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Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Japan Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
5 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Internet, Apps $700k–$213M
Masao Ito
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Content, Social Media, Information Technology $661k–$17M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
4 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Internet $690k–$33M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
3 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$43M
Shuuichi Wada
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Content, Social Media $1.7M–$4.3M
Shogo Kawada
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Apps $360k–$14M
Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Pre-Seed News, Social Media, Big Data $680k–$2.8M
Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel Internet, Information Technology, Content $455k–$30M
Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Content, Education $272k–$17M
Jun Nishikawa
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources $968k–$71M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series B Social Media, Content, CRM $1.7M–$4.1M
Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
2 Japan, Myanmar Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Social Media, SNS
Christine Herron
Angel
2 United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Social Media, Personalization $1.3M–$21M
Koki Yabu
Angel
2 Japan Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Finance, Data Mining $1.7M–$3M
Makoto Takano
Angel
1 Japan, Philippines Seed, Series B, Angel Apps, Sports, Content $735k–$221M
Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel
1 Japan Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
Masashige Obara
Angel
1 Japan Seed Education, E-Learning, SNS $14M–$21M
Sagehashi Yuki
Angel
1 Japan Angel, Seed Content, FinTech, Finance
Kenji Yabuno
Angel
1 Japan Angel Art, Social Media, Product Design
Richard Chen
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, Software, Advertising
Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Content, Fashion
Suzuki Yuto
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Social, Content
Otani Hiroshi
Angel
1 Japan Series A Content, Outsourcing, Social Media
Masashi Mizunaga
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Akira Saigo
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Takeshi Aoki Yamato
Angel
1 Japan Seed Social Media, Digital Media, Social Network
Yusuke Akiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
1 Japan Series A, Seed, Angel Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $3.5M–$33M
Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel
1 Japan, Germany Seed, Angel Shopping, Apps, Travel
Hikaru Kashida
Angel
1 Japan Seed Consulting, E-Learning, Communities $411k–$9.7M
Cheng Tao
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Telecommunications, Content, Internet
Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, E-Commerce $480k–$11M
Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Content, Fashion, FinTech $380k–$47M
Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Beauty, Events, Apparel $453k–$28M
Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, Software, Web Design $6M–$18M
Chihiro Asano
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Content, FinTech, Financial Services $733k–$14M
Hajime Hotta
Angel
1 Japan, Thailand, Singapore Seed Q&A, FinTech, Finance $14k–$12M
Takashi Shibayama
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming $553k–$5.8M
Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Consulting, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing $482k–$7.5M
Daiki Ichikawa
Angel
1 Japan Seed Music, EBooks, Gaming
Masato Shibata
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Content, Social Media
Dai Tamesue
Angel
1 Japan Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Sports, Health Care
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet
Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Content, Internet $420k–$354M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
1 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
Yusuke Ando
Angel
1 Japan Series A Content, Education, Social Media
Masaru Tange
Angel
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
Hayama Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Seed SNS, Beauty, Medical
Nishiki Takashi
Angel
1 Japan Angel Content, Education, Social Media
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$41M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Masao Ito
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$17M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $690k–$33M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$43M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • Rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
