# SPARX AI & Technologies Investment

> SPARX AI & Technologies Investment is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Konan, Japan
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.sparxai.co.jp/

SPARX AI & Technologies Investment is a venture capital investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $942k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $7.4M–$142M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 38% |
| Internet | 4 | 31% |
| Information Services | 3 | 23% |
| SNS | 2 | 15% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 46% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Smart119 | Smart119, a medical & IT company, was founded by the Professor and Chairman of National Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. Smart119's mission is to improve emergency and critical care by computer science and artificial intelligence. | $2.8M | Series B | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| TranSe | TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school. | $942.4K | Seed | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Nature Architects | Nature Architects develops Direct Functional Modeling (DFM), the design algorithm for additive manufacturing by which users are able to directly design the functional properties for their product. Using DFM, it is possible to design multiple features, such as motion, kinematics, and elasticity, which have been difficult to design in theconventional design process. By leveraging the benefit of additive manufacturing, users can design and manufacturer a product with multiple functions in a consolidated one part. DFM can be applied to the area in which complex processing and assembling is required such as automobiles, airplanes, Robotics was necessary development. | $12.8M |  | Oct 08, 2020 |  |
| Zenkigen | zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA. | $7.4M | Series A | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| Luup | Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Mellow | Mellow is a food and beverage company that offers a food truck platform and event management support services. | $4.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 11, 2020 |  |
| Border | Border provides opportunities for business people to work globally through technology and new ways of working. The company provides a dedicated chat system to enable customers to make arrangements in a safe and inexpensive manner using the response that enables quick decision making like making a reservation on their own and the expertise of atravel agency doing. | $21.3M |  | Jan 22, 2020 |  |
| Docodesk | Docodesk is an Information Technology company which provides Cloud-based VDI solution. | $8.5M |  | Nov 01, 2019 |  |
| ONE CAREER | ONE CAREER is a management of web media "ONE CAREER",Implementation of recruiting events and Recruiting consulting. |  |  | Oct 23, 2019 |  |
| POL | POL is creating a platform that maximizes the possibilities of researchers. It is a laboratory that is a place where innovative science and technology are created that greatly advances society.Its first project "LabBase" would like to create a society that can solve problems in job hunting for science-based human resources, issues ofcompanies wanting to adopt them, issues faced by laboratories, and so that science-based human resources can be used more effectively. | $141.7M | Series A | Sep 17, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PKSHA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pksha-technology-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [PKSHA Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pksha-technology-inc-) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pksha-sparx-algorithm-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-sumitomo-insuarance-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SPARX AI & Technologies Investment invest in?

SPARX AI & Technologies Investment invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SPARX AI & Technologies Investment's check size?

SPARX AI & Technologies Investment typically joins rounds of $942k–$3.3M at Seed and $7.4M–$142M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SPARX AI & Technologies Investment participates in.

### When did SPARX AI & Technologies Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for SPARX AI & Technologies Investment closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 13 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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