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Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025

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

Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025

Investor Recruiting Japan investments
East Ventures 5
Genesia Ventures 4
ANRI 4
Colopl Next 4
SMBC Venture Capital 4
DNX Ventures 3
BEENEXT 3
YJ Capital 3
Vector 3
TLM 3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Nissay Capital 3
Incubate Fund 3
North Pacific Bank 2
Nippon Venture Capital 2
Shinsei Corporate Investment 2
DOGAN beta 2
F Ventures 2
XTech Ventures 2
Delight Ventures 2
Venture United 2
Globis Capital Partners 2
ANOBAKA 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 2
Crooz 2
aucfan 2
Darwin Venture Management 1
PKSHA Technology 1
Archetype Ventures 1
JR East Start Up 1
Gaiax 1
Aichi Bank 1
Open Up 1
Animal Spirits Ltd. 1
S-Pool 1
i-nest capital 1
Venture Labo Investment 1
Yunqi Partners 1
Drone Fund 1
KSK Angel Fund 1
Quantum Leaps Ventures 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
S5 Partners 1
Salesforce 1
MAKOTO Capital 1
AirTrip 1
Chibagin Capital 1
All-in-one-HR 1
Mediva 1
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East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 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, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
  • Napcial — Napcial is an innovative AI-powered legal application designed to help couples update and personalize their wedding vows in a way that reflects their evolving relationship, values, and legal commitments.
  • Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 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, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI ​​era called “amoibe OJT".
  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 24 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, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Colopl Next VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 45 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
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
  • Skygate Technologies — Founded in 2020, Skygate Technologies is building a network to deliver a large volume of data from observation satellites around the Earth to the ground and integrating the network into the web architecture. “Make Space accessible on the Web” is its motto, and the ability to develop both hardware and software is its strength. More information aboutSkygate Technologies can be found at www.skygate-tech.com.
  • Phytolipid Technologies — Phytolipid Technologies specializes in the research and production of lipids in plants and algae and is an expert in lipid analysis.
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.
  • 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.
  • NaLaLys — NaLaLys is a business consulting firm that provides management, distribution, research, and consulting services.
BEENEXT VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 22 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.
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.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 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.
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 · 60 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.
  • EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 45 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
  • Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Miletos — Miletos is the provider of AI expense scrutiny SaaS services.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 25 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
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
  • Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 25 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
  • Tokyo Epic — Tokyo Epic provides planning and development of webtoon, and animation services.
  • 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.
North Pacific Bank VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Manufacturing, Financial Services, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Forest Digital — Forest Digital is a media company that provides video, presentation, animation, and VR production services.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
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
  • Creatura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
  • 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.
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.
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.
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.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
  • 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.
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 16 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.
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.
Globis Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 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
  • SDP Japan — SDP Japan is a provider of super Doctor Produce Business and procurement and sales of surgical components, pharmaceuticals, and consumables.
  • Acompany — Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing.
  • 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.++
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 13 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".
  • hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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
  • SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
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.
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.
Darwin Venture Management VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 11 investments 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
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Taiwan, United States, Japan
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.
PKSHA Technology VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
PKSHA Technology is an information technology company that provides data analytics solutions for its clients. PKSHA technology was founded in 2012 by engineers and researchers who research algorithms. It is composed of engineers and researchers in the field of information science in order to provide one-stop services from the most advancedtechnology in the algorithm domain to its application.
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Investment focus
  • Sales, AgTech, Farming
  • Series A
  • Japan, United States
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.
  • DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.
  • Oishii Farm — Oishii Farm provides indoor vertical farming technology. Oishii sells via supermarkets, offering a container of between eight and 11 strawberries for $50 per package. Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville started the company in 2017.
Archetype Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
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.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • Hubble — Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents
JR East Start Up VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, United States
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.
Gaiax VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • Japan, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Xtraveler — Xtraveler is a travel company that provides hotel searches, accommodations, and lodging facilities.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
Aichi Bank VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Aichi Bank is a Japanese Bank
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Business Intelligence
  • Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Open Up VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Recruiting, Crowdfunding, Career Planning
  • Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ROXX — ROXX is a planning, development, operation and sales of agent bank and back check.
Animal Spirits Ltd. VC Fund · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • B2B, Legal, Farming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
S-Pool VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
S-Pool is a business solution and human resource solution business.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Beauty, Medical
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
  • Mentalhealth Technologies — Mental Health Technologies is a company that provides standard measures to maintain the mental health of employees, which is one of the foundations of health management.
i-nest capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
i-nest capital is a venture capital firm that incubates emerging startups in Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Gaming, Video Editing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
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.
Venture Labo Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, United Kingdom
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.
Yunqi Partners VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Astribot — Astribot is a developer of consumer humanoid robots and integrated bionic robots.
  • X Square — X Square is a company focused on developing universal embodied large models for robots, aiming to create a universal brain-cerebellum system that offers comprehensive capabilities from perception to action.
  • Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
Drone Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Canada
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.
KSK Angel Fund VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
  • Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
  • Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries
Quantum Leaps Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Malaysia
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.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 32 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • YTGATE — YTGATE is a payment optimization support SaaS product that can be started by adding a single tag line to a website.
  • FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
  • Godot — Godot's mission is to “inspire personal and societal growth through human augmentation”. As part of this mission, we are developing a Behavior Intelligence Platform (BIP) that helps enterprises improve UX, CX, and EX by visualizing human behavior principles and making it easy for anyone to implement insights from behavioral science. Thisplatform leverages evidence from behavioral sciences and advanced AI technologies. Our technology has already proven successful in health insurance industries, resulting in significant improvements in customer retention and satisfaction. Our team comprises experts in AI, behavioral science, and industry-specific applications, bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge to our solutions. Together, we are committed to creating a society where everyone can enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life, true to themselves, with the support of Godot's innovative technologies.
S5 Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
S5 Partners provides investment consulting, investment management, and asset management services.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, CRM, Fashion
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • THECOO — THECOO is a developer of an entertainment application designed to support a fan community. The company's application offers fanicon is a member-based fan community that encourages the activities of icons together with their core fans, enabling clients to access live app streaming of entertainment contents they are interested in.
  • SOLAIRO — SOLAIRO is an online customer service solution that provides the best purchasing experience for online visitors
Salesforce VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Non Profit, SaaS
  • Grant, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Canada
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
MAKOTO Capital VC Fund · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Manufacturing, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
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 .
AirTrip VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
AirTrip is an online travel agency.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bwell — Bwell offers mentorship training to Japanese and Korean students for job recruitment.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
  • xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of ​​creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
Chibagin Capital VC Fund · Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Chibagin Capital, part of Chiba Bank, is focused on consulting services, IPOs, and more.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Content
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • AMATELUS — AMATELUS is involved in the creation of a product called SwipeVideo. The application is used to develop video and image shooting and distribution systems. Their product allows viewpoint or multi-angle video to be easily created, streamed in any web browser, or embedded into any webpage.
  • Effectual — Effectual helps businesses and individuals regain online trust and build brands. With its own development know-how, they continue to develop web-based services connected to information transmission and branding. They use Google Maps to provide store advertising and anti-slander services.
All-in-one-HR VC Fund
All-in-One HR is an ecosystem platform focused on the HR and human resources industries.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Services
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Clutch — Clutch offers services related to business development, recruitment, and HR fields.
Mediva VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Mediva is a consulting and operations company in the fields of medical care, long-term care, and healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TheStory — TheStory is an IT firm that develops a direct recruiting application that helps nurses switch to relevant jobs.
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
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