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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia in September 2025

Investor	Recruiting Asia investments
East Ventures	7
BEENEXT	5
Antler	4
CDF-Capital	4
Colopl Next	4
ANRI	4
SMBC Venture Capital	4
Genesia Ventures	4
Vector	3
Mizuho Capital	3
Mynavi	3
Nissay Capital	3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	3
TLM	3
Tatsuo Sakamoto	3
YJ Capital	3
Incubate Fund	3
DNX Ventures	3
Bashar Hamood	2
Cybernaut Venture Capital	2
Yasuyuki Kin	2
CAC CAPITAL	2
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	2
Darius Cheung	2
Eagles Fund	2
Infocomm Investments	2
Ayataro Nakagawa	2
Newgen Venture Partners	2
Accord Ventures	2
XTech Ventures	2
Shinsei Corporate Investment	2
ANOBAKA	2
Oriental Fortune Capital	2
SmartHub	2
Globis Capital Partners	2
Fabio Cannavale	2
Quest Ventures	2
Binny Bansal	2
Yu Akasaka	2
Shinichiro Sugiyama	2
Nippon Venture Capital	2
Kazuma Ieiri	2
Z Ventures Group	2
Loyal VC	2
Kensuke Furukawa	2
QF Capital	2
Crooz	2
Innoangel Fund	2
Venture United	2
Hidetoshi Takano	2

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East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SIRCLO — SIRCLO is a leading omnichannel commerce enabler in Indonesia, driven by the mission to unlock the digital potential of people and businesses.
CrestLab — CrestLab Inc. is a startup focused on developing and providing products for anime production, with a central offering called "ANICRA," which is an anime production support platform that leverages AI technology. This platform aims to aid in various aspects of anime production by integrating artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency andcreativity.
Pintarnya — Situs penyedia lowongan kerja online untuk berbagai posisi, pendidikan dan pekerjaan dari lulusan SD hingga S1 Tersedia di seluruh indonesia.

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
fleetx.io — Cloud connectivity for efficient fleet and logistics operations, optimizing performance and streamlining processes.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
Saltfish — Saltfish enables teams to develop tailored video experiences that guide users through your entire funnel, from first visit to feature adoption.
PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.

CDF-Capital is a private equity firm invests in growth and early-stage companies and its business covers 3+1 investment, including equity investment (start-up investment, M&A investment, industrial investment) and incubation investment (Chuangzhan Incubator). Since its establishment, it has received funding and recognition from the StateMinistry (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science and Technology), government guidance funds, parent funds, banks, and insurance companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Coreview — Coreview is an OLED developer, focusing on silicon-based OLED IC design and silicon-based OLED microdisplay R&D and manufacturing.
Aowei Linkcore — Aowei Linkcore specializes in the designing, development, production, and sales of high-performance RISC-V processor chips.
Tsinghua Huahe — Tsinghua Huahe is a medical devices company that provides research and development of modified PEEK materials.

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
CaseBlink — AI for immigration lawyers | CaseBlink is AI software for immigration law firms. With CaseBlink, generate EB-2 NIW, EB-1A, and O-1 applications end-to-end.
Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Nonat — Nonat is a company focused on supporting the future of women and children by driving innovation across generations. It is developing a foundational model specifically designed to address the needs of women and children.
Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
MetaSensing — MetaSensing specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced attachable Raman sensors, designed to provide precise, real-time chemical and molecular analysis across a wide range of applications, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, India, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Japan AI — Japan AI specializes in R&D of artificial intelligence and consulting services.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
Nanameue — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

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.

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
Stacked — Stacked is an exclusive membership platform limited to a creator's top 10 fans.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
Nominal — Nominal empowers the next-generation economy.Nominal modernizes and automates accounting and financial management, providing robust reporting, multi-entity consolidation, workflow automation (including accruals and revenue), lease compliance (ASC 842/IFRS 16), period-end close collaboration, and much more.Nominal's generativesubledgers transform business logic into actions and insights using Generative AI - without the need for costly engineering or lengthy IT projects. Our shadow-ledger is implemented in days, not months, and seamlessly integrates with existing general ledgers and ERPs.
Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OPERe — OPERe is an IT company that specializes in the development of semi autonomous hospitalization guidance solutions.
NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.

