Top 20 Social Impact VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
• Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
• xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Portfolio highlights

• Nose ID —
• Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
• CommerceX Holdings — CommerceX Holdings is a DX infrastructure company group that uses technology to replicate retail growth, drawing on on-site knowledge gained from running its own businesses.

Portfolio highlights

• MamaWell —
• FastLabel — FastLabel's mission is to become an infrastructure that solves the problems and accelerate the practical application of AI.
• Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.

Portfolio highlights

• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Metalogos — Metalogos operates a public stock information service. It provides individual investors with easy-to-understand and unambiguous information regarding public offerings.
• Kinolights — Kinolights is a movie rating and recommendation services provider.
• Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.

Portfolio highlights

• Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
• bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
• Meson — Meson Tokyo provides Games, Entertainment, AR, software, game basic technology, application development, VR & AR.

Portfolio highlights

• Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
• PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
• RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.

Portfolio highlights

• Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
• CELLORB — CELLORB provides player management, sports event planning, and event management services.
• Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.

Portfolio highlights

• EEFUL — EEFUL is a social venture firm that focuses on providing digital content and services for seniors, including recreational programs.

Portfolio highlights

• xxxxnese — xxxxnese is a logistics company that focuses on import, export, domestic sales, influencer marketing, and software development businesses.
• Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
• Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.

Portfolio highlights

• CLACK — CLACK provides digital, AI, and career education programs for junior and senior high school students facing challenges such as financial hardship, caregiving responsibilities, bullying, single-parent households, chronic absenteeism, and developmental disorders. It operates creative hubs in Osaka and Tokyo that offer safe spaces, digital equipment,and mentoring. The organization runs programming and AI trial workshops, Tech Runway and Tech Runway+ three‑month courses, the Be Pro pre-employment program, and quest, an IT outsourcing program for alumni. It also delivers mirAI for Japan, an AI training program for high school teachers, and manages a laptop donation and reuse initiative for students. Funding comes from donations, partnerships, and in-kind contributions such as used PCs.

Portfolio highlights

• Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• ByWill — ByWill creates and distributes environmental value while eventually becoming carbon neutral.
• KUROFUNE —
• SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.

Portfolio highlights

• VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
• Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
• ForestFolks — ForestFolks Provider of forest management and conservation services aimed at protecting forestry and the environment.The company exploits and successfully employs the forest's CO2 absorption potential and conserves and recovers forest resources and biodiversity, allowing for regulatory compliance and supporting environmental protection.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• Pictoria — Pictoria produce total events for entertainment.They handle a wide range of events, from talk events to events using advanced technologies such as 3D motion capture.
• Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
• 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.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
• Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
• Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• LiftBase — LiftBase is revolutionizing the recruiting structure using AI and social data.
• MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
• Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.