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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Japan in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Japan in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting Japan investments
Tatsuo Sakamoto	3
Hidetoshi Takano	3
Yasuyuki Kin	2
Shinichiro Sugiyama	2
Sato Takahiro	2
Noguchi Keito	2
Ayataro Nakagawa	2
Kensuke Furukawa	2
Yu Akasaka	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Hayama Takashi	1
Ichiro Fukushima	1
Yusuke Akiyama	1
Umagami Emi	1
Hiura Toshihiko	1
Taira Sakuma	1
Yuki Sato	1
Keisuke Honda	1
Fukushima Kozo	1
Koji Hayami	1
Shoji Kodama	1
Nobuhiro Ariyasu	1
Hajime Hotta	1
Shinji Kimura	1
Hu Hua	1
Yuzuru Honda	1
Masaru Tange	1
Masashi Mizunaga	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Fumiaki Koizumi	1
Masao Ito	1
Joe Hirao	1
Yusuke Sato	1
Toru Shimada	1
Shota Iwasaki	1
Seio Nagami	1
Kotaro Chiba	1
Soichiro Kawai	1
Oshima Ayanobu	1
Yusuke Asakura	1
Tsuyoshi Hoshina	1
Toru Tony Sakai	1
Narita Shuzo	1
Mariko Ichihara	1
Shunsuke Sasaki	1
Chikako Morimoto	1
Michimasa Naka	1
Daisuke Takanashi	1
Daio Sato	1
Arai Motoki	1

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Yasuyuki Kin

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

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 Co., Ltd. — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
Seed, Angel
Japan

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

Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

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 —

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
Seed, Angel
Japan, United States

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.

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Content
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.

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".

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

Investment focus

Content, Fashion, Logistics
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

Investment focus

SNS, Beauty, Medical
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.

Ichiro Fukushima

Investment focus

Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Japan

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.

Yusuke Akiyama is a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.

Umagami Emi

Investment focus

Content, Recruiting, Task Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.

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.

Investment focus

Content, Recruiting, Task Management
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.

Taira Sakuma is the founder of FORCAS.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Software, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

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.

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

Investment focus

Sports, Internet, Recruiting
Seed
Japan

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.

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

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.

Fukushima Kozo - COO @ Raksul

Investment focus

B2C, Freelance, Recruiting
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.

Koji Hayami - Project Manager @ JP Morgan Chase

Investment focus

Recruiting, Real Estate, Task Management
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Construction
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
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.

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

Investment focus

Finance, Content, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Q&A, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Japan, Thailand, Singapore

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

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Japan

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.

Hu Hua

Investment focus

Content, Aerospace, Consulting
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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 design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SNS, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

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.

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
EMET Creation — Vimet is a video app that allows you to instantly watch your favorite topic videos.ViMET offers high-quality video content that is currently talked about, Realizing a world where everyone can see, by providing new services, Restructure the power relationships of all players involved in existing video
S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.

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

Investment focus

Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Seed
Japan

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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

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.

Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

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.

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

Investment focus

Content, Social Media, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, E-Commerce Platforms
Series B, Seed, Series D
India, Japan

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.

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

Investment focus

Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Indonesia, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Task Management, Marketing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.

Shota Iwasaki

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Seed
Japan

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.

Seio Nagami

Investment focus

Task Management, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Stock — Stock develops products that relieve the stress of sharing information from teams around the world.
OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

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.

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan

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 Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.

Oshima Ayanobu - Chairman and CEO @ Infratop

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Seed
Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

Finance, B2B, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

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.

Tsuyoshi Hoshina is a Founder of T, Inc.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.

Tony Sakai is founder & CEO at Open Doors Media.

Investment focus

Apps, Medical, Employment
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

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.

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

Investment focus

Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Japan

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.

Mariko Ichihara isa Founding member of Macromill.

Investment focus

Finance, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

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.

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

Investment focus

Social Media, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, Myanmar

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 Japan — 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

Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu

Investment focus

Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

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 offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

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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Reservations, Travel, Employment
Seed, Angel
Japan

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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.

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

Investment focus

SNS, Content, Finance
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan

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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.
alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.

Sato is COO at BeNext-Yumeshin Group .

Investment focus

Recruiting, Career Planning, B2C
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

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ROXX — ROXX is a planning, development, operation and sales of agent bank and back check.
Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.

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

Investment focus

Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Japan

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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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