Money Forward
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Money Forward is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Financial Services. Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Money Forward invests in
Stages Money Forward invests in
Countries Money Forward invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $944k–$21M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$22M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.8M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- Financial Services 7 (23%)
- Accounting 6 (19%)
- FinTech 5 (16%)
- Internet 5 (16%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (26%)
- Seed 7 (23%)
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
- Corporate Round 2 (6%)
Country
- Japan 18 (58%)
- Singapore 2 (6%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Vietnam 1 (3%)
- Thailand 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Taki Toshio
Board Director
|
Board Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
|
Tanak Masaaki
Outside Director
|
Outside Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yasutaka Hori
New Business Development / CEO Office
|
New Business Development / CEO Office | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Yosuke Tsuji
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Chihiro Asano
Chief Technology Officer
|
Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleek makes the lives of entrepreneurs and investors easier.They incorporate companies in Singapore & Hong Kong, and help them manage their governance, accounting and tax matters using technology. They launched their services in Singapore in May 2017 because they were frustrated at how slow and paper-based the incorporation and companyregistration process was.Since their launch, they have incorporated hundreds of happy companies, offering 100% digital incorporation, company secretary, and accounting services in Singapore and Hong Kong. | $23M / Series B / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers. | $10.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products. | $4.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 23, 2024 | ||
| Class is a connection between people, the value of money, time and things. | $5.6M / Debt Financing / Jan 24, 2024 | ||
| Founded in 2020, Mesh's mission is to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem. Mesh is a modern financial operating system that provides enterprise clients with the ability to enable digital asset transfers, crypto payments, account aggregation and registered securities trading, all within their platform. With integrations toover 300+ platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase and MetaMask, Mesh is creating an embedded financial ecosystem that is more open, connected and secure for businesses and users alike. To learn more, visit https://www.meshconnect.com/. | $22M / Series A / Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Bunker is a financial analytics tool that gives modern leaders quick access to information and deep visibility. Bunker subsidiary, bunker books, is a strategic consultancy that offers expert financial stewardship. | $5M / Seed / Jul 24, 2023 | ||
| Mekari is a SaaS company based in Indonesia. Products include Talenta, Jurnal, Qontak, and KlikPajak. | $50M / Series E / May 13, 2022 | ||
| Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents | $5.3M / Series A / Apr 06, 2022 | ||
| Lisse offers legal business innovation through the use of AI. | $4.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 24, 2021 | ||
| Bizzi is focused on helping accountants automate financial processes like pay bill, approvals, receipt scanning, compliance, and book-keeping using its RPA (robotic process automation) technology. | $3M / Seed / Oct 07, 2021 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Money Forward invest in?
Money Forward invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Accounting startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Money Forward's check size?
Money Forward typically joins rounds of $944k–$21M at Seed, $1.6M–$22M at Series A and $1.8M–$22M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Money Forward participates in.
How do I contact Money Forward?
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Who are the partners at Money Forward?
The team at Money Forward includes Taki Toshio (Board Director), Tanak Masaaki (Outside Director) and Yasutaka Hori (New Business Development / CEO Office), among 14 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 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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