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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Asia Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Asia Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
19 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $165k–$27M
BEENEXT
VC Fund
13 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $456k–$50M
Antler
VC Fund
11 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
10 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $482k–$38M
SOSV
VC Fund
6 United States, China, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $25k–$5M
Kickstart Ventures
VC Fund
6 Philippines, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $350k–$24M
Wavemaker Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, Philippines Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $650k–$18M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $455k–$11M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $283k–$10M
JAFCO
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$36M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $516k–$48M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $712k–$34M
ZhenFund
VC Fund
4 China, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $98k–$22M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $455k–$21M
AngelCrunch
VC Fund
4 China Angel, Seed, Series A Internet, Recruiting, Information Technology $154k–$16M
Mynavi
VC Fund
4 Japan, India, Vietnam Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round, Seed Software, Marketing, Internet $704k–$142M
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $367k–$19M
Cento Ventures
VC Fund
4 Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $580k–$21M
ANRI
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $253k–$34M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Israel Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $482k–$19M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $581k–$47M
CDF-Capital
VC Fund
4 China, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $206k–$148M
CyberAgent
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence $225k–$57M
PKSHA Technology
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Recruiting, Consulting $476k–$50M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Information Technology, Content $255k–$30M
Vector
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Corporate Round Software, Apps, Internet $161k–$14M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $90k–$14M
K2VC
VC Fund
3 China, United States, Hong Kong Angel, Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Software $417k–$25M
Binny Bansal
Angel
3 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $639k–$52M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $150k–$101M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $289k–$20M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $196k–$13M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.3M–$29M
Oriental Fortune Capital
VC Fund
3 China, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$100M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
3 China, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $30k–$20M
Future Now Ventures
VC Fund
3 Philippines, Australia, United States Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $250k–$2M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $20k–$2.5M
Kunal Shah
Angel
2 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $350k–$17M
Skystar Capital
VC Fund
2 Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $850k–$60M
Yuzuru Honda
Angel
2 Japan, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, SNS, Internet $19k–$5.7M
Noguchi Keito
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Marketing, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment $467k–$1.8M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$43M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $577k–$283M
Crooz
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Recruiting, Apps, Beauty $7.5M–$64M
Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
SmartHub
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Series A SaaS, Internet, Software
Z Ventures Group
VC Fund
2 China, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
Eagles Fund
VC Fund
2 China, United States Angel, Series A, Seed Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 19 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 722
  • Round size: Seed $173k–$5M; Series A $1.9M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $165k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • Tokoshie — Building infrastructure that inspires everyone to create.
  • EveryWill — Every WiLL will hasten the creation of a new logistical infrastructure that addresses social problems, beginning with the "way we receive" our products.
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 13 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

BEENEXT manages multiple funds targeting diverse sectors, including fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. Its platform offers founders access to a global network for knowledge exchange, mentorship, and business co-creation. The firm utilizes an industry-agnostic approach to identify businesses with potential for long-term growth across various international markets. Additionally, the company facilitates partnerships between entrepreneurs and a community of collaborators to assist with scaling operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 397
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • Furnishka — Discover premium sofas, recliners, beds, dining sets and more at Furnishka. Buy furniture online in India with free delivery, easy EMI and warranty.
  • Foundry — Foundry is a consumer technology business that specializes in household appliances. Foundry was started by Ankit Jain, a former managing director of Dyson India.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 11 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$5.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 9 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 400
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$11M; Series A $2.1M–$20M; Series B $2.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Kauli — Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics.Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As aresult, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 6 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3821
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
  • Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
  • Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women.
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Kickstart Ventures
VC Fund · Makati, Manila, Philippines · 6 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

