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Top 50 Restaurants VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Restaurants startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Restaurants startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan Series A, Seed Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$28M
East Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $560k–$38M
NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Food and Beverage, B2C $544k–$3.6M
Ceres
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $3.3M–$50M
Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B $621k–$4.4M
Vector
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $790k–$33M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, Belgium Series A, Series B Content, Medical, Task Management $120k–$113M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $730k–$57M
Venture United
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Femto Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Series B, Seed Internet, Information Technology, Software $460k–$170M
Freebank
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A CRM, Laser, Sales
YJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $150k–$101M
500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Software, SaaS $2.8M–$300M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$77M
iMercury Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Series C Software, Mobile, Internet $8.5M–$170M
SLD Entertainment
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $952k–$269M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $697k–$113M
Coral Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$184M
ANRI
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $497k–$78M
Accord Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Malaysia, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $775k–$45M
Winroader
VC Fund
1 Japan Delivery, Wholesale, E-Commerce
PR Times
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed News, Travel, Database $2.2M–$2.2M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$52M
The Seed Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Consulting, Architecture $187k–$24M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing $531k–$142M
DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Ethereum, Education $2.6M–$38M
STRIVE
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $535k–$51M
Das Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Switzerland Series A, Seed Cooking, FinTech, Software $2.5M–$14M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mobile $709k–$57M
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.3M–$170M
Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $3M–$142M
Value Create
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A E-Commerce, SNS, Apps
Orient Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Content, Logistics $2.6M–$17M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $774k–$50M
Computer Software Association of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series C Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Beauty $466k–$7.1M
Fujita Kanko
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Apps, Mobile, Travel $466k–$7.1M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$142M
Chugin Capital Partner
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
Allied Architects
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Database, Internet
VELTRA
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Travel, Consulting, Advertising $2.2M–$2.2M
JTB Corp.
VC Fund
1 Japan, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Travel, Leisure, Sales $1.5M–$85M
Scrum Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, China Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.3M–$31M
Giftee
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Apps $345k–$61M
Synchrolife
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Ethereum, Marketing
AG Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

  • 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
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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund · Nishi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

  • 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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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

  • 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.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

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Investment focus

  • 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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iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

iSGS Investment Works is Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Femto Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Freebank
VC Fund · Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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YJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

  • 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.
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$21M; Series A $7.9M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
  • Koska — Koska is a service that automates highly accurate cost calculation without trouble in the IoT system.
  • Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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iMercury Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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SLD Entertainment
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE&DINING" brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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 $952k–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • 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.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is established to contribute to medical treatment for suffering patients, .
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $697k–$24M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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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Coral Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
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  • Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.
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Accord Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$31M; Series A $3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
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Winroader
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Winroader with a strong mission to create a new flow of goods in the logistics industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Delivery, Wholesale, E-Commerce
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hachimenroppi — Corporate website of Hachimenroppi, Inc.. Launching e-commerce services for restaurants and individuals in Japan. Includes information about our company, its services, careers, and investor relations.
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PR Times
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Travel, Database
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KUJIRA — KUJIRA is a real estate, construction and architecture company.
  • 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.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

  • 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.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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The Seed Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Consulting, Architecture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $187k–$17M; Series A $4.1M–$24M; Series B $2.6M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Cactuz — Cactuz operates in the Edutainment field with the mission of overcoming environmental differences and creating equal opportunities for learning and personal growth, empowering individuals from all backgrounds to reach their full potential through engaging, innovative, and inclusive educational experiences
  • Kessaku — Kessaku is an architectural company that provides building renovation, preserving craftsmanship, and sustainable system services.
  • DJ Insight — DJ Insight develops and provides Kagami AI, an AI system that visualizes nonverbal information in real-world spaces. The platform analyzes video and audio data from face-to-face settings to extract facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses, reaction changes, concentration levels, excitement, and agreement levels. It generates analysis reports andconsulting that provide actionable insights for improving operations in beauty salons, education, corporate training, and events. The company supports improvements in face-to-face interactions by generating data from real-world spaces that previously relied on intuition and experience.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Education
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $10M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2015

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.
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Das Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
  • Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
  • Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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.

