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Top 50 Social Media VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 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 $314k–$91M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
8 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $1.8M–$340M
East Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $560k–$38M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $952k–$269M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $2.3M–$269M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, France Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $4.3M–$71M
Genesia Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Health Care $774k–$50M
Ceres
VC Fund
3 Japan, Singapore Seed, Corporate Round Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $3.3M–$50M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$184M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $48k–$28M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $933k–$58M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.9M–$198M
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
TLM
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
MTG Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Marketing $531k–$142M
MT Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, Beauty, Energy
GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.3M–$170M
Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $892k–$64M
Akatsuki Games Inc.
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, United States Seed, Corporate Round Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content $1.5M–$255M
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $172k–$241M
Quantum Leaps Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Malaysia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Consulting, Health Care, Information Technology $300k–$9.2M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mobile $709k–$57M
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Medical $610k–$71M
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Seed Apps, Manufacturing, Software $829k–$170M
PE&HR
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Fashion, Education $474k–$31M
Okasan Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Finance $128k–$92M
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–$78M
Suneight Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Internet, Social Media, Content $924k–$47M
STRIVE
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $800k–$142M
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Belgium Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $4M–$213M
Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, South Korea Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $953k–$553M
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Daikin Industries
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series B, Series A, Corporate Round Internet, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy
giftee
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Debt Financing Marketing, Internet, CRM
BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Germany, Turkey, India Seed, Series A Software, SEO, Automotive
NOW Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Marketing, Software
DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A Content, Ethereum, Education
DOGAN beta
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
GB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership
VC Fund
1 Japan, Israel Series A Video, Mobile, Security
JA Mitsui Leasing
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Series B, Seed Information Technology, Internet of Things, Agriculture
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
TechAccel Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Information Technology, Information Services
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
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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: 293
  • Round size: Seed $314k–$18M; Series A $2.7M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.
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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, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 459
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$115M; Series B $2.4M–$340M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
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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: 464
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$17M; Series A $2.2M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
  • FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
  • Bioma — Media Desa Terkini
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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: 550
  • Round size: Series A $952k–$86M; Series B $4.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • 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.
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
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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, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 553
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$128M; Series B $3.2M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $4.5M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • AstroX — AstroX is a private space startup company that develops satellite launch vehicles for space development. It utilizes the rockoon method for developing launch vehicles and small rockets to help clients easily use space.
  • 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: 220
  • Round size: Seed $774k–$14M; Series A $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $589M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Mage
  • Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
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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, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$39M; Corporate Round $7.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
  • TASIMOVF — TASIMOVF was created by leaders in the blockchain and AI industry to break barriers between the industries that should be symbiotic. After a raise between 20+ companies $TAF has $770,000 to allocate to our first hackathon on Virtuals
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 588
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$99M; Series B $4.3M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
  • iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
  • Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 57 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: 236
  • Round size: Seed $48k–$16M; Debt Financing $266k–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trifa — Trifa is a telecommunications service provider that provides eSIM internet access when traveling internationally.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
  • Epsilon Molecular Engineering — Epsilon Molecular Engineering is a Biotechnology research and development company.
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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: 148
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$30M; Series A $1.2M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Naorai — Naorai is a food and beverage firm that manufactures wine, beer, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
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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: 295
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$170M; Series B $7M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe
  • EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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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: 117
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$14M; 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

  • BitStar — BitStar accelerates potential of video creators with power of proprietary database and technology.
  • 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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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

