions tailored to theindividual's interests and travel conditions. | $848.2K |  | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Ecommit | Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis | $6.3M | Series A | Oct 13, 2023 |  |
| Co-LABO MAKER | Co-LABO MAKER is a service that matches research equipment that can be used on an hourly or daily basis and organizations. | $1.3M | Series A | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| AMI | AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing. | $6.3M | Series B | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| One Act | One Act Inc. is a global startup engaged in system development and software development. Headquarter based in Japan, having business centers in France and India too. We are developing and managing web service "PieceX", the world's first source code marketplace with dynamic pricing by AI. By trading software components on a globalscale, PieceX allows Seller companies to earn new income from the source code itself and Buyer companies to save 90% on software development time and costs by purchasing guaranteed, ready-to-use source codes. PieceX creates a place where anyone in the world can rapidly develop new services. | $500K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| TrueBizon | TrueBizon is a Startup to provide a sharing service over the sky using a drone. | $3.5M |  | Jul 05, 2019 |  |
| Tripla | Tripla provides IT services for various industries such as hotels, railways, travel-related, restaurants, real estate, and apparel. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in Japan that aims to provide a platform where any tourists can make any reservations they want to make in their language through any chat and voice platforms. It provides theservice to hundreds of customers like hotels, rent- a- car companies, transportation companies that provide services to tourists. Tripla chatbot, a BPO service that solves daily inquiry cost reduction and multilingual support at once, has been well received by customers due to its learning AI and double support from operators who are familiar with the industry. Also, the new hotel reservation engine equipped with the OTA price comparison of each company and the automatic best rate adjustment function has significantly increased the ratio of in-house reservations and contributed to the improvement of profitability. | $85M | Series C | Jun 11, 2019 |  |
| MILE SHARE | MileShare is funded with points and mileage shares from various mile providers in and outside Japan.This is a point / mile sharing service that can be used by airlines around the world. By matching Mile Providers that can share points and miles around the world with users who want to fly on the Mile Share service, we will realize a new way offlying, "Sharing Flight".MileShare proposes the effective use of point miles so that people around the world can live a more comfortable life. |  | Seed | May 27, 2019 |  |
| Biome | Biome is a major in image analysis technology with IchiJoho System at Kyoto University graduate school and Genroku | $14.2M | Seed | Feb 07, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Infrastructure Management Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-infrastructure-management-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [As One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/as-one) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Change Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/change-e8a6) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chubu Electric Power](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chubu-electric-power-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kips invest in?

Kips invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kips last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kips closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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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