# Line

> Line is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Information Technology. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $42M
- Last fund: Feb 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/line-
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/line_global
- Website: https://linecorp.com/ja/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/line.worldwide

Line is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Information Technology. LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Line. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Line. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/line-corporation?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$992M |
| Series B | $4M–$25M |
| Corporate Round | $8M–$468M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 22% |
| Apps | 4 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 15% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 7 | 26% |
| Series A | 6 | 22% |
| Series B | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 26% |
| United States | 6 | 22% |
| Singapore | 3 | 11% |
| South Korea | 3 | 11% |
| Taiwan | 2 | 7% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jun Masuda | Director CSMO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masuda-jun |
| Shintaro Tabata | Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shintaro-tabata |
| Alberto Nicolas Casado | Marketing Manager Latam | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-nicolas-casado |
| Euivin Park | Senior Vice President & CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/euivin-park |
| Hanna Lee | China Hong Kong Business | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanna-lee |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LifeAt | LifeAt is a digital workspace tool that helps users focus using timers, music, notes, task lists, and virtual backgrounds. It combines productivity features like Pomodoro timer, calendar, and to-do lists to support work and study sessions. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Toonsquare | Tooning is a content production platform where people can easily create comic style content. Tooning is a content production platform where people can easily create comic style content. The service is free to everyone, where individuals, organizations, schools, and institutions can freely access. We provide high-quality and various resources,such as characters, backgrounds, and props, best suitable for content productions. Additionally, people can enjoy all the resources provided by Tooning without worrying about the copyrights. | $3M | Series A | Jun 03, 2022 |  |
| The Parentinc | The Parentinc is one of Asia’s fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Singapore. Its flagship brand, theAsianparent, is Southeast Asia’s largest content and community platform for parents, with a reach of over 35 million users monthly and an app store rating of 4.9 stars. The Parentinc also owns and operates direct to consumer brand Mama’sChoice, which manufactures and retails safe, natural, and Halal pregnancy, nursing, baby care, and household products that are designed and tested in Singapore for families in Asia. Also under The Parentinc banner are Webtretho, Vietnam's largest online content and community platform for women, and Bé Yêu, Vietnam's highest downloaded pregnancy and parenting app.The Parentinc investors include: Central Retail Corporation, Fosun International, Global Grand Leisure, JD.com, LINE SEA Corp., Mirae Asset-Naver New Growth Fund, Redbadge Pacific, SCB 10X, Tigris Capital, Vertex Ventures, and WHG Holdings. | $8M | Corporate Round | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Sproot | Sproot engages in the media and entertainment business. |  | Corporate Round | May 27, 2020 |  |
| LINE TAXI | Ride-hailing Platform in Taiwan |  | Series A | Dec 02, 2019 |  |
| Loyyal | Loyyal leverages blockchain and smart contract technology to provide loyalty and rewards network infrastructure solutions. It introduces interoperability to the currently fragmented industry, multi-branded coalitions, superior program liability management and dynamic issuance/redemption options customized for each unique relationship. |  |  | Aug 01, 2019 |  |
| Line Pay | Line Pay is a secure & easy payment platform. | $182M | Corporate Round | Feb 27, 2019 |  |
| AnyMind Group | AnyMind Group has created one of the first end-to-end brand enablement platforms, developing and providing inter-connected software and offerings to enable businesses and individuals - from brand building, manufacturing and e-commerce, to marketing, logistics and global expansion. The company is on a mission to make every business borderless byremoving borders between businesses and customers, online and offline, and between industries, data silos, geographical boundaries and more. AnyMind Group was founded in Singapore in April 2016, and has since expanded into 13 markets and 17 offices including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, India and the United Arab Emirates. For more information, visit us at https://anymindgroup.com | $13.4M | Series B | Oct 29, 2018 |  |
| Freee | freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business.The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan. | $60M | Series E | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| Venture Republic | Venture Republic runs a group of online travel websites and services worldwide. Venture Republic aims to always be the best answer to every question and question of the user, where and how and how much they can go and what they can do where they go. the company operates a website with both quality and quantity by expanding the categories ofhandling and providing useful functions and services that assist users in purchasing activities, leveraging their expertise. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 11, 2018 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Line invest in?

Line invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Line's check size?

Line typically joins rounds of $3M–$992M at Series A, $4M–$25M at Series B and $8M–$468M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Line participates in.

### How do I contact Line?

Public channels for Line include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Line?

The team at Line includes Jun Masuda (Director CSMO), Shintaro Tabata (Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales) and Alberto Nicolas Casado (Marketing Manager Latam), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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