Top 50 Recruiting VC Funds in Japan
A list of 50 VC 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 Funds in Japan
Investor | Recruiting Japan investments |
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Colopl Next | 4 |
East Ventures | 3 |
YJ Capital | 3 |
Vector | 3 |
DNX Ventures | 3 |
Genesia Ventures | 3 |
Incubate Fund | 3 |
Mizuho Capital | 3 |
BEENEXT | 3 |
TLM | 3 |
ANRI | 3 |
ITOCHU Technology Ventures | 2 |
Globis Capital Partners | 2 |
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital | 2 |
Delight Ventures | 2 |
SMBC Venture Capital | 2 |
Nippon Venture Capital | 2 |
F Ventures | 2 |
aucfan Co.,Ltd. | 2 |
Crooz | 2 |
Venture Labo Investment | 1 |
Chukyo TV | 1 |
Salesforce | 1 |
Seven Bank | 1 |
Recruit Strategic Partners | 1 |
S5 Partners | 1 |
AirTrip | 1 |
MUFG Bank | 1 |
Doroquia Holatheta | 1 |
NOW Japan | 1 |
Wantedly | 1 |
FAN Communications | 1 |
Persol Career | 1 |
MAKOTO Capital | 1 |
D4V | 1 |
Energy & Environment Investment | 1 |
Yunqi Partners | 1 |
KSK Angel Fund | 1 |
Mynavi | 1 |
GOLDEN EGG Ventures | 1 |
XTech Ventures | 1 |
CAC CAPITAL | 1 |
MBS innovation DRIVE | 1 |
WAVY Japan | 1 |
en-Japan | 1 |
Drone Fund | 1 |
EXTREME CO | 1 |
Venture United | 1 |
ANOBAKA | 1 |
Gaiax | 1 |
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
- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
- Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.
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.
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
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
- Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
- The Ethical Spirits & Co. — The Ethical Spirits & Co. is an online store for spirits and alcohol.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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
- Yamori — Yamori is a software development company which offers a cloud real estate management platform to realize stable rental management.
- Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
- Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.
Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Malme — Malme is a company that operates in the fields of 3D technology, architecture, civil engineering, and construction. The company offers total support for BIM/CIM operations, with a team of engineers who are well-versed in construction consulting. The company's motto is to 'update civil engineering', indicating a commitment tocontinuous innovation and improvement in the field. The company's services are designed to assist in the planning and execution of construction projects, leveraging advanced 3D technology and architectural expertise.
- Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
- Gaxie Co — Gaxie is an IT firm that provides a cloud management system and manages scholarship sites for business.
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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- SoftRoid — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
- M-INT — M-INT is a life science company that offers medical infrastructure and medical IT system.
- Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
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
- Japan DX — Japan DX platform provides a comprehensive data-driven services to inbound tourists to Japan.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
- GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
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
- Scimplifi — At Scimplify we are solving the sourcing and manufacturing Chemistries. Involved in every step of R&D, Scale up & Commerical Manufacturing to ensure success.
- Protos Labs — Protos Labs is a Singapore-based cybersecurity company founded by ex-Booz Allen cyber leaders. We provide cyber risk solutions to both Enterprises and Insurers, ranging from risk quantification to underwriting and claims solutions. We work with government agencies, enterprises, insurers regulators g
- International Battery Company — International Battery Company (IBC) is constructing unique I-NMC Prismatic cells in India at the planned non-captive Gigafactory. Because of their big form factor, IBC cells reduce battery complexity while providing 40% more energy density than LFP cells. They are also recyclable. These cells will be ideal for mobility applications (EVs). Thesupply chain will be localized and secure, allowing for energy independence.
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.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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 B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Belgium
Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is one of Japan's leading venture capital firms. With its unique 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, Information Technology, Software
- 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.
- Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
- Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.
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 B, Series A
- Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
- Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
- GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.
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
- Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
- Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.
- Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
- HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
- Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.
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
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
- microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer 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.
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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.
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 Japan — Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in 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.
JOCH-DTV, branded as Chukyo TV, is the Chukyo metropolitan area flagship station of the Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System (NNS), owned by Nippon Television Holdings through the Chukyo TV. Broadcasting Co., Ltd. Its studios are located in Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Content, Audio, Travel
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- EXest — EXest is aTokyo-based inbound travel promotion startup .The company provides the WOW U platform that connects inbound visitors to Japan with licensed interpreters and tour guides in addition to WOWU-media offering potential visitors to Japan with video clips introducing must-visit spots and popular local souvenirs on Facebook.
- FIREBUG — Firebug is an entertainment startup.
- Newrope — NEWROPE is a web service business and Media business platform.
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, SaaS, Non Profit
- Grant, Funding Round, Series A
- 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
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Toranotec — TORANOTEC CORPORATION aims to create a world where investment is familiar to everyone by realizing "from consumption to investment" through the services of asset management subsidiaries , utilizing advanced technology.
