# Maezawa Fund

> Maezawa Fund is a VC fund in Kyoto backing Health Care and Media and Entertainment. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Japan
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.mzfund.co.jp/

Maezawa Fund is a VC fund in Kyoto focused on Health Care and Media and Entertainment. The Maezawa Fund is a joint-stock company that invests in entrepreneurs and organizations whose business themes are “solving social issues” and “pursuing hobbies,” and is based on Yusaku Maezawa’s personal assets. It was established for the purpose of investing 100 million yen.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 20% |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 15% |
| Video | 2 | 10% |
| Beauty | 2 | 10% |
| Medical | 2 | 10% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 17 | 85% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smooth | Smooth is a financial services company that provides initial cost installment payment solutions for real estate rental contracts. | $4.3M | Series C | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Smooth | Smooth is a financial services company that provides initial cost installment payment solutions for real estate rental contracts. | $10.2M | Series B | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| GITAI | GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars. | $15.5M | Series B | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Onedot Japan | Onedot offers Babily, a video service useful for childcare. | $12.8M | Series B | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Utaite | Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content. | $6.5M | Series A | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Blue Laser Fusion | Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor. | $37.5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Space Aviation | Space Aviation is an aerospace company that offers air taxi services, flight training, aircraft sales, and heliport development solutions. | $6.7M | Series A | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Toletta Cats | Toletta Cats is a healthcare approved by cat lovers company they aim to create a world in which we all live longer and happier with our beloved cats around us. Simple, safe and easy to use at home,in a Japanese cat-friendly way. | $200K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 08, 2021 |  |
| Sea Balloon | Sea Balloon aims to make the sea a place where everyone can easily use the sea and to make it a daily life for everyone. The company promotes the worldwide expansion of the world's first resort submersible SEA BALLOON, aiming to create underwater entertainment and value the underwater area (to make tourism resources), including underwatertravel. It will contribute to the creation of new businesses by building an "underwater business platform" that will transform the still untouched underwater market on the sea stage and allow anyone to aim for the sea. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| OKULY | OKULY where people can order videos from celebrities. |  | Seed | Jan 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [XTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xtech-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tycoon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tycoon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arco Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arco-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DIMENSION](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimension-0ef6) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Globis Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globis-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Maezawa Fund invest in?

Maezawa Fund invests primarily in Health Care, Media and Entertainment and Video startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Maezawa Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maezawa Fund closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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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