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Top 50 Retail VC Funds in Japan

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Retail startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail VC Funds in Japan

Investor	Retail Japan investments
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	4
Mizuho Capital	4
DBJ Capital	3
ENEOS	2
Coral Capital	2
Toppan Printing	2
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	2
SMBC Venture Capital	2
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners	2
Energy & Environment Investment	2
VOYAGE VENTURES	2
TIS Japan	1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures	1
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation	1
MT Partners	1
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority	1
KEPPLE Capital	1
KOZOCOM	1
Money Forward Venture Partners	1
Tottori Capital	1
GURUNAVI	1
Wing Capital Partners	1
Agribusiness Investment Development	1
STRIVE	1
B Dash Ventures	1
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	1
ANOBAKA	1
Yokohama Capital	1
MUFG Bank	1
SHIKIGAKU	1
Kyodo News Digital	1
Mandra Capital	1
Light Street Capital	1
Culture Convenience Club (CCC)	1
Kewpie Corporation	1
Chushin Venture Capital	1
JAFCO Group	1
Accord Ventures	1
Future Venture Capital	1
Mizuho Bank	1
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan	1
Daiwa Corporate Investment	1
Orient Corporation	1
ECHO TRADING	1
ABC Dream Ventures	1
Ardian	1
Asukanet	1
TD Investment	1
Dai-ichi Life	1
Incubate Fund	1

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Yoriso — Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”.Yoriso was founded in 2009 and isheadquartered in Tokyo.
Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.

DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cellusion — Cellular technology breakthrough for clear vision of the future.
Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.
Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

Website of ENEOS.

Investment focus

Energy, Robotics, Solar
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ample — Ample is a new energy delivery solution for electric vehicles. It uses Modular Battery Swapping to deliver 100% charge to any EV in a few minutes.
Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.
Ubiquitous Energy — Ubiquitous Energy is the world leader in transparent photovoltaics. Its award-winning technology is the world’s only truly transparent solar product. UE technology harvests solar energy and serves as an invisible, onboard source of electricity for a variety of end products. The thin coating can be applied to the surface of windows glass to provideelectricity generation and energy efficiency while remaining visibly indistinguishable from the fully transparent standard windows on the market today. Originally spun out of MIT, Ubiquitous Energy is now producing its highly transparent, efficient solar cells and windows in its production facility in Silicon Valley.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Facilo — Facilo is a real estate communication cloud that offers unifies and visualizes the complex communication of real estate brokerage solutions.
HQ Inc — Hq is a consutling firm that works in the area of personnel organization strategy, working style office strategy and software development.
Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. provides commercial printing and related services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Information & Networks, Living Environment, and Electronics. The Information & Networks segment provides commercial printing services for posters, catalogs, pamphlets, flyers, calendars, pop materials, and gifts, as well asoffers design and event services, sales promotion planning, multimedia related activities, and database and network system design and operation services; and publications printing services magazines and books, as well as CDROMs, DVDs, and other electronic publications. It also offers securities, such as stocks, bonds, gift certificates, and product coupons; cards comprising magnetic cards and prepaid cards; and develops and designs IC card systems, IC tag systems, and security management systems. This segment supplies various business form services, including direct mail, integrated slips, data print services, cards, envelopes, catalogs, and sales and maintenance of equipment. The Living Environment segment offers a range of packaging services, such as packaging planning, development, and production; development and production of packaging materials; design and production of packaging related system equipment; filling services; and packaging consulting. It also provides decorative paper/film, wallpaper, flooring materials, interior materials, and exterior materials. The Electronics segment offers display products that include color filters for LCDs, shadowmasks, screens for micro-display rear projection TVs, and functional films; and semiconductor products comprising photomasks, leadframes, printed wiring boards, substrates for semiconductor packages, design of printed wiring boards, LSI circuits, printed wiring, and performance assessment software. The company has a strategic alliance with AU Optronics Corp. Toppan Printing was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series B
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Chai — Chai empowers small businesses centered on EC. It provides end-to-end e-commerce services that everyone can enjoy and continue to use in order to unlock the great potential of Japan's many small businesses.
Toreta — Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, andaccepts reservations through the internet.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Industrial-X — INDUSTRIAL-X provides business consulting, structure transformation support, DX human resource development, solution procurement support, and BPO solutions. Their customers inquiries are addressed through online applications.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
RECOTECH — RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.

Hakuhodo DY Media Partners is committed to designing media strategies that build value for media and produce more effective communication.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Advertising, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nyle — Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses.
BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
stepdays — stepdays is a media management, Contents production, Consulting, wholesale, retail, and other related businesses.stepdays aim to contribute to the bottom-up of the entire industry.

Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Internet of Things
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.
DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Content
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, China, Germany

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.

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series C, Seed
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Credify — Credify serviceX enables digital ecosystem operators to offer attractive and contextual financial services, built on top of a verified digital identity platform
Pixmoving — PIX Moving develop and manufacture the next-gen smart vehicles powered by its proprietary Ultra-skateboard chassis platform. PIX is an innovator and global leader of groundbreaking smart connected vehicles. Based on the research and development of PIX Ultra-skateboard chassis platform, a wide range of purpose-built robo-vehicles, commercialvehicles and passenger cars can be built and developed. Currently PIX products have expanded to 20 countries around the world and the company is growing rapidly. With the modular architecture, PIX products are more smart and flexible, covering 30+ application scenarios worldwide, which makes PIX a full-stack autonomous driving company with the most versatile scenario solutions. Moreover , PIX has developed the award-winning large-scale in-house metal 3D printing system, the dieless forming system as well as the real-time manufacturing. Combined with its patented vehicle generative design algorithms, PIX is capable of reducing vehicle parts and the assembly work by 70%, which enables easier maintenance and meanwhile disrupts the automotive industry from design to manufacturing, beaconing the next-generation of smart vehicle production.
Aino Indonesia — Aino Indonesia is a payment processing company and system integrator for public transportation.

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital, and other credit-related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries, and affiliates in the various businesssegments.It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. As of the year 2009, SMBC was the second largest bank in Japan in terms of assets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
Adani Green Energy — Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) is developing a renewable portfolio of 25 GW by 2025 which includes wind power, solar power, and hybrid power projects.
GreenCell Mobility — GreenCell Mobility offers clean, cost-effective, and on-demand shared e-mobility solutions.The company is incubated to be a leading pan-India shared electric mobility player, by leveraging proven global experience, developments in e-mobility technology, and the Government of India’s strong push for electrification of transportation in India. Itis backed by EverSource Capital, the fund manager of the Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF).GreenCell Mobility was founded in 2019 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Energy
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.

Investment focus

Energy, Retail, Renewable Energy
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Trende — TRENDE is an online renewable energy retailer selling electricity to residential customers in Japan via its Ashita Denki (https://ashita-denki.jp/) and Hot Denki (https://hotdenki.jp) service websites. TRENDE expects its Ashita Denki and Hot Denki services to accelerate the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan. Atwhich point, the company aims to leverage blockchain technology to create a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace for producers and consumers of renewable energy. Investors include Tokyo Electric Power, Itochu, Idemitsu Showa Shell and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). The company is led by serial entrepreneurs, Jeffrey Char and Tadatoshi Senoo and takes an environmentally responsible approach to provide consumers with clean and affordable energy. For more information, please visit http://trende.jp/.

KEPPLE Capital is a venture capital firm that supports the growth of startups.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Content
Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
Ascenders — Ascenders is a sports human resources business platform.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.

KOZOCOM is developing business utilizing the latest Internet technology.

Investment focus

Fruit, Retail, Wholesale
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Wellness, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.

Tottori Capital is the provider of management consulting and financial services.

Investment focus

Shipping, Marketing, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
ByWill — ByWill creates and distributes environmental value while eventually becoming carbon neutral.
Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.

Gurunavi provides an online platform that enables users to find restaurants in Japan.

Investment focus

Content, Education, E-Learning
Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.

Wing Capital Partners is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Virtualization, Virtual Reality, Telecommunications
Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company

Agribusiness Investment Development is a venture capital firm that offers agriculture investment for agricultural corporations. It was established in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, B2B
Series A, Series B, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, India

Portfolio highlights

G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Miresso — Miresso is a startup firm that offers nuclear fusion power generation services through natural resources.
Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.

ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.
Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
Yoriso — Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”.Yoriso was founded in 2009 and isheadquartered in Tokyo.
Iwaya Giken — Iwaya Giken manufactures and sells gas balloons, airtight cabins, and other space-travel equipment.

MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank. ; MUFG

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Japan, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
Ascend Money — Ascend Money is a fintech startup company that delivers e-payment and micro-lending products.
Zenobe Energy — Discover Zenobe. Our vision: enable the transition to zero-carbon, non-polluting power and transport systems through the innovative use of battery storage.

SHIKIGAKU is an organization management theory based on a unique theory focusing on the behavior of thinking.

Investment focus

Retail, Payments, Software
Corporate Round, Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
White Seed — White Seed provides a car wash service and polish to realize a coating to bring out the originality of used cars, as well as an e-commerce site that handles cleaning agents, allowing car owners to have their cars cleaned and polished at a low cost.
Treasury — Treasury delivers extensive electronic contract and commercial transaction services.

