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Top 50 Social Media VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
9 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $362k–$113M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$553M
East Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2M–$369M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $4.5M–$425M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $3.1M–$71M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $788k–$68M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $48k–$57M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $933k–$125M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$298M
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $100k–$57M
Venture United
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Colopl Next
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, South Korea Seed, Series A Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$30M
Ceres
VC Fund
3 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet $1.4M–$50M
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Seed Apps, Manufacturing, Software $4.1M–$992M
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series D Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $38k–$780M
PE&HR
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $1.4M–$50M
Okasan Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Medical, Recruiting, Health Care $128k–$92M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $709k–$71M
Freebank
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A CRM, Laser, Sales
aucfan
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, France Series A, Corporate Round E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet $1.4M–$43M
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, Belgium Series A, Series B Content, Medical, Task Management $120k–$113M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.1M–$85M
Suneight Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series A, Series B Internet, Social Media, Content $1.8M–$47M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mobile $709k–$57M
MT Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, Beauty, Energy
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$369M
Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Consulting, Health Care, Information Technology $300k–$21M
Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, South Korea Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $953k–$553M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing $959k–$142M
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.3M–$213M
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$928M
Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, United States Seed, Corporate Round Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content $1.5M–$255M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
31Ventures Global Innovation Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Travel
Shima Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Mercari
VC Fund
1 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Series A Internet, Online Portals, Financial Services
Pavilion Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$300M
Fuji Pacific Music
VC Fund
1 Japan Corporate Round Music, Content, Social Media
Toranomon Impact Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed EdTech, Training
Higin Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
Nagoya TV Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet
Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
Mynavi
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Vietnam Seed, Corporate Round Software, Marketing, Internet
Femto Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B Internet, Communities, Location Based Services
DeNA
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Education, Internet
ORIX Group
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Series A, Corporate Round Software, Social Media, Energy
NEC Corporation
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Israel Series B, Pre-Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Social Media startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$113M; Series B $5.7M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
  • Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
  • Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 513
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Z-Works — "Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave.
  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Round size: Seed $788k–$28M; Series A $1.5M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 49 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $48k–$24M; Debt Financing $536k–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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.
  • Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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Miraidoa
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
  • FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
  • Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $6.4M–$298M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
  • The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .
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TLM
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $11M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Colopl Next
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • SODA — Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.
  • VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
  • Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$39M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $10M–$81M; Series B $4.1M–$992M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Series A $38k–$241M; Series D $7.4M–$780M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
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PE&HR
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$28M; Series A $9.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
  • Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
  • Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
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Okasan Capital Partners
VC Fund · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Okasan Capital Partners is Invest in early-stage venture companies with unique technologies, services, business models and high growth potential, and middle-rater stage companies with a view to listing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Recruiting, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$21M; Series A $128k–$92M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Pittan — PITTAN is a health tech startup that focuses on the development of high-speed analytical equipment for use in the healthcare industry. The company's primary service is to analyze the internal status of an individual's body to promote beautiful and healthy skin. This is achieved through the application of analytical chemistry.PITTAN's services are designed to provide insights into the body's health, which can be used to inform personal care and wellness decisions.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • Xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of ​​creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
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Freebank
VC Fund · Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Laser, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
  • ORENDA WORLD — ORENDA focuses on developing high-definition 3D simulation systems that apply gamification and real-time rendering technology.
  • QD Laser — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
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aucfan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com).The data Aucfan provides both to theconsumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China.By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally.Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial informationto the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement.Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $44M in 2020

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.
  • Yuwaeru — Yuwaeru is a Direct-to-Consumer company
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$85M; Series B $120k–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
  • Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
  • Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
  • Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, Content
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$47M; Series B $1.8M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
  • Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.
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STRIVE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, India, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
  • Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
  • Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
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MT Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
  • Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
  • CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Quantum Leaps Ventures establish and invest in internet and technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$21M; Series A $961k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Dots for — Welcome to Dots for Inc.
  • Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
  • Unyte — Unyte offers an integrated platform that enables technological growth in the field of blockchain, as well as the development and proficient management of DAOs.
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$75M; Series B $7.1M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $959k–$47M; Series A $2.6M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$71M; Series A $1.5M–$85M; Series B $3M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
  • Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
  • Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$213M; Series A $18M–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $419M in 2020

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.
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Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$48M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $824M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
  • MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 69 in the past 12 months

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 457
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
  • HIVED — Looking for a greener, cheaper and better way to send your parcels? All parcels tracked and insured. Same-day, next-day and other options. Contact us today.
  • Things — Things offer product development and various information such as CAD, drawings, parts configuration, and price information.
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31Ventures Global Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

