MARUI GROUP
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
MARUI GROUP is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on E-Commerce and Fashion. MARUI GROUP's web-site provides company information such as Group companies, as well as IR and Sustainability information.
- Total investments:
- 43
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries MARUI GROUP invests in
Stages MARUI GROUP invests in
Countries MARUI GROUP invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $3.1M–$15M
- Series D
- $3M–$26M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.8M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 6 (14%)
- Fashion 5 (12%)
- Internet 5 (12%)
- Financial Services 5 (12%)
- Content 4 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 8 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (19%)
- Series D 6 (14%)
- Series C 5 (12%)
- Seed 3 (7%)
Country
- Japan 31 (72%)
- India 1 (2%)
- United States 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hiroshi Aoi
President and CEO
|
President and CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks. | $8.4M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| SHE Japan is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of asset management, financial services, and accounting. It provides creative skill lessons, coaching programs, and job acquisition support opportunities for millennial careers. | $11.6M / Series C / Feb 17, 2025 | ||
| Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $115.3M / Series F / Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| YAMAP is born to make your outdoors, such as hike or ski, more safety, and more enjoyable with your iPhone. YAMAP App can track and log your outdoors, view elevation info, and build an online outdoor journal. Love & share the outdoors with YAMAP ! ■■ Three Main Features of YAMAP ■■ 1) Safe ◆YAMAP App makes your iPhone a special GPSdevice for the outdoors. YAMAP App could provide accurate positioning information with YAMAP's maps in Japan and your iPhone's GPS, even if you are in places not reached by mobile phone signals, such as in mountainous regions. 2) Convenience ◆ YAMAP Hybrid Maps YAMAP's maps are used as digital ones with your iPhone, and as ones on paper by downloading them to your PC (or tablet PC). 3) Share ◆You can easily share your outdoor data with your family and friends through YAMAP Web service. Once you finish your outdoor and save your data, YAMAP App automatically uploads to your online 'ACTIVITY REPORT' on YAMAP Web service (http://yamap.co.jp) where you can view your route, outdoor data, and a comprehensive workout history. In addition, YAMAP gives you the ability to easily share your outdoor data with friends and family. | $13M / Series D / May 28, 2024 | ||
| Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India. | $4.3M / Series B / May 10, 2024 | ||
| Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business. | $1.8M / Series A / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $6.2M / Series D / Aug 01, 2023 | ||
| snaq.me operated by Snack Me Co., Ltd. is personalized subscription service for Guilt Free® snacks that do not feel guilty when eaten. Using the “Tasting Box” with 12 kinds of tasting snacks for the first time, and evaluating each of the snacks, we created a “preference profile” regarding the taste and texture preference of each customer, totaling600 Eight kinds of snacks are selected and delivered from our original algorithm. In addition, each time you deliver it, you will receive a review and request for snacks, so you can select it to your liking every time you repeat it. Since only products that meet the original Guilt Free standard (white sugar / artificial additives / HFCS / margarine / shortening-free) are handled, many pregnant women continue to use it and have been well received. . The ratio of female customers is over 90%, and it is used widely by pregnant women, moms with small children, working women, and so on. | $4M / Series D / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Linda Pesa a provider of business management apps for African SMEs enables owners to manage effectively and collect credit information. | $228K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2023 | ||
| Regional Fish provides seed, seedlings, aquaculture methods and fisheries services. | $14.5M / Series B / Sep 05, 2022 | ||
| See all 43 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does MARUI GROUP invest in?
MARUI GROUP invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 43 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 MARUI GROUP invest in?
MARUI GROUP typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$15M at Series B, $3M–$26M at Series D and $2.8M–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not MARUI GROUP's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds MARUI GROUP took part in.
How do I contact MARUI GROUP?
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Who are the partners at MARUI GROUP?
The team at MARUI GROUP includes Hiroshi Aoi (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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