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Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in September 2025

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

Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Asia in September 2025

Investor Recruiting Asia investments
East Ventures 7
BEENEXT 5
SMBC Venture Capital 4
Antler 4
Colopl Next 4
Genesia Ventures 4
CDF-Capital 4
ANRI 4
Mynavi 3
Incubate Fund 3
Nissay Capital 3
DNX Ventures 3
Vector 3
YJ Capital 3
Mizuho Capital 3
TLM 3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 3
Venture United 2
Accord Ventures 2
Cybernaut Venture Capital 2
CAC CAPITAL 2
Triniti Capital 2
SmartHub 2
ANOBAKA 2
Seibu Shinkin Capital 2
Delight Ventures 2
Cento Ventures 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 2
Shinsei Corporate Investment 2
Pegasus Tech Ventures 2
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 2
Globis Capital Partners 2
Oriental Fortune Capital 2
Fresco Capital 2
KK Fund 2
Skystar Capital 2
Eagles Fund 2
Infocomm Investments 2
F Ventures 2
Innoangel Fund 2
DOGAN beta 2
Crooz 2
Z Ventures Group 2
QF Capital 2
27V (Twenty Seven Ventures) 2
Loyal VC 2
Nippon Venture Capital 2
aucfan 2
Newgen Venture Partners 2
Japan Finance Corporation 2
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East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SIRCLO — SIRCLO is a leading omnichannel commerce enabler in Indonesia, driven by the mission to unlock the digital potential of people and businesses.
  • CrestLab — CrestLab Inc. is a startup focused on developing and providing products for anime production, with a central offering called "ANICRA," which is an anime production support platform that leverages AI technology. This platform aims to aid in various aspects of anime production by integrating artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency andcreativity.
  • Pintarnya — Situs penyedia lowongan kerja online untuk berbagai posisi, pendidikan dan pekerjaan dari lulusan SD hingga S1 Tersedia di seluruh indonesia.
BEENEXT VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 18 investments in the past 12 months
BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • India, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Truely Travel eSIM — Stay connected everywhere with Truely eSIM.
  • fleetx.io — Cloud connectivity for efficient fleet and logistics operations, optimizing performance and streamlining processes.
  • Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 39 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 127 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
  • Saltfish — Saltfish enables teams to develop tailored video experiences that guide users through your entire funnel, from first visit to feature adoption.
  • PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.
Colopl Next VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
  • CaseBlink — AI for immigration lawyers | CaseBlink is AI software for immigration law firms. With CaseBlink, generate EB-2 NIW, EB-1A, and O-1 applications end-to-end.
  • Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 27 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Nonat — Nonat is a company focused on supporting the future of women and children by driving innovation across generations. It is developing a foundational model specifically designed to address the needs of women and children.
  • Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
  • MetaSensing — MetaSensing specializes in the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of advanced attachable Raman sensors, designed to provide precise, real-time chemical and molecular analysis across a wide range of applications, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.
CDF-Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 6 investments 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
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Coreview — Coreview is an OLED developer, focusing on silicon-based OLED IC design and silicon-based OLED microdisplay R&D and manufacturing.
  • Aowei Linkcore — Aowei Linkcore specializes in the designing, development, production, and sales of high-performance RISC-V processor chips.
  • Tsinghua Huahe — Tsinghua Huahe is a medical devices company that provides research and development of modified PEEK materials.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
  • Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.
Mynavi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mynavi Corporation provides information services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
  • Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Visual Bank — Visual Bank operates a stock photo business and provides an AI data platform. It aims to create a society in which the value of Japanese creations is maximized and optimized.
  • Nominal — Nominal empowers the next-generation economy.Nominal modernizes and automates accounting and financial management, providing robust reporting, multi-entity consolidation, workflow automation (including accruals and revenue), lease compliance (ASC 842/IFRS 16), period-end close collaboration, and much more.Nominal's generativesubledgers transform business logic into actions and insights using Generative AI - without the need for costly engineering or lengthy IT projects. Our shadow-ledger is implemented in days, not months, and seamlessly integrates with existing general ledgers and ERPs.
  • Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Japan AI — Japan AI specializes in R&D of artificial intelligence and consulting services.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
DNX Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • OPERe — OPERe is an IT company that specializes in the development of semi autonomous hospitalization guidance solutions.
  • NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
  • Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
YJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
  • Stacked — Stacked is an exclusive membership platform limited to a creator's top 10 fans.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 40 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Terass — TERASS is a High-end real estate information site.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
TLM VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Nanameue — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 50 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
Venture United VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Travel, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
Cybernaut Venture Capital VC Fund · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 3 investments in the past 12 months
As one of pioneering investment fund in China, Cybernaut (China) Investmentfocus on the Service sectors that serves Chinese middle class’s fast growing demands.? Cybernaut invests in early to growth stage private companies in financial services, health care, education, and specialty retail.? Cybernaut was founded by Mr. Min Zhu, who has a strongreputation and is well-known in the Silicon Valley and China for his extensive experience and outstanding achievements. Mr. Min Zhu was the founder and President of WebEx, which is the most powerful supplier of internet interactive services and internet conferencing in the world. Cybernaut works closely with top tier investment firms, such as NEA(New Enterprise Associates) and NLVC(Northern Light Venture Capital). NEA is one of America’s biggest venture capital firms specializing in start-ups and NLVC is a China concept venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage opportunities in technology enabled businesses. By now, Cybernaut has made many successful investment, such as Redbaby,lianlian and Focused Photonics Inc.? Cybernaut not only provides capital, but also operational experience, professional advice to their innovative Chinese entrepreneurs. They strive to help Chinese best entrepreneurs with their best ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Education, Big Data
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Huachen Core Light — Huachen Core Light is a semiconductor technology company that produces and manufactures optical communications and laser chips.
  • Giantest Electronics — Giantest Electronics focuses on independent integrated circuit chip wafer testing and test program creation.
  • Anquan Digital Intelligence — Anquan Digital Intelligence is an internet security technology service provider specializing in network security breach detection and defense, data risk and protection, artificial intelligence.
CAC CAPITAL VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
  • 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.
Triniti Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China
Triniti Capital is a market-oriented venture capital firm dedicated to the investments of leading startups from early to growth stage. Triniti Capital RMB Fund was established in May 2015. Currently, the asset under management is approximately RMB500 million.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B, Angel
  • China
Portfolio highlights
  • Sermatec — Sermatec is a leading manufacturer of energy storage products and a data service provider for energy storage systems.
  • Hongyang Quartz — Hongyang Quartz is a quartz product producer that focuses on quartz sand purification, photovoltaic semiconductor materials, and device manufacturing.
  • Donglan New Material — Donglan New Material is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly crosslinking agents.
SmartHub VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rightsprotection till exit.Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TransferGo — 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!
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments 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
  • Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI ​​era called “amoibe OJT".
  • Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
Seibu Shinkin Capital VC Fund · Shioya, Kumamoto, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Task Management, Apps
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan
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
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • OSHIAI — OSHIAI is an AI chat software that lets you communicate with your favorite idol's "Ai" avatar, which represents their hobbies, preferences, and speaking style.
  • NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
Cento Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
  • ProCredit — ProCredit is a tech-enabled SME lender that emerging markets SME-lending experience, having held senior credit roles at Citigroup, Standard Chartered, ANZ, and the Asian Development Bank.
  • Sirius — Embrace Composable Applications by learning how a Digital Business Platform can get the best of your business!
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
  • SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Shinsei Corporate Investment VC Fund · Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Shinsei Corporate Investment supports the creation and development of the business.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Education
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
Pegasus Tech Ventures VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Japan, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Shikomel — Shikomel is a restaurant app that receives recipes from the store. The menu offered by other shops can also be ordered. The app can be used to develop new menus.
  • GrubMarket — GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.
  • Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
  • Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
  • Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.
