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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia

A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor Recruiting Asia investments
BEENEXT 5
East Ventures 5
Colopl Next 4
ANRI 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Vector 3
Incubate Fund 3
Mynavi 3
Genesia Ventures 3
DNX Ventures 3
TLM 3
YJ Capital 3
Tatsuo Sakamoto 3
Nippon Venture Capital 2
27V (Twenty Seven Ventures) 2
Crooz 2
Ayataro Nakagawa 2
Z Ventures Group 2
Cybernaut Venture Capital 2
Loyal VC 2
QF Capital 2
Fabio Cannavale 2
Eagles Fund 2
Kazuma Ieiri 2
Pegasus Tech Ventures 2
Darius Cheung 2
KK Fund 2
Cento Ventures 2
Quest Ventures 2
CAC CAPITAL 2
Accord Ventures 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 2
Triniti Capital 2
Fresco Capital 2
Yu Akasaka 2
JJ Chai 2
Yuzuru Honda 2
Noguchi Keito 2
Infocomm Investments 2
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 2
Delight Ventures 2
Yasuyuki Kin 2
SmartHub 2
F Ventures 2
Sato Takahiro 2
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 2
Antler 2
Binny Bansal 2
Hidetoshi Takano 2
Kensuke Furukawa 2
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BEENEXT VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • India, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Scimplifi — At Scimplify we are solving the sourcing and manufacturing Chemistries. Involved in every step of R&D, Scale up & Commerical Manufacturing to ensure success.
  • Protos Labs — Protos Labs is a Singapore-based cybersecurity company founded by ex-Booz Allen cyber leaders. We provide cyber risk solutions to both Enterprises and Insurers, ranging from risk quantification to underwriting and claims solutions. We work with government agencies, enterprises, insurers regulators g
  • International Battery Company — International Battery Company (IBC) is constructing unique I-NMC Prismatic cells in India at the planned non-captive Gigafactory. Because of their big form factor, IBC cells reduce battery complexity while providing 40% more energy density than LFP cells. They are also recyclable. These cells will be ideal for mobility applications (EVs). Thesupply chain will be localized and secure, allowing for energy independence.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
Colopl Next VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
  • Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Japan DX — Japan DX platform provides a comprehensive data-driven services to inbound tourists to Japan.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
  • GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
  • The Ethical Spirits & Co. — The Ethical Spirits & Co. is an online store for spirits and alcohol.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
  • M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
  • Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
Mynavi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mynavi Corporation provides information services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Unstop — Unstop is an Early Talent Engagement & Hiring Platform with a community of ~4.5 Mn Students, Freshers, and 0-5 years Working Professionals. It enables companies to brand, source, engage, assess & hire talent #BeyondBoundaries from any college. In the process, student and early professionals get to explore opportunities and #GoBeyondResumes.Established in 2019 by Mr. Ankit Aggarwal as a blog called Dare2Compete, the idea was to give easy access to accurate information about corporate and student-organised competitions, challenges and festivals. 4 years on, Dare2Compete is now known as Unstop and is democratising hiring. A vision supported by strong pillars What was once a blog is now a thriving mutli-vertical ecosystem, which empowers students to showcase their skills, refine them; gain CV points, and eventually get recognized, rewarded, and hired in their dream companies. Unstop does this through - Learn, Practice, Mentorship, Compete, and Jobs.On one hand, students are empowered to enter the workforce and contribute to nation-building, on the other hand, companies get to source, engage, assess and hire these #Unstoppables through new-age hiring and engagement solutions. Leading brands such as Reliance, FedEx, Uber, Flipkart, Amazon, Kotak, PwC and others interact with students and early professionals at Unstop. First-of-its-kind super-app in the hiring spaceUnstop has over the years built solutions that revolutionises each phase of the hiring and engagement funnel. An organisation can complete their hiring from start to finish all on a single platform. Brand - No code custom microsite to engage and attract ~4.5 Mn students and early professionals across domains. Source - Job and internship listings bundled with a remote hiring platform. Engage - End-to-end execution of campus engagement solutions such as quiz, hackathons, hiring challenges, case study and innovation challenges. Assess - Coding, non-technical, domain specific and wide range of assessments to choose from. Hire - A remote hiring platform that allows access and an overview of the hiring funnel to the entire team, all on one platform. Our Moat: ~4.5 Mn community of students and professionals. Tech Platform can be created within days. But communities and behaviors like Whatsapp, Insta, LinkedIn, etc. takes ages.