Kyodo News Digital distributes news and builds systems in the digital field such as news sites and signage.

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .

Mandra Capital is an investment holding company focused on early stage and growth opportunities in internet, materials, pharmaceuticals and technologies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mandra-capital-2#sthash.OUzqU6qX.dpuf

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

RomDefi — Our company is engaged in the development of software in the field of blockchain technology. We are currently working on nft game Rich Hens.
Order Handler — Order Handler is a E-commerce Start Up based in Shanghai.
Keo Technology Group — Keo Technology Group is an ed-tech startup that aims to create innovative solutions for the education industry. Through its many products, Keo Plus and Dash, we are on a mission to transform career discovery and upskilling through providing an inclusive ecosystem built and sustained by the students, teachers, and supporters. Backed by AminoCapital(early-investors of Chime Bank, Zoom, Webflow) and Mandra Capital, we are a team of curious, ambitious, and bold individuals with a common vision: Learn and Redefine. We promote a culture of life-long learning and positive transformation, hoping to empower everyone to achieve their daring dreams. Dash is our skill-sharing marketplace. We believe that everybody has skills that can empower others. Dash seeks to make education more fun through a unique incentive scheme built on common prosperity. Start earning as a teacher, student, investor, or supporter; learn and earn without boundaries!

Light Street Capital Management is an investment management firm located in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests globally in public and private equity markets with a focus on technology and media sectors. Core areas of investment focus are social media, cloud computing, e-commerce, and sharing economy companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Transportation
Series D, Secondary Market, Series C
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Clari — Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipeline, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn.Clari was founded by Venkat Rangan and Andy Byrne in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Ambulnz — Ambulnz is an ambulance service provider that utilizes disruptive technology in delivering medical transportation services. It exists to improve the lives of EMTs, make it easier for caregivers to schedule ambulances and provide the best medical transportation service for patients.
Cellebrite — Cellebrite is a global company known for its technological breakthroughs in the cellular industry.Cellebrite develops advanced mobile data solutions, enabling the extensive use and management of mobile phone data to provide value for two distinct business divisions: mobile lifecycle and mobile forensics. In the mobile lifecycle division,retailers and operators can offer customers unique in-store phone-to-phone content transfer, backup and restore; in-store and remote diagnostics and repair avoidance; application and content delivery; automated BuyBack and secure device Wipe. In the mobile forensics division, our data extraction, decoding, analysis and reporting solutions support law enforcement, military, intelligence, corporate security, and eDiscovery agencies in the successful performance of their duties.

CCC plans and operates a comprehensive entertainment business. CCC operates and proposes new lifestyles from multiple platforms, including bookstores, a database marketing business (mainly focused on T Point), and several other new-platform services, both online and offline.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gosleep — Gosleep is a healthfi-focused web3 lifestyle applications. They also provide gamefi, socialfi, and healthfi services. Additionally, they also provide token-rewarded and social gaming-driven system to encourage users to build up healthier sleep behavior's and participation.
SHOWROOM — SHOWROOM provides live performance broadcasts by idols and celebrities in virtual stadiums.
GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON — GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON is a private room-type shared salon where freelance hairdressers and teams gather.

Kewpie engaged in manufacturing, wholesaling, transportation, and warehousing of food products. The company's business center is in China but also expanded in Europe and the United States. Also, strengthen the domestic seasonings business and cut vegetables main future, they will focus on the egg market for business and rush to monetize ofoverseas business. Has been "馳名 trademark" for the first time by the Chinese government as a Japanese food manufacturer.

Investment focus

Retail, Fitness, Wellness
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

FiNC — FiNC combines data analysis, rich content, and social elements to help users log, understand, manage, and improve their health and wellness.
Office de Yasai — 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.
On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

Chushin Venture Capital is a venture capital fund established by Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank.

Investment focus

Retail, Travel, Home Decor
Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
AlphaNavi Pharma — AlphaNavi Pharma specializes in the research and development of new drugs.
DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.

JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Galapagos Japan — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Soxai — Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.
Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
YeLL Japan — YeLL is a company that help transform the organization by making the real sound of employees visible.

