# Yuichi Kori

> Yuichi Kori is a seed investor at Nextblue (Tokyo) backing Apps, Retail and E-Commerce. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nextblue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextblue)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuichikory/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yuichi.kori

Yuichi Kori is a seed investor at Nextblue in Tokyo focused on Apps and Retail. Yuichi Kori is the Partner at Reality Accelerator and Josui Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 29% |
| Retail | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SecureNavi | SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Matsuri Technologies | matsuri technologies is a real estate tech company that provides solutions to support private property rentals. The company's products include m2m Systems, an Airbnb management platform that helps business operators to manage their accounts, communicate with guests, automate check-ins, offer customer service, and more. |  | Series B | Feb 26, 2021 |  |
| Good Coffee Farms | Good Coffee Farms is an online retailer of roasted coffee beans, coffee accessories, gift baskets, and other coffee-related stuff. Their product includes quality green coffee beans made by farmers committed to refining using bicycle-type threshing machines. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |
| SpeakBuddy | SpeakBUDDY is a web / mobile app development company that believes in "creating something that shouldn't be there now, not something you've seen before". Ourselves solved the difficult English learning problems and released “A serious English conversation! "Lapping English" and "Last English Learning! Twoworks of “Majitan” have won the first place in the AppStore rankings. | $42.5M |  | Jun 04, 2019 |  |
| SocialDog | SocialDog is an online tool that assists Twitter marketers with follower management, analysis, post reservation, and automation. By standardizing and automating operations, everyone from individuals to large corporations can spend time analyzing and formulating Twitter marketing strategies, making it more efficient and effective. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 06, 2019 |  |
| Virtusize | Virtusize is a revolutionary service that helps you find your right size and fit when shopping fashion online, by comparing a garment you are looking to buy with a garment you own. By installing our solution with online retailers, Virtusize helps to remove the largest obstacle to shopping for clothes online, significantly increasing sales andreducing returns. Our rapidly growing number of leading global brands include Uniqlo, New Balance, Kate Spade, Acne, Balenciaga, Allsaints, United Arrows and Lumine etc. | $212.6M |  | Jun 20, 2018 |  |
| Rockets | Rockets is a development and operation of SalesTech Solution "makibisi". |  | Seed | May 28, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [All About Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-about-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chihou Sousei Solution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chihou-sousei-solution) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D4V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d4v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mobile Internet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mobile-internet-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PE&HR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pe-hr-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Toyoshima](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toyoshima) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nextblue

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Nextblue is an early-stage focused VC based in Japan deploying in Japan, EU, and the US. NB fund II is investing in pre-seed, seed and pre-A startups in healthtech, femtech, or female-led startups innovating in the fields of fintech, consumer, and B2B SaaS. We also run our own co-working space in the heart of Tokyo called Nexthub (nexthub.jp) EUand US startups: Reach out to Vincent at Vincent@nextblue.com Japan: Kanako at Kanako@nextblue.com

2 contacts available at Nextblue.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yuichi Kori | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuichi-kori |
| Yuichi Gun | Representative Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuichi-gun |

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## FAQ

### What does Yuichi Kori invest in?

Yuichi Kori invests primarily in Apps, Retail and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yuichi Kori last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yuichi Kori closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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