Top 15 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2024
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in October 2024
Investor | Publishing Japan investments |
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Drone Fund | 2 |
IT-Farm | 2 |
Tsuneishi Capital Partners | 1 |
Fuji Startup Ventures | 1 |
Nextblue | 1 |
Fundinno | 1 |
Nippon Venture Capital | 1 |
F Ventures | 1 |
Himegin Lease | 1 |
NOW Japan | 1 |
Shinsei Bank | 1 |
Future Venture Capital | 1 |
Vector | 1 |
Iyogin Capital | 1 |
Shoko Chukin Bank | 1 |
Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
- CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
- RICOS Co. Ltd. — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Germany
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- EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
- EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
- Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
Tsuneishi Capital Partners is a company that formulates and operates investment partnerships.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Robotics, Drones
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
- KAMOMEYA — Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation.
- POWERNEXT — POWERNEXT provides electric power supply & demand management, rate calculation, customer management & environmental value trading services.
Fuji Startup Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings, specializes in startup to early stage investments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Social Media, News
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tasogare — Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee.
- The ROOM4D — The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
Nextblue is a Tokyo and Berlin based early-stage Venture Capital investing in disruptive and impact-driven startups in Japan and EU
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- kencko — kencko started with the simple belief that organic fruits and vegetables should be available anytime, anywhere, in any shape or format. kencko is on a mission to reinvent fresh organic fruits and vegetables into convenient products that are hassle-free to consume while preserving all the goodness of freshly harvested produce.
- Bento — Create a beautiful page to show your audience everything you are, create, and sell in one link. Designed in Berlin.
- Bento — Discover the people and stories behind the coolest projects, and share how you've built yours.
Fundinno is an equity investment crowdfunding platform.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Health Care
- Equity Crowdfunding, Product Crowdfunding, Funding Round
- Japan, France
Portfolio highlights
- EBRU — EBRU is a manufacturer and seller of earphones and ear monitor audio products that include custom artwork on the products.
- Meiten Kan — Meiten Kan engages in the food delivery service industry.
- Human Potential Lab — Human Potential Lab is a company that supports individual skills development and corporate organizational change. Focusing on mental health and well-being, the company's programs are based on brain science, bioscience, psychology, and technology.
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States
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- Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
- Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
- Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Himegin Lease engages in venture capital business and centering on leasing business of machinery and equipment.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Content, Robotics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- KAMOMEYA — Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation.
- Setsuro Tech — Seturotech Co., Ltd. is a biotechnology venture company established on February 22, 2017 by Tatsuya Takemoto (PI: Principal Investigator) of the University of Tokushima as a venture from Tokushima University. In 2015, Takemoto and Masakazu Hashimoto (Osaka University) developed a simple and highly efficient method for producing genetically modified(genome-edited) mice using CRISPR / Cas9, and filed a patent application for the technology. The technology is called fertilized egg electroporation (GEEP method), a technology that introduces molecules required for genome editing by CRISPR into fertilized eggs at high throughput by the power of electricity (electroporation). Using this technology, Seturotech will start from the production and sale of genetically modified mice, and will become a fundamental company providing all genetically modified animals, anticipating the future use of genetically modified animals in industry.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
We provide online services and English-speaking support, allowing you to make transactions anytime, anywhere.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Task Management
- Funding Round, Series A, Series C
- Japan, United Arab Emirates
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- TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Myanmar
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Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits.
Vector was founded in 1993.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
Iyogin Capital is an investment firm that supports venture companies.
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Investment focus
- Task Management, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- ByWill — ByWill creates and distributes environmental value while eventually becoming carbon neutral.
- Diver-X — Diver-X is a provider of revolutionary virtual reality experience through its products.
- ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
Shoko Chukin Bank is a financial company offering personal banking services.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, Artificial Intelligence
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Voyt — Voyt provides planning, operation and development of audio software and computer systems.
- Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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