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

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Recruiting Japan investments
ANRI	4
Genesia Ventures	4
SMBC Venture Capital	4
Colopl Next	4
YJ Capital	3
Vector	3
Nissay Capital	3
TLM	3
DNX Ventures	3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	3
Incubate Fund	3
BEENEXT	3
Mizuho Capital	3
East Ventures	3
XTech Ventures	2
Shinsei Corporate Investment	2
DOGAN beta	2
Nippon Venture Capital	2
North Pacific Bank	2
aucfan Co.,Ltd.	2
Delight Ventures	2
Venture United	2
Globis Capital Partners	2
ANOBAKA	2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	2
Crooz	2
F Ventures	2
The Hokkoku Bank	1
Dream Link Entertainment	1
SPARX AI & Technologies Investment	1
Energy & Environment Investment	1
Mizuho Bank	1
KEPPLE Capital	1
CAC CAPITAL	1
500 Startups Japan	1
Mynavi	1
Accord Ventures	1
FAN Communications	1
FGN ABBA Lab	1
Yakumi	1
en-Japan	1
Primal Capital	1
Japan Material Technologies	1
Tosashimizu	1
Seven Bank	1
D4V	1
Shizuoka Bank	1
Sony Music Entertainment Japan	1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment	1
TNBI	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
DelizMart — Deliz Mart is a digital-driven platform that helps to solve food distribution challenges and reduce cost transactions in the food industry.
Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.

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.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Levellr — Stop losing insights in Discord noise
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.

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.

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 — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

CloudLegal — CloudLegal provides AI-powered legal services, combining generative AI with legal expertise to streamline corporate operations.
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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Emium — Emium creates an infrastructure that will be a driving force in dental care and dental technology.
ElastixAI — ElastixAI is developing an AI inference platform designed to optimize how large language models are run.
NetRise — NetRise - firmware security, software bill of materials (SBOM), and deep risk visibility for manufacturers and asset owners alike.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Servify — Servify offers the world's most advanced self-learning post-purchase service platform to deliver great customer experience. Integrating multiple partners of the post sales service ecosystem on a tech-driven unified intelligent platform, Servify provides Device Lifecycle Management Services for all devices that touch our daily lives.
Remind — Remind provides e-waste management and recycling solutions for electronic waste.
Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Quemix — Quemix is an IT company specialized in providing quantum computing solutions.
Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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.
THA — THA is a technology company that enhances performance through IT and creative solutions, focusing on AI, and partnering with companies.
Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.

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

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 (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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
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, 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.

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.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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.

The Hokkoku Bank provides banking and leasing services. It accepts current and saving deposits; and offers loans on deeds, overdrafts, and guarantees. The Hokkoku Bank also provides domestic and international remittance; and trade financing services, including letter of credit transactions, purchase and collection of export bills, forwardexchange contracts, etc. It operated through 105 branches, including 87 branches in Ishikawa, 11 branches in Toyama, 3 branches in Fukui, 1 branch in Tokyo, 1 branch in Osaka, 1 branch in Nagoya, and 1 branch in Singapore as of June 30, 2018. The Hokkoku Bank began operation in 1943. It has its headquarters in Kanazawa in Japan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

BALLAS — BALLAS provides corporate information, business content, procurement of construction materials, custom-made construction materials used at construction sites online, design, development, manufacturing, and sales of construction materials.
toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.
Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.

DLE is a Japanese animation studio based in Tokyo. The mission of DLE is to turn people's dreams and imaginations into an experience.

Investment focus

Sales, Marketing, Blockchain
Corporate Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Amadana — Amadana specializes in creative general trading services. With the industry becoming borderless, competitors and customers are changing, and it is becoming difficult for one company's experience and resources to create a new idea business. The company reorganizes and strengthens the group in line with the current of this era. Developed asystem to design business itself including concept making, partnering, and implementation of measures, and evolved into a creative general trading company.
Emunitas — Emunitas is an on job training platform that provides career counselling and recruitment services to students.
double jump.tokyo — double jump.tokyo Is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming and entertainment sector.

SPARX AI & Technologies Investment is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
Smart119 — We aim to save more patients by solving medical field problems with flexible / original ideas and advanced technology.
Nature Architects — Nature Architects develops Direct Functional Modeling (DFM), the design algorithm for additive manufacturing by which users are able to directly design the functional properties for their product. Using DFM, it is possible to design multiple features, such as motion, kinematics, and elasticity, which have been difficult to design in theconventional design process. By leveraging the benefit of additive manufacturing, users can design and manufacturer a product with multiple functions in a consolidated one part. DFM can be applied to the area in which complex processing and assembling is required such as automobiles, airplanes, Robotics was necessary development.

