# Masayuki Minato

> Masayuki Minato is a Series B investor at All Star SAAS Fund (Tokyo) backing Software and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [All Star SAAS Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-star-saas-fund)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masayuki-hanai-55171428/

Masayuki Minato is a Partner at ALL STAR SAAS FUND. Masayuki Minato was a Principal at DNX Ventures. He attended Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| Nursing and Residential Care | 2 | 22% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 56% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 78% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VARIETAS | VARIETAS establishes a modern version of a conviviality system in cooperation with each stakeholder to face everyone's career. We create the online platform called Iverse, where students and working adults gather, where anyone can find and shape their interests. By forming an Opportunity Web in this virtual town, you can gain practicalexperience that matches your interests and build your skills.In the town, you can make all decisions based on your own interests, so you can create your own output. And as outputs are produced one after another, the town will continually evolve. | $4.1M | Series A | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| NutmegLabs | NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3.3M | Series B | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| toggle | toggle is the social implementation of technology in real estate, real estate, construction, and finance. | $9.7M | Series B | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Voxela, Inc. | We make aging beautiful. Voxela improves QOL and profitability of those eldercare businesses for a sustainable society. |  | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| RevComm | RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management. | $6.9M | Series B | Jul 19, 2024 |  |
| MedUp | MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more. | $2.5M | Series B | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| enpay | Enpay is a financial firm. It supports the collection business with planning, development, operation, and sales. They made collection operations cashless and paperless. Their services include collecting and managing money and billing. | $3.6M | Series A | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| YESOD | YESOD is a cloud-type service for management departments | $28.3M | Seed | Aug 17, 2020 |  |
| Mntsq | MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations. | $141.7M | Series B |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bricks Fund Tokyo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bricks-fund-tokyo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sony Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sony-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [World Innovation Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wil) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carbide Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbide-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About All Star SAAS Fund

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

All Star SAAS Fund is a Japan-based SaaS specialized fund that provides support programs centered on "people".

1 contacts available at All Star SAAS Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Masayuki Minato | Senior Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masayuki-minato |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Masayuki Minato invest in?

Masayuki Minato invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Real Estate startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Masayuki Minato last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Masayuki Minato closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co