# Takashi Chiba

> Takashi Chiba is a Series A investor at Spiral Ventures backing Information Technology. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Spiral Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imj-fenox-pte-ltd)
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E8%B2%B4%E5%8F%B2-%E5%8D%83%E8%91%89-a785b686/

Takashi Chiba is a Series A investor at Spiral Ventures focused on Information Technology and Internet. As a director COO / CFO from the foundation period for three years from 2013, he engaged in management of Ittemi, a real estate tech startup. We oversee the entire business management area including business development, fund procurement, acquisition of same business services, contributing to business expansion from start-up. Prior to that, hewas engaged in private equity investment work, M & A and financing advisory work for 6 years over the Carlyle Group buyout team and investment banking division of Deutsche Securities. In 2007, graduated from the University of Tokyo economics department.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 5 | 21% |
| Internet | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Apps | 2 | 8% |
| Energy | 2 | 8% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 33% |
| Seed | 6 | 25% |
| Series B | 5 | 21% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mozu | MOZU operates a construction materials procurement platform. | $8M | Series B | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Monochrome | Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo. | $10.7M | Series B | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| bellFace | bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales. | $4.8M |  | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| H2 | H2 Corporation offers an automation solution called "AI Estimation" for estimating tasks. |  | Seed | Dec 26, 2025 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $62.9M | Series A | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| BACKSEAT | BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services. | $9.7M | Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Bloomo Securities | Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps. | $13.5M | Series A | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| HQ | HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform. | $13.1M | Series B | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| HQ | Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development. |  | Series B | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Mozu | MOZU operates a construction materials procurement platform. | $2.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Spiral Ventures

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/

5 contacts available at Spiral Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Miho Tateishi | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miho-tateishi |
| Nobuhito Akima | Director of Fund Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nobuhito-akima |
| Ryuusuke Hirota | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryuusuke-hirota |
| Shota Takamoto | Senior Associate - Venture Capitalist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shota-takamoto |
| Takashi Chiba | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-chiba-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Takashi Chiba invest in?

Takashi Chiba invests primarily in Information Technology, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Takashi Chiba last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Takashi Chiba closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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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