# Suneight Investment

> Suneight Investment is a VC fund in Toranomon backing Internet and Social Media. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toranomon, Japan
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/suneight-investment
- Website: http://www.sun-8.jp

Suneight Investment is a VC fund in Toranomon focused on Internet and Social Media. Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $924k–$47M |
| Series B | $1.8M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 27% |
| Social Media | 3 | 27% |
| Content | 2 | 18% |
| Fashion | 2 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 18% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 55% |
| Series B | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 64% |
| India | 3 | 27% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Teatis | Teatis helps save lives through automated video review + coaching workflows integrated with fleet dashcam solutions | $713.4K | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Niro | Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India. | $4.3M | Series B | May 10, 2024 |  |
| Thinker | Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products. | $924.4K | Series A | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| Virohan | Virohan is an EdTech company that offers healthcare vocational training to students to build a career in the healthcare industry. Virohan uses technology and talent to fix this socio-economic problem so that industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium.Virohan is re-engineering vocational training by aggregating the highlyfragmented vocational training industry and standardizing their operations from mobilization, training to placements. Virohan's tech stack's plug-and-play installation at training centers assures demand-driven training is provided to students in an affordable, accessible, and standardized manner to ensure youth achieve progressive livelihoods, the industry receives a trained workforce, and training centers have higher revenues and profitability.Virohan’s target audience is marginalized, low-income youth in the age group of 16-24, with about 50% of them being females. Virohan provides courses in Healthcare covering Allied Health, Corporate Training, and Refresher training for hospital employees in an omnichannel training model.The courses offered emphasize on development of core technical skills, language abilities, and life skills in the student through gamified blended learning delivered by its facilitators in classrooms. All programs include long internships at hospitals for hands-on practice of the skills acquired. It is a fee-based model and in order to encourage young people to join, financial linkages are provided with easy installment-based payback options after a job is secured by the young person.Virohan's tech stack predicts job demand, mobilizes youth as per that demand, trains them, and connects them with jobs. In essence, this increases viable penetration, lowering operational costs and improving efficiency across operations (mobilization, financing, training, certification, placement) through standardization. | $1.8M | Series B | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Aquaconnect | Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention. | $14.5M | Series A | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| atta | atta (formerlyWithTravel) is an accommodation metasearch service that recommends hundreds of hotels, apartments, and vacation rentals for your next holiday.We cover hotels and apartments in most holiday destination under one-site. Just search by entering your destination, dates, and number of guests. Sort your search results by price range, typeof accommodations, or amenities.WithTravel App is currently available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. We cover major cities in Japan at the moment and will keep populating more accommodations for your discovery. | $3M | Series A | Jan 08, 2020 |  |
| CAMPFIRE | Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people. | $46.7M | Series A | Dec 26, 2016 |  |
| Tokyo Otaku Mode | Tokyo Otaku Mode™ (TOM) delivers the latest news on Japanese anime, manga, games, and more through its Facebook page, which is loved by over 10 million fans, as well as its website, Tokyo Otaku Mode. TOM's mission is to be the world's premier source for the latest on Japanese pop culture.TOM also actively supports and promotes topcreators on Tokyo Otaku Mode, bringing their works to a worldwide audience. Starting with English translation support for creators' works and rofiles, TOM also features creators' works on its Facebook page, produces international portfolios for creators, conducts creator interviews, exhibits at overseas events, sells otaku goods to overseas customers, and more. With the inclusion of its e-commerce site, TOM aims to close the gap between Japan's otaku goods and worldwide otaku fans, being a place where such goods are readily accessible to otaku fans all over the world. | $38.3M | Series A | Apr 17, 2014 |  |
| Mind Palette | Mind Palette focusing on "mobile * social media" as their main business, they aim to further the realization of a society in which each individual transmits informationin real time and new values are generated by connecting other people. To this end, they conduct the provision of exciting Internet services for both users and creators. | $21.3M | Series B | May 13, 2013 |  |
| Snapeee | Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that does seed, early stage venture, later stage venture, and private equity investments. It is focused primarily on companies engaged in developing mobile software and enterprise software. It is known as one of the highest-caliber venture firms, and one of Silicon Valley's most influentialventure-capital firms by Wall Street Journal.It invests between 100,000 and $1 million in seed stage, between $1 million and $10 million in early stage, and between $10 million and $100 million in growth stage.Sequoia Capital has funded an unprecedented number of successful companies including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Apple, YouTube, Admob and Zappos. It estimates that 19% of the NASDAQ's value is made up of firms they have funded.Sequoia Capital was established in November, 1972, based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Don Valentine. Currently it has offices in the U.S., China, India, and Israel. |  | Series B | May 12, 2013 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [ITOCHU Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Dentsu Digital Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu-digital-holdings) — 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 Suneight Investment invest in?

Suneight Investment invests primarily in Internet, Social Media and Content startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Suneight Investment's check size?

Suneight Investment typically joins rounds of $924k–$47M at Series A and $1.8M–$21M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Suneight Investment participates in.

### When did Suneight Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Suneight Investment closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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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