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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia (September 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
15 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$30M
BEENEXT
VC Fund
13 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $453k–$50M
Antler
VC Fund
11 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom 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, SaaS $494k–$42M
Wavemaker Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, Philippines Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $750k–$19M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $275k–$5M
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, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Information Technology, FinTech, Software $580k–$21M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$68M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$51M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $455k–$21M
CDF-Capital
VC Fund
4 China, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $206k–$148M
Kickstart Ventures
VC Fund
4 Philippines, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $350k–$20M
ANRI
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $275k–$41M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $457k–$21M
Mynavi
VC Fund
4 Japan, India, Vietnam Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round Software, Marketing, Internet $704k–$142M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
3 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $90k–$14M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$71M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $150k–$101M
Vector
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round Software, Apps, Internet $226k–$15M
Oriental Fortune Capital
VC Fund
3 China, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $1.4M–$100M
Binny Bansal
Angel
3 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $474k–$52M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $255k–$30M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $356k–$48M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $661k–$57M
PKSHA Technology
VC Fund
3 Japan, South Korea, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Recruiting, Consulting $476k–$50M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $341k–$20M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $212k–$13M
AngelCrunch
VC Fund
3 China Angel, Seed, Series A Internet, Recruiting, Legal $154k–$16M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
CAC CAPITAL
VC Fund
2 Japan, Malaysia, Thailand Series A, Seed Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
Infocomm Investments
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United States, India Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, Analytics
Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
2 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Software, Content
Newgen Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Ethiopia Angel, Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Software
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Belgium Series A, Series B Information Technology, Internet, Education
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet
Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Recruiting $90k–$7.1M
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Internet $625k–$41M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $577k–$283M
Quest Ventures
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $50k–$10M
Sujeet Kumar
Angel
2 India, Singapore, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, E-Commerce $500k–$27M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$43M
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
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 652
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$6.2M; Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • 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.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 13 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 391
  • Round size: Seed $453k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
  • 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.
  • Kita Technologies — Kita Technologies uses computer vision and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured underwriting data.
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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: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2375
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$588k; 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