Globis Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++
Oriental Fortune Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • X-ORIGIN — X-ORIGIN is an intelligent robot developer focused on creating AI companion robots for a variety of applications. Its technical architecture emphasizes the integration of terminal control and massive language models, with the goal of providing a personalized interactive experience and creating more consumer-grade products based on self-developed AImodels.
  • Xuanchuang Robotics — Xuanchuang Robotics is a leading provider of cutting-edge intelligent operations and maintenance solutions, specializing in advanced robotics technologies.
  • West Lake Intelligent Vision — West Lake Intelligent Vision is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational imaging fusion technology.
Fresco Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity
KK Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
  • Med247 — Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future.
  • FishLog — FishLog is fisheries supply chains ecosystem. Our vision is to transform fragmented fisheries supply chains into an integrated and efficient ecosystem with reliable solutions that create value along fisheries network. Our mission is to be the largest fisheries network in Indonesia. Offer complete fisheries post-harvest management services. Creatinga transparant, fair-trade and sustainable transaction along fisheries ecosystem with all stakeholders in our network.
Skystar Capital VC Fund · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are Skystar Capital, an early-stage VC firm committed to supporting tech entrepreneurs to create a lasting and profound positive difference in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Mimin — Mimin adalah aplikasi gratis yang membantu seller online yang berbasis chat dalam mengatur bisnis dengan mudah. Proses Order. Cek Ongkir. Tagih pembayaran.
  • bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
  • Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Climate-Tech Startup that offers waste management and recycling services to optimize the waste value chain.
Eagles Fund VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China
Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet
  • Angel, Series A, Seed
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cai Xiaomi — Cai Xiaobi provides Saas service for supply chain service in agri foods.
  • Star Speed Store — Star Speed Store is a delivery robot provider. Star Speed Store provides hotels with delivery robots for delivering food, packages, and room service within eight minutes – a typical last-mile journey on the premises.
  • Tianbing Technology — Tianbing Technology is an advanced aerospace propulsion system supplier and aerospace vehicle provider. Tianbing Technology independently develops the next-generation ambient temperature green HCP liquid propellant and minimalist aerospace propulsion system. As an upgraded product of traditional chemical propulsion system, it can meetcost-effective aerospace. Advance system supporting needs. The next-generation green HCP aerospace propulsion system, first tested by Tianbing Technology, can be used in the small-vehicle main power and launch vehicle upper-level propulsion system.
Infocomm Investments VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Managing more than $200 million, Infocomm Investments builds and invests in start-up companies in Singapore and globally. Through our investments, global reach, and partnerships across private and public sectors, we accelerate the development of start-ups in their formative phase, and invest further as they move forward with growth and expansion.We play a central role in building a vibrant tech start-up ecosystem in Singapore, and we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Fashory — Fashory is an android-based shopping platform that helps female online shoppers make informed buying decisions by providing fashion insights. It serves as a magazine editorials with the convenience of online shopping. Fashory was founded in January 2014, and headquartered in Shanghai, China.
  • Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
F Ventures VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Innoangel Fund VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 25 investments in the past 12 months
Innoangel Fund is an investment firm that invests in early stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Robotics
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • China, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • PureblueAI — PureblueAI is an AI-powered digital workforce platform operator specializing in enterprise marketing scenarios.
  • Lingyu Intelligence — Lingyu Intelligence engages in the manufacturing and sales of industrial robots, intelligent robots and service consumer robots.
  • Weizhen New Materials — Weizhen New Materials is a company focused on the research and development of new materials technologies, primarily focusing on the development and application of high-performance modified nylon materials and multifunctional composite materials.
