Top 50 Real Estate Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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13 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $362k–$113M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $788k–$68M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, United States, China | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $2.7M–$850M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Health Care, Software | $5M–$425M |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $2.1M–$142M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $522k–$99M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$77M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$624M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$369M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$397M |
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.6M–$198M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Information Technology, Travel | $700k–$75M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.5M–$255M |
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STRIVE
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, India, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $800k–$142M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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4 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $6.9M–$73M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$213M |
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OPT Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Content | $253k–$89M |
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Energy & Environment Investment
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Sweden | Series A, Series B | Energy, Internet of Things, Software | $2.4M–$553M |
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Primal Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Spain, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $1M–$21M |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3.1M–$85M |
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PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, China, United States | Seed, Series A | Human Resources, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $953k–$160M |
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Taiwan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Information Technology, Apps | $229k–$928M |
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $775k–$45M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $429k–$500M |
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.8M–$928M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $649k–$38M |
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Miraidoa
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Myanmar | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $933k–$125M |
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Gaiax
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Italy | Seed, Angel | Real Estate, Travel, Content | $171k–$9.9M |
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Coral Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $384k–$928M |
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First Light Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Advertising | $553k–$255M |
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, China, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $696k–$213M |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $6.7M–$652M |
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $746k–$198M |
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DBJ Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, Medical, Health Care | $4M–$510M |
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DCM Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Japan | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Mitsubishi HC Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B, Debt Financing | Energy, Medical, Internet | |
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Mint
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps | $282k–$57M |
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DRG FUND
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed | B2C, Music, Drones | |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $420k–$354M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$369M |
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Health Care, Internet | $37k–$700M |
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Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $349k–$900M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment | $980k–$89M |
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Shizuoka Bank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Debt Financing, Seed | Media and Entertainment, Content, Task Management | |
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REVIC
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Medical, Mobile, Internet | |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Local, Sports | $9M–$68M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | $4.8M–$283M |
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Chiba Dojo
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$326M |
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Mitsubishi Estate
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Series B, Series A | Real Estate, Information Technology, Internet | $7.4M–$1.4B |
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Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 269
- Round size: Seed $362k–$46M; Series A $5.2M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $788k–$31M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Eitoss — Eitoss is a technology company which has developed and provided the proposal improvement cloud "Cayzen".
- Recerqa — Recerqa is a supply chain management SaaS that utilizes advanced development technology and AI to improve the purchasing, inventory, and sales management experiences.
- Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 418
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $3.8M–$850M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- AI Silk — AI Silk are innovative conductive fibers produced with a dyeing technique. By using natural silk and giving conductivity to the fiber itself, They have succeeded in producing electrodes that reduce some of the risks and challenges of conventional medical electrodes, which can cause discomfort,skin and in vivo inflammation, and measurement failuredue to sweat or other elements. Their brand, AI Silk, is a new material that has strong and diverse application potential, even beyond the health / medical field.
- Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
- ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Series A $5M–$170M; Series B $7.4M–$425M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
- Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
- Okuma Diamond Device — Ookuma Diamond Device Co., Ltd. | Creating a next-generation semiconductor industry from Japan, driven by the mission to support the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$24M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $522k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
- Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
- Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 223
- Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
- Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 235
- Round size: Seed $1M–$94M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Fondi — fondi is a completely new English conversation communication service that allows you to live a virtual communal life with the world.
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Knowledge Work — Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 508
- Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 461
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
- Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
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Browse database — It's Free!MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$56M; Series B $1.8M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- SPACER — SPACER is a 24-hour handover IoT locker that can open and close doors with a smartphone.
- Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $700k–$48M; Series A $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$25M; Series A $6.3M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
- Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
- 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.
STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
- Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
- Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1M–$85M; Series B $3M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Agatha — Agatha is a provider of strategic software solutions to the health care and life sciences industry. It is dedicated to helping hospitals, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and medical device firms optimize the management of their quality and clinical documentation and processes.
- Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
OPT Ventures is an investment and incubation firm that offers startups with venture capital, investments, IPO advice, management information services, and more. The company was established on February 27, 2015, and operates as an investment subsidiary of Opt Holding Corporation, an e-marketing company based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Content
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$68M; Series A $253k–$89M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CirclePe — Backed by India's Top Investors, connect us with your new Landlord & get a Zero Deposit move-in for the 1st time ever.
- Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Zeelab Pharmacy — Zeelab Pharmacy brings to you a high quality affordable generic medicines delivered to your doorstep with ecommerce & network of over 200+ stores in India.
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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- Industry: Energy, Internet of Things, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$156M; Series B $8M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $147M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
- Shippio — Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoicemanagement; and documentation support.
- Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.
Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Spain, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$21M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2014
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- RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
- Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
- SUN METALON — SUN METALON aims to create a world where metal products can be produced from local ores. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redondo Beach, California.
- BUGWORKS Research — Bugworks, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Harnessing the power of science to develop affordable, accessible, novel therapies against infectious disea
PKSHA SPARX Algorithm Fund focuses on start-ups and projects that have machine intelligence, AI-related and robotics technology.
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- Industry: Human Resources, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $953k–$160M; Series A $10M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
- S-Canvas — S-Canvas is an interior design company that offers 3D designs, decorations, and ideas for an ideal room.
- RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $840k–$92M; Series A $229k–$928M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
- Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
- Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $5.1M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
- Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019
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- PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$213M; Series A $18M–$928M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $419M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- WineBank — "WineBank" is a real-time online wine management and investment solution that we offer. In addition to operating a restaurant, it runs a sales company for food, drink, and other items.
- LIGHT-RIGHT — LIGHT-RIGHT focused on developing services that help local communities adapt to the challenges of a declining population.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 443
- Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sabu — Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry.
- Lanturn — Register your business in Singapore globally. From incorporation services Singapore to business registration for foreigners & locals, we handle it all.
- Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $933k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Tear Exo — Tear Exo is a biotechnology research company that produces and sells liquid biopsy using materials for molecular recognition.
- TelaAxon — TelaAxon develops artificial intelligence technology for sustainable operations, enhancing human-AI coexistence, safety, and wellness.
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $171k–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
- Xtraveler — Xtraveler is a travel company that provides hotel searches, accommodations, and lodging facilities.
- Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $384k–$92M; Series A $535k–$928M; Series B $3.3M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- SmartHR — SmartHR helps Japanese companies bring HR activities into the digital age. SmartHR makes HR simpler for Japanese companies by replacing spreadsheets and paperwork with a user-friendly online solution. When SmartHR was founded in Japan in 2013, on-boarding and off-boarding employees was a tedious process, especially since employers had to apply forsocial insurance and healthcare on behalf of employees using a process that had not yet been digitized. Today, SmartHR delivers massive savings for companies across diverse segments from high tech to retail by decreasing the time to complete HR processes like employment contracts down from one month to just 1-2 days. After catering to its initial offering to startups and small businesses, SmartHR is expanding its business to serve more enterprise customers.
- PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
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Browse database — It's Free!First Light Capital is venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $553k–$31M; Series A $2M–$68M; Series B $3.2M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LobbyAI — LobbyAI provides a wide range of services related to artificial intelligence, particularly around database construction and management.
- Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
- WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $696k–$28M; Series A $1.8M–$85M; Series B $1.8M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
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- Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Series A $7.1M–$282M; Series B $6.7M–$652M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023
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- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
- Teller Novel — Teller Novel is an online platform that publishes stories based on terror novels in the form of comics.
Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$198M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019
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- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
- GenerativeX — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Series A $4M–$283M; Series B $6.9M–$510M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
- Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 414
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- Honeycomb — Honeycomb is the easiest way to keep a baby book - perfect for parents, new moms, moms-to-be, and grandparents.
