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Top 50 Restaurants VC Funds & Investors in Japan (October 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 Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $473k–$35M
Freebank
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A CRM, Laser, Sales
Lotte Ventures Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Restaurants, B2B $621k–$4.4M
Ceres
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $450k–$120M
iSGS Investment Works
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $351k–$52M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
YJ Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Indonesia Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $150k–$101M
JAFCO
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$41M
500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Software, Task Management $91k–$30M
Vector
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round Software, Apps, Internet $174k–$14M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $560k–$37M
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, Belgium Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Content, Marketing, Medical $166k–$6.9M
Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Agriculture, Food Processing, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$7M
Giftee
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketing $345k–$2.9M
SUKOYAKA HOLDINGS
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Automotive, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
Femto Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series B Information Technology, Internet, Apps $39k–$170M
The Seed Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Consulting, Architecture $160k–$8.1M
aucfan
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia, France Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet $446k–$11M
Allied Architects
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, Retail $446k–$2.3M
Venture United
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Travel, Apps $200k–$14M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing $367k–$33M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $404k–$11M
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $190k–$7.1M
SLD Entertainment
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $470k–$21M
PR Times
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, News $2.2M–$2.2M
Osaka University Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $480k–$19M
Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Apps $655k–$8.9M
Sagin Capital & Consulting
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $117k–$14M
Ryugin research Institute
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Web Design, Web Development, Artificial Intelligence $267k–$679k
Adways
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Media and Entertainment, Content $944k–$30M
iMercury Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Mobile, Internet $457k–$170M
Winroader
VC Fund
1 Japan Delivery, Wholesale, E-Commerce
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet $176k–$51M
NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Software, B2C, Apps $544k–$3.6M
AG Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $462k–$28M
Salesforce
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Israel Grant, Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $25k–$414M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Medical $455k–$12M
DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series C Food and Beverage, Content, Cooking $2.4M–$2.6M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $274k–$24M
Computer Software Association of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series C, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence $458k–$683k
Fujita Kanko
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Apps, Mobile, Travel $458k–$466k
Chugin Capital Partner
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
VELTRA
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Travel, Consulting, Advertising $2.2M–$2.2M
JTB Corp.
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Travel, E-Commerce, Tourism $1.5M–$85M
Das Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Japan, Switzerland Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $138k–$107M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.3M–$170M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mobile $709k–$57M
Mercari
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series B Finance, Internet, E-Commerce $4.5M–$57M
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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: 522
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
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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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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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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:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $464k–$2.7M; Series A $1.4M–$120M; Venture - Series Unknown $450k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% 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 — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
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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, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $351k–$3.1M; Series A $1.3M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $661k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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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: 118
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8.5M; Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • BitStar — BitStar is the EnterTech company that accelerates the growth of video creators and content with our proprietary data 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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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, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$71M; Series A $150k–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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 the creations 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 370
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$41M; Series B $4.2M–$36M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $567M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • 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.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 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, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$4.3M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $91k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
  • GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
  • 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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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, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $541k–$5M; Corporate Round $174k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $226k–$14M
  • 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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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 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, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$6.5M; Series A $1.2M–$20M; Series B $3.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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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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, Marketing, Medical
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$6.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $166k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M 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 is an online booking website that provides booking services for tour, activities and attractions/experiences.
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Kemuri Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 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, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.9M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.5M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • AccordX — AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
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Giftee
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

Established in 2010 and headquartered in Japan, giftee expands its digital expertise globally with offices in South East Asia. As a pioneer in digital retail solutions, giftee empowers brands to create and distribute versatile eGifts to businesses and consumers. giftee's mission is to foster connections that transcend boundaries, creating a more interconnected society through their eGift platform. They collaborate seamlessly with diverse brands, enabling them to generate eVouchers for marketing, employee engagement, and customer rewards programs. giftee's holistic approach and dedication to nurturing relationships in all spheres of interaction set them apart in the digital retail industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketing
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$2.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $345k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WED — One Financial is an application that anyone can introduce card settlement immediately with one smartphone.
  • Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
  • 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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SUKOYAKA HOLDINGS
VC Fund · Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

SUKOYAKA HOLDINGS is a mental and physical health care service provider.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Femto Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 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: Information Technology, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$2.2M; Series B $2.3M–$170M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • RoomClip — RoomClip is a photo-sharing service where users can find inspiration for their home and life.
  • Plaid — Plaid the service provider does not have to analyze it using the service, such as data analysis, review the improvement plan, the only step on a separate step to reflect site. It is because the output for analysis and improvement of these services are divided. Therefore, you would have meant turning the PDCA high cost of resources andtime-consuming large.
  • Carbon Xtract — Carbon Xtract develops and sells equipments and products that uses technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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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: 24
  • Round size: Seed $160k–$8.1M; Series A $1.5M–$4.1M; Series B $2.6M–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Cactuz — Bridging the social Gap through our services and contents.
  • Kessaku — Own a piece of heritage, reimagined as your hospitality asset.
  • TrueCamera — TrueCamera develops a blockchain-based platform designed to verify the authenticity of digital photographs and prevent image tampering. The system anchors cryptographic metadata directly into the image files at the moment of capture to ensure data integrity for legal and professional documentation.
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aucfan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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 the consumers 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 information to the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement. Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$11M; Corporate Round $903k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $446k–$8.1M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2020

