# Money Forward

> Money Forward is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Financial Services. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/money-forward
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/moneyforward
- Website: http://corp.moneyforward.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moneyforward.jp/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Money Forward. Shizune tracks 12 team members at Money Forward. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/money-forward?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$47M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 23% |
| Accounting | 6 | 19% |
| FinTech | 5 | 16% |
| Internet | 5 | 16% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 23% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 16% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 18 | 58% |
| Singapore | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 3% |
| Thailand | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taki Toshio | Board Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taki-toshio |
| Tanak Masaaki | Outside Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tanak-masaaki |
| Yosuke Tsuji | Founder & CEO | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yosuke-tsuji |
| Chihiro Asano | Chief Technology Officer | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chihiro-asano |
| Junichi Kanda | President / CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junichi-kanda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sleek | 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 | 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 | Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 23, 2024 |  |
| CLAS | Class is a connection between people, the value of money, time and things. | $5.6M | Debt Financing | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Mesh | 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 | 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 | Mekari is a SaaS company based in Indonesia. Products include Talenta, Jurnal, Qontak, and KlikPajak. | $50M | Series E | May 13, 2022 |  |
| Hubble | Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents | $5.3M | Series A | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Hubble | Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents | $5.3M | Series A | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Lisse | Lisse offers legal business innovation through the use of AI. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [EV Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ev-growth) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ITOCHU Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mandiri-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 Seed and Series A 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 $3M–$47M at Seed and $1.6M–$22M at Series A. 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?

Public channels for Money Forward 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 Money Forward?

The team at Money Forward includes Taki Toshio (Board Director), Tanak Masaaki (Outside Director) and Yosuke Tsuji (Founder & CEO), among 12 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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