# OLM Ventures

> OLM Ventures is a VC fund in Setagaya backing Content and Virtual Reality. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Setagaya, Japan
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/olm-digital-inc.
- Website: https://www.olm.co.jp/

OLM Ventures is an animated movies production company.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$43M |
| Series A | $2.4M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 5 | 33% |
| Virtual Reality | 4 | 27% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |
| Augmented Reality | 2 | 13% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 27% |
| Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 11 | 73% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hidekazu Yokota | Founder, President & CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hidekazu-yokota |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MyDearest | MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company | $7.7M | Series C | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $6.2M | Series D | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Minto | Minto develops and establishes a creator economy for manga and anime creators to deliver their content to the world. Minto provides whatever is required, from planning to the direction and result analysis. | $93.6M |  | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Minto | Minto develops and establishes a creator economy for manga and anime creators to deliver their content to the world. Minto provides whatever is required, from planning to the direction and result analysis. | $5.1M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| ventus Japan | ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy. | $2.4M | Series A | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Bravesoft | bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service. | $6.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 05, 2021 |  |
| Plott | Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name. | $56.7M |  | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Plott | Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name. | $3.6M | Seed | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Radiotalk | Radiotalk is a Voice distribution platform business. | $42.5M | Seed | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $6.1M | Series C | Apr 02, 2020 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does OLM Ventures invest in?

OLM Ventures invests primarily in Content, Virtual Reality and Apps startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

OLM Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$43M at Seed and $2.4M–$28M 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 OLM Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact OLM Ventures?

Public channels for OLM Ventures include LinkedIn 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 OLM Ventures?

The team at OLM Ventures includes Hidekazu Yokota (Founder, President & 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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