Top 10 Social Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social impact startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025
| Investor | Social Impact Japan investments |
|---|---|
| ANRI | 2 |
| Z Venture Capital | 2 |
| Taliki | 1 |
| Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union | 1 |
| F Ventures | 1 |
| Japan Finance Corporation | 1 |
| SIIF | 1 |
| Money Forward Venture Partners | 1 |
| Mint | 1 |
| Kiraboshi Bank | 1 |
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
- Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business
- Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Content
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- Tokyo Epic — Tokyo Epic provides planning and development of webtoon, and animation services.
- Chronicle Studios — Chronicle Studios operates as an entertainment company.
Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
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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.
- Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
- CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union is provides financial services.
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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.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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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.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- YTGATE — YTGATE is a payment optimization support SaaS product that can be started by adding a single tag line to a website.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
- Godot — Godot's mission is to “inspire personal and societal growth through human augmentation”. As part of this mission, we are developing a Behavior Intelligence Platform (BIP) that helps enterprises improve UX, CX, and EX by visualizing human behavior principles and making it easy for anyone to implement insights from behavioral science. Thisplatform leverages evidence from behavioral sciences and advanced AI technologies. Our technology has already proven successful in health insurance industries, resulting in significant improvements in customer retention and satisfaction. Our team comprises experts in AI, behavioral science, and industry-specific applications, bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge to our solutions. Together, we are committed to creating a society where everyone can enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life, true to themselves, with the support of Godot's innovative technologies.
SIIF aims to identify and support projects that contribute to the solution of social issues.
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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.
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Wellness, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
- Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
- MagicPod Japan — MagicPod provides an automation cloud service through AI technology. MagicPod was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.
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Investment focus
- Education, Recruiting, Health Care
- Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development 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.
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