# Seven Bank

> Seven Bank is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Finance and Financial Services. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/sevenbank
- Website: http://www.sevenbank.co.jp/english

Seven Bank is a Japanese bank that creates "new kinds of convenience" based on its network of ATMs. It also provides back-office support on commission and ATM services overseas through its subsidiaries.It is a subsidiary of Ito-Yokado, along with Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd. (parent company of 7-Eleven Japan and of Ito Yokado).Until October 11, 2005, it was IY Bank, taking its initials from Ito Yokado. Conducting its business primarily through the Internet, IY Bank has automatic teller machines in 7-Eleven convenience stores and Ito Yokado general-merchandise stores in Japan, and on April 27, 2005, opened its first branch with live staff. Customers with accounts at certain banks can process transactions at IY terminals at no cost; IY collects a handling fee from customers at other banks.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $11M–$71M |
| Series A | $900k–$43M |
| Series B | $1.6M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 7 | 37% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 37% |
| FinTech | 3 | 16% |
| Payments | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Seed | 3 | 16% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 14 | 74% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Masaaki Matsuhashi | Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masaaki-matsuhashi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smart Bank | Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management. | $1.6M | Series B | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Miive | Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS. | $2.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Smart Bank | Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management. | $18.9M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| SUSHI TOP MARKETING | SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services. | $899.6K | Series A | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Evrynet | Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Toranotec | TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology. | $26.4M | Series C | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $4.1M | Series A | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Nudge | Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially. |  | Seed | Feb 15, 2021 |  |
| Kanmu | Kanmu CLO is a credit card-linked coupon, providing a variety of offers, depending on users’ information and purchasing history of the card. It analyzes the purchasing history of the credit card to display the coupon that suits each user on the web specification of the card. Kanmu CLO is based in Japan. | $155.9M |  | Aug 11, 2020 |  |
| IT Realize | IT Realize is a Financial Application Service Business. | $623.6K | Series B | Jul 31, 2020 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ag-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canal-ventures-6d88) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC-GB Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-gb-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spiral Regional Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spiral-regional-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Seven Bank invest in?

Seven Bank invests primarily in Finance, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Seven Bank's check size?

Seven Bank typically joins rounds of $11M–$71M at Seed, $900k–$43M at Series A and $1.6M–$19M 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 Seven Bank participates in.

### How do I contact Seven Bank?

Public channels for Seven Bank include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. 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 Seven Bank?

The team at Seven Bank includes Masaaki Matsuhashi (Executive Officer). 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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