Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Recruit Strategic Partners invests in
Stages Recruit Strategic Partners invests in
Countries Recruit Strategic Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$8.5M
- Series A
- $3M–$57M
- Series B
- $6M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 12 (17%)
- Software 10 (14%)
- FinTech 9 (13%)
- Financial Services 9 (13%)
- Internet 8 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 20 (28%)
- Seed 14 (20%)
- Series B 14 (20%)
- Funding Round 10 (14%)
- Series C 5 (7%)
Country
- United States 30 (42%)
- Japan 22 (31%)
- India 5 (7%)
- Israel 2 (3%)
- Thailand 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hironori Onoue
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hitoshi Matsuda
Senior Vice President & Head of India Investment, Investments
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Senior Vice President & Head of India Investment, Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryunosuke Nakajima
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shoko Kanehara
Senior Vice President
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Senior Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Youngrok Kim
Senior Vice President, Investments
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Senior Vice President, Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Blacklane
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Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $26M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 24, 2021 | |
Steady
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Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports over 3 million hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more, an average of over $5,500 per year. Steady's view of income also applies its technology for purposes of income measurement that fills the wage data gap for public and private sector entities that servicethis worker population in areas such as the administration of public sector benefits.Steady was founded in 2017. | $15M / Series B / Jun 16, 2020 | |
ZenBusiness
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Zenbusiness is a corporate entity creation and management company that creates tech solutions focused on business identity theft protection, business management, and compliance. They use technology and automation to provide fast and low-cost services, expert support, and a personalized dashboard that puts everything customers need at theirfingertips. Zenbusiness uses these revelations to gain the funding it needed to deliver a single platform and expert support that business owners can trust as they start, manage, and grow their business. ZenBusiness's goal is to make the dream of starting a new business accessible to everyone across the country by offering low-cost formation, discounted business services, and expert support. | $15M / Series A / Sep 25, 2019 | |
Fundbox
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Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses that offers fast and intuitive access to business credit. Our mission is to power the small business economy by unlocking customer growth. | $176M / Series C / Sep 24, 2019 | |
PayMate
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PayMate is a leader in B2B payments for Enterprise and SME across supply chains. The PayMate platform provides a comprehensive digital workflow tied to payments which enable greater control and transparency along with better cash flows and an end to end reconciliation for a superior experience for Enterprise and SME in closed-loop supply chains.PayMate works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers. Platform features include Procure to Pay automation, credit evaluation, discount marketplace along with APIs for integration into existing accounts/ERP for minimal friction-based deployment. It is cloud-based and accessible across all form factors. PayMate has a presence in South Asia (India) and UAE and is actively expanding across CEMEA. | Series D / Jul 22, 2019 | |
Breez
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Breez provides a simple, fast and safe way to spend your bitcoins. Powered by Lightning Network, Breez is the future of commerce. | Seed / Jul 01, 2019 | |
COTI
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COTI is a blockchain protocol optimized for use by payment dApps, merchants, and stable coin issuers. The company offers the first-ever dispute resolution system to protect users from errors, fraud, and counterparty abuse. Its technology eliminates the need for hours or days to clear transactions, P2P payments, and remittances.COTI'splatform enables businesses to easily create advanced fintech solutions, saving time, data, and money. COTI Pay accepts all online and offline payment methods, including crypto and stable coins, credit cards, and even a merchant's native coin. It also has built-in financing in the form of interest on deposits and business loans. | Seed / May 24, 2019 | |
BEAM
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BEAM is a next-generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include:• Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance with his will andapplicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required.• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with a total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time-locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers | $5M / Corporate Round / Feb 18, 2019 | |
BlockFi
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BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs. | $4M / Convertible Note / Dec 12, 2018 | |
Veem
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Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Series B / Aug 14, 2018 | |
| See all 71 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Recruit Strategic Partners invest in?
Recruit Strategic Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 71 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 Recruit Strategic Partners's check size?
Recruit Strategic Partners typically joins rounds of $100k–$8.5M at Seed, $3M–$57M at Series A and $6M–$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 Recruit Strategic Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Recruit Strategic Partners?
The team at Recruit Strategic Partners includes Hironori Onoue (Vice President), Hitoshi Matsuda (Senior Vice President & Head of India Investment, Investments) and Ryunosuke Nakajima (Vice President), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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