  • Geekster — Geekster is a modern Edtech company in India that offers online job oriented courses with certificates and placement assistance. Learn more.
  • 1Office — 1Office is an enterprise management software company that provides a toolkit for businesses in digital transformation solutions.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Malme — Malme is a company that operates in the fields of 3D technology, architecture, civil engineering, and construction. The company offers total support for BIM/CIM operations, with a team of engineers who are well-versed in construction consulting. The company's motto is to 'update civil engineering', indicating a commitment tocontinuous innovation and improvement in the field. The company's services are designed to assist in the planning and execution of construction projects, leveraging advanced 3D technology and architectural expertise.
  • Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
  • Gaxie Co — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.
DNX Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Yamori — Yamori is a software development company which offers a cloud real estate management platform to realize stable rental management.
  • Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
  • Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.
TLM VC Fund
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • nanameue, Inc. — 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.
YJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
Tatsuo Sakamoto Angel
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Information Technology, Task Management
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • 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.
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
27V (Twenty Seven Ventures) VC Fund
Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!
  • Offered.ai — Use AI to find a new job with easy. We handle all the automation so you can focus on the interviewing.
  • Out Of The Box Education — Out Of The Box is a complete learning solution for parents who want to help their child learn better. Get our patent pending classroom-in-a-box to transform any space into an early childhood education environment, and visit our learning platform for personalized curriculum.
Crooz VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 Japan — Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.
Ayataro Nakagawa Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • 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.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Z Ventures Group VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.
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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.
Cybernaut Venture Capital VC Fund · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Big Data, Education
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Liecaibao — Liecaibao is a golden-collar recruitment and job-seeking platform.
  • Star Shimmer — Star Shimmer is a metaverse XR technology company that offers virtual and real-space marketing solutions.
  • Huachen Core Light — Huachen Core Light is a semiconductor technology company that produces and manufactures optical communications and laser chips.
Loyal VC VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
  • TAP — Talent Acceleration Platform (TAP) is a Dutch / Palestinian company bridging the gap between universal talent and unequal career opportunities.
  • Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
QF Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 9 investments in the past 12 months
QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Maibao Cloud — Maibao Cloud is a financial service provider for the international e-commerce sector. Maibao Cloud specializes in digital technology service providers for international e-commerce. It merges cross-border payment companies, cross-border logistics firms, and cross-border e-commerce platforms while using cross-border big data technology to create andinnovate cutting-edge risk control models.
  • Shanmu SHANMU — Shanmu SHANMU is a micro medical robot specialist who uses self-developed digital microfluidic chipsets and artificial intelligence algorithms. The robot can continuously check the metabolic components in urine, establishing a link between the user's health status and disease and intelligently establishing multiple disease management cycles.
  • ZaoMeng Technology — ZaoMeng Technology is a charitable brand dedicated to assisting families with mental disorders. Their digital intervention system has the following key features are : Assessment ability, Planning ability, Adjustment ability.
Fabio Cannavale Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Information Technology, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Properly — Short-term rental management software at low costs. Get the app to manage home maintenance for easy, remote hosting without hiring a property manager.
  • Contents.com — Contents.com : Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
Eagles Fund VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China
Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.
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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.
Kazuma Ieiri Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • 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.
Pegasus Tech Ventures VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Indonesia, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
  • Imbed Biosciences — Imbed Biosciences, Inc, (“Imbed”) is a privately held medical device company developing novel and patent-pending technologies for imbedding bioactive molecules in wound dressings and surgical implants. By leveraging its novel biomaterials platforms, Imbed is revolutionizing wound dressings to prevent wound infections and expedite wound closure, andideally reduce the overall cost of managing surgical and chronic wounds, a $3 billion market opportunity in the U.S. and Europe. Imbed is a spin-off from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, based on 4 years of research by a multidisciplinary group of engineers, veterinary scientists and medical surgeons. Collectively, the founders bring more than 25 years of experience in clinical wound management.