We invest in early- to growth-stage start-ups who offer solutions to existing pain points and provide forward-looking innovations that will help shape the future we believe in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Philippines, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$5M; Series A $4.5M–$20M; Series B $3.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • LotusFlare — LotusFlare provides a suite of digital products to help telecom operators grow revenue, reduce costs, and accelerate time to market.
  • Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
  • Featherless.ai — Freedom to reliably deploy any open model effortlessly.
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Wavemaker Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 553
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.3M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $650k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.9M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • uHoo — uHoo monitors and manages your indoor environment to help you create healthier, safer and more comfortable homes and workplaces.
  • Shikho — Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way Bangladesh learns today and democratise access to a high quality education. It is building a hyper-localised digital learning ecosystem designed specifically for the Bangladeshi national curriculum to serve a growing total addressable market of ~42 millionstudents. "Shikho - The Learning App" is available on the Google Play Store.
  • Blue Whale Energy — Blue Whale Energy empowers businesses to maximize energy storage, driving a smarter, cleaner, and more reliable energy.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 349
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4.5M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $899k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
  • Spectronix — Spectronics is a development of new technologies and new applications to bring about innovation, focusing on the future of laser technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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. In addition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Seed $283k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $389k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • IGU — IGU is a professional team dedicated to designing, refining, and delivering exceptional entertainment experiences. With a strong focus on creativity, quality, and innovation, IGU brings together talented professionals who transform ideas into engaging and memorable experiences.
  • GEMBA — GEMBA develops on-site improvement DX services specialising in the manufacturing industry.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to the creations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 391
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$33M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain has managed a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 858
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $516k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $65M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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 and affiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 694
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$21M; Series B $2.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $712k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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ZhenFund
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. We believe that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 815
  • Round size: Seed $98k–$11M; Angel $425k–$3M; Series A $863k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • XHEART — XHEART specializes in the designing and development of computing chips for physical AI applications.
  • Snowplus — SNOWPLUS is an e-cigarette brand that provides users with e-cigarette products through a combination of online and offline sales models. The products are available in 12 different types of flavors. The products use TrueFeel honeycomb ceramic atomization technology and Aeroflow intake. Technology; In addition to reference to the existing food-gradestandards in China, Xuejia has also passed a number of third-party certifications in terms of safety. The core components such as atomizing core and cigarette holder comply with the highest medical safety standards of the FDA and the European Union.
  • Futuring Robot — Futuring Robot is a developer of dual-arm home service robots focusing on C-end home scenarios.
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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 commitment to support innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • AccordX — AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.
  • Gecipe — Gecipe provides educational content in the virtual world of esports and is a metaverse education company. Their services include esports english, esports english conversation, and esports gym. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
  • 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.
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AngelCrunch
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Angelcrunch is a pioneering equity crowdfunding platform to interconnect startup companies and business angels in China. Till now, there are over 50,000 entrepreneurs, 10,000 startup companies and 8,000 angel investors (among which, 1200 are accredited) in total registered on the platform, more than 140 of them have raised the amount of money they need (300 million RMB in total) through the Angelcrunch platform so far.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Recruiting, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $154k–$1.4M; Angel $450k–$3.1M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yuebai — Yuebai offers car wash services. They provide services that include steam car washing, car cleaning, car care, and case presentation. Their features include no store required, saving venue rent, car wash service can be carried out on the owner's parking space, and more.
  • Kuandeng — Kuandeng specializes in developing a variety of applications for autonomous driving through the intelligent crowdsourcing of a map. Its core technologies include deep learning, image recognition, 3D vision, robotics, map construction, and big data cloud services based on it. The company has been corporating with a number of car manufacturers withits commitment to productize autonomous driving technology. It has completed several hundred million financings led by IDG Capital. Kuandeng was founded by Liu Jun, former vice president of Baidu and head of the LBS business unit.
  • FuBay Technology — FuBay Technology is a payment service provider that seeks to provide users with efficient and convenient payment options.
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Mynavi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $710k–$5M; Corporate Round $704k–$142M; Venture - Series Unknown $919k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Collect large-scale Ego data and human demonstration datasets using head-mounted cameras. We handle end-to-end data collection, operations, annotation and QA services for Physical AI, humanoid robotics, dexterous manipulation, embodied AI and robot foundation models.
  • Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 11 in the past 12 months