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
AALTO HAPS — AALTO HAPS specializes in the development and manufacturing of High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS), specifically the AALTO Zephyr aircraft. This innovative HAPS aircraft is designed for persistent operation in the stratosphere, aiming to enhance global connectivity through direct-to-device, low latency 5G non-terrestrial mobile connections. TheAALTO Zephyr is distinguished by its reliance on solar energy, with secondary batteries for night-time operation, achieving unprecedented endurance and coverage from the stratosphere. AALTO HAPS's mission is to leverage this technology to improve and save lives by offering a new dimension of connectivity.
Akaysha Energy — Akaysha Energy offers full-cycle development for projects including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and renewable energy.

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

Investment focus

Software, Task Management, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Nippon Hydropowtech — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.

Orient Corporation specializes in the sales and distribution of construction materials and information equipment.

Investment focus

Retail, Product Design, Management Consulting
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

LINK-US — Link Us is Contract sales of various devices applying ultrasonic combined vibration and powerful ultrasonic technology

ECHO TRADING provides an array of pet-related goods and services. The Company wholesales pet food and supplies, and operates pet theme park business. Echo Trading also provides pet-related trainings to individuals working in the pet industry in its own school.

Investment focus

Content, Pet, Retail
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Petgo — Petgo is a Social Entrepreneurship company. Petgo are engaged in the pet health business mainly for e-commerce. E-commerce mainly provides pet health products such as veterinary drugs for dogs and cats, dietary foods, and supplements as products that help improve pet quality of life. In addition, as other services,Petgo provide marketing support topet-related manufacturers using pet data and medical treatment services through animal hospitals.
stepdays — stepdays is a media management, Contents production, Consulting, wholesale, retail, and other related businesses.stepdays aim to contribute to the bottom-up of the entire industry.

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.

We are an employee controlled company managing and/or advising more than $125 bn of assets. Our mission is to generate sustainable, long-term returns for our clients, alongside positive social impact that benefits all our stakeholders and society at large.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HR Path — HR Path is a global consultancy with over 500 consultants across North America, Europe and the Middle East, and is solely dedicated to HR Systems Integration, HR Outsourcing, and HR Business Consulting.Co-founded in 2001 by François Boulet and Cyril Courtin, HR Path provides human capital management technology and is an authorized reseller forsoftware solutions in the French market (SAP and SuccessFactors, HR Access, Oracle HCM, Cegid, Sage, Talentsoft). The company has also developed its own HR software solutions, including BiHRdy (a business intelligence decision-making tool), Pandore (a packaged solution for HR, payroll and time management), and Geef (a talent management system).Headquartered in Paris, the company has operations in 13 countries on five continents, employs more than 500 consultants and generates €60 million in annual revenue through its network of agencies in major cities across France and its foreign subsidiaries.The client portfolio includes several CAC 40-listed companies, but also many small and medium-sized enterprises, intermediate-sized firms, and public sector organizations.
UNITe — UNITe provides Independent producer of hydropower. UNITe, an independent producer of hydropower, operates a portfolio of 21 hydroelectricity plants, one of France’s premier independent portfolios, and two wind farms.
Heathrow Airport Holdings — Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport. Around 70 million people pass through our terminals every year. 190,000 every day flying in and out of 90 different countries. They serve 86 airlines including the national carriers British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Right in the heart of the business world. A huge part of the UK economy, on the doorstep ofLondon one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

Asukanet is a digital photo processing service provider company.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Robotics
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AWL — AWL is a company that provides the leading edge AI camera solutions company .
Unirobot — Unirobot is a Development, manufacture, sale of next generation social robot.Development of general embedded software incidental to the above.Research and development on Personal AI (communication of natural language processing,.

TD Investment is a venture capital arm of TORIDOLL Holdings.

Investment focus

Retail, Parking, Automotive
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Akippa — Akippa is a Osaka based parking space reservation app company.
On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

Dai-ichi Life is a private insurance company that provides life insurance and pension products services. It is the second-largest private life insurance company in Japan as measured by total assets as of March 31, 2014.Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-ichi Life was the oldest mutual insurance company in Japan until it was demutualized andlisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 1, 2010.As of March 31, 2014, total assets were ¥37.7 trillion (USD$366.3 billion) on a consolidated basis. Based in Tokyo, Dai-ichi Life has approximately 67,000 employees and 1,345 sales offices throughout Japan. It also has overseas life insurance businesses in Vietnam, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and India as well as offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Investment focus

Health Care, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Japan, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
Wassha — Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
Spectee — Spectee is a online news agency that specializes in curating and publishing real-time social media UGC video. By using artificial intelligence patented by Spectee, It is able to reduce the time taken to analyze and sort social media news content, giving you faster access to the very latest UGC video. Expect video covering both Japanese andworldwide news from accidents and disasters to lifestyle and entertainment. it newsroom is verifying and acquiring licenses of those contents for broadcasters and publishers.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.

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