Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in Japan (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Japan | Series A, Seed | Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | $1.4M–$28M |
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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, B2C | $544k–$3.6M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $560k–$38M |
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Femto Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Series B, Seed | Internet, Information Technology, Software | $460k–$170M |
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Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B | $621k–$4.4M |
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Ceres
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Corporate Round | Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain | $3.3M–$50M |
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Colopl Next
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Seed, Series A | Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce | $900k–$30M |
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YJ Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $150k–$101M |
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Yusuke Tanaka
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed | Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce | $16M–$18M |
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, China, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Content, Medical, Task Management | $120k–$113M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Drones, Travel | $700k–$213M |
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Freebank
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | CRM, Laser, Sales | |
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Vector
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Corporate Round | Software, Internet, Marketing | $790k–$33M |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Venture United
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Travel, Content | $39k–$30M |
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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage | $730k–$57M |
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PR Times
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | News, Travel, Database | |
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aucfan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, France | Series A, Corporate Round | E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet | |
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile | |
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Hong Kong | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | |
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $420k–$354M |
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JAFCO
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.9M–$198M |
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Value Create
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, SNS, Apps | |
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Coral Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1M–$184M |
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ANRI
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $497k–$78M |
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Computer Software Association of Japan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Beauty | $466k–$7.1M |
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iMercury Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Series B, Series C | Software, Mobile, Internet | $8.5M–$170M |
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $774k–$50M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$397M |
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Nishio Kentaro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Information Technology, Internet, Software | $5.7M–$16M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2.3M–$269M |
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Higin Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical | |
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Chugin Capital Partner
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage | |
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Okinawa Development Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Apps, Medical, Nursing and Residential Care | |
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Synchrolife
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology | |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence | |
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VELTRA
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Travel, Consulting, Advertising | |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment | |
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Ryugin research Institute
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Internet, Automotive, Web Design | |
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SLD Entertainment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$52M |
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Orient Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, Content, Logistics | $2.6M–$17M |
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Das Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Switzerland | Series A, Seed | Cooking, FinTech, Software | $2.5M–$14M |
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Content | $200k–$77M |
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing | $531k–$142M |
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Adways
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software | $1M–$64M |
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Mercari
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia | Seed, Series B | Finance, Internet, E-Commerce | $4.5M–$57M |
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1.3M–$170M |
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Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $138M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
- Eco-Pork — Eco-Pork is a co-creation solution farm that supports farmers' food productivity improvement. It is connecting the pig and technology, pork ( Pork ) new business ecosystems ( Ecosystem By building a), in the pork growing demand around the world, to get the most out of the food supply capacity is finite.
- Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $544k–$1.4M; Series A $1.2M–$1.7M; Series B $1.5M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
- Varytex — Varytex is an herbal medicine tech company that offers diagnostic support software.
- Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 464
- Round size: Seed $560k–$17M; Series A $2.2M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
- FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
- Bioma — Media Desa Terkini
Femto Partners, a venture capital firm, focuses on early-stage startups in Japan. We are dedicated to nurturing and advancing startups poised to revolutionize existing industries.Our services include:· Providing strategic guidance · Assembling the ideal team · Growing the customer base · Attracting new investorsOur investments areshowing results.Two notable IPO’s are:PLAID, a CX platform and a leading SaaS company in Japan, committed to crafting exceptional customer experiences. https://plaid.co.jp/en/note, a C2C Content Platform that enables a wide range of creators, supporting the creator economy. https://ir.note.jp/enWe are deeply convinced of the transformative power of startups and work closely with entrepreneurs and management teams to achieve this vision.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $460k–$2.2M; Series B $6.7M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVRy — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
- Marsdy — Marsdy is a numerical management and update solution that combines robots and manual operations. Combining robots and manual operations can reach the needs of your business and produce the perfect output you desire. It can handle various tasks, from sales and marketing figures to automating back-office accounting.It's headquarters is locatedin Tokyo Minato-ku Shiba, Japan.
- Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
Lotte Ventures Japan supports and collaborates with businesses that embrace challenges and strive to build a better society in the future.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $621k–$1.4M; Series A $2M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
- Minnano Shashoku — Minnano Shashoku is a company cafeteria service based on restaurants and provides offices with daily and weekly menus.
- Crisp — CRISP SALAD WORKS offers a focused menu of signature salads and grains made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods on-site.
Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$39M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
- AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
- TASIMOVF — TASIMOVF was created by leaders in the blockchain and AI industry to break barriers between the industries that should be symbiotic. After a raise between 20+ companies $TAF has $770,000 to allocate to our first hackathon on Virtuals
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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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $900k–$14M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
- VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
- Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.9B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
- Stacked — Stacked is a new membership platform where fans get the most out of their support for creators.
