Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in Asia in January 2025

Investor	Social Impact Asia investments
MIRAISE	2
1/0 Capital	2
ANRI	2
Z Venture Capital	2
Zayn Venture Capital (Formally Zayn Capital)	1
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union	1
Arya Setiadharma	1
Thunes	1
Kiraboshi Bank	1
Cordoba Logistics & Ventures	1
Tatsuo Sakamoto	1
Taarah Ventures	1
Maiko Kojima	1
Katsuhiro Tamukai	1
Enabling Future	1
GK-Plug and Play Indonesia	1
Money Forward Venture Partners	1
Gan Kapital	1
Arif Habib Corp	1
Taliki	1
Monex Ventures	1
Mamoru Taniya	1
Koichi Noda	1
Kazuhide Hashida	1
Nogle Group	1
Praxis	1
Chantalle Dumonceaux	1
SIIF	1
Building Capital	1
Toru Ei	1
F Ventures	1
EmergeVest	1
Infinity-KBR Group	1
Mint	1
Japan Finance Corporation	1
Insitor Partners	1
Concept Vines	1
Kyung wook Han	1
SparkLabs Group	1
MyAsia VC	1
Japan Finance Corporation	1
Fatima Gobi Ventures	1
Blue Horizon Corporation	1
Kenji Kasahara	1
Takuma Iwai	1
NewMargin Ventures	1
Takashi Okutani	1
Sotaro Karasawa	1
Gerard George	1
Shailesh Rao	1

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Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call

1/0 Capital is a privately held partnership that invests in growth stage companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Span.IO — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
Climb Credit — Climb Credit (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student lending platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever before. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their career potential – no matter what their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools with ademonstrated ability to improve the earnings of their graduates. Then they provide learners with financing options that are priced and structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career elevation and increased earning power.Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of an economy in rapid change, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to pilot training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to coding. While some colleges are struggling to meet the real-world needs of their students, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that brings real career results as individuals Own Their Next chapter.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Hopae — On A Journey To Universal Trust. Finally implement a practical Decentralized Identity Solution.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
Haball — Reimagining the way money flows through the supplychain Haball provides a fully automated alternative to manual order processing, invoicing, reconciliation and paper-based payment methods. An omni channel platform for digitizing payments across the entire supply chain. Fueling supplychain efficiency by providing: Supply Chain Entrenchment Supply Chain Entrenchment Platform for all value-chain partners from large corporates, distributors and retailers. Multiple Industry Verticals Multiple Industry Verticals A single platform customized for industry
Zaraye — Zaraye is a secure, user-friendly B2B platform that facilitates the free exchange of raw materials through a reverse-bidding model. It help the customers get the best prices at the fastest rate while preserving their autonomy to choose suppliers effortlessly. Conversely, It suppliers are guaranteed detailed insights about buyer behaviour, whichaids them in providing tailor-made orders to increase conversions and client satisfaction.

Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union is provides financial services.

Investment focus

B2C, Rental, Wellness
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Mediclo — Mediclo is a real estate company that provides renting, property management, and B2C services.
Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.

CEO at Prasetia Dwidharma

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flokq — Get Room for Rent in Jakarta from Flokq. Looking to Share apartment or monthly rental Coliving Space in Jakarta? Connect with us today!
UpBanx — Upbanx helps to manage money, get financing, grow commercial partnerships, launch digital assets and raise investments.
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Payment infrastructure for a connected world.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Forestry
Seed, Series A
Togo, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gozem — Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.
Handprint — Handprint makes it easy and cost efficient to differentiate your organisation with science-backed impact solutions beyond offsetting.

Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Task Management
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
TrustHub — TrustHub operates an e-commerce marketplace "Clove" that specializes in trading collectibles.
Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.

Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited is principally engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling, and export of textile products.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Recruiting
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

Taarah Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.

Co-Founder and Vice President CTO/CFO at Prime Again Inc.

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.

Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Arab Emirates, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.

GK-Plug and Play Indonesia is an innovation platform that connects startups and corporations. Its goal is to create an ecosystem of change-makers, where all parties involved which include corporations, startups, investors, government entities, regulators, and universities are able to thrive and grow.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
JOBO Interim — JOBO Interim is a staffing agency that recruits employees and provides employment through digital access.
Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future

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

Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
Earth Boat — Earth Boat is an accomodation company that specializes in manufacture, sales, and support services of trailer houses and portable saunas.