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's'modern brown rice lifestyle' aims to change the world's eating habits, lifestyles, and sense of values. It sells "Nekase Genmai" via D2C (Direct-to-Consumer), which means that everything from manufacturing to sales is done in-house. Customers are able to experience the deliciousness of "NekaseGenmai" at nine physical stores nationwide, including the "Yuwaeru Main Store" in Kuramae, and by offering "Nekase Genmai" rice packs on its own EC site.
  • 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.
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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: Internet, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Corporate Round, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series B $2.3M–$2.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $446k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cart — Cart allows to purchase wellness products from all over the world while in Japan.
  • naturacart — naturacart is a natural and organic CtoC / BtoC marketplace that sells products selected by buyers around the world and products from overseas brand manufacturers that have not yet arrived in Japan. The lineup ranges from beauty and health care products to wine, food and sportswear. The company sells products mainly for women, and ischaracterized by the ability to purchase foreign-made products that are not yet available in Japan. We have high-quality products carefully selected by manufacturers, distributors, shops and buyers in about 50 countries around the world.
  • 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.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$14M; Series A $354k–$1.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $440k–$2.1M
  • 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 offers a career programme. The users can understand their strengths and make use of them. The company identifies organizational issues for clients to investigate further, as well as issues based on hidden real intentions. The services help users consult with a professional career counsellor online and offer a text programme that isconducted by email, enabling clients to solve career development problems.
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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: Manufacturing, Health Care, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$1.2M; Series A $1.8M–$9.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dwilar — Dwilar is an AI-powered global credit platform that unifies credit data across borders. We provide instant credit assessments, global score conversion, and compliance-driven onboarding to help people access banking, rentals, and loans worldwide.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.
  • 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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$5.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $404k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • 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.
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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 other growing 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:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$7.1M; Series A $913k–$4.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $190k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon — Pickupon is a SaaS product that automatically records and inputs calls.
  • 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.
  • HEARTBEATS — 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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SLD Entertainment
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

SLD Entertainment provides services for planning content as well as food and beverages. They create a number of brands, such as the Kawara Cafe and Dining brand, that are appropriate for the setting and property features of the retail space. In the cafe-diner business structure, in addition to restaurants, there are various company types. Theyprovide production services, collaboration stores, event-specific stores, and event management.

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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: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 689
  • Round size: Seed $470k–$16M; Series A $1.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $525k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Smart Craft —
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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: Internet, Information Technology, News
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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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, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$19M; Venture - Series Unknown $751k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2021

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.
  • RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
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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: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.3M; Series A $1.9M–$8.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $655k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Irori — Irori blends online and offline spaces, supporting creators and new projects with platform models and sustainable growth.
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Sagin Capital & Consulting
VC Fund · Saga, Saga, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Sagin Capital & Consulting is the venture capital arm of The Bank of Saga.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$5.7M; Series B $2.4M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $117k–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Medteria — Medteria is a medtech startup developing pathology AI. It is the provider of the “Medteria” communication cloud platform for healthcare professionals and medical students.
  • EUV Photon — EUV Photon is an irradiation services company that conducts processing, evaluation, and measurement of materials for EUV lights.
  • KUZEN — KUZEN provides enterprise-grade chatbot technologies, especially the bot framework and NLP, via a visual UI without coding. The company is utilizing technology to develop a system that broadens the scope of dialogue. They use technology to provide their customers with next-generation standard procedures that broaden the possibilities ofconversation, resulting in unprecedented business practices.
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Ryugin research Institute
VC Fund · Naha, Okinawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web Design, Web Development, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $267k–$679k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M; Series A $1M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $944k–$9.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Rentio — Rentio is a site that can be used anytime without buying 1,000 kinds of cameras and the latest home appliances.
  • 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.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$30M; Series B $723k–$170M; Venture - Series Unknown $457k–$4.6M
  • 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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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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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 and future business. The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before [pivoting to venture capital in 2014](https://www.techinasia.com/beenos-new-japan-incubator-accelerator-venture-capital-program-hiro-maeda).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$2.1M; Series A $1.9M–$13M; Series B $2.3M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2C, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $544k–$1.8M; Series A $1.2M–$1.7M; Series B $1.5M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recri — Recri works for the entertainment industry and specializes in operations management tasks like ticketing for stage, film, and music shows.
  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
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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:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$28M; Series A $921k–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $547k–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
  • Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.
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Salesforce
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It is a cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. They design and develop cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. They focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$6.6M; Grant $25k–$400M; Series A $973k–$414M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • HiBob — Streamline HR, Payroll & Finance with HiBob. Automate processes with Bob to cut the noise. Just Enough Thinking, just the right results.
  • Current AI — Join a global initiative building open, fair AI technology that serves the public interest. Through collaboration and local action, we're creating AI solutions that benefit everyone.
  • Wonderful — AI for the Bold Enterprise
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 327
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$9.6M; Series A $1.2M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $899k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
  • Spectronix — Spectronics is a development of new technologies and new applications to bring about innovation, focusing on the future of laser technology.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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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: Food and Beverage, Content, Cooking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
  • 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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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, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $447k–$3.8M; Debt Financing $274k–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $971k–$13M
  • 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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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: Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$683k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.1M in 2015

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 $458k–$466k
  • 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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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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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, E-Commerce, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$85M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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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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: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Japan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$107M; Series A $921k–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $138k–$27M
  • 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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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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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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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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Mercari
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Restaurants startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Restaurants VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 110 deals from 171 investors.

171
investors
in Japan Restaurants startups
110
deals
in Japan Restaurants startups
$2.9M
median round
in Japan Restaurants startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Venture - Series Unknown
most common funding stage

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