# NTT Finance

> NTT Finance is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Internet. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ntt-finance-corporation
- Website: http://www.ntt-finance.co.jp/eng
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nttfinance.csr

NTT Finance is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Internet. NTT Finance Corporation provides leasing and other financing solutions to NTT Group companies and their customers. The company operates through Leasing, Loans, Venture Capital, Investment, Credit Cards, and Other segments. The Leasing segment offers lease products, including finance leases and installment sales primarily to customers of other NTTGroup companies, distributors, and third party vendors; and operating leases. The Loans segment engages in the arrangement and underwriting of term loans for NTT Group companies and external corporate borrowers; operation of a cash management system for the NTT Group; and provision of aircraft finance, ship finance, and other financing services. This segment offers business loans and consumer loans, such as unsecured and housing loans. The Venture Capital segment invests in venture companies in Japan and internationally in collaboration with the NTT Group.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $4M–$59M |
| Series C | $3.6M–$36M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 43% |
| Internet | 6 | 16% |
| SaaS | 3 | 8% |
| Computer | 3 | 8% |
| Wireless | 3 | 8% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 22% |
| Series C | 7 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 5% |
| Series E | 2 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 41% |
| Japan | 11 | 30% |
| Israel | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akihiko Okada | Representative Executive Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akihiko-okada |
| Akio Hotta | Outside Corporate Auditor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akio-hotta |
| Ataru Egawa | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ataru-egawa |
| Atsushi Fujiwara | Outside Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atsushi-fujiwara |
| Haruo Aikyou | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haruo-aikyou |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beaming | Beaming is a fandom community creation and management platform that handles and brings together fanbases to engage and interact. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Edgecortix | EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) processing at the edge. The company’s platform includes the SAKURA-II AI accelerator, a low-power silicon co-processor capable of real-time generative AI inference on multi-billion-parameter models within an approximately 8 W envelope. Italso offers the MERA compiler and software framework that enables developers to deploy models across heterogeneous systems, leveraging flexibility through the Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) architecture. The hardware-software co-design approach ensures adaptable, runtime-reconfigurable performance for use cases ranging from vision to language applications. |  | Series B | Aug 17, 2025 |  |
| Transcelestial Technologies | Transcelestial is developing the fastest, long-distance, point-to-point wireless communication network possible. It will be delivered as a space data network for terrestrial and satellite applications, which will use lasers to transfer data at up to 1000x faster than what is currently available. The network will be difficult to jam and will notneed any spectrum pre-allocation or regulation. | $5.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Q-CTRL | Q-CTRL is a global pioneer with unmatched commercial traction in the emerging quantum technology industry - a sector poised to transform everything from finance and pharma through to logistics and defense.Q-CTRL is a category defining business leading the development of AI-powered quantum infrastructure software, delivering globally uniquetechnology to accelerate the pathway to the world's first useful quantum computers. This same foundational technology also underpins Q-CTRL’s development of novel “software-defined” quantum sensors for defense and intelligence.Q-CTRL has assembled the world’s foremost team of expert quantum-control engineers, providing solutions to global quantum technology leaders including Universities, National Labs, and quantum technology industry partners. In May 2023, IBM Quantum announced that Q-CTRL's quantum infrastructure software would be natively embedded in its quantum computing fleet, and the team recently announced a partnership with Transport for NSW - delivering its enterprise infrastructure software to transport data scientists exploring quantum computing. In parallel, in July 2023 the Australian Department of Defence announced Q-CTRL's leading role delivering quantum-assured navigation to AUKUS allies.Q-CTRL is a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, and is a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, and a co-chair of the Australian Quantum Alliance within the Tech Council of Australia. Q-CTRL was selected as a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2023, one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Tech Companies by the Financial Review, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, Wired, Gizmodo, and more. | $59M | Series B | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| DataMix | DataMix provides an educational program specialized for training data scientists for working adults. It primarily offers two programs that include Data Scientist Training Program and Business Translator Training Program. The Data Scientist Training Program is a program aimed at adults who are seriously seeking to open up their careers with datascience at the edge while Business Translator Training Program is a program for working people who want to make business by utilizing data science and big data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $806.1K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 29, 2024 |  |
| Metro Weather | Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas. | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| Ken Robotec | Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions. | $21.3M | Series B | Aug 21, 2023 |  |
| CropX | CropX Ltd., an ag-analytics company, develops cloud based software solutions integrated with wireless sensors, which boosts crops yield and saves water and energy. It offers advanced adaptive irrigation software service that delivers crop yield increase, and water and energy cost saving services while conserving the environment. The company alsogenerates irrigation maps and automatically applies the right amount of water to different parts of the same field. It serves farmers worldwide. CropX Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in San Francisco, California.CropX’s proprietary science helps farmers better understand water usage across their fields. Its low-cost soil sensors can increase crop yields while simultaneously cutting water usage by one third. In just one irrigation season, CropX sensors were installed on thousands of acres of all major row crops and demonstrated immense value, with early customers across the United States reporting dramatic water, manpower and cost savings, as well as massive crop yield gains. During the current growing season, CropX technology will be rolled out across hundreds of thousands of acres. | $30M | Series C | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Regional Fish | Regional Fish provides seed, seedlings, aquaculture methods and fisheries services. | $14.5M | Series B | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| Classiq Technologies | Classiq Technologies, the leading quantum software company, provides an all-encompassing software platform (IDE, compiler and OS) with a single point of entry into quantum computing, from algorithm design to execution. Tailored to all levels of developer proficiency, Classiq aims to democratize access to quantum computing with software that equipscustomers to take full advantage of the quantum computing revolution. A low-code development environment that automates quantum programming ensures that a broader range of talents, including those with backgrounds in AI, ML and linear algebra, can harness quantum computing without requiring deep, specialized knowledge of how to program quantum computer hardware. Classiq also works closely with advanced computation hardware providers providing software for use with quantum computers, HPC and quantum simulators. Backed by powerful investors such as HPE, HSBC, Samsung, Intesa Sanpaolo and NTT, Classiq’s world-class team of scientists and engineers has distilled decades of quantum expertise into its groundbreaking software development platform. |  | Series B | May 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MOL PLUS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mol-plus) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AAC Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aac-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atlantic Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-bridge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crescendo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crescendo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaia-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NTT Finance invest in?

NTT Finance invests primarily in Software, Internet and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NTT Finance's check size?

NTT Finance typically joins rounds of $4M–$59M at Series B and $3.6M–$36M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NTT Finance participates in.

### How do I contact NTT Finance?

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### Who are the partners at NTT Finance?

The team at NTT Finance includes Akihiko Okada (Representative Executive Vice President), Akio Hotta (Outside Corporate Auditor) and Ataru Egawa (Director), among 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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