# Yohei Sawayama

> Yohei Sawayama is a seed investor at Coral Capital (Tokyo) backing Internet and Restaurants. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yohei-sawayama
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/yohei_sawayama
- Website: https://x.com/yohei_sawayama
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yohei.sawayama

Yohei Sawayama is a Founding Partner of Coral Capital and Venture Partner and Managing Partner of 500 Startups Japan. Prior to that, he was a Researcher at Nomura. He attended The University of Tokyo.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 10% |
| FinTech | 1 | 10% |
| Medical | 1 | 10% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Henry | Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals. | $19M | Series C | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Ruten | Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions. | $2M | Seed | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| CoLab | CoLab is a technology company that provides robotics, artificial intelligence solutions, and business consulting services. | $2M | Seed | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| MOV | MOV is a technology platform. They offer SaaS for stores that can collectively manage word-of-mouth sites and visualize and analyze customer feedback. It distributes inbound market data, news, and know-how to domestic companies. Their services include inbound support and consulting. | $9.6M | Series B | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Polyuse | Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology". | $740.4K | Seed | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| SpiceCode | Spice Code enables digital transformation in the food production and supply network industry through central kitchen services. | $1.9M | Seed | Feb 07, 2021 |  |
| Justincase | justInCase, Inc. is the first pure InsurTech insurance company started its business in July 2018 in Japan. justInCase was founded by experienced actuaries and data scientists. justInCase provides AI based smartphone insurance, API based accident insurance, P2P insurance, COVID-19 insurance, as well as AI based healthtech insurance. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 29, 2017 |  |
| Zehitomo | Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers. | $21.3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2017 |  |
| Pocket Concierge | Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience. | $30M | Series A | Apr 13, 2016 |  |
| Koska | Koska is a service that automates highly accurate cost calculation without trouble in the IoT system. |  | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [STRIVE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rakuten Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rakuten-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [i-nest capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-nest-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NTT DOCOMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ntt-docomo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accord Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accord-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Coral Capital

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

4 contacts available at Coral Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James Riney | Founding Partner & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-riney |
| Yohei Sawayama | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yohei-sawayama |
| Kiyoshi Seko | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiyoshi-seko |
| Miyako Yoshizawa | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miyako-yoshizawa-eb55 |

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## FAQ

### What does Yohei Sawayama invest in?

Yohei Sawayama invests primarily in Internet, Restaurants and Content startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Yohei Sawayama last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yohei Sawayama closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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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