# SHIKIGAKU

> SHIKIGAKU is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Finance and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Fund size: $138M
- Last fund: Oct 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shikigaku
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shikigaku_2015
- Website: https://corp.shikigaku.jp/

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## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $748k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Automotive | 2 | 25% |
| Consulting | 2 | 25% |
| Drones | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 25% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keisuke Kajiyama | Director, Vice President & General Manager-Sales | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keisuke-kajiyama-1e14 |
| Kodai Ando | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kodai-ando |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Redcliff | Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations. |  | Series B | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| AROUSAL Tech. | AROUSAL Tech is a consulting company that offers a wide range of AI consulting services. It provides digital training, AI reskilling, AI consulting, and AI integration services. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 25, 2024 |  |
| Treasury | Treasury delivers extensive electronic contract and commercial transaction services. | $3.4M | Corporate Round | Feb 05, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $2.1M | Series B | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| White Seed | White Seed provides a car wash service and polish to realize a coating to bring out the originality of used cars, as well as an e-commerce site that handles cleaning agents, allowing car owners to have their cars cleaned and polished at a low cost. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 22, 2021 |  |
| Surpass | Surpass offers B2B sales outsourcing businesses. Their services include sales dx support, digital marketing support, female sales agent outsourcing, training for managers, executives, and managers, and sales training for female employees. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 30, 2020 |  |
| Surpass | Surpass offers B2B sales outsourcing businesses. Their services include sales dx support, digital marketing support, female sales agent outsourcing, training for managers, executives, and managers, and sales training for female employees. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 19, 2020 |  |
| Carstay | Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy. | $747.9K | Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDIB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdib-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CPA Excellent Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpa-excellent-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DG Incubation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dg-incubation-4286) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Drone Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drone-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GENDA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genda-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Incubate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incubate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SHIKIGAKU invest in?

SHIKIGAKU invests primarily in Finance, Software and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SHIKIGAKU's check size?

SHIKIGAKU typically joins rounds of $748k–$1.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SHIKIGAKU participates in.

### How do I contact SHIKIGAKU?

Public channels for SHIKIGAKU include LinkedIn, 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 SHIKIGAKU?

The team at SHIKIGAKU includes Keisuke Kajiyama (Director, Vice President & General Manager-Sales) and Kodai Ando (Founder & Chief 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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