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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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Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$50M; Series A $3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JiMED — JiMED designs & develops AI based brain-computer interface for implant in ALS patients to improve communication.
  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Toregem BioPharma — Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia. Toregem BioPharma is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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Value Create
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Value Create is a venture capital firm focused on management consulting business and investment business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SNS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 ”.
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Orient Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Computer Software Association of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Fujita Kanko
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Fujita Kanko is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the hotel business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$47M; Series A $2.5M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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Chugin Capital Partner
VC Fund · Okayama, Okayama, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Chugin Capital Partner is a venture capital firm that invests in startups and business succession.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 .
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Allied Architects
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Allied Architects vision comes from the combination of two key aspirations being the leading company in their industry and being entrepreneurial at the same time. They not only aspire to be the finest provider of high quality service and to contribute to society, but they are also hungry to continually take on challenges with entrepreneurial driveand spirit.This is because they believe in connecting individuals and businesses together through social media and technology, with a view to enriching their society.The rise of social media has given new power to individuals to express their own personality through dialogue, and by developing a network of contacts on the internet it has dramatically improved the ease communication. Furthermore, businesses can now connect with their existing and prospective customers more easily through official social media accounts. In previous generations, small shops and businesses dealt directly with their customers. This brought people together, with close and direct connection being necessary to ensure complete customer satisfaction. Even though it helped to build strong relationships in the community, it did not go any further.However, the advancement of technology and the emergence of social media has broken down boundaries and upended traditional hierarchies that previously may have constrained the flow of transactions between individuals and businesses around the world. Businesses can now achieve various objectives, such as reducing the time and cost and for disseminating information, having essential communications, pursuing research and development through consumer dialogue and preventing marketing mistakes. This can result in a much more successful and profitable organization and being profitable enables businesses to develop prospective products and services in harmony with consumer needs, and to provide services of high value for a lower price. It means that consumers can purchase good products and services for a low price, creating a win-win relationship between individuals and businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Database, Internet
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omatsuri Japan — Omatsuri is Japan's first festival company specializing in Japan.We provide planning, management, promotion, and customer support for festival organizers from local governments to store associations.
  • Pocket Concierge — Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.
  • Conversion Technology Japan — Conversion Technology is a Data and Tachonology Based company
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VELTRA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Consulting, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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JTB Corp.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$57M; Series A $2.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Goodwings — Choose responsible travel options, track emissions, and offset them for free with Goodwings. Our sustainability-focused travel management system helps you travel responsibly while reducing your carbon footprint.
  • 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.
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Scrum Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.7M; Series A $6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • BiPSEE — BiPSEE is a medical XR company that provides treatment support for children for the purpose of nurturing a sense of self-efficacy. They also deploy AR and VR animation with one button dentistry and medicine, whether outpatient or hospitalized in various situations your child's anxiety and pain relieve. It aims to reduce anxiety and pain inchildren in a wide range of medical fields such as dentistry, pediatrics, and dermatology.BiPSEE is abs ed in Tokyo, Japan.
  • SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
  • ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
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Giftee
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.7M; Series A $2M–$61M; Venture - Series Unknown $345k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WED — One Financial is an application that anyone can introduce card settlement immediately with one smartphone.
  • KINCHAKU — KINCHAKU is a technology company that conducts research and development to increase the productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises.
  • Treasure in Stomach — Treasure in Stomach is a food manufacturing company that develops vegan, gluten-free, and Muslim-friendly products and content.
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Synchrolife
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $14M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Restaurants VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 84 deals from 175 investors.

175
investors
in Japan Restaurants startups
84
deals
in Japan Restaurants startups
$17M
median round
in Japan Restaurants startups
23%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage

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