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Internet of Things
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

YourTrade — ONE KEY TO GLOBAL TRADE
Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
Impact Circle — Impact Circle social investment platform that focuses on providing impact finance and visualization services by creating job opportunities.

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.

KEPPLE Capital is a venture capital firm that supports the growth of startups.

Investment focus

Retail, Content, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
Carelogy — Carelogy is a medical technology company that offers AI for X-ray image analysis, voice recognition, and facial expressions.
LacuS — LacuS is a food technology company, develops and sells complete nutrition ice cream, provides nutritious food option for people of all ages.

CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, Malaysia, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
Wired Beans Inc. — Wired Beans Inc. supports basic manufacturing stages using novel information technologies. It was founded on October 13, 2009, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, India, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

It is a company official site of a world's largest Performance Marketing Ad Network company, F@N communications, Inc.Company information, Bussiness model, Investor information, News releases and Recruitment information are carried.

Investment focus

Wedding, Recruiting, Digital Media
Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mewcket — Mewcket creating a new platform for AI scientists, globally. On the platform, they can challenge many AI competitions. Companies, our clients can get contact them and make sure their skills. Mewcket (ミューケット), fka ハチキュ, is a job search & reading platform for engineers, enabling a job candidate to review articles & information on ITcompanies, startups, and products; and learning the candidate's preferences.
ORIGINAL LIFE — ORIGINAL LIFE is a wedding media tech company.Original Life is looking for friends to contribute to the evolution of the industry with consumer insights and technology !

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.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong

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.

A platform connecting global angel investors with startups based in, or relating to, Japan

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, iOS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Playco — Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.
MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
Wahl+Case — Wahl+Case is Tokyo's leading tech recruitment company. We help the most innovative businesses find the best people. We cover positions in IT, Engineering, Sales or Marketing in industries such as Consumer Tech, Enterprise Tech, FinTech or AdTech.

En-Japan provides solutions for the improvement of employees and organizations. The company works within the recruitment field and manages six recruiting websites and a briefing site for management and HR professionals. En-Japan was founded in January 2000 and is based in Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan.

Investment focus

Task Management, Recruiting, Marketing
Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RevComm — RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
ONLY STORY — ONLY STORY is a manager matching platform.
Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Rand App — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Japan Materials Technology commercializes necessary material innovations for society.

Investment focus

Chemical, Software, Recruiting
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
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.
TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.

Tosa shimizu is a third sector created to make use of the raw materials of Tosashimizu City, along with fishermen and farmers, to create a spirit of this town. While doing good hygiene management, we will develop activities with a commitment to local "food" as a business. Nostalgic tastes, traditional regional foods, and harmony with thetaste of the future.

Investment focus

Automotive, Electronics, Manufacturing
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

U-MaP — U-MaP is an “industrial materials” venture from Nagoya University, which was established mainly by researchers at Nagoya University. The mission under the company name is "Providing new solutions to society through technological innovation through ultimate materials and processing technologies (Ultimate Material and Processing)." Underthis mission, U-MaP will continue to commercialize university technology seeds and create next-generation industries.
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.

It is a page of investor information (IR) on Seven Bank. Various material of closing of accounts information, financial data, the shareholders' meeting, the dividend policy, and stock prices, etc. and information are published.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Miive — Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.
Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MTU — MTU offers medical security cloud services to medical organizations and delivers IT support, including the recent cyber harm to medical institutions, both online and offline.
Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.
SHINSEKAI Technologies — SHINSEKAI Technologies focuses on supporting companies, enabling them to advance their services to Web3 and NFT technologies.

THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (the Bank) is a Japan-based regional bank. The Bank is mainly engaged in the banking, leasing and financial instruments exchange businesses. The Bank is also engaged in worker dispatching, real estate appraisement and research, integrated processing of foreign exchange transmission and expense collection, leasing, operationconsulting, computer-related, entrusted accounting, credit guarantee, credit card, Initial Public Offerings (IPO) support services, small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) revival support and security-related businesses.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Task Management
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.

Sony Music is a management and management of the entire Sony Music Group by holding shares. As the headquarters of the Sony Music Group, each division efficiently supports and promotes the business of the entire group and each group company.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Sports
Series A, Series B
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.
ANYCOLOR — ANYCOLOR is an entertainment start-up that provides creator support and licensing business, mainly for the support and operation of virtual rivers participating in the “Nijisanji Project”. Using the latest technology, we will shape our thoughts on society as a new era of cutting-edge, and provide a magical experience to the everyday lives of peoplearound the world.
ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust provides Japanese equity products for corporate and governmental pension funds. SMTB also provides products investing in Asian equities. The capability was developed through its experience in Japanese equity, although it maintains an investment team in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Series D, Series A, Series B
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.
Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
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.

TNBI is a venture capital.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Consulting
Series C
Japan

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.
Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.

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