# Venture Labo Investment

> Venture Labo Investment is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 77 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 77
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Fund size: $415M
- Last fund: Oct 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/venturelabo_VC
- Website: https://www.venturelabo.co.jp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VentureLaboInvestment/

Venture Labo Investment is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Financial Services. Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $953k–$47M |
| Series B | $7.1M–$113M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 13% |
| FinTech | 9 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 12% |

110 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 31 | 40% |
| Series B | 13 | 17% |
| Seed | 10 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 9% |
| Series A | 5 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 63 | 82% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| South Korea | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tadayoshi Yamanaka | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tadayoshi-yamanaka |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XDeli | XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees. | $952.6K | Seed | Apr 04, 2025 |  |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $3.3M | Series E | Nov 29, 2024 |  |
| Castee | Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators. | $2.6M | Series A | Nov 06, 2024 |  |
| Batton | Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| SImount | SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales. | $1.3M | Series A | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Uniforce | Uniforce helps businesses expand sustainably by providing cloud-based and consulting services. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| HashPort | HashPort is a leading solution provider that strives to innovate Japan with block chain technology | $2.2M | Series C | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Gojo & Company | Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $47.6M | Series E | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Silva Compass | Silva Compass offers business support systems for businesses in the medical and nursing care fields that use software applications. They also offer planning, development, sales, and consulting for big data collection and analysis businesses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2022 |  |
| ARAYA | ARAYA is an AI services provider that utilizes machine learning algorithms including deep learning to meet the diverse needs of customers. By building deep learning algorithms, ARAYA helps recognize and identify humans, objects, and states from images and sensors. Its unique deep learning compression technology enables smaller, faster and morepower-efficient deep learning algorithms without compromising accuracy. By developing autonomous AI that can potentially bridge to artificial consciousness, ARAYA is aiming to make artificial intelligence in the next generation.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. |  | Series B | Mar 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 77 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NEC Capital Solutions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nec-capital-solution) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Nanto Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nanto-bank) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
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- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Venture Labo Investment invest in?

Venture Labo Investment invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 77 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Venture Labo Investment's check size?

Venture Labo Investment typically joins rounds of $953k–$47M at Seed and $7.1M–$113M 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 Venture Labo Investment participates in.

### How do I contact Venture Labo Investment?

Public channels for Venture Labo Investment include X (Twitter), the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Venture Labo Investment?

The team at Venture Labo Investment includes Tadayoshi Yamanaka (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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