Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Asia (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Antler
VC Fund
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9 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $473k–$35M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $691k–$29M |
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BEENEXT
VC Fund
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7 | India, Indonesia, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $545k–$50M |
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Japan, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $684k–$71M |
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund
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5 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $330k–$75M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.5M–$184M |
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Mynavi
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, India, Vietnam | Corporate Round, Seed | Software, Marketing, Internet | $710k–$142M |
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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $679k–$122M |
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Colopl Next
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce | $900k–$30M |
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Cento Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $580k–$21M |
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CDF-Capital
VC Fund
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4 | China, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $206k–$148M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Medical, Health Care | $413k–$41M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $565k–$71M |
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Wavemaker Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, Philippines | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $880k–$20M |
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Binny Bansal
Angel
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3 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $474k–$125M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $272k–$17M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $455k–$30M |
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $4M–$213M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.1M–$184M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$198M |
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YJ Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $150k–$101M |
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Vector
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Corporate Round | Software, Internet, Marketing | $730k–$33M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$269M |
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TLM
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series B | Information Technology, Content, SNS | $450k–$21M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $317k–$57M |
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Shinsei Corporate Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Internet, Education | |
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, China, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $661k–$103M |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content | $619k–$11M |
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Loyal VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $30k–$2.5M |
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $577k–$283M |
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Quest Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Fresco Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Education, SaaS | $500k–$15M |
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27V (Twenty Seven Ventures)
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Education, EdTech | $20k–$10M |
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Sujeet Kumar
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $500k–$27M |
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Kunal Shah
Angel
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2 | India, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $350k–$16M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$43M |
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Skystar Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $850k–$60M |
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Oriental Fortune Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $1.4M–$100M |
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KK Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace | $275k–$20M |
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Crooz
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Corporate Round | Recruiting, Apps, Beauty | $7.5M–$64M |
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Sumant Sinha
Angel
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2 | India, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | B2B, Energy, Automotive | $300k–$16M |
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Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | |
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SmartHub
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Series A | SaaS, Internet, Software | |
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Z Ventures Group
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Eagles Fund
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States | Angel, Series A, Seed | Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet | |
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor | |
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2216
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
- Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 522
- Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
- Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $691k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Indonesia, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $545k–$7.9M; Series A $2.4M–$28M; Series B $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2020
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.
- CREST — CREST Capital is a private investment firm that partners with founders, families, and institutions to build, manage, and preserve wealth with discipline, alignment, and foresight.
- Quadric — quadric.io is a Burlingame, CA-based processor technology company. The q16 Processor is the most comprehensive AI processor that handles any AI and high-performance edge workload.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 349
- Round size: Seed $684k–$21M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $4.7M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SHIFT — Shift.com of San Francisco CA serving Oakland is one of the best pre-owned dealerships in CA. Call Sales <span class='callNowClass'>855-744-3873</span>
- Uncover Truth — UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
- Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
- AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 584
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $679k–$7M; Series A $3M–$103M; Series B $6.5M–$122M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Listie — Listie is an industrial engineering company that develops, supplies, and maintains lithium separation equipment and membranes. It is an important infrastructure resource that supports modern life, including electric vehicles, smartphones, and renewable energy storage.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
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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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- BitStar — BitStar is the EnterTech company that accelerates the growth of video creators and content with our proprietary data and technology.
- VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
- Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $580k–$5M; Series A $1.3M–$7.6M; Series B $4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% 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.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $227k–$148M; Series A $206k–$16M; Series B $424k–$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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 269
- Round size: Seed $413k–$19M; Series A $2.3M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
- Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
- Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Seed $565k–$43M; Series A $2M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
- Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 353
- Round size: Seed $880k–$5M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $136M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- uHoo — uHoo monitors and manages your indoor environment to help you create healthier, safer and more comfortable homes and workplaces.
- RateIt — An omni-channel CX platform that captures, interprets & analyses customer feedback in ways that makes it easy to see the right moves to make.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $474k–$8M; Series A $3M–$18M; Series B $13M–$125M
- 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.
Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $457k–$17M; Pre-Seed $272k–$9.9M
- 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.
