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Top 50 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in December 2024

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 December 2024

Investor Recruiting Japan investments
Colopl Next 4
Genesia Ventures 4
DNX Ventures 3
TLM 3
YJ Capital 3
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 3
Vector 3
East Ventures 3
BEENEXT 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Incubate Fund 3
ANRI 3
Globis Capital Partners 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 2
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 2
SMBC Venture Capital 2
F Ventures 2
Nippon Venture Capital 2
Crooz 2
DOGAN beta 2
North Pacific Bank 2
Delight Ventures 2
ANOBAKA 1
Gaiax 1
XTech Ventures 1
Akatsuki Games Inc. 1
Yakumi 1
en-Japan 1
EXTREME CO 1
Primal Capital 1
Drone Fund 1
PKSHA Technology 1
Dream Link Entertainment 1
Venture Labo Investment 1
Archetype Ventures 1
KEPPLE Capital 1
Mediva 1
Japan Material Technologies 1
Toyoda Gosei North America Corporation 1
Tosashimizu 1
SPARX AI & Technologies Investment 1
D4V 1
KSK Angel Fund 1
CAC CAPITAL 1
Nissay Capital 1
S5 Partners 1
MUFG Bank 1
Doroquia Holatheta 1
Salesforce 1
500 Startups Japan 1
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Colopl Next VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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
  • Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
  • Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
  • ChillStack — ChillStack provides information on AI, security, and development.
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 17 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
  • Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
  • Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.
  • Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.
DNX Ventures VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 22 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
  • Miive — Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.
  • Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
TLM VC Fund
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, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • nanameue, Inc. — 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.
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 — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 61 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, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
  • NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 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, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
  • Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
  • Essen — Essen is a technological company that specializes in mobility and data analysis, as well as using data to improve transportation.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
BEENEXT VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 14 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
  • Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
  • NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
  • Flywheel Dynamix — Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 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
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 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
  • Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
  • KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 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
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.
Globis Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 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
  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • 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.
  • Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.
aucfan Co.,Ltd. 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.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 49 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, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
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.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 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
  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
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.
DOGAN beta VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
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
  • GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
  • Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
  • TheStory — TheStory is an IT firm that develops a direct recruiting application that helps nurses switch to relevant jobs.
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
  • Marugoto — Marugoto is a human resource company that engages in offering recruitment support and back office 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.
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 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, Service Industry, Human Resources
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
  • Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
  • STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 5 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, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • TieUps — TieUps develops and operates SNS integrated marketing services.
  • 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
  • Fotographer AI — Fotographer.ai is a service that allows e-commerce companies and individuals interested in advertising creatives to generate product photos automatically for use on their websites and in marketing. Product photos for websites and commercials that need to be taken for each campaign or season can be generated using generative AI.
Gaiax VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
  • Makigumi — Makigumi provides buildings design, management, construction, and real estate consulting services.
  • 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.
XTech Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 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
  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
Akatsuki Games Inc. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
  • MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
Yakumi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A platform connecting global angel investors with startups based in, or relating to, Japan
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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 VC Fund · Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan
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.
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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”.
EXTREME CO VC Fund · Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
EXTREME CO. is a production company that supports the development of the entertainment industry.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Career Planning
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
Primal Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
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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.
Drone Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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.
  • CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
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.
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.
Archetype Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 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
  • ZAICO — Zaico is a management app that reduces the burden and optimizes energy efficiency for organizations.
  • Katagrma — KatagrMa is the first organization that optimizes the organization and human resources development.
  • Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
KEPPLE Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
KEPPLE Capital is a venture capital firm that supports the growth of startups.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Content, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
  • Ascenders — Ascenders is a sports human resources business platform.
  • LacuS — LacuS is a food technology company, develops and sells complete nutrition ice cream, provides nutritious food option for people of all ages.
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.
Japan Material Technologies VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Materials Technology commercializes necessary material innovations for society.
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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.
Toyoda Gosei North America Corporation VC Fund · Troy, Michigan, United States
Toyoda Gosei Group is a leading global manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive components.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Recruiting, Product Research
  • 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.
Tosashimizu VC Fund · Misaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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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.
SPARX AI & Technologies Investment VC Fund · Konan, Tokyo, Japan
SPARX AI & Technologies Investment is a venture capital investment firm.
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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.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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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.
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
CAC CAPITAL VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
CAC Capital is a multi-strategy corporate venture capital. It pursues absolute fund returns through diversified investments and flexible allocations to venture companies with high growth potential.Supporting the Group's open innovation through means such as support for growth and collaboration of investee venture companies through hands-onin management, marketing, finance, and operations.In addition, aiming to realize high performance as a fund, we will operate a “multi-strategy” type fund that aims to achieve absolute profits by utilizing advanced management strategies and managing and managing portfolios.
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Investment focus
  • Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
  • 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.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 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, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
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
MUFG Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 21 investments in the past 12 months
MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
  • Akaysha Energy — Akaysha Energy offers full-cycle development for projects including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and renewable energy.
  • Adani Green Energy — Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) is developing a renewable portfolio of 25 GW by 2025 which includes wind power, solar power, and hybrid power projects.
Doroquia Holatheta VC Fund · Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
Doroquia Holatheta is an entertainment company that brings happiness to customers by planning, manufacturing and selling surprising sweets.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Recruiting, Marketing Automation
  • 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.
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
500 Startups Japan VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.
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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.
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