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:
- 172
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.8M–$62M
- Series B
- $7M–$54M
- Series C
- $13M–$134M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 53 (31%)
- FinTech 43 (25%)
- Finance 20 (12%)
- Software 20 (12%)
- Blockchain 20 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 31 (18%)
- Series B 26 (15%)
- Series C 21 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 19 (11%)
- Seed 15 (9%)
Country
- Japan 43 (25%)
- United States 24 (14%)
- United Kingdom 12 (7%)
- Singapore 9 (5%)
- China 7 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Makoto Miyazaki
Exective Officer
|
Exective Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryosuke Hayashi
General Manager
|
General Manager | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Yoshitaka Kitao
CEO & Founder
|
CEO & Founder | Total investments: 52 | Find email | |
Yukiko Roberts
General Manager
|
General Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings. | $225M / Post-IPO Equity / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| GeoDreams is a clean energy and geothermal technology company focused on next-generation closed-loop geothermal power generation. | Seed / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Ajaib is an investing platform that allows Indonesians to buy and sell stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. The company is committed to opening the door to access investment instruments that are safe, trusted, and affordable. Its stock and mutual fund services can be accessed online, by all walks of life. The company was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $270M / Series C / Aug 28, 2026 | ||
| 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. | $68M / Series C / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | $41.2M / Secondary Market / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology. | $44.4M / Series A / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 describes itself as a provider of blockchain-based software and services that help institutions build and run distributed applications for finance and other regulated markets. The company offers a smart-contract platform called Daml together with its public blockchain network, Canton Network, enabling enterprises to tokenize real-world assets and manage digital asset lifecycles. Through its tools and developer SDK, clients can deploy applications that support tokenization, clearing and settlement, custody and asset servicing, collateral mobility, digital cash, and other workflows across institutional participants. Digital Asset supports interoperability across multiple systems while preserving privacy and regulatory control for participants. | $355M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
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FAQ
What does SBI Group invest in?
SBI Group invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 172 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 SBI Group invest in?
SBI Group typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$62M at Series A, $7M–$54M at Series B and $13M–$134M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SBI Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SBI Group took part 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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