# Shueisha

> Shueisha is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Media and Entertainment, Art and B2C. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shueisha-inc-
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shueisha_pr?lang=en
- Website: https://www.shueisha.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mangaplus.en/

Shueisha is an entertainment magazine publishing company that published weekly magazines such as Playboy and LEE. The company also publishes Manga, Literature, Non-Fiction, News, Economy, Children’s Literature, Complete Works Series, and Dictionaries.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 40% |
| Art | 1 | 20% |
| B2C | 1 | 20% |
| SNS | 1 | 20% |
| VoIP | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gaudiy | Gaudiy is involved in a fan-economy business based on blockchain technology. Gaudiy's product, Gaudiy Fanlink, is a Web3-era fan platform that maximizes fan heat by utilizing blockchain technology such as NFT and DID (distributed ID). Gaudiy offers an IP community system, that has the ability to record and accumulate cross-sectional fanactivity data and build an ecosystem that accurately evaluates and returns fan contributions and enthusiasm. | $68.5M | Series C | May 08, 2025 |  |
| Mantra | MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology. | $4.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| Mantra | MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| MyAnimeList | MyAnimeList is a social network for anime and manga fans. It provides users a customizable 'listing' feature to show other users what anime or manga they have watched or read. Users can read anime and manga reviews and connect to other users who read and watch the same things as they do. It also offers a database with anime, manga, andperson information. | $5.7M | Corporate Round | Feb 17, 2021 |  |
| MediBang | MediBang is the creator of the art app MediBang Paint and runs an online platform ART street for sharing and viewing manga and illustrations.The birth of the internet has made it easy for people to share their art with other people.Because of this, the gap between writers, artists, and their audience has never been smaller than it is now. | $17M | Corporate Round | Apr 10, 2019 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Shogakukan — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kodansha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kodansha-ltd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MPower Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpower-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Shueisha — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Akatsuki — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anime Times Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anime-times-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Shueisha invest in?

Shueisha invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Art and B2C startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Shueisha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shueisha closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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