  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
  • Occam Industries — Modernising automation for modern conflict environments. Sole European supplier to the Ukrainian front line.
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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: 239
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$4.8M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
  • 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 389
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$11M; Series A $2.2M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Hibot — Hibot offers robotic platforms, and related hardware and software solutions. The company offers robots for hazardous operations as well as for maintenance and inspection of infrastructure, search, and rescue missions. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
  • 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.
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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
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 472
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Series A $2.5M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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.
  • Neocrete — Neocrete is a concrete manufacturing company that is involved in the manufacture of resilient and carbon-neutral concrete.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 12 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. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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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: 176
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$1.9M; Series A $944k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $365k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
  • PIMTO — PIMTO Corporation is a technology company that provides digital solutions for location and facility management. Through its PIMT-0 service, it supports airports, stations, commercial facilities, hotels, factories, and public organizations in improving operations, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The company also focuses on addressingsocial challenges such as overtourism, regional revitalization, remote work creation, and improving access to essential services.
  • 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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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 13 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, whichoften 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: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • 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
  • Smart Bricks — An applied AI lab building the intelligence layer for global real estate investing. Underwriting and portfolio decisions grounded in verified transactions.
  • Feedme — FeedMe is a technology-driven SaaS company transforming restaurant operations across Southeast Asia. With a mission to make advanced technology accessible, we believe no restaurants are difficult to run, and no foods are difficult to find.
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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: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 664
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$29M; Series B $3.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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 andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 649
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$51M; Series B $2.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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 commitmentto 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: 123
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.
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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 StateMinistry (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: 90
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$148M; Series A $206k–$16M; Series B $1M–$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.
  • Shitian Technology — Shitian Technology is a chemical enterprise that manufactures modified plastic compounds. The business operates in industrial sectors by supplying plastic components used for automotive interior and exterior parts, along with materials for electronic devices.
  • 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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Kickstart Ventures
VC Fund · Makati, Manila, Philippines · 4 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Philippines, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$5M; Series A $4.5M–$20M
  • 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. Unlimited tokens for 30K+ models.
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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: 310
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$10M; Series A $967k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $616k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
  • Arrowsmith — Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance.
  • 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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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$21M; Series A $1.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • OptQC — OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum 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.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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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
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Corporate Round $704k–$142M; Venture - Series Unknown $925k–$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 — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.
  • 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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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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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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 thecreations 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, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$71M; Series B $5M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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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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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:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $541k–$15M; Corporate Round $268k–$4.3M; 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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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 treatmentand healthcare, life sciences, internet plus healthy lifestyle industry, logistics, energy technology, information technology, mobile innovation, media, movies and television, culture, pharmaceutical, biological medicine, renewable energy, retail, environmental protection business, consumption, new materials, new agriculture, advanced manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, culture, entertainment, and services. It seeks to invest in China focusing on Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, and Wuhu. The firm also invests in Pearl River Delta region, Yangtze River Delta region, and Circum-Bohai-Sea region. For Pearl River Delta, it covers Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing cities in China. For Yangtze River Delta, the firm covers Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Hefei, Wuhu, Ma’anshan, Tongling, Anqing, Chuzhou, Chizhou, and Xuancheng cities in China. For the Circum-Bohai-Sea region, it covers Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Qingdao, Dandong, Yingkou, Panjin, Fuxin, Huludao, Chaoyang, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Cangzhou, Langfang, Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Handan, Xingtai, Dongying, Yantai, Weifang, Weihai, Rizhao, and Binzhou cities in China. The firm prefers to invest 20% of its portfolio to early stage, 40% to expansion stage, and 40% to Pre-IPO stage. Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Co Ltd. was formed in November 2007 and is based in Shenzhen, China with offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; and Wuhu, China.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 318
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$100M; Series A $1.4M–$30M; Series B $3.2M–$100M
  • 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.
  • Ziwei Technology — Ziwei Technology is a high-tech company making returnable spacecraft.
  • 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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Binny Bansal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 3 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $474k–$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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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 andstartups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $356k–$48M; Series A $2.5M–$43M; Series B $3.4M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $93M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 533
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$41M; Series B $2.4M–$57M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$11M
  • 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.
  • Paytner — Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Power Laser — Power Laser is a startup company that offers a range of power laser technologies and applications. The company develops high-power laser systems, related components, and software for advanced industrial and scientific applications. Its mission, “Power lasers open the future,” reflects its focus on next-generation photonics and precision laserinnovation for manufacturing and research sectors.
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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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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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 374
  • Round size: Seed $341k–$10M; Series A $1.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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 — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
  • 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, 70 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 379
  • Round size: Seed $282k–$1.6M; Debt Financing $212k–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $635k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
  • Xperisus — Xperisus provides solutions to government agencies and local governments, such as support for the development of value-added experiences.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
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AngelCrunch
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 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 moneythey need (300 million RMB in total) through the Angelcrunch platform so far.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $154k–$1.4M; Angel $425k–$2.8M; Series A $1.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 377
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
  • LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
  • Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 323
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
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CAC CAPITAL
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
  • ClaimBuddy — ClaimBuddy acts as one-stop solutions for Health Insurance Claim assistance for Patients and Hospitals. ClaimBuddy are building an ecosystem to ensure Hassle-free insurance claims by leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes and operations.
  • LetsTransport — Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.
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Infocomm Investments
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Newgen Venture Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Finavox AI — Finavox AI is a cutting-edge technology company based in Singapore, dedicated to transforming financial advisory services through the power of AI. Specializing in CRM integration, Finavox AI develops tools that automate and enhance client relationship management, making financial advising more efficient and client-focused. Backed by substantialinvestment from regional investors, including incubation by SGInnovate and support from AWS, Finavox AI is poised to redefine how financial services leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and client satisfaction. The company collaborates with top financial institutions and tech partners across the globe to ensure its solutions meet the highest standards of security and effectiveness.
  • Intelligence At Work — Intelligence At Work specializes in providing specialized B2B small but efficient combination of derministic and small generative models to automate complex, repetitive business processes. We create efficient, reliable workflows that integrate seamlessly with existing digital tools, helping organizations enhance productivity and reduce manualworkload. Intelliatwork's technology is designed to adapt to various industries, including supply chain, financial services, and healthcare, by automating tasks like data extraction, system updates, and application processing. Our AI models are built to be accurate, reliable, and adaptable to changes, ensuring long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
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  • Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.
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Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
  • Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Yasuyuki Kin

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$10M; Series A $2M–$41M; Series B $2.2M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $145M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
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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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Quest Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$75k; Series A $1.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AidMi — AidMi is an AI clinical assistant that works inside behavioral health EHRs to automate clinical workflows, documentation, billing.
  • CoFab — AI-powered quoting automation agent for high-end manufacturing industries
  • Kamereo — Purchasing platform and Tech-enable Veggie supply for Restaurants in Vietnam
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Sujeet Kumar
Angel · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 2 investments in Asia Recruiting startups

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $625k–$1.8M; Series A $2.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AITS — Who We Are
  • Pizza Wings — Order Online from Your Favorite Pizza Wings - Powered By Uengage
  • 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.
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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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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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