  • Spider Labs — Spider AF is an ad fraud detection tool that detects, blocks, and protects web advertisements from fraudulent clicks and conversions. Advertisers can easily detect fraudulent activity across published ads using centralized fraud management and advanced automation. Spider AF provides complete transparency in digital advertising, allowing advertisersto track ad placement, identify fraudulent behaviors, and analyze clean - fraud-free data.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$14M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Chain — D-Chain offers services related to IT development and production in the Web3 and Web2 fields.
  • Rayout — Rayout is a business consulting company that provides creative content development, recruitment videos, and web production services.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $457k–$17M; Pre-Seed $272k–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$70M; Angel $2.8M–$8.5M; Series A $15M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Travel Company Overview Reiwa Travel is a digital travel agency with the mission to "Design New Travel Experiences." We aim to offer innovative experiences and new societal value in international travel. Since April 2022, we have been offering the international travel booking app 'NEWT'. Our goal is to maximize the digitaltransformation (DX) of booking and management tasks in the travel industry, providing unprecedented “easy, affordable, customizable, and secure” package tours. We are committed to creating social value through the experience of international travel.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT' Service Overview 'NEWT' is an international travel booking app designed to create new travel experiences for new era. It offers an easy booking process, achieves cost-effective pricing, creates customizable trips that meet individual needs, and provides the security that makes travelers feel they made the right choice with NEWT.International Travel Booking App 'NEWT': https://app.adjust.com/iidu9wiWeb version 'NEWT': https://newt.net/
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
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Daisuke Kajiwara
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Daisuke Kajiwara - Director, CTO and Director of CHECK Company @ Every Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Content, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • Rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
  • bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
  • Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
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Christine Herron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Christine Herron is an early-stage investor and diversity advocate, and co-leads the Intel Capital Diversity Fund while leading investments in early-stage companies. She is responsible for diversity investing across Intel Capital sectors, to support technology companies founded or run by women, underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ, or veterans. AtIntel, Christine's direct portfolio includes 500 Friends (ACQ: Merkle), betaworks, Brit Media, E la Carte, Funders Club, Goldbely, Jelli, Movable Ink, SmartZip, Storenvy (ACQ: OpenSky), Two Bit Circus, and Yummly (ACQ: WHR), and Intel Education Accelerator companies Comprendio, Immersed Games, Sutori, and Vidcode.Previously, Christine was an investor with seed stage venture fund First Round Capital, working with Better Finance, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction (ACQ: Sprinklr), Mint (ACQ: INTU), and Xobni (ACQ: YHOO). At Omidyar Network, she developed the Media and Web 2.0 practice strategy and led deals such as Common Sense Media and Socialtext.At Geocapital Partners, Christine focused on early Internet and network technology, leading Series A funding for AXON Networks (ACQ: 3COM), D-Vision (ACQ: ADSK), FocusVision (MBO), Netcom (IPO: NETC), and ViaGrafix (IPO: VIAX). Christine was also a founder or early employee at GiftWorks (ACQ: FrontStream), Mercury2, and NetObjects (IPO: NETC).Christine earned an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Columbia University. She is a founding advisor or mentor to 500 Startups, Bullpen Capital, and StartX, and serves on Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Board of Directors. She is active on @christine and a frequent speaker.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Social Media, Personalization
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $10M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roominate — Playing with the W77 online game site can certainly produce crazy jackpots to riches
  • Soldsie — Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $1.7M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobcast Group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
  • SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
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Makoto Takano
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $735k–$2.1M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
  • Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

DescriptionYoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tential — With the power of AI, TENTIAL analyzes detailed purchasing behavior and attributes online and aim to deliver its customers' products based on their own information.
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Masashige Obara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masashige Obara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, SNS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $14M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lang-8 — Lang-8 is the best place for learning and practicing foreign languages. Post an entry in the language you are learning, then a native speaker will correct your entries. Currently there are more than 80 languages available on Lang-8.
  • LanCul — LanCul is an education based start up.
  • TIGALA — TIGALA is deployed M & A services
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Sagehashi Yuki
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Sagehashi Yuki

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DariaMe — DariaMe is a web media planning, development and operation, planning and production of various contents, online consultation service.
  • BrainCat — BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.
  • Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Kenji Yabuno
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kenji Yabuno is a Founder & CEO at Cookbiz Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Social Media, Product Design
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ARTLOGUE — ARTLOGUE is an arts tech company that innovates in the art industry through technology. It is also a social art media that works to solve social problems that make use of art. It was established on July 7, 2017.
  • Replace — Replace operates " STAND3.0" that matches the opening of stalls and idle spaces.
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Richard Chen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Richard Chen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Farel — Run your airline on one platform. Farel unifies PSS, IBE, DCS, and B2B with a built-in AI assistant to grow direct sales and automate ops. Get a personalized demo and pricing.
  • Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
  • Kinnek — Potential customers are looking for reasons to trust your company, and they want third-party sources to vouch for you. Kinnek helps suppliers like you build a world-class online reputation and easily share it. Because when you win more trust, more prospects become loyal customers.
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Suzuki Yuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Otani Hiroshi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Otani Hiroshi is the Outside Director at aucfan Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Outsourcing, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
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Masashi Mizunaga
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
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Akira Saigo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Akira Saigo - Professional officer @ Recruit Technologies Japan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
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Takeshi Aoki Yamato
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Takeshi Aoki Yamato is the Representative Director of Capital Medica Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Digital Media, Social Network
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Chipee — Chipee is a social networking platform that enables its users to send digital gratitude in the form of chips.
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Yusuke Akiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Yusuke Akiyama is a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Tsunezawa Kahoko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shopping, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menew — Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
  • Valise — Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.
  • Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $411k–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer offers a career programme. The users can understand their strengths and make use of them. The company identifies organizational issues for clients to investigate further, as well as issues based on hidden real intentions. The services help users consult with a professional career counsellor online and offer a text programme that isconducted by email, enabling clients to solve career development problems.
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Cheng Tao
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Telecommunications, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Girasol Energy — Girasol Energy is an IoT Platform provides innovative PLC technologies that enable wiser PV Plants.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
  • One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Events, Apparel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $453k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Chihiro Asano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$14M; Angel $733k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
  • Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
  • Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
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Hajime Hotta
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Hajime is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor with a strong academic background in artificial intelligence (AI) and AI web applications. Received Ph.D with a study of neural networks.Hajime started coding when he was 12 years old and implemented his first AI code at 14 years old, which automatically correct simple grammaticalmistakes. He was the inventor and product lead of AI-backed Ad Tech at Cirius Tech, which was acquired by Yahoo Japan, and also a CTO at NakedTech, which was sold to Mixi Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Thailand, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nishika — Nishika provides a data science competition, Q&A and recruitment platform.
  • Beeketing — ShopBase is the best eCommerce platform specialized for modern businesses with easy setup, no risk, free for 14 days. Dropshipping, Print-on-Demand, Online Brand, Content Creator.
  • Deepscope — ALWAYS INVEST IN THE BEST COMPANIES - Your AI powered stock research and portfolio management platform
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Takashi Shibayama
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Takashi Shibayama

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $553k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
  • AtHearth — AtHearth is a real estate agency offering specialized services for expats in Tokyo. Find Out More.
  • Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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Kunihiro Tanaka
Angel · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Kunihiro Tanaka is a President/CEO of Sakura Internet Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$1.1M; Series B $1.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
  • Tooon — Tooon Inc. is a technology company that deals with development and operations of business management tools .
  • Acompany — Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing.
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Daiki Ichikawa
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Daiki Ichikawa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, EBooks, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FOWD — FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.
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Masato Shibata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masato Shibata

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
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Dai Tamesue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • SAMURAI Security — SAMURAI Security is a best support tech company.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$68M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grafto
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
  • OPERA TECH
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Yusuke Ando
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

YUSUKE ANDO is a Outside Director at hachidori.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FLIGHTS — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
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Masaru Tange
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • EMET Creation — Vimet is a video app that allows you to instantly watch your favorite topic videos.ViMET offers high-quality video content that is currently talked about, Realizing a world where everyone can see, by providing new services, Restructure the power relationships of all players involved in existing video
  • S-Mat — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
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Hayama Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Hayama Takashi - Outside Director @ Eco Style

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SNS, Beauty, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MedPeer — MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians.
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Nishiki Takashi
Angel · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nishiki Takashi - Outside Director @ aucfan Co.,Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Social Media Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 57 deals from 81 investors.

81
investors
in Japan Social Media startups
57
deals
in Japan Social Media startups
$6M
median round
in Japan Social Media startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.

Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.

All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.

Can I download investor list?

To download the Social Media Angel Investors in Japan investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.

You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.

Can I access investor database?

To access all 81 angel investors investing in Japan Social Media startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.

Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.

The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

You can enrich with email and download the data.

Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?

Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.

What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
  • download

All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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