# Lead Capital Management

> Lead Capital Management is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and E-Commerce. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://leadcapital.jp

Lead Capital Management is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and E-Commerce. Lead Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in various industries. The company was founded in 2006 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 14% |
| CRM | 1 | 7% |
| Apps | 1 | 7% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 43% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 21% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thinca | Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices. | $56.7M |  | Dec 25, 2020 |  |
| ABCash Technologies | ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products. | $8.8M | Series B | Jun 29, 2020 |  |
| bookee Japan | bookee is a Financial Service based company. | $52.4M | Series A | Jul 12, 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 |  |
| ABCash Technologies | ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products. | $52.4M | Series A | May 31, 2019 |  |
| QD Laser | QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helpsthem improve their businesses. | $524.5M |  | Apr 11, 2019 |  |
| Thinca | Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices. | $99.2M |  | Apr 08, 2019 |  |
| Emotion Intelligence | Emotion Intelligence, Inc. (Emotion intelligence abbreviation “emin”) is company performs “congnitive emotional interaction design” by analyzing unconscious and subconscious human behaviors and interprets the subtleties of human emotions. The analysis methods are based on academic fields such as cognitive science and behavioral economics.The"technology that understands emotions" perceives human emotions in order to predict behavioral changes.Emotional Intelligence studies these emotions based on human unconscious behavior, thereby establishing a method for estimating the flow of the emotional changes.Emotions inferred from human actions are captured in a machine that utilizes such technology for obtaining feedback from human responses. Through this method, the human being and the machine perform a bi-directional interaction that they have designed in their system. This includes the process and framework they call "interaction design."This technology has begun to evolve in the area of E-commerce. It can be applied to all fields of business, and has established a design and trial method. | $56.7M | Series A | Nov 08, 2015 |  |
| Locondo.jp | Locondo.jp is a Japanese e-commerce site offering a wide variety of apparel and shoes. The company was established in 2010 and based in Tokyo, Japan. | $6.2M | Series B | Jun 13, 2013 |  |
| LOCONDO | Locondo is an e-commerce company that sells shoes and fashion. | $6.2M | Series B | Jun 13, 2013 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ITOCHU Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [iSGS Investment Works](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isgs-investment-works) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aristotle Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aristotle-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Daiwa Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiwa-corporate-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lead Capital Management invest in?

Lead Capital Management invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.

### When did Lead Capital Management last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lead Capital Management closed in Dec 2020. 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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