- Nudge — Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.
Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors.
It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
- Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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
AirTrip is an online travel agency.
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Investment focus
- Task Management, Analytics, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Bwell — Bwell offers mentorship training to Japanese and Korean students for job recruitment.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
- xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG
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Investment focus
- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NHPC — NHPC is a Hydropower generation company that plans, promotes, and organizes an integrated and efficient development of power.NHPC Limited (formerly known as National Hydroelectric Power Corp.) was incorporated on 7th November 1975 as Central Govt. Enterprise for development of Hydro Power in Central Sector. Since then the Corporation has becomethe largest central utility for hydro power development in India The company is mandated to plan, promote and organize an integrated and efficient development of power in all aspects through Conventional and Non Conventional Sources in India and abroad. NHPC is a Schedule ‘A’ Enterprise of Govt. of India with Miniratna status since 2008. With an authorized share capital of Rs.15,000 crores. NHPC is a premier organization in country for development of hydro power.To begin with, NHPC was assigned three most difficult and almost abandoned projects i.e. 180 MW Baira Siul in HP, 105 MW Loktak in Manipur and 345 MW Salal-I in J&K from the erstwhile Central Hydroelectric Project Control Board. With the commissioning of Baira Siul in 1981, Loktak in 1983 and Salal-I in 1987, NHPC established its strong position in the hydro power sector of the country. Along the journey of over 44 years, NHPC’s total installed capacity has reached to 7071.2 MW from 24 projects including JV, Solar and Wind.
- KreditBee — KreditBee is a personal loan platform for young professionals, where they can apply for Salary Advance up to ₹ 1 Lac as per their requirement. The documentation is very minimal, and the entire process starting from registration to disbursement does not take more than 15 minutes. The application process is completely online, and on approval, thecash is immediately transferred to the bank account of the user.KreditBee facilitates the loan transactions between the borrowers and the NBFCs/Banks. All loan applications are approved and sanctioned by NBFCs/Banks registered with RBI and communicated upfront during Loan application.
- Financial Products Group — Financial Products Group is mainly engaged in the tax leasing arrangement business.
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.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- Geofra — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
Wantedly is a Tokyo-based startup that uses the web to make work the most exciting it’s ever been.Wantedly is a social recruiting platform that allows users to find interesting jobs based on their social graphs.To make this happen,Wantedly has created a platform where people and companies meet based on passion and values, rather than money orbenefits.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Task Management, Telecommunications
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
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.
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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 !
Persol Career offers human resources, mid-level recruitment, and management support services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- zenkigen — zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA.
MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Manufacturing, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
- 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.
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.
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- Internet of Things, Software, Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Germany
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- Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
- Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
- Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
Founded in 2014, Yunqi Partners is among the first in China to sharpen its focus on technology empowered industries. Yunqi is systematically investing in digital transformation of industries and industrialisation of technologies covering areas such as cutting-edge technology, advanced manufacturing, IoT, SaaS and B2B supply chain.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Singapore
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- HelloBoss — HelloBoss is an AI-based recruitment platform that promotes the mobility of human resources services for job seekers through an application.
- Endless Watts — Endless Watts focuses on the research and development of optical storage and charging. It is committed to promoting green energy digitalization and intelligence.
- Yitu Technology — Yitu Technology offers industry-leading smart car middleware platforms, SOA communication frameworks for vehicles, and related development services.
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Kenya
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- 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
Golden Egg Ventures is a venture capital firm affiliated with Egg Forward, Inc.
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- Apps, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Japan
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- HelloBoss — HelloBoss is an AI-based recruitment platform that promotes the mobility of human resources services for job seekers through an application.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
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- Nexta — Nexta manufactures site, issues such as analog management, personalization of operations & labor shortages are becoming more serious.
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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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- Recruiting, Internet of Things, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, Malaysia, Thailand
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- 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.
MBS innovation DRIVE is a television broadcasting and there is television lives as usual.MBS Innovation Drive was established to respond to this era of change and to create a new business for the MBS Group consisting of Mainichi Broadcasting and GAORA.
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- Computer, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B
- Japan
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- 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.
- JOLLY GOOD — Jolly Good develops new entertainment using advanced technology and content.
WAVY is an accelerator that accelerates the start-up, independence, opening of business, and subsequent company & business.
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- Employment, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Seed
- Japan
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- Hupro — Hupro is a tech company that produces the growth of each person and builds social development around IT .
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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- Task Management, Recruiting, Marketing
- Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan
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- 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”.
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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- Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Canada
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- Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
- Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.
- RICOS Co. Ltd. — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
EXTREME CO. is a production company that supports the development of the entertainment industry.
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- Recruiting, Career Planning
- Seed
- Japan
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- Voice Japan — Voice is an IT business in general.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
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- 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.
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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- Software, Content, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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- 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 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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- Real Estate, Travel, Sharing Economy
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Japan, Italy
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- 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.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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