# Upsider Blue Dream Fund

> Upsider Blue Dream Fund is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Internet and Food and Beverage. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.upsidercap.com

Upsider Blue Dream Fund is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Internet and Food and Beverage. Upsider Blue Dream Fund offers growth finance and innovative solutions for growth-stage entrepreneurs.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $6.9M–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 19% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |
| Local | 1 | 6% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 14 | 88% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LinQ | LinQ is an IT company providing internet services and user-focused applications designed to maximize digital engagement. | $6.9M | Series A | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| BitBiome | BitBiome is a biotechnology company focused on analyzing microbial genomes and discovering enzymes and proteins that can be applied across industries such as pharmaceuticals, food production, and sustainable manufacturing. The company uses single-cell microbial sequencing technology to study microbes that are difficult to culture throughconventional laboratory methods, enabling the creation of a large microbial genome database called bit-GEM. Its platform supports enzyme discovery, genome analysis, and bioengineering efforts aimed at developing bio-based alternatives for industrial processes. bitBiome also works with academic institutions and commercial partners on research projects involving areas such as biodegradable materials, biomass conversion, and pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis. The company positions microbes as a resource for advancing the bioeconomy by providing tools and data that support biotechnology research and industrial applications. |  | Debt Financing | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Rapyuta Robotics | Rapyuta Robotics is a global technology startup that builds cloud robotics solutions. Spun out of the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH Zürich) in 2014, the company now has about 90 employees global, and offices in Japan, and India. While improvements in technology are helping to make robotics more accessible to markets, the ability to integrate all therequired expertise remains a barrier for most companies. Rapyuta Robotics’ platform makes it significantly easier for businesses to deploy robotics solutions without needing in-house robotics expertise. By integrating robot hardware, software, sensor data, and applications in the cloud -- where powerful data centers manage the heavy computation -- Rapyuta’s platform lets end-users focus on their business processes instead of on managing robot hardware or software infrastructure. |  | Debt Financing | May 08, 2026 |  |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $17.3M | Debt Financing | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Landit | Landit manages transportation infrastructure and real estate technology firms. | $13.6M | Debt Financing | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| KAUCHE | KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products. | $6.9M | Debt Financing | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| FLUX | FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered. | $24.6M | Debt Financing | Jun 02, 2025 |  |
| CLAS | Class is a connection between people, the value of money, time and things. | $16M | Debt Financing | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $9M | Debt Financing | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| SHAREDINE | SHAREDINE is a subscription service for traveling chefs for pregnancy, before and after childbirth, baby food, lifestyle-related diseases, muscle training, and diabetes. They offer corporate benefits and wellness services, such as organizing meal seminars and dispatching cooking services for people. The on-site chefs at ShareDine are food expertswith credentials such as registered dietitians and cooks. There are approximately 1,600 registered visiting chefs with various specialties, including those who have experience with nutritional guidance and cooking in nursery school cafeterias and hospitals, as well as those who have experience cooking in hotel and restaurant kitchens. A traveling chef will also carefully advise them on cooking points such as recipes, preparation, and setup for them to replicate at home. | $3.2M | Debt Financing | Nov 13, 2024 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mizuho Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-bank) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Funds Startups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/funds-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Shizuoka Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shizuoka-bank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation-54d8) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shoko Chukin Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shoko-chukin-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bank Of Nagoya](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-nagoya) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Upsider Blue Dream Fund invest in?

Upsider Blue Dream Fund invests primarily in Internet, Food and Beverage and Information Technology startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Upsider Blue Dream Fund's check size?

Upsider Blue Dream Fund typically joins rounds of $6.9M–$9M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Upsider Blue Dream Fund participates in.

### When did Upsider Blue Dream Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Upsider Blue Dream Fund closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 16 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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