# Osuke Honda

> Osuke Honda is a seed investor at DCM Ventures (Tokyo) backing Software and Internet. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osukehonda
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osukehonda

Osuke Honda is a General Partner at DCM Ventures, Osuke previously worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and then at Apax Globis Partners & Co (now GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS & Co.). Having assumed the position of Outside Director of Sansan, Inc. in April 2018, he draws on his extensive experience of investment and business management in makinggeneral management recommendations.Osuke Honda attended Hitotsubashi University, The Wharton School, and Keio University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$52M |
| Series A | $4M–$11M |
| Series B | $2.8M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Internet | 4 | 22% |
| Mobile | 3 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| Small and Medium Businesses | 3 | 17% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Series A | 3 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 44% |
| Japan | 5 | 28% |
| South Korea | 3 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fish Audio | Fish Audio is an AI platform for expressive text‑to‑speech and voice cloning with pro‑grade voices and multilingual support. | $52M | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Enechain | enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy. | $32.6M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Buildstock | Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Picsart | Picsart is the world’s largest digital creation platform. Its AI-powered tools allow creators of all levels to design, edit, draw and share photo and video content. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates, and more. Used by consumers, marketers, contentcreators and businesses, Picsart is used for both personal and professional design. Available on mobile and web, Picsart offers its world class image editing and processing tools to businesses through APIs and an SDK. Headquartered in Miami, with offices around the world, Picsart is backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. Download the app or visit picsart.com for more information. | $130M | Series C | Aug 26, 2021 |  |
| Metafy | Metafy is an online coaching platform that enables video gamers to monetize their talent through coaching and courses. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2021 |  |
| Magic Moment | Magic Moment is a software company that allows businesses to involve and enable every company to make the right decisions. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $22.7M | Seed | Dec 16, 2019 |  |
| Sansan | Since its founding in 2007, Sansan has focused on delivering its cloud based contact management service to customers in Japan and beyond. Sansan is setting the standard in Japan for cloud-based contact management, with annually doubling numbers of users from over 7,000 premium corporate users including the Japanese Government (METI). Sansan Inc. isbased in Tokyo, Japan and has its subsidiary Sansan global Pte. Ltd. in Singapore since October 2015. The company began offering its business card app Eight in 2012. It has over 1.5 million registered users as a new business network that incorporates a social media framework to transform business cards into business connections.Founded: June 11, 2007 URL： https://www.corp-sansan.com/ Address: Aoyama Oval Building, 13F, 5-52-2, Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Business scope: Planning, development, and sales of cloud-based business card management services Sansan for business users: https://www.sansan.com Eight for individual users: https://8card.net | $425.2M | Series E | Dec 06, 2018 |  |
| x.ai | x.ai is a productivity tool powered by artificial intelligence that lets you schedule meetings effortlessly. With x.ai, you can automate the most tedious parts of scheduling — things like finding compatible times to meet with large groups, sending follow-ups and reminders, as well as managing cancellations and reschedule requests. It was founded in2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $10M | Series B | Aug 14, 2017 |  |
| Sansan | Since its founding in 2007, Sansan has focused on delivering its cloud based contact management service to customers in Japan and beyond. Sansan is setting the standard in Japan for cloud-based contact management, with annually doubling numbers of users from over 7,000 premium corporate users including the Japanese Government (METI). Sansan Inc. isbased in Tokyo, Japan and has its subsidiary Sansan global Pte. Ltd. in Singapore since October 2015. The company began offering its business card app Eight in 2012. It has over 1.5 million registered users as a new business network that incorporates a social media framework to transform business cards into business connections.Founded: June 11, 2007 URL： https://www.corp-sansan.com/ Address: Aoyama Oval Building, 13F, 5-52-2, Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Business scope: Planning, development, and sales of cloud-based business card management services Sansan for business users: https://www.sansan.com Eight for individual users: https://8card.net | $38M | Series D | Aug 07, 2017 |  |
| Atrium LTS | Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products. | $10.5M | Series A | Jun 15, 2017 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-co-invest-limited-partnership) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MGV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maschmeyer-group-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Minerva Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minerva-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SPARX Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparx-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DCM Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

5 contacts available at DCM Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Weijin Huang | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weijin-huang-e57a |
| David K. Chao | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-chao |
| Dixon Doll | Co-Founder & Partner Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dixon-doll |
| Frank Lin | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hurst-lin |
| Ibrahim AlSuwaidi | Principal & Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibrahim-alsuwaidi |

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## FAQ

### What does Osuke Honda invest in?

Osuke Honda invests primarily in Software, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Osuke Honda's check size?

Osuke Honda typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$52M at Seed, $4M–$11M at Series A and $2.8M–$33M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Osuke Honda participates in.

### When did Osuke Honda last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Osuke Honda closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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