DG Daiwa Ventures invests in start-up companies with next-generation technology and provides business development support. It is focused on blockchain, xR, AI, security, and BioHealth, as they are likely to be at the foundations of future businesses. In addition to the five core technologies, the fund will also focus on IoT technologies, which often overlap or serve as an application layer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $679k–$6M; Series A $3M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $367k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • New Chat — New Chat is a technology company that develops communication software focused on visual and interactive group interactions. The company builds platforms designed to help small, close-knit groups of people share daily experiences through short-form multimedia content. Its primary software automates the creation of collaborative video logs byprompting users for brief, periodic updates throughout the day. By structuring messaging around shared visual moments, the business aims to provide an alternative to traditional text-based group chats and standard social media networking.
  • First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.
  • Tellus Global — Tellus Global is a company focused on creating new businesses using satellite data, AI, and software technologies,Its core mission is to make satellite information accessible and useful across industries such as agriculture, environmental conservation, construction, finance, and disaster management.
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Cento Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in early-stage startups, and we partner with founders who are building viable tech solutions to meet regional market demands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$5M; Series A $1.2M–$7.6M; Series B $4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
  • 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.
  • Salary Hero — Salary Hero offers a user-centric engagement solution to foster financial resilience among workforces.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $253k–$9.4M; Series A $967k–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $619k–$9.1M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
  • Green Growth Co. — Green Growth Co. is a startup company engaged in next-generation infrastructure projects centered on renewable energy. The company develops grid-scale battery storage facilities and solar power plants, as well as revitalizes and trades secondary solar assets, thereby creating power sources for both local communities and corporations. It also supports the enhancement of power source value through initiatives such as the digitalization of existing generation facilities, repowering, conversion to the Feed-in Premium scheme, and the co-location of battery storage systems. Furthermore, by aggregating distributed renewable energy resources—via services such as aggregation, Power Purchase Agreements and retail supply—the company implements mechanisms to optimize supply and demand while fostering a circular flow of electricity within local regions. Green Growth also provides hands-on support to companies, assisting them with their Green Transformation initiatives as well as the formulation of power business strategies and the design of operational schemes.
  • Typewriter Therapeutics — Typewriter Therapeutics, Inc. develops mRNA-based gene therapies using a gene writing, or gene writing, platform for precise insertion of therapeutic genes into the genome. The company builds on transposon-based technologies originating from research by Professor Emeritus Haruhiko Fujiwara at the University of Tokyo. Its programs focus on all‑RNA,nonviral gene writing systems that repurpose natural genetic elements to address severe genetic disorders with limited treatment options. Typewriter Therapeutics conducts research and development across its U.S. and Japan operations and collaborates with investors and partners to advance genetic medicine candidates toward the clinic.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 711
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$16M; Series A $1.2M–$19M; Venture - Series Unknown $525k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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 the fifth-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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 564
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$32M; Series B $2.4M–$47M; Venture - Series Unknown $581k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
  • Crosssector — Crosssector provides sensor DX solutions for various kinds of construction and maintenance applications.
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CDF-Capital
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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 State Ministry (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science and Technology), government guidance funds, parent funds, banks, and insurance companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$148M; Series A $206k–$16M; Series B $2.9M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barty Medical — Barty Medical develops, manufactures, and markets coronary drug balloons, peripheral drug balloons, coronary PTCA balloons, peripheral PTA balloons, peripheral drug stents, supporting catheter sheaths, vascular interventional devices, and implanted devices.
  • Aowei Linkcore — Aowei Linkcore specializes in the designing, development, production, and sales of high-performance RISC-V processor chips.
  • Xingyuanzhi Robotics — Xingyuanzhi Robotics strives to develop multimodal spatial intelligence systems and a universal embodied brain capable of comprehending and interacting with the physical world.
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CyberAgent
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

CyberAgent, Inc. is mainly engaged in the integrated net business.The Company operates in five business segments. The Integrated Net Business segment is engaged in the advertisement agency business, the smart phone media business, as well as the sale of advertisements for smart phone. The Media Related segment is engaged in the social game business, the operation of mobile media and personal computer business. The Ameba Related segment is engaged in the operation of Websites Ameba and Ameba Pigg.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Recruiting, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$57M; Series A $2.8M–$9.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200k in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
  • Jago Coffee — Jago Coffee serves freshly brewed coffee beverages wherever you are through a fleet of fully electric mobile cafes.
  • Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
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PKSHA Technology
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

PKSHA Technology is an information technology company that provides data analytics solutions for its clients. PKSHA technology was founded in 2012 by engineers and researchers who research algorithms. It is composed of engineers and researchers in the field of information science in order to provide one-stop services from the most advancedtechnology in the algorithm domain to its application.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Recruiting, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $476k–$15M; Series A $1.7M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $849k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Funds — Funds is a loan investment firm that lends money to businesses. It enables companies to invest in funds for business financing in 1 yen increments through silent partnership agreements.
  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $255k–$5.7M; Angel $493k–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $461k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $541k–$5M; Corporate Round $161k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $226k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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K2VC
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 12 in the past 12 months

K2VC (Xianfeng Evergreen) was founded in 2010, focused on early stage investment in technology start-ups in China, focus on promoting change and technological progress, innovative business models and lifestyles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 341
  • Round size: Seed $448k–$14M; Angel $417k–$3.1M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $31M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Quantex — Quantex is committed to focusing on the next generation of information technology and integrated circuit fields, and is dedicated to the in-depth research and development of 3.2T/6.4T photonic integrated chips (PIC), optical modules and CPO (co-packaged optics) solutions, leading the localization of high-end optical transmission chips.
  • XinYang Micro — Xinyangwei is an early stage underwater sensing chip startup specializing in CMUT (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer) technology. The company provides integrated acoustic sensing modules and 3D imaging components designed to give pool cleaning robots intelligent near field path planning and mapping capabilities.
  • Sequence Technology — Sequence Technology emphasizes in the production of polymer materials used in the semiconductor manufacturing process.
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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Binny Bansal is based out of Singapore, Central Region, and is the Founder & Chairman of Opptra. Binny previously worked at PhonePe as a Member of the Board of Directors. Binny Bansal attended the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Binny Bansal has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $676k–$7M; Series A $3.6M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $639k–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Posha — With our smart kitchen robot, Julia, we are making home cooking great again! Find out more about our story, technology, and Julia herself.
  • HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
  • RISA Labs — AI-powered operating system for oncology. Automate workflows, reduce treatment delays, and accelerate care delivery. Book a demo with RISA Labs.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.9B in 2018

