# Ricoh

> Ricoh is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Consulting. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%88%E6%A0%AA%EF%BC%89/
- Website: https://www.ricoh.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ricoh.jp

Ricoh is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Consulting. Ricoh provides innovative products and services, and it is expanding its business in three customer segments: office, printing, and others.The company provides image equipment such as MFPs and printers for offices and visual communication products that support new work styles. In addition, the company solves problems for office customers throughtotal solutions that combine IT environment construction, network environment operation support, and user support.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Ricoh. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Ricoh. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ricoh-japan?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $27M–$79M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Consulting | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| Local | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series C | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Derek Mathers | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-mathers |
| Peder W. Nelson | Sign & Graphic Specialist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peder-w-nelson |
| Brian Chertok | VP Marketing Communications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-chertok |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flucle | Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Log build | Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2024 |  |
| ASUENE | Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. | $26.7M | Series C | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Wacul | WACUL is a Japan-based company that provides web consulting and simplifies decision making process of enterprises. | $79.4M | Series C | Dec 12, 2018 |  |
| Hmcomm | Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutescreation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology. |  |  | Jul 13, 2018 |  |
| Bonx | Bonx provides wearable outdoor sports group-talk technology. Bonx creates and develops Bonx Grip, a water and shock proof unit that enables group conversations between outdoor athletes. | $63.8M | Series A | Feb 27, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Genesia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Adways](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adways) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bengo4.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bengo-4-com) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ricoh invest in?

Ricoh invests primarily in Software, Consulting and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ricoh's check size?

Ricoh typically joins rounds of $27M–$79M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ricoh participates in.

### How do I contact Ricoh?

Public channels for Ricoh 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 Ricoh?

The team at Ricoh includes Derek Mathers (Director), Peder W. Nelson (Sign & Graphic Specialist) and Brian Chertok (VP Marketing Communications). 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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