Kuroneko Innovation Fund
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Kuroneko Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Kuroneko Innovation Fund operates as a corporate venture capital firm. The fund is jointly established by Yamato Holdings and Global Brain Corporation.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Kuroneko Innovation Fund invests in
Stages Kuroneko Innovation Fund invests in
Countries Kuroneko Innovation Fund invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $2.3M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Logistics 3 (20%)
- Supply Chain Management 3 (20%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- Food and Beverage 2 (13%)
- B2B 1 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (40%)
- Series B 3 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Country
- Japan 7 (47%)
- China 1 (7%)
- Malaysia 1 (7%)
- South Korea 1 (7%)
- United States 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike. | Series A / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| WATT is an innovative startup focused on transforming indoor logistics by providing fully automated delivery solutions powered by intelligent robots. These robots are designed to autonomously navigate complex indoor environments—such as offices, hospitals, hotels, and residential buildings—efficiently moving between rooms and even across differentfloors using elevators and advanced mapping systems. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry. | $8.6M / Series A / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Secai Marche is a platform for restaurants to purchase high-quality products directly from farmers. Its mission is to help build more economically-viable and sustainable small-scale farms around the world through an improved access to quality and delicious food. | $2.3M / Series A / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Shinkei Systems is a robotic company intended to minimize fish waste and multiply shelf-life. It offer key point inference, depth perception, surgical accuracy, species and production tracking to the fishing industry, enabling fishing businesses to remove labor costs and speed up processing without any error. | $22M / Series A / Jun 13, 2025 | ||
| Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018. | $1.4M / Seed / Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| HIVED is a sustainable parcel delivery business for the 21st century. From the middle to final mile, we are revolutionising the post-purchase experience, building solutions that reduce waste and provide unparalleled visibility and insight to shippers and recipients alike. | $2.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 15, 2024 | ||
| Youshi Technology is an automation company specializing in computer vision-based automatic driving of small unmanned vehicles. | Series B / Aug 19, 2024 | ||
| Pale Blue provides a variety of water propulsion systems with high-performance, affordable price, short-lead time, and reliability. | $16.1M / Series B / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Style Port is the developer of ROOV, an Internet VR platform that helps real estate agents to advertise and enables users to visualize the interior of a property. The platform offers walkthroughs, furniture placement simulation, indoor measurement, and more. | $4.7M / Series D / Oct 04, 2023 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kuroneko Innovation Fund invest in?
Kuroneko Innovation Fund invests primarily in Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kuroneko Innovation Fund invest in?
Kuroneko Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$22M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kuroneko Innovation Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kuroneko Innovation Fund took part in.
When did Kuroneko Innovation Fund last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kuroneko Innovation Fund closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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