SunBridge Global Ventures
VC Fund
Osaka, Japan
SunBridge Global Ventures is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Software and Information Technology. The SunBridge Group is the premier partner for leading enterprise IT companies to enter the Japan market. Founded by Allen Miner, the founder of Oracle Japan, SunBridge has successfully partnered with Salesforce.com, Concur, SilkRoad and many others to build their Japan operations. SunBridge invests directly into startups and through its affiliatesSunBridge Global Ventures (seed investor/accelerator in Japan), and SunBridge Partners (early-stage VC in US). They support promising entrepreneurs who challenge to develop business globally in IT by providing them seed capital and vital know-how which they cultivated in the investment experiences of the past ten years. SunBridge Global Ventures is a Global Seed Accelerator established in January 2012 as part of the SunBridge Group headquartered in Tokyo.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
- Fund size:
- $1.7M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SunBridge Global Ventures invests in
Stages SunBridge Global Ventures invests in
Countries SunBridge Global Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $350k–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- Information Technology 4 (40%)
- Apps 3 (30%)
- Mobile 2 (20%)
- Robotics 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- Japan 6 (60%)
- United States 2 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Allen Miner
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Eriko Takeda
Manager
|
Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hitoshi Kawanabe
Vice President, Business Developement/Acceleration
|
Vice President, Business Developement/Acceleration | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ikuo Hiraishi
CEO & Founder
|
CEO & Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gochiso is a restaurant reservation site that can easily support social contribution and environmental issues projects through meals at selected restaurants. | $87.8K / Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Vivid transforms traditional audio-only IVR, (that annoying robot voice you hear every time you call "customer service"). They have created an interactive visual experience, where all the relevant information is displayed in an intuitive way, rather than the painstaking audio IVR. Vivid presents the information in a clutter-free,simplified and more consumable manner, on your smartphones and tablets, which in turn leads to a significant reduction in traffic and dramatic efficiency gains. It also simultaneously increases the ease and effectiveness of communication between individuals and businesses' customer support department, while also cutting costs.Vivid was founded in October 2013 and is headquartered in England, United Kingdom. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2015 | ||
| Creating services to make everyday life better | Seed / Jul 30, 2015 | ||
| Before you bring something to the table.Cofame is your companion to enable you to manage your contacts and meeting history, and improve your business process.New style of contact exchange: Cofame is the next generation of exchanging business card and contacts. You no longer need to bring your paper business cards. If they do not haveCofame? no worries, you can send a part of contact information over Text and Email. Unlike your current paper business card, with Cofame, you can exchange yours with number of people at a same time. Meeting management: Cofame also enables you to manage meetings, and replicate those meetings on your smartphone. When, who, and where you met these people, who's sitting where, and what you discussed. You never lose your memory. | Seed / Jul 01, 2015 | ||
| AnyRoad is the market leader in Experiential Marketing. AnyRoad’s industry-leading platform enables businesses to operate and optimize their events, tours, classes, and activations to grow consumer brand loyalty and drive greater ROI. | Pre-Seed / May 28, 2015 | ||
| Vivid transforms traditional audio-only IVR, (that annoying robot voice you hear every time you call "customer service"). They have created an interactive visual experience, where all the relevant information is displayed in an intuitive way, rather than the painstaking audio IVR. Vivid presents the information in a clutter-free,simplified and more consumable manner, on your smartphones and tablets, which in turn leads to a significant reduction in traffic and dramatic efficiency gains. It also simultaneously increases the ease and effectiveness of communication between individuals and businesses' customer support department, while also cutting costs.Vivid was founded in October 2013 and is headquartered in England, United Kingdom. | $350K / Seed / Mar 22, 2015 | ||
| miil is a smartphone app that enables users to share photos of food they cook, ate, and want to eat. It is available for iOS and Android devices. | $1.7M / Series B / Feb 16, 2015 | ||
| WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications. WHILL is making transportation enjoyable and smart for everybody. It aims to change the perception of mobility devices such as wheelchairs and scooters through advanced technology and smart design. | $13.8M / Seed / Jun 05, 2013 | ||
| A Sony Group subsidiary with offices in Tokyo and Barcelona. We aim to create a platform to easily deploy and run AI workloads on edge devices, taking advantage of AI accelerators and to run complex distributed workloads on a cluster of IoT devices, the fog/MEC, and cloud, all managed by a SaaS platform. Midokura has offices in Tokyo andBarcelona. | $17.3M / Series A / Apr 02, 2013 | ||
| Coursebase is a developer of a learning management system used in providing training through an enterprise web application. It delivers and manages all types of training that help to automate course registration, grading of assignments, email reminders, surveys, and reports for online and in-person training courses that enable clients to createcourses and assign tests for their employees. | Seed / Mar 26, 2013 |
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FAQ
What does SunBridge Global Ventures invest in?
SunBridge Global Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does SunBridge Global Ventures invest in?
SunBridge Global Ventures typically joins rounds of $350k–$14M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SunBridge Global Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SunBridge Global Ventures took part in.
How do I contact SunBridge Global Ventures?
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Who are the partners at SunBridge Global Ventures?
The team at SunBridge Global Ventures includes Allen Miner (CEO), Eriko Takeda (Manager) and Hitoshi Kawanabe (Vice President, Business Developement/Acceleration). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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