Mynavi
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Mynavi is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Marketing. Mynavi Corporation provides information services.
- Total investments:
- 72
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Industries Mynavi invests in
SoftwareMarketingInternetRecruitingHuman Resources
Stages Mynavi invests in
Venture - Series UnknownCorporate RoundSeedSeries ASeries B
Countries Mynavi invests in
JapanIndiaVietnamPhilippinesUnited States
Round sizes
Seed $710k–$5MCorporate Round $704k–$142MVenture - Series Unknown $919k–$13M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $710k–$5M
- Corporate Round
- $704k–$142M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $919k–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (22%)
- Marketing 9 (13%)
- Internet 8 (11%)
- Recruiting 8 (11%)
- Human Resources 8 (11%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 21 (29%)
- Corporate Round 11 (15%)
- Seed 9 (13%)
- Series A 8 (11%)
- Series B 8 (11%)
Country
- Japan 39 (54%)
- India 7 (10%)
- Vietnam 5 (7%)
- Philippines 2 (3%)
- United States 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nobuyuki Nakagawa
President and CEO
|
President and CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virohan is an EdTech company that offers healthcare vocational training to students to build a career in the healthcare industry. Virohan uses technology and talent to fix this socio-economic problem so that industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium.Virohan is re-engineering vocational training by aggregating the highlyfragmented vocational training industry and standardizing their operations from mobilization, training to placements. Virohan's tech stack's plug-and-play installation at training centers assures demand-driven training is provided to students in an affordable, accessible, and standardized manner to ensure youth achieve progressive livelihoods, the industry receives a trained workforce, and training centers have higher revenues and profitability.Virohan’s target audience is marginalized, low-income youth in the age group of 16-24, with about 50% of them being females. Virohan provides courses in Healthcare covering Allied Health, Corporate Training, and Refresher training for hospital employees in an omnichannel training model.The courses offered emphasize on development of core technical skills, language abilities, and life skills in the student through gamified blended learning delivered by its facilitators in classrooms. All programs include long internships at hospitals for hands-on practice of the skills acquired. It is a fee-based model and in order to encourage young people to join, financial linkages are provided with easy installment-based payback options after a job is secured by the young person.Virohan's tech stack predicts job demand, mobilizes youth as per that demand, trains them, and connects them with jobs. In essence, this increases viable penetration, lowering operational costs and improving efficiency across operations (mobilization, financing, training, certification, placement) through standardization. | $7.3M / Series B / Dec 19, 2025 | ||
| Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016. | $24.5M / Series C / Jul 05, 2024 | ||
| Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. | Corporate Round / May 28, 2024 | ||
| MyCaptain is an Edtech platform that helps people transform passion into a career, with guidance from 200 plus professionals who have made a mark in their respective fields.. MyCaptain aims to enable every human to pursue careers they truly love, right from Content creation, Writing, Design, to name a few, and facilitate their growth in the field.The platform aims to train more than a Million learners in new age professions in the year 2025. | $1.7M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| SPeak is an IT services firm that operates web content and matching platforms for global talents. It operates JPort Match, which is involved in direct recruiting services. It is a global career platform for budding new talents. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| ToolBelt is a computer software company that specializes in software development, staffing, labor sourcing, construction, and residential construction. It features a mobile-based software application platform that enables its users to scout talents, browse work materials, and connects then into their employees.ToolBelt was founded in 2018 andheadquartered in Vancouver, Washington. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 05, 2023 | ||
| Only one-third of India’s college graduates get placed in jobs because their schools often only expose them to local recruiters. AccioJob charges colleges $10,000 per year to place their students in jobs, and charges employers per placement. Since it gains student contact info and grades, AccioJob can become the gateway to the best Indian collegegrads as more students from the country begin to enroll. | $2.7M / Sep 09, 2023 | ||
| TopCV is built with the purpose of maximizing support for users to create CV quickly and efficiently, meeting the requirements of employers. TopCV is a website that helps you create quick CV and find jobs more easily. | Series B / Aug 30, 2023 | ||
| Cake has built an international professional talent community connecting millions of job seekers and employers. Besides providing various job search tools to help job seekers perfectly present their professional value, Cake also offers diverse international talent matching services, playing a crucial role in facilitating the global talent network.Our mission is to be "Where Talent Meets Opportunities: Discover People, Unlock Possibilities." We are dedicated to fostering more dialogues between talents and companies and continually exploring the limitless possibilities of talent development!Cake's solutions and services include resume and portfolio building tools, job search platform, talent search and recruitment consulting services, employer branding, mass recruitment and staffing, payroll outsourcing, Employer of Record, and so on. | $5M / Series A / Aug 23, 2023 | ||
| Penbrothers is a Philippines-based offshore staffing company that helps international companies build full-time, client-dedicated remote teams that deliver.Founded in 2014, Penbrothers employs more than 1,500 people and serves over 90 global clients across retail, e-commerce, travel and hospitality, IT, fintech, and professional services.Penbrothers handles the full employer side of building an offshore team: sourcing, hiring, payroll, benefits, taxes, compliance, engagement, and retention. Every placement goes through the Hypercare Framework, a 180-day onboarding system that produces a 98% placement success rate and is backed by a replacement guarantee. Unlike providers that pool labor, each Penbrothers team is embedded inside the client's business and reports directly to them. | Corporate Round / Aug 23, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Mynavi invest in?
Mynavi invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Internet startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 72 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 Mynavi invest in?
Mynavi typically joins rounds of $710k–$5M at Seed, $704k–$142M at Corporate Round and $919k–$13M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mynavi's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mynavi took part in.
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Who are the partners at Mynavi?
The team at Mynavi includes Nobuyuki Nakagawa (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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