Gan Konsulindo is an inter-connected network of leading investment companies.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Resync — An Intelligent Energy Cloud Platform for smart cities and systems with distributed energy sources. Resync uses AI based edge computing and machine learning optimisation to aggregate, analyse and optimize energy generation, distribution and consumption.
Protos Labs — Unify cyber risk data for actionable insights and reduced exposure with the Nexus integrated cyber risk analytics platform by Protos Labs.
Synchronous — Graph data for a distributed, real-time world. The easiest graph data experience for Python developers. Get started today for free.

Arif Habib Corporation Limited primarily engages in the securities and commodities brokerage business in Pakistan and Dubai. The company offers equity and debt brokerage, and corporate finance services to various institutional, corporate, high net worth, and retail clients; and financial and investment solutions relating to raising of equity anddebt, mergers and acquisitions, financial advisory, and structured finance.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.

Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.

Investment focus

Cooking, Retail, Children
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

Koichi Noda - Chief Human Resources Officer @ Works Human Intelligence

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.

Born in Tokyo in 1983. After graduating from Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Engineering, worked at NTT DATA Corporation. He retired after a year and a half and started working as an engineer with almost no experience at Ururu Co., Ltd. After working for 4 years and 3 months, he founded Peraichi Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.

Nogle Group

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Payments
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TNG FinTech Group — TNG FinTech Group pioneers a global social banking platform for e-wallets, financial institutions, and merchants delivering frictionless interoperable real-time fund transfers and instant messaging. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Malawi, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Church Space — Church Space is a platform that provides flexible shared rental options for renters seeking commercial space at an affordable rate. It was launched in 2019 by founder and CEO Day Edwards.
Please Assist Me — One app for all your home management needs. Say goodbye to all of the headache with managing multiple apps, service providers, and arrival times.
Parallel Fluidics — Custom microfluidic devices in 3 days.

Chantalle Dumonceaux

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Arab Emirates, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Melltoo — Best quality & prices for new and used mobiles, computers & laptops, electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, autos. FREE DELIVERY UAE. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Souqalmal — Compare more quote features than ever from top UAE brands at souqalmal.com
OfficeRock — Online e-commerce store specifically built to service small and medium businesses in the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to offer end to end business supply solutions from office supplies, paper, toners, technology, pantry, cleaning and uniforms.

SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Funding Round, Series A, Series D
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
CureApp — CureApp is a digital health startup.The firm is one of the leading players in the medical app vertical under the theme of “app exhibits therapeutic effects against diseases” and launched a nicotine addiction treatment app in February 2015, which was jointly developed with Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University’s School of Medicine. It iscurrently conducting clinical trials in many locations.
kokohore Japan — kokohore Japan offers advertising services intended to help companies sell their products. They provide custom-made promotion planning, provide the content to the media to plan and manage owned media, and assist in product development, providing businesses with the assistance they need to survive.

Building Capital provides technical services for national and local government transport initiatives.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.

Toru Ei is a Kaizen Platform CGO, and Beautydoors CEO.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Women's
Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Detected — Detected fills the critical KYB gap in the payments technology stack. Customers can complete Know Your Business requirements within their own CRM via API.
Lucy — Lucy is a free mobile banking app that allows women to save, spend and budget. Spend online or in stores with the prepaid Mastercard.

Infinity-KBR Group

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Payments
Series A
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TNG FinTech Group — TNG FinTech Group pioneers a global social banking platform for e-wallets, financial institutions, and merchants delivering frictionless interoperable real-time fund transfers and instant messaging. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Video Chat
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Suit Up — Suitup is a project and task management solution that teams can readily utilize regularly. With spreadsheet-like processes, it make teamwork evident and prevents tasks from being neglected or deadlines from being missed.
Sky Link Technologies — Sky Link Technologies specializes in the establishment of new technologies for the improvement of people's convenience.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

aiESG — aiESG offers an AI platform that conducts ESG assessments of supply chains and facilitates an in-depth sustainability evaluation.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Pathfinder — Pathfinder is a research and development company that provides MaaS and delivery vehicle application development services.