As one of pioneering investment fund in China, Cybernaut (China) Investmentfocus on the Service sectors that serves Chinese middle class’s fast growing demands.? Cybernaut invests in early to growth stage private companies in financial services, health care, education, and specialty retail.? Cybernaut was founded by Mr. Min Zhu, who has a strongreputation and is well-known in the Silicon Valley and China for his extensive experience and outstanding achievements. Mr. Min Zhu was the founder and President of WebEx, which is the most powerful supplier of internet interactive services and internet conferencing in the world. Cybernaut works closely with top tier investment firms, such as NEA(New Enterprise Associates) and NLVC(Northern Light Venture Capital). NEA is one of America’s biggest venture capital firms specializing in start-ups and NLVC is a China concept venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage opportunities in technology enabled businesses. By now, Cybernaut has made many successful investment, such as Redbaby,lianlian and Focused Photonics Inc.? Cybernaut not only provides capital, but also operational experience, professional advice to their innovative Chinese entrepreneurs. They strive to help Chinese best entrepreneurs with their best ideas.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Big Data
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Huachen Core Light — Huachen Core Light is a semiconductor technology company that produces and manufactures optical communications and laser chips.
Giantest Electronics — Giantest Electronics focuses on independent integrated circuit chip wafer testing and test program creation.
Anquan Digital Intelligence — Anquan Digital Intelligence is an internet security technology service provider specializing in network security breach detection and defense, data risk and protection, artificial intelligence.

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.

CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.
LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.

Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cai Xiaomi — Cai Xiaobi provides Saas service for supply chain service in agri foods.
Star Speed Store — Star Speed Store is a delivery robot provider. Star Speed Store provides hotels with delivery robots for delivering food, packages, and room service within eight minutes – a typical last-mile journey on the premises.
Tianbing Technology — Tianbing Technology is an advanced aerospace propulsion system supplier and aerospace vehicle provider. Tianbing Technology independently develops the next-generation ambient temperature green HCP liquid propellant and minimalist aerospace propulsion system. As an upgraded product of traditional chemical propulsion system, it can meetcost-effective aerospace. Advance system supporting needs. The next-generation green HCP aerospace propulsion system, first tested by Tianbing Technology, can be used in the small-vehicle main power and launch vehicle upper-level propulsion system.

Managing more than $200 million, Infocomm Investments builds and invests in start-up companies in Singapore and globally. Through our investments, global reach, and partnerships across private and public sectors, we accelerate the development of start-ups in their formative phase, and invest further as they move forward with growth and expansion.We play a central role in building a vibrant tech start-up ecosystem in Singapore, and we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Analytics
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Fashory — Fashory is an android-based shopping platform that helps female online shoppers make informed buying decisions by providing fashion insights. It serves as a magazine editorials with the convenience of online shopping. Fashory was founded in January 2014, and headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.

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.

Newgen Venture Partners focuses on early-stage startup companies with innovative ideas and revolutionary technologies. Since its establishment in 2012, Newgen has invested in more than 100 enterprises, the accumulated valuation of which has exceeded RMB 50 billion. It is the first investor in several unicorn enterprises, such as GrubMarket,HotMaxx, LePure, and WePie.Newgen Capital is the brand of Newgen's investment in early-stage venture capital funds. As an L.P. actively engaged in early-stage venture capital, Newgen Capital collaborates with renowned institutions such as ZPARK VENTURE, L.P. Fund I, and GSR Ventures (Suzhou Jinshajiang Chaohua Phase IV Venture Capital Partnership (L.P.). In 2022, Newgen also invested in LiquidMetal Ventures. Together with these partners, Newgen is committed to discovering and investing in early-stage V.C. funds with innovation and growth potential, making investments that create value for the ecosystem.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Finavox AI — Finavox AI is a cutting-edge technology company based in Singapore, dedicated to transforming financial advisory services through the power of AI. Specializing in CRM integration, Finavox AI develops tools that automate and enhance client relationship management, making financial advising more efficient and client-focused. Backed by substantialinvestment from regional investors, including incubation by SGInnovate and support from AWS, Finavox AI is poised to redefine how financial services leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and client satisfaction. The company collaborates with top financial institutions and tech partners across the globe to ensure its solutions meet the highest standards of security and effectiveness.
Intelligence At Work — Intelligence At Work specializes in providing specialized B2B small but efficient combination of derministic and small generative models to automate complex, repetitive business processes. We create efficient, reliable workflows that integrate seamlessly with existing digital tools, helping organizations enhance productivity and reduce manualworkload. Intelliatwork's technology is designed to adapt to various industries, including supply chain, financial services, and healthcare, by automating tasks like data extraction, system updates, and application processing. Our AI models are built to be accurate, reliable, and adaptable to changes, ensuring long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Education
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing investment in early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, Pre-IPO, mature, growth capital stage, mezzanine and new third board investments. The firm typically invests in financial services, telecommunication, new energy, consumer goods, medical treatmentand healthcare, life sciences, internet plus healthy lifestyle industry, logistics, energy technology, information technology, mobile innovation, media, movies and television, culture, pharmaceutical, biological medicine, renewable energy, retail, environmental protection business, consumption, new materials, new agriculture, advanced manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, culture, entertainment, and services. It seeks to invest in China focusing on Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, and Wuhu. The firm also invests in Pearl River Delta region, Yangtze River Delta region, and Circum-Bohai-Sea region. For Pearl River Delta, it covers Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing cities in China. For Yangtze River Delta, the firm covers Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Hefei, Wuhu, Ma’anshan, Tongling, Anqing, Chuzhou, Chizhou, and Xuancheng cities in China. For the Circum-Bohai-Sea region, it covers Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Qingdao, Dandong, Yingkou, Panjin, Fuxin, Huludao, Chaoyang, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Cangzhou, Langfang, Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Handan, Xingtai, Dongying, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, Rizhao, and Binzhou cities in China. The firm prefers to invest 20% of its portfolio to early stage, 40% to expansion stage, and 40% to Pre-IPO stage. Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. was formed in November 2007 and is based in Shenzhen, China with offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; and Wuhu, China.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aiator — Aiator is an artificial intelligence product and technology solutions company focusing on industrial fields and biotechnology. Founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Scientist in Shenzhen Qianhai DreamWorks, the core members of the team are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Currently, there arefour peacock talents and nearly 30 independent intellectual property rights. Weiai Intelligent is committed to carrying out AI empowerment services for enterprises, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Mufan Power — Mufan Power is a new energy high-tech enterprise in the field of turbomachinery. It is committed to the development of a new generation of zero-carbon hydrogen power generation technologies and products. Its main products are hydrogen gas turbines, which can be used in distributed energy and data centers. , rail transit, ship power, vehicle power,energy storage peak shaving and other carbon neutral scenarios.
Spectrum-Dynamics — attenuation correction, deep learning, stress test, CTLC, Nuclear Medicine, Digital SPECT, CZT

SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
Damon Motors — Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform forworldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SDP Japan — SDP Japan is a provider of super Doctor Produce Business and procurement and sales of surgical components, pharmaceuticals, and consumables.
Acompany — Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing.
Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++

Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
Contents — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.
Smoothly — Mobile app helping working millennials sleep better, wake up refreshed and increase energy with science-backed breathing exercises

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OppDoor — Launch your Amazon Brand into Thriving International Markets. OppDoor is a Growth Partner for Amazon Brands.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Alltius — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.

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.

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 Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine

Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
Upward — UPWARD is highly by linking CRM · schedule map / location information, is a cloud service for the visiting business of field sales easier. Field salespersons who have many customers and who are out of the office feel that it is difficult to grasp all customers to Kampek and measure the timing of visits no matter how memorable they are.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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.

Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
China, United States

Portfolio highlights

WorkAI — WorkAI provides human resources services with the help of artificial intelligence.
Yibaotong — Provider of a SaaS platform that focuses on the integration between internet and financial industry. The company provides customized enterprise resource planning solutions for clients that directly integrates with their banks and insurance institutes. The company's platform offers supplier relations management, point redemption, enterpriseresource management, and customer relations management services, enabling businesses to enhance their operational efficiency.
Deep Blue Aerospace — Deep Blue Aerospace is a commercial carrier rocket developer.

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
NIU NIU — NIU NIU is an e-Waste operating system that maximizes critical mineral extraction, while minimizing the environmental and social impact
The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.

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

Portfolio highlights

Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.

QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tianlin — Tianlin Holdings provides robotic intelligent construction services, with a focus on creating an ecosystem that includes intelligent construction robots, green building materials, and intelligent construction digital platforms.
Xinwuzhan — Xinwuzhan builds a B2B mobile e-commerce platform in the field of frozen aquatic products. It combines the advantages of refrigerated storage, aquatic product processing, aquatic product artificial breeding, international ocean fishing and cold chain logistics in related industries. It was formally established in Beijing on December 12, 2017.
Sensemoment — DeepEye Technology focuses on promoting the implementation of embodied intelligent technology in industrial scenarios, and is committed to realizing the intelligence, standardization and productization of subdivided process links, empowering global industrial enterprises and accelerating the transformation of traditional manufacturing.

Crooz, a company based in Japan that offers smartphone games to the Japanese and global markets.CROOZ, Inc. is one of the leading mobile social game providers in Japan. We also publish original titles on “Mobage” and other leading social gaming platforms.Some of our games are grossing over US$1MM per month. We are currently expanding thebusiness internationally to capitalize on the rapid growth of global smartphone game industry., and in doing so, we aim to become a dominant player in both domestic and global markets.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Apps, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Azit — Azit is an application developer that aims to close the gap in everyone's mobility. Its product is the application CREW, a smart transfer app that allows its user to call someone's car running nearby with their smartphone. It is designed to bring "efficient move" to every people who live in Japan.It was founded in 2013 and isheadquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Wolfness — Wolfness provides consulting services to personal gym and advertising agencies.
Payme — Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.

Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Robotics
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

PureblueAI — PureblueAI is an AI-powered digital workforce platform operator specializing in enterprise marketing scenarios.
Lingyu Intelligence — Lingyu Intelligence engages in the manufacturing and sales of industrial robots, intelligent robots and service consumer robots.
Weizhen New Materials — Weizhen New Materials is a company focused on the research and development of new materials technologies, primarily focusing on the development and application of high-performance modified nylon materials and multifunctional composite materials.

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

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

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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