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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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Series A $4M–$101M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 576
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B 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.
- WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $730k–$33M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
- 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.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 477
- Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B 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.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $450k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $5.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
- Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 313
- Round size: Seed $317k–$17M; Series A $2.4M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.4B in 2021
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.
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rakubil — Rakubil is a software development firm that develops applications and platforms for the commercial real estate sectors.
- Tryeting — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
- Forest Digital — Forest Digital is a media company that provides video, presentation, animation, and VR production services.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $661k–$9.7M; Series A $2M–$41M; Series B $2.2M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Rimowa — Rimowa designs characters not as mere “content,” but as immersive character operating systems that integrate naturally into everyday life, creating emotionally resonant experiences that seamlessly connect digital interaction, storytelling, and real-world consumer engagement.
- Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
- AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Industry: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $619k–$1.8M; Angel $7.3M–$11M
- 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.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $142k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $30k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Dehurdle — Scale employee communication skills with real-time AI voice simulations, objection handling drills, and vocal analytics.
- Vireo Capital — AI-powered portfolio monitoring, due diligence and reporting for mid-cap private equity and impact funds.
- Hyperbond Studio — Hyperbond Studio builds AI-driven games and interactive experiences, including the Call Me Sensei app. We combine technology and emotion to create unforgettable digital worlds.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Malaysia, Kazakhstan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$62k; Series A $1.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.5M in 2021
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
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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- Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Subscript — Create, understand, and tell the story of your subscription business through numbers.
Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage
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- Industry: Software, Education, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $615k–$8M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1.1M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!
- Offered.ai — Use AI to find a new job with easy. We handle all the automation so you can focus on the interviewing.
- Out Of The Box Education — Out Of The Box is a complete learning solution for parents who want to help their child learn better. Get our patent pending classroom-in-a-box to transform any space into an early childhood education environment, and visit our learning platform for personalized curriculum.
Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan
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- 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 $2.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
Kunal Shah
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 313
- Round size: Seed $810k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2M; Series A $4.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vaaree — Get Upto 60% Off, Buy home decor, kitchen, and garden products online in India. Vaaree offers Popular Bedsheets, Lamps, Pooja Essentials, Cozy Comforters, and more at the best prices.
- Superleap — The #1 AI-native alternative to legacy CRMs. Trusted by 100+ enterprise teams. Book a demo to see Superleap in action.
- Profound — Get your Profound AI Rep and unlock stronger collaborators, richer opportunities, and sharper hires
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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- 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5M; Series A $3M–$11M; Series B $6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: China, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$100M; Series A $1.4M–$43M; Series B $8.5M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Awomo — Awomo, an AI technology service provider and focuses on the field of Physical AI, dedicated to building foundational models and intelligent systems for robots and the real world.
- Youshu Quantum — Youshu Quantum is a deep-tech startup specializing in quantum computing software, middleware, and proprietary algorithms.
- Lightwheel — Light Wheel Intelligence is offers automated, physically precise and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions to build AI data infrastructure,
KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $275k–$710k; Series A $1.5M–$20M; Series B $7M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
- Med247 — Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future.
- FishLog — FishLog is fisheries supply chains ecosystem. Our vision is to transform fragmented fisheries supply chains into an integrated and efficient ecosystem with reliable solutions that create value along fisheries network. Our mission is to be the largest fisheries network in Indonesia. Offer complete fisheries post-harvest management services. Creatinga transparant, fair-trade and sustainable transaction along fisheries ecosystem with all stakeholders in our network.
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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- 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.
Sumant Sinha is based out of Delhi, India, and is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ReNew. Sumant previously worked at ASSOCHAM as a President. Sumant Sinha attended the CQUIN Learning Network. Sumant Sinha has been awarded as an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Fellow.
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- Industry: B2B, Energy, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $300k–$16M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.
- Clean Core Thorium Energy — Clean Core Thorium Energy develops advanced nuclear fuel for existing reactors.
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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- 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
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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- 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!
Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.
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- 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.
Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.
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- 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.
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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- 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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