# PKSHA Technology

> PKSHA Technology is a VC fund backing Software and Information Services. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pkshatech/
- Website: http://pkshatech.com/ja/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pkshatech/

PKSHA Technology is an information technology company that provides data analytics solutions for its clients. PKSHA technology was founded in 2012 by engineers and researchers who research algorithms. It is composed of engineers and researchers in the field of information science in order to provide one-stop services from the most advancedtechnology in the algorithm domain to its application.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $7.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $26M–$680M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 24% |
| Information Services | 3 | 14% |
| Recruiting | 2 | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 10% |
| Travel Agency | 2 | 10% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 29% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 15 | 71% |
| South Korea | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daisuke Fujioka | Corporate Auditor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisuke-fujioka |
| Masayuki Shimomura | part-time auditor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masayuki-shimomura |
| Mizutani Takehiko | Outside Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizutani-takehiko |
| Uenoyama Katsuya | CEO and Founder | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uenoyama-katsuya |
| Yosuke Matsushima | Outside Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yosuke-matsushima |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Funds | Funds is a loan investment firm that lends money to businesses. It enables companies to invest in funds for business financing in 1 yen increments through silent partnership agreements. | $11.8M | Series E | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| RLWRLD | RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments. | $14.8M | Seed | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Reiwa Travel | Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/ | $33.5M | Series A | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Reiwa Travel | Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/ | $33.5M | Series A | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Mellow | Mellow is a food and beverage company that offers a food truck platform and event management support services. | $7.4M | Series B | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Oishii | Oishii Farm provides indoor vertical farming technology. Oishii sells via supermarkets, offering a container of between eight and 11 strawberries for $50 per package. Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville started the company in 2017. | $50M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| WingArc1st | WingArc1st offers a range of business intelligence, enterprise output management, and CRM software solutions. These solutions help companies make effective use of their information and customers to use and obtain strategic insights from their data.The company also offers consulting and implementation services, training solutions, and globalsupport services. WingArc1st is headquartered in Tokyo. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 12, 2020 |  |
| Nature Architects | Nature Architects develops Direct Functional Modeling (DFM), the design algorithm for additive manufacturing by which users are able to directly design the functional properties for their product. Using DFM, it is possible to design multiple features, such as motion, kinematics, and elasticity, which have been difficult to design in theconventional design process. By leveraging the benefit of additive manufacturing, users can design and manufacturer a product with multiple functions in a consolidated one part. DFM can be applied to the area in which complex processing and assembling is required such as automobiles, airplanes, Robotics was necessary development. | $12.8M |  | Oct 08, 2020 |  |
| DirectCloud | DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations. | $1.7M | Series A | May 22, 2020 |  |
| Zenkigen | zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA. | $7.4M | Series A | Mar 18, 2020 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [SMBC-GB Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-gb-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SPARX AI & Technologies Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparx-ai-technologies-investment) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Paksha technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paksha-technology) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [31Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/31ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Akatsuki Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akatsuki-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does PKSHA Technology invest in?

PKSHA Technology invests primarily in Software, Information Services and Recruiting startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is PKSHA Technology's check size?

PKSHA Technology typically joins rounds of $7.5M–$15M at Seed and $26M–$680M 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 PKSHA Technology participates in.

### How do I contact PKSHA Technology?

Public channels for PKSHA Technology include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 PKSHA Technology?

The team at PKSHA Technology includes Daisuke Fujioka (Corporate Auditor), Masayuki Shimomura (part-time auditor) and Mizutani Takehiko (Outside Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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