Square Enix
VC Fund
Shinjuku, Japan
Square Enix is a VC fund in Shinjuku focused on Blockchain and Gaming. Square Enix develops, publishes, and markets interactive entertainment titles worldwide. It publishes online games, mobile entertainment, music, and DVDs. The company’s products include Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Heroes & Generals, Deus Ex Human Revolution Director’s cut, Final Fantasy Original Soundtrack, SaGa Frontier OriginalSoundtrack, Xenogears Original Soundtrack, Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack, and Space Invaders.The company also provides PlayOnline, a cross-platform online community; and multiplayer online role-playing games for PC, Mac, and Linux. Square Enix was founded in 1989 and is based in El Segundo, California.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Square Enix invests in
Stages Square Enix invests in
Countries Square Enix invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$15M
- Series A
- $2M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 5 (25%)
- Gaming 4 (20%)
- Video Games 4 (20%)
- Computer 3 (15%)
- Software 3 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (40%)
- Funding Round 4 (20%)
- Series A 2 (10%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Corporate Round 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 8 (40%)
- Japan 3 (15%)
- United Kingdom 2 (10%)
- Taiwan 1 (5%)
- Austria 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Akihiro Ichimura
Merchandising Manager
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Merchandising Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hajime Tabata
Video Game Director
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Video Game Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kazuharu Watanabe
Executive Officer and CFO
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Executive Officer and CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Mitamura Motoharu
Operating officer
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Operating officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Patrick Naud
Head of Mobile
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Head of Mobile | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides funding solutions and data intelligence tools primarily for consumer app and gaming companies, with a focus on supporting user acquisition strategies. The company offers non-dilutive financing through products such as PvX Capital, which enables businesses to access credit lines tied to marketing performance and repay based on generated revenue rather than fixed terms. Its platform also includes PvX Lambda, a data and analytics system that integrates with existing infrastructure to benchmark performance, analyze cohorts, and guide decision-making using real-time metrics. PvX Partners combines capital provision with market intelligence, using cohort-based evaluation and performance tracking to determine funding eligibility and optimize growth strategies. The company’s model involves sharing in the value generated from acquired users up to a predefined limit, aligning its returns with client performance while reducing reliance on equity financing. | $10.5M / Series A / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Tamatem is a mobile games publisher in the MENA market. The company partners with international studios and developers, take their games, localizes them, and makes them culturally relevant for the Arabic gamer. It focuses on publishing MMO-RPG, strategy, and card games. Their experience in localization, user acquisition, distribution,cross-promotion, monetization, user acquisition, and whales management can help get your game on the top of the charts, increase revenue and ensure its success in the Arabic market.Tamatem has published 40 games that have achieved more than 50 million downloads, in its HQ in Amman, Jordan which currently has 26 employees. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| Pragma is a “backend game engine” that enables multiplayer and social games. Pragma provides developers full extensibility, visibility and scalability. Our platform is made up of 5 interconnected applications: accounts & social, payments, player data, telemetry, and game loop. Pragma is built by engineering leaders that built platforms for someof the largest live service games like League of Legends, Valorant, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Eve Online. | $12.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 11, 2025 | ||
| Soccerverse is a football management MMO of which utilizes cutting edge tech from blockchain and AI. Clubs and Soccer Players are owned by the gamers whom can influence clubs and soccer players decisions. | $3.2M / Seed / Jul 12, 2024 | ||
| MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology. | $4.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Elixir Games is a game company that develops next-generation games for power players. | $14M / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game. | Corporate Round / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Blocklords is a team of gamers ourselves, we love creating memorable experiences that can be shared together with others. | $15M / Seed / Jan 17, 2024 | ||
| DM2C Studio aims to produce web3 enterprises such as blockchain games and NFT initiatives. | $2.4M / Seed / Dec 20, 2023 | ||
| Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds. | $6M / Seed / Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| See all 20 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Square Enix invest in?
Square Enix invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and Video Games startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Square Enix invest in?
Square Enix typically joins rounds of $2M–$15M at Seed and $2M–$11M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Square Enix's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Square Enix took part in.
How do I contact Square Enix?
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Who are the partners at Square Enix?
The team at Square Enix includes Akihiro Ichimura (Merchandising Manager), Hajime Tabata (Video Game Director) and Kazuharu Watanabe (Executive Officer and CFO), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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