"Shin"ichiro joined Yahoo Japan in April 2013. From July 2013, he joined YJ Capital. He has served as COO of YJ Capital since January 2015. Prior to Yahoo! Japan, Shin was General Director of Dream Incubator Vietnam from 2007 to 2012, managing US$50 million private equity funds in Vietnam. He was formerly a Project Manager at DreamIncubator Japan. He started his career at Future Architect as a system engineer.Shin received his bachelor's degree in Policy Management from Keio University.
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- Industry: Tourism, Consulting, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $16M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TakeMe Co., Ltd. — TakeMe aims to provide an “One-stop Inbound destination service” by enabling tourist to easily find, communicate with, and pay with smartphones via QR code at In-Travel destinations. TakeMe, is the country’s largest inbound service platform in Japan, which lets tourists find, communicate with, and pay with QR code at our affiliated shops,restaurants and tourist attractions. Since our launch in 2015 as JapanFoodie, we have expanded our merchant base to tens of thousands beyond food and restaurants, to include travel, lodging, shopping and events, providing every tourist with the best experience as your best local guide and friend.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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- Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, China, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$85M; Series B $120k–$113M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
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- Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.
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- Industry: CRM, Laser, Sales
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
- ORENDA WORLD — ORENDA focuses on developing high-definition 3D simulation systems that apply gamification and real-time rendering technology.
- QD Laser — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $790k–$33M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
- CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
- Snack Technologies — Snack Technologies specializes in the development and operation of “SnaTech,” an innovative business support application designed for snack bars, helping operators streamline daily management, improve customer engagement, optimize inventory and sales tracking, and enhance overall business efficiency through digital solutions tailored to the foodand hospitality industry.
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $730k–$50M; Series A $20M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
- Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
- Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
Boasts more than two million monthly PV, share NO.1 of press release distribution listing services. Including monthly 100 million PV or more of the leading newspaper and communications company Web site, Japan's leading media functions that can be posted to the release to the features. The Facebook fan number of PR TIMES 4 million people morethan, followers number of Twitter accounts has become a 10 006 thousand people than, it is also effective in information diffusion in SNS.
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- Industry: News, Travel, Database
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
- Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
- The Bridge — Tech and Startup News from 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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
- Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
- Delivered Korea — Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
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- Space quarters — Space Quarters is a manufacturing company that produces payload deploy and panels, and develops space assembly robotic systems.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $661k–$68M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
- OPERA TECH —
Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 295
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$170M; Series B $7M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- CaTe —
- EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
- Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
Value Create is a venture capital firm focused on management consulting business and investment business.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SNS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- YeLL — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.
- IIF — A farm in your pocket.
- Knowledge Merchants Works — Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”.
Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1M–$30M; Series A $2.7M–$99M; Series B $3.3M–$184M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $128M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
- Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
- Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
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- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- Any Style —
- Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
CSAJ is a non-profit organization which has about 500 PC software developers, publishers, system integrators, distributors, dealers and its related support service providers. The main activities are committees, exhibitions, market surveys, and collaboration with overseas associations.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $466k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tripla — Tripla provides IT services for various industries such as hotels, railways, travel-related, restaurants, real estate, and apparel. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in Japan that aims to provide a platform where any tourists can make any reservations they want to make in their language through any chat and voice platforms. It provides theservice to hundreds of customers like hotels, rent- a- car companies, transportation companies that provide services to tourists. Tripla chatbot, a BPO service that solves daily inquiry cost reduction and multilingual support at once, has been well received by customers due to its learning AI and double support from operators who are familiar with the industry. Also, the new hotel reservation engine equipped with the OTA price comparison of each company and the automatic best rate adjustment function has significantly increased the ratio of in-house reservations and contributed to the improvement of profitability.
- umami.me — Order Food in English at Restaurant in Japanumami will help youFind menu you can eat and order in your own languageCommunicate with non-English speaking staff when you orderFind coupons and get discount or rewardSince its launch back in April of 2015, the Umami mobile app has been adopted by about 250 restaurants in Japan. The app allowsrestaurants to provide their menu in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Korean as well as Japanese, attract customers through coupons, and spread words using social network services so that they can better reach out to foreign visitors. For customers, it helps them find restaurants following their dining preference using a recommendation feature, making orders at a restaurant in their mother tongue and choosing allergy-free or halal food menus.
- Life Log Technology — Lifelog Technology has been developing exclusive apps for medical professionals, including those for the general public, such as participating in medical institution research technically.
iMercury Capital is an investment subsidiary established to expand Mixi's business portfolio and realize discontinuous growth beyond the SNS "Mixi" business. iMercury Capital plans to invest 5 billion yen together with Mixi, aiming to generate profits through long-term holdings. It also covers everything from start-ups to latestages, as well as both online and offline businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series B $8.5M–$170M; Series C $64M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Welmo — WELMO has currently been working on R&D to launch Japan's largest welfare AI service platform called "CPA(Care Plan Assistant)" which supports care coordinator (caregiver), who helps a daily activities of the elderly people, to create a care plan for them, with using ICT and advanced technology, especially NLP(Natural LanguageProcessing), in terms of knowledge support. It has mainly two fundamental technologies; data warehouse includes all fast date and big date about care, explainable AI that describes a reason why the care is provided for the users. It also reduces time and cost to create the care plan, which enables anyone to be able to use easily and get enough information that the users want to know and use.