Insitor Partners pioneered impact investing as the first impact fund manager to set up operations in Southeast Asia, and a pioneer investor in India and Pakistan. We back entrepreneurs building life-changing solutions for low-income consumers.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, Cambodia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
HROne — HROne helps companies to automate the employee lifecycle. Awarded best cloud-based software in India & trusted by 4+ lacs users across 18+ industries.
Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

ConceptVines offers Consulting and Product Engineering Services focused on disruptive technologies & fueled by progressive startups.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Social Impact
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.

Kyung-wook Han is an Individual Investor.

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.

Founded in 2013, SparkLabs Group comprises of SparkLabs Accelerator, Asia’s premier accelerator network, SparkLabs Global Ventures, a global seed-stage fund; SparkLabs Capital, a late-stage investment vehicle; SparkLabs Ventures, our new early-stage fund for South Korea; and SparkChain, our new blockchain focused early-stage fund.SparkLabs Groupcomprises of SparkLabs accelerator network,Asia’s premier startup accelerators; SparkLabs Global Ventures, a leading seed stage fund; SparkLabs Ventures, a localized early-stage fund (Series A & B) in South Korea; SparkLabs Capital, a late stage investment vehicle.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Pakistan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mahaana — Mahaana is Pakistan’s first digital wealth manager. They make sure your savings are invested in a diversified portfolio best suited for your goals.
Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Global Mortgage Group — Connecting our international clients to our network of lenders around the world. GMG offers financing solutions in the U.S, U.K., France, Canada, Singapore, and Australia.

MyAsia VC

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.
Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.

We focus on technology-enabled businesses that address current pain points in Pakistan’s booming market. From travel and logistics to FinTech and TaqwaTech, our startups are disrupting the industry and changing the way Pakistanis live.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

AdalFi — AdalFi provides digital lending infrastructure services.It identifies, qualifies, engages, activates, and delights lending prospects for our partner banks.
DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
PriceOye — Priceoye is Pakistan's No.1 marketplace for buying original mobile phones and electronics. Priceoye is Pakistan's most trusted online store and offers the lowest prices every day.

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a new Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for investors and the planet.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.

Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.

NewMargin Ventures is a Chinese venture capital management company that supports emerging entrepreneurs.Founded in July 1999, NewMargin Ventures offers a unique and compelling combination of strong local and national government support within an organizational culture defined by independent decision-making, professionalism, and teamwork.NewMargin currently has about $520 million under management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Internet
Series A, Angel, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Humi.com — Humi.com is an industrial Internet service platform.
ZS Robotics — ZS Robotics specializes in technological innovation and the provision of dependable intelligent storage products and solutions.
Shexu Technology — Established in 2020, Shanghai Shexu Technology Co., Ltd. is an AI-driven industrial design software R&D technology enterprise and design service provider. The company has a professional scientific research and technical team, and has independently developed automatic industrial design software based on AI computing engine. The design softwarehas been widely used in the field of automotive industry equipment, significantly improving the design efficiency of industrial machinery designers.

Takashi Okutani Graduated from University of Washington( Seattle WA) 1997 Enter Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. 1997-2000 working at MUJI store in Tokyo Japan 2000-2002 be seconded to trading company called Sanyei Detschland GmbH(cooperated trading company) 2003-2007 working at household division & joined to establish MUJI in-house design office,mainly taking care of the project called World MUJI 2007-2010 working at Apparel Divison. Produced MUJI’s Iconic item called 90 Degree Sock. 2010-2015 General Manager of WEB Business Divison. Produce MUJI passport 2015-Join Oisix as Chief Omni-Channel officer.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.

Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL

Investment focus

Blockchain, Art, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
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.
FRAME00 — FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform. Our product "Dev Protocol" is an open source middleware that fairly evaluates any activity and support sustainability with staking. More innovative way than donating your money.

Gerard George

Investment focus

SaaS, Forestry, Internet
Pre-Seed
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Handprint — Handprint makes it easy and cost efficient to differentiate your organisation with science-backed impact solutions beyond offsetting.

Shailesh Rao

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Khabri — Khabri is a digital audio platform for content in vernacular. Ita app allows content creators to create channels and programmes that reach vernacular listeners. Aankit Roy, Pulkit Sharma, and Sandeep Singh launched the company in Haryana, Haryana in 2016.
Neosec — Neosec API software is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft. Try our API Security platform now.
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