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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Japan (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Angel or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $90k–$14M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $255k–$30M
Chikako Morimoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Marketing, Consulting $582k–$1.8M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Information Technology, Content, Software $215k–$19M
Sato Takahiro
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Fitness, Employment
Noguchi Keito
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Marketing, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment $467k–$1.8M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment $63k–$36M
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting $90k–$7.1M
Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Recruiting, Wedding, Logistics $484k–$8.7M
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $177k–$40M
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $252k–$2M
Soichiro Kawai
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps $35k–$2M
Yusuke Asakura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Finance, Medical $375k–$6.8M
Toru Shimada
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Task Management $37k–$4.3M
Hajime Hotta
Angel
1 Japan, Thailand, Singapore Seed, Angel Q&A, FinTech, Finance $14k–$793k
Masao Ito
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $147k–$9.2M
Joe Hirao
Angel
1 India, Japan Series B, Seed, Series D E-Commerce, B2B, Automotive $14M–$35M
Minoru Moriya
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Nursing and Residential Care, Internet, Health Care $377k–$941k
Yasuo Takahata
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Task Management, SNS, Consumer
Eiko Hashiba
Angel
1 Japan Seed Dental, Recruiting, Online Portals
Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Adult $222k–$8.7M
Hu Hua
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Consulting, Content, Aerospace $934k–$1M
Michimasa Naka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Task Management, CRM $1.8M–$2.6M
Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources $455k–$64M
Ichiro Fukushima
Angel
1 Japan Seed Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
Keisuke Honda
Angel
1 United States, Japan, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Fukushima Kozo
Angel
1 Japan Series A B2C, Freelance, Recruiting
Tsuyoshi Hoshina
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Mariko Ichihara
Angel
1 Japan Seed Finance, Recruiting, Human Resources
Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
1 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Social Media, SNS
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$107M
Hiura Toshihiko
Angel
1 Japan Seed Content, Recruiting, Task Management
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
1 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, SNS, Internet $19k–$5.7M
Toru Tony Sakai
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Medical, Employment
Seio Nagami
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Task Management, Information Technology, SaaS $934k–$4.6M
Oshima Ayanobu
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Yuki Sato
Angel
1 Japan Seed Soccer, Sports, Internet
Shota Iwasaki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency $320k–$14M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
1 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Content, Food and Beverage, Internet $28k–$6.2M
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content $280k–$2.6M
Arai Motoki
Angel
1 Japan Seed Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
1 Japan, India Seed Food and Beverage, Task Management, Media and Entertainment $493k–$2.8M
Nishio Kentaro
Angel
1 Japan Seed Information Technology, Shoes, AgTech $401k–$5.7M
Koichiro Yoshida
Angel
1 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Analytics $218k–$1.6M
Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Travel, Tourism, Recruiting $377k–$8.5M
Narita Shuzo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Task Management, Content, Internet $151k–$1.2M
Kenji Endo
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Dental, Internet $549k–$9.9M
Taira Sakuma
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed Human Resources, Software, Consulting $740k–$8.3M
Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Big Data, Internet, E-Commerce $330k–$11M
Masashi Mizunaga
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$14M; Pre-Seed $272k–$622k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $255k–$7.1M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $215k–$19M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $947k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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 Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Sato Takahiro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Fitness, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • RIZAP GROUP — RIZAP GROUP is a planning and implementation of medium- and long-term management strategy of the Group, management of business strategy execution support and business activities of Group companies.
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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $619k–$1.8M; Angel $467k–$716k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $63k–$4.3M; Angel $64k–$457k; Venture - Series Unknown $537k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
  • Strainer — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
  • LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Wedding, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $484k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
  • MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
  • Carat — Service development and operation to make people shine
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$8.2M; Angel $177k–$626k; Series A $1.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto — Grafto operates “Mylo Magazine,” a platform dedicated to sharing and promoting trend culture, where readers can explore the latest developments in lifestyle, fashion, art, and emerging cultural movements through engaging and curated content.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $252k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • SPeak — SPeak is an IT services firm that operates web content and matching platforms for global talents. It operates JPort Match, which is involved in direct recruiting services. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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Yusuke Asakura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yusuke Asakura is an entrepreneur, a businessman, a venture investor, a scholar and the co-founder of Signifiant Inc. At Signifiant, Yusuke manages a ¥20 billion growth fund “THE FUND” aimed at growth-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Finance, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$2.5M; Series A $1.4M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $973k–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Siiibo — Siiibo is a developer of an information platform intended to help private investors and companies to issue and purchase private bonds easily. The company's platform is creating a free, transparent, and fair direct finance that provides opportunities for an advisory to companies, such as support for diversification of funding using smallprivate placement bonds, and for building relationships with investors, enabling the private investors to get familiar with the issuance of corporate bonds.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Toru Shimada
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $72k–$4.3M; Angel $37k–$735k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • COELU — COELU wants to be at the forefront of organizations that decide to take on obstacles in order to become a "core of growth."
  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
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Hajime Hotta
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Hajime is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor with a strong academic background in artificial intelligence (AI) and AI web applications. Received Ph.D with a study of neural networks.Hajime started coding when he was 12 years old and implemented his first AI code at 14 years old, which automatically correct simple grammaticalmistakes. He was the inventor and product lead of AI-backed Ad Tech at Cirius Tech, which was acquired by Yahoo Japan, and also a CTO at NakedTech, which was sold to Mixi Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$793k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nishika — Nishika provides a data science competition, Q&A and recruitment platform.
  • Beeketing — ShopBase is the best eCommerce platform specialized for modern businesses with easy setup, no risk, free for 14 days. Dropshipping, Print-on-Demand, Online Brand, Content Creator.
  • Deepscope — ALWAYS INVEST IN THE BEST COMPANIES - Your AI powered stock research and portfolio management platform
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Masao Ito
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $147k–$9.2M; Series A $755k–$841k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Joe Hirao
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Jo Hirao is President, CEO & Representative Director at ZIGExN Co., Ltd. Mr. Hirao is also on the board of Apple World, Inc. and Rejob Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, Automotive
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series D
  • Geography: India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series B $14M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Truebil — Buy 100% Certified and Inspected Used cars at fair prices. Get easy paper transfer and service warranty. Call 7428700373
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
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Minoru Moriya
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nursing and Residential Care, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $377k–$941k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
  • Smooth — Smooth is a smart parking service that enables unmanned parking lots.
  • Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
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Yasuo Takahata
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, SNS, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
  • M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
  • Asia Educasion Labo — Asia Educasion Labo is Operates Kids MBA Anyhapi, a hands-on after-school for Asian children and elementary school children.
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Eiko Hashiba
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Dental, Recruiting, Online Portals
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Adult
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $493k–$8.7M; Angel $222k–$229k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
  • VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
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Hu Hua
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Hu Hua

