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Top 50 Recruiting VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Recruiting startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Recruiting startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
DNX Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$255M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $4.5M–$425M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $788k–$68M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Internet $679k–$142M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $709k–$71M
ANRI
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $628k–$624M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$553M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $150k–$101M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$298M
BEENEXT
VC Fund
3 India, Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $500k–$51M
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
Vector
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $1.5M–$43M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$369M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $362k–$113M
Delight Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $429k–$500M
Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $349k–$900M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$369M
aucfan
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, France Series A, Corporate Round E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet $1.4M–$43M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $414k–$99M
Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical $3M–$269M
Crooz
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Recruiting, Apps, Beauty $7.5M–$64M
DOGAN beta
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Information Technology, Health Care, Internet $37k–$700M
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.1M–$638M
F Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$142M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Software $771k–$35M
Venture United
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Darwin Venture Management
VC Fund
1 Taiwan, United States, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
JR East Start Up
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Seed Information Technology, Software, Task Management
Aichi Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Task Management, Business Intelligence
Open Up
VC Fund
1 Japan Recruiting, Crowdfunding, Career Planning
i-nest capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Seed Financial Services, Gaming, Video Editing
Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United Kingdom Series B, Seed Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
Yunqi Partners
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Persol Career
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Structured
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Information Services, Information Technology
FGN ABBA Lab
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
All-in-one-HR
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Services
Gogin Skyland Next Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Music, Video, Content Creators
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
North Pacific Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Manufacturing, Financial Services, Staffing Agency
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A B2B, Legal, Farming
Drone Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Salesforce
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Canada Grant, Series A Software, Non Profit, SaaS
MAKOTO Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Medical, Manufacturing, Software
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
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DNX Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 5 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 293
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$23M; Series A $5M–$128M; Series B $6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 513
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $788k–$28M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • SODA — Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.
  • 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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DG Daiwa Ventures
VC Fund · Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $679k–$26M; Series A $4M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
  • digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Seed $628k–$92M; Series A $6.1M–$624M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
  • Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.9B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
  • Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $6.4M–$298M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
  • The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .
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BEENEXT
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 294
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$9M; Series A $2M–$29M; Series B $4.6M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • mewt — Lovable Generated Project
  • ProsParity — Reimagining Distribution Of Credit In The Electric Mobility Sector
  • First Coffee — Discover the best specialty coffee in India with our range of single origin Arabica beans and exclusive merchandise. Shop online at First Coffee for freshly roasted, quality blends.
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TLM
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $11M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
  • 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.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • 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.
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Delight Ventures
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $697k–$64M; Series A $6M–$500M; Series B $429k–$312M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

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  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
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Seibu Shinkin Capital
VC Fund · Shioya, Kumamoto, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $349k–$56M; Series A $21M–$900M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
  • Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
  • Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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aucfan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $44M in 2020

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.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $414k–$23M; Series A $4.9M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
  • Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$85M; Series B $7.7M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $278M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
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Crooz
VC Fund · Nishi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Crooz, a company based in Japan that offers smartphone games to the Japanese and global markets.CROOZ, Inc. is one of the leading mobile social game providers in Japan. We also publish original titles on “Mobage” and other leading social gaming platforms.Some of our games are grossing over US$1MM per month. We are currently expanding thebusiness internationally to capitalize on the rapid growth of global smartphone game industry., and in doing so, we aim to become a dominant player in both domestic and global markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$700M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AGRIST — AGRIST Co., Ltd. is a venture company that solves agricultural problems with technology. An automatic harvesting robot solves the problem of a shortage of farmers who are aging and harvesting agricultural products.
  • Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
  • Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Series A $8.3M–$282M; Series B $7.1M–$638M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
  • Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$47M; Series A $2.1M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
  • Logo Labo — Logo Labo provides branding and marketing services, including brand development, formulation, IT-based branding and marketing support.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $771k–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

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.
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Darwin Venture Management
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Taiwan, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
  • Ball Wave — Ballwave uses the ball SAW sensor based on a new principle as the core of the differentiating factor, and becomes the human eye and the nervous system, and invites it to the horizon of technology.
  • EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
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JR East Start Up
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