  • Epicore Biosystems — Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is basedon over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.
Darius Cheung Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Darius Cheung is co-founder of BillPin and CEO/co-founder of McAfee-acquired tenCube.
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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.
KK Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia
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.
  • Med247 — Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future.
  • FishLog — FishLog is fisheries supply chains ecosystem. Our vision is to transform fragmented fisheries supply chains into an integrated and efficient ecosystem with reliable solutions that create value along fisheries network. Our mission is to be the largest fisheries network in Indonesia. Offer complete fisheries post-harvest management services. Creatinga transparant, fair-trade and sustainable transaction along fisheries ecosystem with all stakeholders in our network.
Cento Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in under-invested emerging digital markets, primarily Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Since 2011, we have been backing digital companies that blend local insights with proven digital business models. We support entrepreneurs in their ambition to build companies thatare regional leaders in Southeast Asia.Cento is a Series A investor, committing on average US$1M initially, and up to US$4M over the lifetime of each investment.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
  • ProCredit — ProCredit is a tech-enabled SME lender that emerging markets SME-lending experience, having held senior credit roles at Citigroup, Standard Chartered, ANZ, and the Asian Development Bank.
  • Sirius — Sirius Technologies enables intelligent digital transformation for banks and financial institutions through an open, cloud-native and scalable platform
Quest Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Quest Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Asia. For entrepreneurs: venture capital. For enterprises: applied innovation. For ecosystems: accelerate.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
  • 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 — Startup is a place where ideas are built. A place where we are always looking toward the future; new horizons in design and development are just ahead.
CAC CAPITAL VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
  • Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
  • Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, 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
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Galapagos Japan — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • Yoii Fuel — Yoii Fuel is a software company which analyzes a company's KPIs and enables them to obtain a means of financing based on this data.
Triniti Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Triniti Capital is a market-oriented venture capital firm dedicated to the investments of leading startups from early to growth stage. Triniti Capital RMB Fund was established in May 2015. Currently, the asset under management is approximately RMB500 million.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Sermatec — Sermatec is a leading manufacturer of energy storage products and a data service provider for energy storage systems.
  • Hongyang Quartz — Hongyang Quartz is a quartz product producer that focuses on quartz sand purification, photovoltaic semiconductor materials, and device manufacturing.
  • Donglan New Material — Donglan New Material is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly crosslinking agents.
Fresco Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Lumify — The digital hub for healthcare pros. With Lumify, you can buy your gear, find new jobs, trade advice with your peers, access CEUs, and more! As a nurse-founded technology company, we're on a mission to ensure that all healthcare workers have access to the gear and resources we need to excel at the bedside and beyond!
Yu Akasaka Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
JJ Chai Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
JJ Chai is the CEO & co-founder at Rainforest. He attended National University of Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Real Estate, Rental Property
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
  • Needle — The world's first personal AI marketer for rising brands. It analyzes data, gives ideas and takes action. Sign up for early access!
Yuzuru Honda Angel
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Noguchi Keito Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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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.
Infocomm Investments VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
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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.
aucfan Co.,Ltd. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, France
Portfolio highlights
  • GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
  • Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Food Delivery, Software, Service Industry
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Anyplace — Rent move-in-ready apartments designed for productivity. Fully furnished, including a state-of-the-art home office setup. Available for short or long-term stays.
  • Beatrust — BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration, and driving innovation. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
Yasuyuki Kin Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yasuyuki Kin
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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.
SmartHub VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
  • 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!
F Ventures VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
  • microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
Sato Takahiro Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha
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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
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 39 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
  • Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
  • GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
  • Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
  • Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Binny Bansal Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Leela Life — Timeless Indian wellbeing secrets for peaceful and joyful living
  • Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
Hidetoshi Takano Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • 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 .
Kensuke Furukawa Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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Investment focus
  • Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • 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.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • 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.
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