# Obunsha Ventures

> Obunsha Ventures is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Education and Information Technology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://obunsha-v.co.jp/

Obunsha Ventures is an investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $881k–$13M |
| Series A | $5.2M–$5.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 5 | 56% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| Children | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| CRM | 1 | 11% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 8 | 89% |
| Philippines | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alumnote | The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition. | $5.2M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Yondemy | Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books. | $880.7K | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| enpay | Enpay is a financial firm. It supports the collection business with planning, development, operation, and sales. They made collection operations cashless and paperless. Their services include collecting and managing money and billing. | $5.9M | Series B | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Stadium | stadium company name means "a place where teams can get involved."The symbol symbolizes the attitude of leaving a footprint in the world by taking a step forward , and the typeface expresses that a united individual unites to become a solid team . The brand colors are exciting orange, a symbol of enthusiasm, and bold black , a symbol ofunwavering determination . |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2021 |  |
| Wonderfy | Wonderfy is a company that develops and operates educational materials and content for children. Wonderfy taps into children's natural intellectual curiosity all over the world. | $560.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2021 |  |
| Manabi-aid | Manabi-aid is an internet based company.The aim of the learning aid master is really simple and clear.This is a challenge to "improve the student's academic ability".Not to mention the limitations of group lessons. This is because the polarization of so-called "children who can" and "children who do not" isprogressing. | $839.3K | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| RUN.EDGE | RUN.EDGE is an information technology company that offers video search and analysis services for the sports field. The company's product FL-UX is a real-time video analysis and communication tool that accelerates team collaboration. FL-UX instantly synchronizes the "tags" attached to the scene while watching the play and the playvideo data, allowing for immediate feedback and tactical confirmation. Furthermore, the user-friendly interface and operability make editing and analyzing video data more efficient.Pitchbase is a baseball video search and analysis app with fast-scene playback technology. The app offers a comfortable environment for analysis at any time and from any location, with technology that enables high-speed playback of pitching scenes for each pitch and technology that downloads only your favorite pitching scenes to your device. In addition to being able to search for and playback the pitching scene you want to analyze, you can also compare the pitching and batting forms of two different pitching scenes side by side or overlap them, and gain various insights from the video. | $5.3M | Series A | Feb 27, 2020 |  |
| Study Plus | Study Plus is an educational application developed to facilitate collaborative studying. | $99.2M | Series C | Jan 20, 2020 |  |
| Edukasyon.ph | Edukasyon is an Edtech platform empowering Filipino youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career and life.Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform in the Philippines. It aims to empower more than 20 million Filipino Gen Z youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career andlife. Its online platform enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. In partnership with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, Edukasyon.ph equips the youth with information to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity, www.finduniversity.ph, engages more than 10 million Filipino Gen Z youth each year.Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia and Europe, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program.Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 90 and is headquartered in Manila, with offices in Cebu and Davao. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph. |  | Series A | Oct 23, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Obunsha Ventures invest in?

Obunsha Ventures invests primarily in Education, Information Technology and Children startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Obunsha Ventures's check size?

Obunsha Ventures typically joins rounds of $881k–$13M at Seed and $5.2M–$5.3M 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 Obunsha Ventures participates in.

### When did Obunsha Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Obunsha Ventures closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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