Top 30 Social VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 2026)
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ANRI
VC Fund
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4 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $497k–$115M |
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Spurcle
VC Fund
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2 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Agriculture | $95k–$6.8M |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $560k–$38M |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $610k–$71M |
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Startup Factory
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Sustainability, Apps | $325k–$2.7M |
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aucfan
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, France | Series A, Corporate Round | E-Commerce, Marketing, Internet | $1.4M–$43M |
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Maezawa Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed | Laser, Beauty, Social | |
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Venture Labo Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, South Korea | Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $953k–$553M |
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Taliki
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sustainability, Cooking, Information Technology | $534k–$21M |
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, China, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Content, Medical, Task Management | $120k–$113M |
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Waseda University
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Series B | Social, FinTech, Big Data | |
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $875k–$92M |
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First Light Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Advertising | $553k–$255M |
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UNERI
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Drones, Family, Social | $537k–$2.5M |
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Mint
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing | $283k–$20M |
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KAYAC
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Management Consulting, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $2.1M–$3.6M |
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Kepple
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Legal, Accounting, Construction | ||
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, India, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $102k–$59M |
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Hakuhodo DY Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Australia, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.8M–$156M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $1.2M–$269M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $645k–$43M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2.3M–$269M |
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Kodansha
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Corporate Round, Series C | Software, Content, Fashion | $4M–$170M |
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WERU Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $1.5M–$64M |
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Internet | $1.8M–$340M |
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KDDI Open Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $1.3M–$553M |
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ON & BOARD
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Fuel, SaaS | $455k–$455k |
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Makuake
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage | $79k–$68M |
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Shochiku Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Sales, Space Travel, Manufacturing | ||
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.4M–$184M |
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Spurcle is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $645k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $95k–$700k; Series A $964k–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.
- Lx Design — Lx Design is an application that connects schools with people who wants to work as a teacher.
- ForestFolks — ForestFolks Provider of forest management and conservation services aimed at protecting forestry and the environment.The company exploits and successfully employs the forest's CO2 absorption potential and conserves and recovers forest resources and biodiversity, allowing for regulatory compliance and supporting environmental protection.
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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- 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
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 254
- Round size: Seed $610k–$43M; Series A $2.5M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
- 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.
- 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.
Startup Factory is a startup fund that provides one-stop support to startups.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sustainability, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $325k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BEFFY — Babiew is Japan's first ranking and review site focused in baby products.
- Ecmile — Ecmile is a women's garment business that provides things with a focus on sophisticated design and production tales, under the premise of "a favorite piece you want to wear every year, even as an adult."
- Carstay — Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy.
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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- 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.
The Maezawa Fund is a joint-stock company that invests in entrepreneurs and organizations whose business themes are “solving social issues” and “pursuing hobbies,” and is based on Yusaku Maezawa’s personal assets. It was established for the purpose of investing 100 million yen.
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- Industry: Laser, Beauty, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- YUKASHIKADO — Yukasikado is developing a business on the axis of nutrition that supports the health of the body.
- ARIGATO BANK — Arigato Bank offers financial services, with a focus on solving social issues.
- Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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- 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.
Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
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- Industry: Sustainability, Cooking, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $534k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
- Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
- ForestFolks — ForestFolks Provider of forest management and conservation services aimed at protecting forestry and the environment.The company exploits and successfully employs the forest's CO2 absorption potential and conserves and recovers forest resources and biodiversity, allowing for regulatory compliance and supporting environmental protection.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Waseda University is a Tokyo-based private university that offers various degree programs. As the second private university to be founded in Japan, Waseda University is considered to be one of Japan's most prestigious universities, consistently ranking amongst the top universities in Japanese university rankings. The University has manynotable alumni in Japan, with seven Prime Ministers of Japan and many CEOs, including Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO and wealthiest man in Japan.Waseda University's main campus is located in the Nishi-Waseda district of Shinjuku. Apart from the main campus in Shinjuku, It has other campuses around the country, including Toyama Campus and Nishi-Waseda Campus in Shinjuku; Nihonbashi Campus in Chuo-ku; Higashifushimi Campus in Nishitokyo; Tokorozawa Campus in Tokorozawa; Honjo Campus in Honjo, Saitama; and Kitakyushu Campus in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka.The university has more than fifty thousand students and staff, comprising 13 undergraduate schools, 23 graduate schools, and other research and affiliated institutes, and is one of the 13 universities in the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's ""Global 30"" Project. It has partnerships with more than 600 universities and tertiary institutions, with many international students studying abroad at Waseda University each year.Established in 1882 as the Tōkyō College by Okuma Shigenobu, the school was renamed Waseda University in 1902 after the founder's hometown village.
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- Industry: Social, FinTech, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zuva KK — Zuva KK provides an information platform dedicated to overseas startups based on the project.
- ZAISAN Net — ZAISAN Net is the well-known leading AI-Fintech startup in Japan, specializing in handling time-series of data like stock price movements. Institutional investors benefit from ZAISAN Net’s AI forecast signals and alerts while consumers have access to Kabuto-yohou, the stock forecast from wall-street in Japan, which is already popular and has beenintroduced on World Business Satellite, TV program similar to CNN.
- SymBio Pharmaceuticals — SymBio Pharmaceuticals Limited operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It offers Symbenda medicine for treating low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphatic leukemia in Singapore. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $875k–$23M; Series A $1.9M–$92M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Autoro — Autoro is a customer business automation company with web auto robot. Autoro combines browser automation, application programming interface linkage, and machine learning, and Autoro automatically completes tasks. They automate office tasks for businesses, including report preparation, accounting, document preparation, and more.
- Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
- LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
First Light Capital is venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $553k–$24M; Series A $2M–$64M; Series B $3.2M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monogusa — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
- 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.
- Japan Legal System Institute — Japan Legal System Institute (JLSI), our primary value is to provide products that exceed user expectations.
UNERI is a consulting company that provides a complete range of business development services, including incubation and coordination.
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- Industry: Drones, Family, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $537k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
- SORA Technology — SORA Technology builds and operates health care and public health infrastructure utilizing drones and their operational management systems.
Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $283k–$20M; Series A $1.4M–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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- xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
- Yellow Blue — Yellow Blue develops and operates "Blue One," a next-generation AI translation service designed for professionals.
Creating and ConnectingOur imagination knows no bounds and we believe in everyone's creative abilities.In Japanese, we describe ourselves as an "omoshiro" company. It is hard to translate but it kind of means playful, fun and interesting. What we really want is to create things that are fun for people to use. And that'swhy we hire free-spirited and light-hearted people who won't lose their playful creativity at work.KAYAC is what an IT and web company looks like when it is given the freedom to play. Our name is based on the initials of our three directors: KAihata, YAnagisawa, and C(k)uba. And it fits us because a kayak is a nimble and fun little boat that needs a strong, hardworking crew to navigate it, just like our company.
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- Industry: Management Consulting, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Utoniq — Utoniq service allows them to collect the works of the artists they support digitally in the form of trading cards. Trading cards will be collected as proof of support for the creators. It is a brand-new trading card service that is both enjoyable to collect and enjoyable to exchange. They provide a service lineup in order to continually increasefan engagement. They can make flexible proposals based on the needs of artists, creators, influencers, anime characters, and so on.
- ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
- Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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- Industry: Legal, Accounting, Construction
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
- better Japan — Better is a startup to develop and operate the inheritance tax web service.
We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Singapore
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- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $747k–$14M; Series A $102k–$47M; Series B $10M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Progate — Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.
- Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
- 91springboard — Explore 91Springboard, the best co-working company offering premium co-working spaces and shared office solutions. Whether you're a startup, freelancer, or team, enjoy flexible workspaces, modern amenities, and prime locations tailored to your needs.
Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Marketing, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$99M; Series B $3.3M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Creator's X — Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation production assistance tools using AI.
- Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
- Third Intelligence — Third Intelligence is an AI research and development firm dedicated to producing a new type of intelligence and achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Through cutting-edge research, advanced algorithm development, and large-scale computing capabilities, the company aims to push the boundaries of machine cognition, enabling systems thatcan reason, learn, and adapt across diverse domains.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
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- Total investments: 547
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$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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- Industry: Apps, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $645k–$11M; Series A $868k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- WAKA —
- Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
- Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
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- Total investments: 551
- 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
- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- 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.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Kodansha is the largest publisher in Japan and produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo. The Noma family—relatives of the founder—continues toown KodanshaSource: [Wikipedia] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha)
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- Industry: Software, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
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- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series C $4M–$68M; Corporate Round $8.3M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gaudiy — Gaudiy is a communication service.
- MyAnimeList — Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
- Animoca Brands KK — Animoca Brands KK supports the global strategy of Web3.0 for Japanese intellectual property and content (IP) holders such as major publishers, brands, education, sports organizations, athletes, artists, and game companies. rice field. Animoca Brands KK builds and provides a platform that utilizes blockchain technology and provides a mechanism forIP / IP holders to have their own ecosystem in Web3.0 and issue NFTs and tokens within it.
As a pioneer and innovator in venture capital in Japan for the past 2 decades, we are deeply engaged in developing and supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups by leveraging our strategic position as a conduit between government, business and academia.“WERU” is the first research unit in the field of entrepreneurship in Japan established byprofessors at the graduate school, Waseda University in 1993. “WERU Investment” is the first venture capital closely associated with university research labs, centers and institutes in japan. WERU Investment provides financial services for institutional investors (e.g. Pension funds and Endowments) as a Japanese discretionary investment manager (DIM) by fully taking advantage of these research resources, accumulated know-how and strong network.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
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- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$64M; Series A $6.9M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Synfini — Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
- ELternal — ELternal develops tourism resources for shrines and temples. Their services include business process support, sns utilisation support, and website creation for temples.
- Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
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- 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
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- 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.
KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
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- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $9.6M–$553M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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- Recho — Recho’s voice AI solutions must offer some unique features. Recho has a mission to "create the future of communication" and provides the VoiceAI platform and its application, Voice Agent.
- Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
- Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
ON & BOARD is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Fuel, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $455k–$455k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Herix — Herix is an AI SaaS that streamlines due diligence (DD) and the developer of "Aidiligence."
- Sushi AI — Sushi AI is a company specializing in next-generation incubation support services specializing in AI.
- Qureka — Qureka is a EdTech platform that uses AI to transform learning focuses on leveraging technology to enhance knowledge accessibility.
Makuake is a operation of various support services centered on the cloud funding platform "Makuake".It is a product production support project utilizing R & D technology.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $170k–$68M; Equity Crowdfunding $79k–$3.3M; Product Crowdfunding $312k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
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- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- Kitasanriku Factory — Kitasanriku Factory is a company that operates within the seafood and aquaculture industry. It specializes in the comprehensive production, processing, and distribution of a wide range of marine products. The company places a strong emphasis on the cultivation and handling of premium sea urchins, ensuring high-quality offerings for its customers.Through its commitment to excellence, Kitasanriku Factory aims to deliver the finest seafood products while promoting sustainable aquaculture practices.
Shochiku Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Sales, Space Travel, Manufacturing
- Geography: Japan
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
- Iwaya Giken — Iwaya Giken manufactures and sells gas balloons, airtight cabins, and other space-travel equipment.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 587
- 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
- Base Food — Base Food produces high-quality, flavorful staple food products that are nutritionally-balanced and convenient.
- 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. 
- Wonderplanet — Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.
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ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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