# Seiichiro Wada

> Seiichiro Wada is a seed investor at Monex Ventures backing Legal and Content. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Monex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monex-ventures)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mv_wada
- Website: https://x.com/mv_wada

Seiichiro Wada is a seed investor at Monex Ventures focused on Legal and Content. Seiichiro Wada started his career as employee No.5 at a technology startup. He then joined Dwango, the fast-growing startup that operates Japanese Youtube "Niko Niko Douga", incubating new businesses for the company and then helped the company go public. After that, he joined Monex Group, the leading online brokerage group in Japan, andled new businesses there as well. He also helped establish Monex Ventures as the CVC of Monex Group first and then raised funds from external LPs for an independent early-stage venture capital. He has invested in more than 100 early stage startups, including Money Forward (IPO), Uzabase (IPO), Mentalhealth Technologies (IPO), MFS (IPO), Folio, Emerada, Gracia, and orb.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$43M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$28M |
| Series B | $69M–$85M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal | 2 | 17% |
| Content | 2 | 17% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 17% |
| Social Media | 2 | 17% |
| Task Management | 2 | 17% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chipee | Chipee is a social networking platform that enables its users to send digital gratitude in the form of chips. | $1M | Seed | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| AGRI SMILE | AGRI SMILE employs technology to create sustainable agriculture, communities, and production areas. It promotes agricultural industry development by combining software as a tool for accumulating and inheriting technology with science, which creates new technology based on accumulated data. They seeks to establish a cultivation system that is inharmony with the environment and the region, allowing agricultural workers to live a rich life both financially and spiritually. | $1.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| CharacterBank | CharacterBank offers game development and production services using VR technology. | $14.2M |  | Nov 26, 2020 |  |
| Radiotalk | Radiotalk is a Voice distribution platform business. | $42.5M | Seed | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| IB | IB is an insurance book app that allows users to manage insurance. | $937.6K | Seed | Aug 27, 2020 |  |
| Vivid Garden | vivid garden is an Agriculture company. | $85M | Series B | Aug 05, 2020 |  |
| Japan Legal Network | Japan Legal Network is an application that records the attendance status from the user's location. | $38.3M |  | Jul 17, 2020 |  |
| Rehasaku | Rehasaku is a service that uses technology to support both medical professionals, such as physiotherapists and judo rehabilitation practitioners, and patients. | $15.6M | Series A | Dec 23, 2019 |  |
| Japan Legal System Institute | Japan Legal System Institute (JLSI), our primary value is to provide products that exceed user expectations. | $11.3M | Seed | Dec 19, 2019 |  |
| Vivid Garden | vivid garden is an Agriculture company. | $27.7M | Series A | Oct 02, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Delight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delight-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dream Incubator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dream-incubator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VOYAGE VENTURES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyage-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Monex Ventures

VC Fund · Minato, Japan

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

2 contacts available at Monex Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seiichiro Wada | Founder, CEO & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seiichiro-wada |
| Yo Nakagawa | Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yo-nakagawa-ab45 |

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## FAQ

### What does Seiichiro Wada invest in?

Seiichiro Wada invests primarily in Legal, Content and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Seiichiro Wada's check size?

Seiichiro Wada typically joins rounds of $1M–$43M at Seed, $1.5M–$28M at Series A and $69M–$85M 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 Seiichiro Wada participates in.

### When did Seiichiro Wada last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Seiichiro Wada closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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