- Creema — Creema operates an online marketplace for handmade products. It provides its clients with social commerce, art events, and related services. The company is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
- Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $774k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
- Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
- Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 479
- Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $6.4M–$397M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
- Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
- Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 553
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
- Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Higegin Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
- KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
- AMI — AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.
Chugin Capital Partner is a venture capital firm that invests in startups and business succession.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Experisus — Experisus provides Website production, development and management, and software.
- Waku — Waku is a manufacturing company that specializes in the research and development of organic fertilizers for the agriculture industry.
- Zip Infrastructure — Inquiry : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDmxd1TpPP331TY4VoRsvn0yWX3Ca5Jd-bfBiuPwvpD2SKtA/viewform
Okinawa Development Finance Corporation provides policy-based financial services.
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- Industry: Apps, Medical, Nursing and Residential Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- Swivel — Swivel's mission is to create the fishing brand.
- HelloWorld — EdTech, International Exchange between Schools
SynchroLife is the world's first social restaurant discovery service with a blockchain-based reward system for reviewers. It uses borderless cryptocurrency to give review rewards and cashback for dining out to users, and to connect users and restaurants to solve marketing problems for restaurants.
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.
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- Industry: Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
- SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
VELTRA is a site dedicated to local tours where you can book over 14,000 kinds of overseas optional tours. A wide range of genres that can be participated overseas such as sightseeing tours, world heritage sightseeing, marine sports, diving, golf, spa and esthetics, dinner cruise, show entertainment, etc. are enriched!
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- Industry: Travel, Consulting, Advertising
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
- Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ryugin Research Institute Co., Ltd., took over its business from the Economic Research Office of the Corporate Support Department, which is the economic research division of the Bank of the Ryukyus, and became independent on June 28, 2006 in a form that further strengthened its functions.The Ryukyu Bank Research Department was the predecessor ofthe Economic Research Office, but since the foundation of the Ryukyu Bank in 1948, it has conducted various economic and industrial surveys and made proposals and proposals, etc. We have been committed to development.
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- Industry: Internet, Automotive, Web Design
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- CBcloud — CBCLOUD is offers outsourcing services. The Company provides light cargo crowdsourcing and other services.
- Re:Build — Re:Build is to create the world where we can help each other. Re:Build company was born from the desire to help those who challenge.Our mission is to create a world where help and support circulate throughout the business .
- 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.
SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE&DINING" brand.
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
Orient Corporation is a consumer credit company that provides auto loans, credit cards, and direct cash loan services. The company was founded in 1954 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, Logistics
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecommit — Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis
- Honest — Honest Bank is building the future of finance for Asia
- YOLO JAPAN — YOLO JAPAN is a web platform that provides job information for overseas workers.
We partner with entrepreneurs to develop both its business and its talents. We invest broadly from seed stage to later stage startups, based in Japan, India, US and all around the globe.
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- Industry: Cooking, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, India, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finly — Finly was founded with a simple idea: to allow companies get a better insight into their spend and expenses. Finly has been designed to structure better processes in your company leading to a much more cost efficient and time efficient system. By replacing traditional tools for reporting expenses with Finly they hope to make the entire experiencehassle free leading to improved employee satisfaction.By providing the company with complete visibility into its spend, Finly keeps all company business systems in sync and offers the most dynamic reporting in the market. Their goal is to provide finance teams with tools and data that enable them to have real time insights into their spends to make better strategic decisions and remove all expense management hurdles as your business scales.w
- slice — slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
- ONLY STORY — ONLY STORY is a manager matching platform.
Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, China, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $200k–$34M; Series A $1.4M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
- Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
- ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $531k–$16M; Series A $2.6M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dwilar — Dwilar is a proptech company that provides AI-powered leasing solutions tailored for international buyers seeking property. Their platform enables users to design flexible lease agreements with the option to own, allowing for property customization and renovation during the lease period. By avoiding dollar-denominated loans, it minimizes currencyexchange risks and offers a streamlined and personalized path to property acquisition.
- Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
- EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
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- Industry: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $21M–$39M; Series A $1M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
Mercari is your marketplace. It's the perfect place to declutter and discover items that are uniquely you. Say 'goodbye' to your old go-tos and 'hello' to one-of-a-kind treasures.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$31M; Series B $9.4M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecommit — Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1.5M–$41M; Series B $5.2M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
- Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
- Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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