- Mendel.ai — Mendel.ai transforms unstructured EMR data and clinical literature into comprehensive and compliant analytics-ready data. Mendel uses their novel AI aided by clinical experts to streamline global oncology research by organizing real-world data and automating clinical trials. They build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trialprocess, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance prove worthy of the trust of customers, shareholders and employees as contribute to realize a more prosperous society.
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- Industry: Energy, Medical, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- PXP — PXP is a green tech development firm that develops clean energy using next-generation photoelectric conversion elements.
- SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
- Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.
Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $282k–$28M; Series A $2.3M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
- Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
- Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
DRG FUND is a seed stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: B2C, Music, Drones
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
- Swap — Swap is a tech company offering IT services and business consulting, as well as supporting companies and educational institutions.
- First Penguins — First Penguins envisions a world in which everyone interested in sports and culture can reach their full potential and fully enjoy themselves.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $973k–$70M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Browse database — It's Free!ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Series A $4M–$152M; Series B $5M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ThinkCyte — ThinkCyte provides single-cell analysis for research, diagnostics, and therapeutics with an integrated multidisciplinary approach.
- NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
- CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $37k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$700M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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- AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
- Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
- Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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- Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $349k–$56M; Series A $21M–$900M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
- Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
- Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $980k–$57M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
- Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (the Bank) is a Japan-based regional bank. The Bank is mainly engaged in the banking, leasing and financial instruments exchange businesses. The Bank is also engaged in worker dispatching, real estate appraisement and research, integrated processing of foreign exchange transmission and expense collection, leasing, operationconsulting, computer-related, entrusted accounting, credit guarantee, credit card, Initial Public Offerings (IPO) support services, small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) revival support and security-related businesses.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Task Management
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
- BALLAS — BALLAS provides corporate information, business content, procurement of construction materials, custom-made construction materials used at construction sites online, design, development, manufacturing, and sales of construction materials.
- SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
REVIC is an organization that supports the business revitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises and regional revitalization in order to revitalize Japan's regional economy and contribute to strengthening the foundation of credit order. It was established in March of the year by reorganizing its predecessor, the Enterprise TurnaroundInitiative Corporation. It supports the business feasibility evaluation conducted by regional financial institutions to provide solutions that match the life stages of local companies, based on the current situation and issues of the regional economy and industry.
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- Industry: Medical, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Amanek — Amanek is a real estate company that specializes in hotel development, investment, and management.
- Farmnote — Farm Notebook is an IT venture for the development of Farmnote, a specialized herd management system for the dairy and livestock industries. To the vision, through the development of IT systems that can take advantage of the information in the easy as handwritten notes to help the appropriate management decision-making by aggregating all dataranch. It will promote the management efficiency of the dairy and livestock industries in IT with state-of-the-art technology.
- Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Industry: Internet, Local, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $9M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Series A $4.8M–$170M; Series B $5.9M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
- Pliant — Pliant makes the latest generation of corporate credit cards that adapt perfectly to business processes and needs.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$326M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $342M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
- Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
- Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
A comprehensive real estate developer, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. boasts the leading position in the Japanese market, operating a spectrum of businesses in diverse fields related to real estate, including an office building business centered on the Marunouchi district in central Tokyo, a retail property business, a residential business, and hotelbusiness. The Company's area of operations is not confined to Japan; it includes the United States and the United Kingdom and extends to such Asian countries as China and Singapore.The strength of the Mitsubishi Estate Group lies in its comprehensive business structure, which encompasses Group members that seamlessly cover businesses ranging from development to leasing and property management. Looking at the real estate industry in countries overseas, in most places, the industry is divided into two main groups: developers and property managers. In contrast, the Mitsubishi Estate Group operates under a policy of maintaining ownership of the majority of the properties that it has developed. This enables the Group to pursue urban development with an eye to the future-a future of not only a decade or 50 years but as much as a hundred years from now.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Series A $8.6M–$1.4B; Series B $7.4M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
- T2 — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
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