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Content, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $934k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in the design, manufacture, and sale of reusable rockets and peripheral components. SPACE WALKER also plans and submits proposals for space-related events and other related businesses.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Michimasa Naka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Michimasa Naka is a member of the Board Of Directors of istyle.inc. He is an experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Task Management, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$17M; Series A $3.8M–$64M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$13M
  • 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.
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Ichiro Fukushima
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Ichiro Fukushima

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
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Keisuke Honda
Angel · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
  • Freecracy — FreeC a platform that connects millions of employers and job seekers by utilizing intelligent matching technology that is powered by AI.
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Fukushima Kozo
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Fukushima Kozo - COO @ Raksul

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Freelance, Recruiting
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
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Tsuyoshi Hoshina
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Tsuyoshi Hoshina is a Founder of T, Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
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Mariko Ichihara
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Mariko Ichihara isa Founding member of Macromill.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Recruiting, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
  • ECloud — E-Cloud is combines the experience and know-how cultivated in finance, IT and venture capital to provide information and opportunities related to venture investment, which has been limited until now, through the equity investment type cloud founding platform e-cloud. It provides to the general investor, and provides entrepreneurs with new means ofraising funds in addition to traditional banks and venture capital.
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
  • Bond — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
  • Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries. Linklusion provides management support such as business improvement and fund procurement to help institutions to deliver better financial services to more people with the power of technology.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$107M; Series B $5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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Hiura Toshihiko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Graduated from the University of Tokyo, graduated from the Department of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Graduate School of Management (MBA). In April 1983, he joined the Nippon Kogyo Bank Co., Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank Co., Ltd.). After retirement, he joined Bain & Company in February 1986. For more than 30 years, he has been involved inconsulting activities for companies in Japan, US and Europe in various fields. He was appointed as a representative partner of the Tokyo Office in January 2008 and Chairman in April 2014. He also serves as an advisory partner in Bain & Company Tokyo and outside director of Aluhi Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Recruiting, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$184k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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Toru Tony Sakai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Tony Sakai is founder & CEO at Open Doors Media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Medical, Employment
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Pro Reach — Pro Reach is a tech company that has an application platform to help advance medical healthcare.
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Seio Nagami
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Seio Nagami

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $934k–$944k; Series A $1.4M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Stock — Stock develops solutions to eliminate the stress of information sharing for non-IT companies.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Oshima Ayanobu
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Oshima Ayanobu - Chairman and CEO @ Infratop

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
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Yuki Sato
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Shota Iwasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Shota Iwasaki

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
  • TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $302k–$4.3M; Angel $28k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $538k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
  • NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
  • Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
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Arai Motoki
Angel · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Task Management, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $493k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
  • Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
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Nishio Kentaro
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Nishio Kentaro is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President at Game8.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Shoes, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $401k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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Koichiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Koichiro Yoshida is the CEO and Founder of CrowdWorks. He has completed a management program from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $218k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Nose ID — Nose ID is a mobile application designed to monitor and protect pet dogs in the vicinity.
  • Mairu Tech — Mairu tech that enables traveling by private ambulance and welfare taxi more convenient.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $377k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $151k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Kenji Endo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Kenji Endo - Director @ Japan Business Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Dental, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HANOWA — Hanowa is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics. It matches dental care workers who want to work in their spare time with dental clinics. It can be used for studying, side jobs, and job change activities.
  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
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Taira Sakuma
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Taira Sakuma is the founder of FORCAS.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Wellday — Eliminates dissatisfaction, anxiety, misfortune, etc. “Misfortune”, and aims to realize in the world where all people can work while imagining the future positively, Japan's first employ SuccessThe platform “Well” is provided. The service is a service that analyzes data of communication tools such as Slack normally used by AI, and allows youto objectively see employee condition and organizational issues.
  • Overflow — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
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Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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Masashi Mizunaga
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
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Recruiting Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 75 deals from 130 investors.

130
investors
in Japan Recruiting startups
75
deals
in Japan Recruiting startups
$888k
median round
in Japan Recruiting startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
48%
Seed
most common funding stage

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