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 a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 414
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$7M; Series A $1.5M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $368k–$8.1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $127M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Tell us about anything development-related. Our founder, who launched Niconico Live, SUGAR and GANMA! from scratch, helps with planning, design, development and operations.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 73 in the past 12 months

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $282k–$1.8M; Debt Financing $196k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gecipe — Gecipe provides educational content in the virtual world of esports and is a metaverse education company. Their services include esports english, esports english conversation, and esports gym. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
  • iCUREX — iCUREX is a medical-device startup and develops and commercializes medical devices using chitosan hydrogel technology.
  • HEARTBEATS — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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 a vast 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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$29M; Series B $3M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Oriental Fortune Capital
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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 treatment and 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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 343
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$100M; Series A $1.5M–$30M; Series B $3.2M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Memory tensor — Memory tensor designed with a focus on systematic innovation, grounded firmly in fundamental principles, serves as a powerful tool for scalable and adaptable intelligence. Its architecture emphasizes three core attributes: low cost, ensuring economic feasibility and accessibility; low illusion, reducing overfitting and minimizing hallucinations ormisleading outputs; and high generalization.
  • Langsilicon Technology — Langsilicon Technology is an electronic component R&D firm that specializes in the design, development, and sales of silicon-based passive components (capacitors, inductors, and resistors).
  • Lightwheel — Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure,
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 32 in the past 12 months

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: China, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 577
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Convertible Note $30k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.
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Future Now Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Creating tomorrow's value in today's growth ventures and early stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Philippines, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaaims — Get ready to invest like a Pro with Jaaims. Automated AI investing, trade 1,000 global stocks using AI - don't miss another trading opportunity!
  • Collaboro — Industry-leading Digital Asset Management solution. Trusted by Australia's leading brands, creative agencies, government and education. Book a Demo Today!
  • Recruitday — Hire top Filipino software developers and IT professionals. Recruitday is a trusted tech recruitment agency helping companies scale fast and cost-effectively.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dehurdle — Practice high-stakes conversations with real-time AI. Instant speaking pace and competency feedback. No voice recordings are kept after the session.
  • Amplicity — Amplicity retrofits backup batteries and UPS systems to cut peak charges, earn from energy markets and keep backup ready, with no upfront capital.
  • Vireo Capital — Vireo provides software for deal diligence, fund administration, and portfolio monitoring at private market investment firms.
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Kunal Shah
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Kunal Shah is based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and is the Global CEO of WhatsApp. Kunal previously worked at CRED as a Founder. Kunal Shah attended Wilson College. Kunal Shah has been awarded the Economic Times 40 under 40.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 334
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $4.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sol — Sol Foundry is an early-stage, agentic AI and business productivity software company that specializes in team collaboration tools. The company operates with a remote-friendly footprint spanning corporate hubs.
  • Firi — Firi is a quick-commerce mobile application operated by Madrat 24 Labs Pvt Ltd that specializes in beauty and personal care distribution.
  • Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
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Skystar Capital
VC Fund · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$5M; Series A $3M–$11M; Series B $6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JULO — JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing topay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
  • Ledgerowl — From bookkeeping to tax, Ledgerowl is the all-in-one AI powered financial solution that your business can trust.
  • Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$43M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $577k–$26M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $3.1M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Crooz
VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Recruiting, Apps, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $7.5M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Azit — WDBOS88 hadir sebagai situs slot online terbaik dengan pola akurat pecah sensational paling gacor hari ini, gunakan pola akurat WDBOS88 dan menangkan permainan slot dengan mudah setiap hari.
  • Wolfness — Wolfness provides consulting services to personal gym and advertising agencies.
  • Payme — Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.
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Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund · Shioya, Kumamoto, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ReEir — ReEir is a research firm that develops global regenerative medicine and cell therapy products for ulcer patients.
  • Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
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SmartHub
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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!
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Z Ventures Group
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Eagles Fund
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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