SBI Group
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
SBI Group is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Financial Services and FinTech. SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.
- Total investments:
- 157
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries SBI Group invests in
Stages SBI Group invests in
Countries SBI Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Series A
- $2.8M–$142M
- Series B
- $7M–$62M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 42 (27%)
- FinTech 35 (22%)
- Information Technology 15 (10%)
- Software 14 (9%)
- Finance 13 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (15%)
- Funding Round 23 (15%)
- Series B 22 (14%)
- Series C 16 (10%)
- Seed 9 (6%)
Country
- Japan 33 (21%)
- United States 18 (11%)
- United Kingdom 11 (7%)
- China 7 (4%)
- Singapore 6 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Makoto Miyazaki
Exective Officer
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Exective Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryosuke Hayashi
General Manager
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General Manager | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Yoshitaka Kitao
CEO & Founder
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CEO & Founder | Total investments: 45 | Find email | |
Yukiko Roberts
General Manager
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General Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
NOT A HOTEL
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NOT A HOTEL develops a vacation-home ownership and hospitality platform that enables customers to purchase usage rights to architect-designed homes and access a network of properties through a shared ownership model. The company offers vacation residences that can be purchased in increments based on annual usage, with ownership providing recurringaccess to the selected property and reciprocal use of other participating NOT A HOTEL properties. Its platform combines real estate ownership, hospitality operations, property management, reservations, concierge services, and digital tools that allow owners to manage stays, check in, and access services through a mobile application. NOT A HOTEL also provides hotel-style accommodation to guests and manages properties on behalf of owners, including maintenance, cleaning, and operational services. The company collaborates with architects, designers, and other creators to develop individually designed residences and is expanding its hospitality offering through additional properties and hotel brands. | $63.4M / Series D / Aug 06, 2026 | |
Gauntlet
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Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $125M / Series C / Jul 09, 2026 | |
EDX Markets
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EDX Markets operates an institutional digital asset marketplace that provides cryptocurrency spot trading, clearing, and settlement services. The company offers a non-custodial trading venue with a central clearing model designed to streamline trade settlement, manage counterparty exposure, and support institutional trading workflows. It alsoprovides perpetual futures trading for eligible international institutional participants, along with API connectivity, market access tools, and crypto infrastructure services. Its platform supports trading across a range of digital assets while emphasizing transparent market operations and operational efficiency for financial institutions. | $76M / Series C / Jul 07, 2026 | |
Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | |
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Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M / Series F / Jun 11, 2026 | |
Morpho Labs
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Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility | $175M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 09, 2026 | |
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Morpho Labs
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Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility | $175M / Jun 09, 2026 | |
Temple Digital Group
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Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets. | Corporate Round / May 21, 2026 | |
Fasset
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Fasset is a global digital asset gateway that brings unparalleled accessibility to the digital asset space. Through our simple, safe and innovative digital assets, we provide people in emerging markets the opportunity to build a better future. We are pioneering web3 technologies and driving adoption of digital assets for the next billion. | $51M / Series B / May 14, 2026 | |
Circle
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Circle is a financial technology company that develops and manages digital currencies and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. It issues USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EURC), both fully backed stablecoins designed for global payments and digital transactions. Circle's platform supports businesses in integrating stablecoins into theiroperations, including cross-border payments and financial applications. Through the Circle Payments Network, it enables real-time settlement for financial institutions using USDC and EURC. | $222M / Post-IPO Equity / May 11, 2026 | |
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FAQ
What does SBI Group invest in?
SBI Group invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 157 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is SBI Group's check size?
SBI Group typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$142M at Series A and $7M–$62M 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 SBI Group participates in.
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Who are the partners at SBI Group?
The team at SBI Group includes Makoto Miyazaki (Exective Officer), Ryosuke Hayashi (General Manager) and Yoshitaka Kitao (CEO & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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