Rakuten Capital
VC Fund
Setagaya, Japan
Rakuten Capital is a corporate venture capital group that provides funding, sector experience and operational support to its portfolio companies across the world. Rakuten Capital is part of the Rakuten Group, one of the world’s leading internet service companies. Rakuten has built and invested in innovative internet businesses in e-commerce, financial services, digital content and advertising since 1997. Rakuten has ranked in the top 30 of Forbes Magazine‘s annual “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list, and operates in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- Total investments:
- 73
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Fund size:
- $300M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rakuten Capital invests in
Stages Rakuten Capital invests in
Countries Rakuten Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.5M–$50M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$45M
- Series C
- $17M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 9 (12%)
- E-Commerce 9 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (11%)
- Software 7 (10%)
- SaaS 6 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 18 (25%)
- Series B 16 (22%)
- Series C 14 (19%)
- Seed 6 (8%)
- Series D 5 (7%)
Country
- Japan 11 (15%)
- United States 11 (15%)
- Singapore 7 (10%)
- South Korea 3 (4%)
- United Kingdom 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adit Swarup
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Hiroshi Takasawa
Managing Executive Officer
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Managing Executive Officer | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
|
Kazuyoshi Abumi
Executive Officer
|
Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Michael Piechalak
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products. | Seed / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| MOV is a technology platform. They offer SaaS for stores that can collectively manage word-of-mouth sites and visualize and analyze customer feedback. It distributes inbound market data, news, and know-how to domestic companies. Their services include inbound support and consulting. | $9.6M / Series B / May 21, 2024 | ||
| Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. | $5M / Series B / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. | Series A / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Petokoto is a pet wellness company that creates and sells fresh food, runs pet media, and keeps pets happy. It is suitable to become an information source that combines accuracy, completeness, and updateability by utilizing the collective knowledge of experts both inside and outside the company and demonstrating their respective expertise. Thecompany aims to develop a world where pets can be loved as family members. | $2.9M / Series B / Dec 13, 2023 | ||
| ElecTorq Technologies operates as a shared mobility solutions startup. ElecTorq Technologies manufactures Baaz I, a solo self-ride electric scooter, which is expected to find a clientele in the country's shared mobility players such as Rapido, Yulu, Bounce, Zapp and Vogo. | $8M / Series A / Nov 21, 2023 | ||
| Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travellers to access over 190+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM compatible smartphone, tablet or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in theworld. | $60M / Series B / Jul 31, 2023 | ||
| Electrifying all for the sustainable future | Series C / Jun 05, 2023 | ||
| Hacomono is a member management platform for fitness clubs, indoor golf clubs, 24-hour gyms, and other monthly stores. The platform covers real-world operations such as membership management, reservations, and payments, as well as school management and inventory management. It has been implemented by major industry players, and the securitymeasures are flawless. In addition to streamlining operations, they provide an unprecedented level of customer service. | $28.6M / Series C / Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Ubie, a Tokyo based health-tech startup, provides AI-based healthcare products. Hospital SaaS product “Ubie for Hospital”, also knows as AI Monshin (Monshin means interview with a doctor/record taking in Japanese) is an AI-driven medical questionnaire software targeting users at medical institutions, in order to support document creation ofclinical records under supervision from specialists. Consumer application, AI symptom checker “Ubie” is a physician supervised symptom checking app. Users can understand their symptoms by answering questions prompted by the AI and learn how to cope with the symptoms based on the disease information. | $17.1M / Series C / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| See all 73 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Rakuten Capital invest in?
Rakuten Capital invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 73 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rakuten Capital invest in?
Rakuten Capital typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$50M at Series A, $3.7M–$45M at Series B and $17M–$120M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rakuten Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rakuten Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Rakuten Capital?
The team at Rakuten Capital includes Adit Swarup (Partner), Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel (Managing Partner) and Hiroshi Takasawa (Managing Executive Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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