DOGAN beta VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Crooz VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Crooz, a company based in Japan that offers smartphone games to the Japanese and global markets.CROOZ, Inc. is one of the leading mobile social game providers in Japan. We also publish original titles on “Mobage” and other leading social gaming platforms.Some of our games are grossing over US$1MM per month. We are currently expanding thebusiness internationally to capitalize on the rapid growth of global smartphone game industry., and in doing so, we aim to become a dominant player in both domestic and global markets.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Azit — Azit is an application developer that aims to close the gap in everyone's mobility. Its product is the application CREW, a smart transfer app that allows its user to call someone's car running nearby with their smartphone. It is designed to bring "efficient move"​ to every people who live in Japan.It was founded in 2013 and isheadquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Wolfness — Wolfness provides consulting services to personal gym and advertising agencies.
  • Payme — Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.
Z Ventures Group VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Z Ventures Group is an invetsment Firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WorkAI — WorkAI provides human resources services with the help of artificial intelligence.
  • Yibaotong — Provider of a SaaS platform that focuses on the integration between internet and financial industry. The company provides customized enterprise resource planning solutions for clients that directly integrates with their banks and insurance institutes. The company's platform offers supplier relations management, point redemption, enterpriseresource management, and customer relations management services, enabling businesses to enhance their operational efficiency.
  • Deep Blue Aerospace — Deep Blue Aerospace is a commercial carrier rocket developer.
QF Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 9 investments in the past 12 months
QF Capital is a fund management company that focuses on private equity investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tianlin — Tianlin Holdings provides robotic intelligent construction services, with a focus on creating an ecosystem that includes intelligent construction robots, green building materials, and intelligent construction digital platforms.
  • Xinwuzhan — Xinwuzhan builds a B2B mobile e-commerce platform in the field of frozen aquatic products. It combines the advantages of refrigerated storage, aquatic product processing, aquatic product artificial breeding, international ocean fishing and cold chain logistics in related industries. It was formally established in Beijing on December 12, 2017.
  • Sensemoment — DeepEye Technology focuses on promoting the implementation of embodied intelligent technology in industrial scenarios, and is committed to realizing the intelligence, standardization and productization of subdivided process links, empowering global industrial enterprises and accelerating the transformation of traditional manufacturing.
27V (Twenty Seven Ventures) VC Fund
Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is a VC fund investing in global EdTech & Future of Work startups at Pre-Seed / Seed stage
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Byteboard — A technical interview redesigned to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all. Request a demo today!
  • Offered.ai — Use AI to find a new job with easy. We handle all the automation so you can focus on the interviewing.
  • Out Of The Box Education — Out Of The Box is a complete learning solution for parents who want to help their child learn better. Get our patent pending classroom-in-a-box to transform any space into an early childhood education environment, and visit our learning platform for personalized curriculum.
Loyal VC VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WASTETIDE — We cut the costs and carbon footprint of waste.
  • Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
  • Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Upward — UPWARD is highly by linking CRM · schedule map / location information, is a cloud service for the visiting business of field sales easier. Field salespersons who have many customers and who are out of the office feel that it is difficult to grasp all customers to Kampek and measure the timing of visits no matter how memorable they are.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
aucfan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
  • Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
Newgen Venture Partners VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • China, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Finavox AI — Finavox AI is a cutting-edge technology company based in Singapore, dedicated to transforming financial advisory services through the power of AI. Specializing in CRM integration, Finavox AI develops tools that automate and enhance client relationship management, making financial advising more efficient and client-focused. Backed by substantialinvestment from regional investors, including incubation by SGInnovate and support from AWS, Finavox AI is poised to redefine how financial services leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and client satisfaction. The company collaborates with top financial institutions and tech partners across the globe to ensure its solutions meet the highest standards of security and effectiveness.
  • Intelligence At Work — Intelligence At Work specializes in providing specialized B2B small but efficient combination of derministic and small generative models to automate complex, repetitive business processes. We create efficient, reliable workflows that integrate seamlessly with existing digital tools, helping organizations enhance productivity and reduce manualworkload. Intelliatwork's technology is designed to adapt to various industries, including supply chain, financial services, and healthcare, by automating tasks like data extraction, system updates, and application processing. Our AI models are built to be accurate, reliable, and adaptable to changes, ensuring long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 investments 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
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong
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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