JR East Startup Program is a program operated by East Japan Railway that provides incubator and accelerator services to startups in Japan. The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Task Management
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • Newlocal — Newlocal offers planning, development, and consulting services related to real estate, construction, and community development sectors.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
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Aichi Bank
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Aichi Bank is a Japanese Bank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Business Intelligence
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Syla Solar — Syla Solar generates solar electricity to alleviate world challenges. Syla Solar offers the opportunity to learn about environmental challenges and the potential for solar power generation.
  • Techno-Speech — Techno-Speech provides technical consulting on computer software and hardware related to multimedia.
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Open Up
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Open Up engages in dispatching engineers to manufacturers, general contractors, and IT companies. It provides employment opportunities to those who are inexperienced but willing to take on challenges and supports them in creating, changing, and expanding their careers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Crowdfunding, Career Planning
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ROXX — ROXX is a planning, development, operation and sales of agent bank and back check.
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i-nest capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

i-nest capital is a venture capital firm that incubates emerging startups in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Gaming, Video Editing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
  • Things — Things offer product development and various information such as CAD, drawings, parts configuration, and price information.
  • Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gift Pad — Gift Pad is a web catalog gift that allows recipients to choose their favorite products.
  • READYFOR — READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.
  • Terra Drone — Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.
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Yunqi Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Yunqi Partners sharpen its focus on technology empowered industries. Yunqi is systematically investing in digital transformation of industries and industrialisation of technologies covering areas such as cutting-edge technology, advanced manufacturing, IoT, SaaS and B2B supply chain.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
  • OnerWay — ONERWAY is a payment platform that supports global merchants with payment, acquiring, and fund collection services.
  • Neolix — Neolix is a technologically innovative company that specializes in the production of physical and sports scenes. Neolithic Century Technology is an innovative design team. Committed to design research, industrial design, structural engineering, product customization, providing customers with creative value enhancement services. Service customersinclude Lenovo, Siemens, Midea, GE, State Grid, CSIC, Honeywell, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank, etc.
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Persol Career
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Persol Career offers human resources, mid-level recruitment, and management support services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenkigen — zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA.
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Structured
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Structured offers hands-on help for company management methods.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Information Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
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FGN ABBA Lab
VC Fund · Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

FGN ABBA Lab is an investment fund that mainly supports pre-seed to series A early stage startups. In this FGN ABBA Lab fund, they will support startups with the idea of ​​creating “things and things” that make the world exciting without limiting the genre, investment, training, and social implementation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
  • HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
  • Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.
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All-in-one-HR
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

All-in-One HR is an ecosystem platform focused on the HR and human resources industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Clutch — Clutch offers services related to business development, recruitment, and HR fields.
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Gogin Skyland Next Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Gogin Skyland Next Fund is an early-stage venture funding fund that Gougin funding and Skyland Ventures oversee.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Video, Content Creators
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups, 9 in the past 12 months

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.
  • Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
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North Pacific Bank
VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

North Pacific Bank provides various banking products and services for individuals and corporations in Japan. It offers deposits, and negotiable certificates of deposit, as well as loans. North Pacific Bank also offers ATM, foreign exchange, and investment trust services. It operates 171 branches and 3 overseas representative offices. HokuyoSogo Bank that began operation in 1917 became North Pacific Bank in 1989. It has its headquarters in 1917, with its headquarters in Sapporo in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezowin — Ezowin is a management firm dedicated to developing agricultural products and connecting Japanese agriculture to future generations.
  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Forest Digital — Forest Digital is a media company that provides video, presentation, animation, and VR production services.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
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Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Animal Spirits is an investment firm that raises funds for seed and early-stage startups and provides relevant advisory services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Legal, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • 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.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Drone Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
  • Proxima Technology — Proxima Technology is an IT company that provides artificial intelligence and deep learning solutions for the manufacturing industry.
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Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Agatyca — Agatyca is an IT company that develops customized solutions to optimize payment system processes for organizations.
  • CareMaker — CareMaker is a technology company that develops and operates visit schedule management and regional collaboration cloud services.
  • Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Dr.’s Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
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Salesforce
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service,marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Non Profit, SaaS
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
  • Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
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MAKOTO Capital
VC Fund · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Recruiting startups

MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
  • Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Recruiting VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 212 deals from 289 investors.

289
investors
in Japan Recruiting startups
212
deals
in Japan Recruiting startups
$17M
median round
in Japan Recruiting startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage

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