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • 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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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: 43
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$16M; Series A $2.6M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dwilar — Dwilar is a proptech company that provides AI-powered leasing solutions tailored for international buyers seeking property. Their platform enables users to design flexible lease agreements with the option to own, allowing for property customization and renovation during the lease period. By avoiding dollar-denominated loans, it minimizes currencyexchange risks and offers a streamlined and personalized path to property acquisition.
  • Synflux — Synflux is a fashion lab comprising of fashion designers, software engineers & architects focused on fashion industry.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
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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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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–$41M; Series B $5.2M–$170M
  • 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.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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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: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$64M; Series A $892k–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $419M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • WineBank — "WineBank" is a real-time online wine management and investment solution that we offer. In addition to operating a restaurant, it runs a sales company for food, drink, and other items.
  • LIGHT-RIGHT — LIGHT-RIGHT focused on developing services that help local communities adapt to the challenges of a declining population.
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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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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: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $172k–$241M; Series B $2.8M–$99M
  • 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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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–$9.2M; 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.
  • {RECEIPT}ROLLER — Receiptroller offers services without registration and receives electronic receipts. Receipts can be delivered online, saving people from wasting paper. Electronic receipts are sent to users without registration. Additionally, it receives an electronic receipt with an email, SMS, line, or app address.
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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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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: 256
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$43M; Series A $2.5M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cake.jp — Cake.jp operates "Cake.jp", a comprehensive cake delivery site.
  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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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 $829k–$16M; Series B $4.1M–$170M
  • 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.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
  • NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
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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 $474k–$9.9M; Series A $2.1M–$31M
  • 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: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$17M; Series A $128k–$92M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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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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: 182
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$48M; Series A $3.6M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
  • 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, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $924k–$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.
  • Teatis — Teatis helps save lives through automated video review + coaching workflows integrated with fleet dashcam solutions
  • Thinker — Thinker provides sales of proximity sensors and proposed solutions using these products.
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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: 138
  • 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.
  • Recompound — Recompound is a financial services startup that acts as a personal investment advisor for individuals to grow their stock market portfolios.
  • 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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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: 144
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$128M; Series B $4.2M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
  • Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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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: 73
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$47M; Series B $7.1M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% 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.
  • Jiraffe — jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.
  • 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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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
  • Seajacks — Cadeler is a global leader in offshore wind farm construction, maintenance, and decommissioning.
  • Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
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Daikin Industries
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Daikin Industries, Ltd. is a global leader in the market of commercial and industrial use air conditioning systems, with more than 40% of the market share in Japan and a well-established presence in China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. The company is also one of the leaders in the fluorochemicals industry, with an approximately 20%share of the world market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
  • Fairy Devices — Fairy Devices is providing multilingual speech translation engine for station guidance robots.
  • TeraWatt Technology — Electrifying all for the sustainable future
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giftee
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Internet, CRM
  • Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
  • WAmazing — WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 22 in the past 12 months

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Starform — We believe that the best games are forged in the crucible of player feedback.
  • Appcharge — Sell in-game items directly to your players with our mobile-first webstore solution. No excessive fees, no hassle. Only higher revenue with Appcharge.
  • Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.
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VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

VCDE Venture Partners was started in 2008 in Frankfurt/Germany and is a growth equity investment firm with a clear focus on technology companies in the field of software, the internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.Their main purpose is to build and develop successful growth companies. By partnering with outstandingentrepreneurs and management teams venturecapital.de delivers true value beyond financing and pro-actively works with portfolio companies to accelerate growth.They look for companies, that have a proven business model and through a strong value proposition address large markets and deliver real value to their customers be it consumers or enterprises. Out entrepreneurs‘ fund „venturecapital.de“ is funded by 150 European tech entrepreneurs, founders and industry veterans. It constitutes one of the strongest and most value adding business networks in Europe with an excellent platform for an exchange of expertise and know-how between investors, the fund and its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Turkey, India

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • 123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
  • StalkBuyLove — Shop the most premium and exquisite styles from stalkbuylove.com. Womens Tops, Dresses, Jumpsuits, Co-Ords and Trousers. Shop today and experience SBL2.0.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
  • GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
  • HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
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DD Holdings Venture Capital
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

DD Holdings Venture Capital is the investment arm of DD Holdings, a restaurant and amusement brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Ethereum, Education
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

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

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.
  • Knowledge Merchants Works — Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”.
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DOGAN beta
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
  • Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
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GB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

GB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Mobile, Security
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Israel

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SCADAfence — SCADAfence is the global technology leader in OT & IoT cybersecurity, offering a full suite of industrial cybersecurity products that provides full coverage of large-scale networks, best-in-class network monitoring, asset discovery, governance, remote access, and IoT device security.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
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JA Mitsui Leasing
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet of Things, Agriculture
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
  • LocationMind — LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past.
  • NewGreen — NewGreen is an agricultural service firm that provide services that contribute to improving farmers' incomes in the green market.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups, 16 in the past 12 months

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
  • Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
  • ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit
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TechAccel Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Social Media startups

TechAccel Ventures is a Seed and Early-Stage Venture Capital firm focused on technology startups in Japan. The firm contributes to the development of the Japanese industry by providing investment and support based on a technical perspective.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
  • EAGLYS — EAGLYS provides a platform for secure computing and AI.
  • KOALA Tech — Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.
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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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Social Media VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 263 deals from 363 investors.

363
investors
in Japan Social Media startups
263
deals
in Japan Social Media startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Social Media startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
18%
Seed
most common funding stage

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