# Mynavi

> Mynavi is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Marketing. See 70 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 70
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mynavi-corporation/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mn_all
- Website: http://www.mynavi.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mynaviglobalcareer

Mynavi is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Marketing. Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $710k–$43M |
| Corporate Round | $11M–$142M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 21% |
| Marketing | 9 | 13% |
| Internet | 8 | 11% |
| Human Resources | 8 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 11% |

104 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 21 | 30% |
| Corporate Round | 10 | 14% |
| Seed | 9 | 13% |
| Series A | 8 | 11% |
| Series B | 8 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 38 | 54% |
| India | 7 | 10% |
| Vietnam | 5 | 7% |
| Philippines | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nobuyuki Nakagawa | President and CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nobuyuki-nakagawa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Virohan | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| AccioJob | 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 | 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 | Kick Start Your Job Search with a Perfect Resume \| Talent-Based Career Platform | $5M | Series A | Aug 23, 2023 |  |
| Penbrothers | 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 |  |

10 of 70 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sansei Capital Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sansei-capital-investment) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Japan Asia Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-asia-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-sumitomo-insuarance-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mynavi invest in?

Mynavi invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 70 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mynavi's check size?

Mynavi typically joins rounds of $710k–$43M at Seed and $11M–$142M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mynavi participates in.

### How do I contact Mynavi?

Public channels for Mynavi 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 Mynavi?

The team at Mynavi includes Nobuyuki Nakagawa (President and CEO). 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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