31Ventures Global Innovation Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Travel
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Airporter — Airporter is a tourism agency that offers luggage and baggage delivery services for customers and travelers. The service allows you to complete all transactions from order to settlement on your smartphone. The company plans to strengthen business partnerships with hotels and delivery systems in the future.In June 2019, the company announced thelaunch of tens of millions of fundraising, including BASE Partners, Monex Ventures and Mizuho Capital. The company was founded on November 1, 2017, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • atta — With over 3 million hotels, ryokans, vacation rentals and villas around the world, you can search and compare the best deals for your desired accommodation across various travel booking sites. atta makes it easy to find the best deals! With atta's AI, we calculate the probability that the price of hotel will drop in the future, and we present it to you on the app and Web. If you set "PriceAlert", you will receive notifications in your hands when you get a better deal on your room, so you can save money.
  • Loom Systems — Ensure a smooth, uninterrupted customer experience using Loom Systems' AIOps solution to predict and prevent IT incidents before they impact your bottom line.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
  • Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
  • Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
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Mercari
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Mercari is your marketplace. It's the perfect place to declutter and discover items that are uniquely you. Say 'goodbye' to your old go-tos and 'hello' to one-of-a-kind treasures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Online Portals, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • aMi Inc. — aMi Inc. is a Booking platform for photographers.
  • 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.
  • Infradigital — IDN is the fastest growing B2B school platform in Indonesia, providing data & financial services to thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of students across the country.
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Pavilion Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Pavilion Capital operates as a private equity firm under Temasek Holdings. Pavilion Capital invests primarily in privately owned firms in North Asia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$58M; Series B $170M–$300M; Series C $21M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MainFunc — MainFunc is a technology company building AI‑driven productivity tools, with a focus on enabling users, including knowledge workers and teams, to get real work done via autonomous AI agents. The company’s flagship product is Genspark, an AI workspace that automates tasks by collecting information from web searches, emails, meetings, and calls,processing it through a “Super Agent” that orchestrates many specialized AI sub‑agents, and generating outputs like full reports, slide decks, spreadsheets, or even prototype applications.In addition to productivity automation, MainFunc markets Genspark as an enhanced search and research tool: when users query the web, Genspark generates consolidated, bias‑reduced summaries using multiple underlying large‑language or multimodal models rather than relying on traditional keyword‑based ranking.
  • Eclypsium — Eclypsium's platform enhances supply chain security by incorporating zero-trust in every device, fortifying hardware, firmware, and software.
  • Warung Pintar — Platform digital terpercaya untuk membantu warung tradisional Indonesia tumbuh bersama teknologi.
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Fuji Pacific Music
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Fuji Pacific Music, a music company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab — Lab is a music company that supports artists through digital marketing, aiming to expand fan bases through various strategies like YouTube, social media, concerts, and fashion sales. They prioritize artists' music, personality, concept, and message to foster closer connections between artists and fans.
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Toranomon Impact Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Toranomon Impact Capital provides impact investment in health sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Training
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • MELON — MELON creates mindfulness programs using a scientific methodology and provides them in a specialized studio.
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Higin Capital
VC Fund · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Higegin Capital is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • F.MED — F.MED is a manufacturing company that designs and develops robotic microsurgical devices for the healthcare industry.
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • AMI — AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.
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Nagoya TV Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Nagoya TV Ventures is wholly owned by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, invests in everything from seed to later stage in companies focused on media, entertainment, video, and internet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
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Coconala Skill Partners
VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
  • SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Mynavi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
  • Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.
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Femto Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

The fund will invest in early-stage venture companies in the Internet sector, which are engaged in platform businesses and financial services. The amount of per-company equity investment will be in the range of between ¥10 million ($.098 million) and ¥300 million ($2.95 million). The fund is also characterized by the practical support for growingcompanies that will be provided by Mr. Isozaki. Shinsei Bank will dispatch personnel to the fund in order to jointly assist Mr. Isozaki in order to source venture companies and maximize their corporate value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Communities, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ivry — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tané — Dubai/NYC/Tokyo-based crypto-focused investment research firm. Investing in the Future of Decentralization.
  • Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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ORIX Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

ORIX is a dynamic and diversified enterprise offering a broad range of services. Since its founding in 1964, ORIX has developed a dynamic and diversified portfolio offering a broad range of services. ORIX is a leader in numerous domains including leasing, corporate finance, industrial/ICT equipment, environment and energy, automobile-related,real estate-related, private equity investment and concession, banking, and life insurance businesses.These businesses are inter-related and have their own strengths. By sharing of information and customer base of these diverse ranges of businesses, synergistic effects can be achieved.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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  • Future Family — Our loans for IVF & egg freezing make it easy for you to get started quickly with fertility treatment. Learn more about our Fertility Financing & Loans today!
  • Horizon Robotics — Horizon Robotics is a provider of energy-efficient computing solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) for smart vehicles, with the mission to make human life safer and better. As a pioneer to commercialize embedded passenger-vehicle ADAS and AD products in China, Horizon Robotics is committed to enhancingnext-generation smart driving experiences by integrating hardware and software, including low-power hardware computing solutions and open software development tools. By closely collaborating with a community of partners, Horizon Robotics offers products and services that enable an open ecosystem of smart vehicle transformation.
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NEC Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
  • Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
  • Vibe Video — We are creating the first of its kind ai driven app that will allow creatives to have a critical analysis of their music paired with visuals.
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Social Media VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 251 deals from 338 investors.

338
investors
in Japan Social Media startups
251
deals
in Japan Social Media startups
$17M
median round
in Japan Social Media startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
19%
Seed
most common funding stage

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