Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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19 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Content, Information Technology, Travel | $700k–$75M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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19 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$28M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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17 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, SNS, Software | $497k–$41M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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15 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $2.8M–$16M |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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14 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Food and Beverage | $320k–$43M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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13 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $420k–$354M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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11 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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10 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$68M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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9 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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9 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $1.4M–$18M |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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8 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Content, Education | $1.4M–$26M |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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7 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $2.5M–$1B |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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7 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $320k–$33M |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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7 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Internet, Task Management, Content | $553k–$68M |
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
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6 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Finance, Internet | $1.4M–$45M |
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
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6 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming | $320k–$38M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Web Design | $6M–$18M |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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5 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content | $7.3M–$26M |
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Naoki Aoyagi
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Fashion, Internet, Software | $1.3M–$74M |
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Noboru Miyata
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, SaaS | $933k–$142M |
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel
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5 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources | $553k–$31M |
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Narita Shuzo
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Task Management, Content, Internet | $2.5M–$18M |
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Hiroki Nakamura
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Web Design, Content | $6.7M–$18M |
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Shogo Kawada
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Apps | $360k–$14M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Consulting, SaaS, Home Services | $4.9M–$35M |
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Taizo Son
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Financial Services, Information Technology, Apps | $737k–$100M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Fashion, FinTech | $380k–$47M |
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Robotics, Information Technology, B2C | $1.4M–$14M |
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Yutaka Matsuo
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics | |
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Social Media, Big Data | $680k–$2.8M |
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel
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4 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Aerospace, Education | $329k–$64M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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4 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Chihiro Asano
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Content, Legal, FinTech | $733k–$48M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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3 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series B, Angel | Content, Sports, Human Resources | $1.4M–$221M |
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Yuki Naito
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Internet, Manufacturing, SNS | $652k–$38M |
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Masaru Sunagawa
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music | $9.2M–$18M |
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Robert Huang
Angel
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3 | Japan | Series A | Education, E-Learning, Language Learning | $1.3M–$9.2M |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Local, Sports | $9M–$68M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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3 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $2.8M–$5.7M |
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Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Big Data, Internet, E-Commerce | $480k–$198M |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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3 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Social Media, SNS | |
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Mizuki Inoue
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | CRM, Finance, Security | $4.3M–$45M |
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, Art | $1.7M–$18M |
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Jun Ogawa
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Information Technology | |
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Masahiko Inada
Angel
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3 | Japan | Angel, Seed | SNS, Content, Finance | |
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel
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3 | Japan | Series A, Seed, Angel | Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Video | $3.5M–$33M |
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting | $1.2M–$62M |
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Content, Finance | $3.4M–$9.7M |
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Justin Waldron
Angel
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3 | United States, Japan, Chile | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $50k–$5.3M |
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Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Content, Information Technology, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $700k–$48M; Series A $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$28M; Angel $425k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, SNS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Finance, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $973k–$70M; Angel $420k–$7.1M; Series A $1.3M–$354M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
- OPERA TECH —
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$21M; Angel $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $12M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
- Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
- Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Browse database — It's Free!Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$26M; Pre-Seed $4.3M–$9.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
Yoshinori Fukushima - CEO @ LayerX
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$225M; Angel $7.1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Media Aid — Media Aid is an advertising agency that provides recruitment, marketing, web creation, and SNS management services
Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $320k–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Industry: Internet, Task Management, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$68M; Angel $553k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
- SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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- Industry: Apps, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $21M–$45M; Angel $1.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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- Industry: Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $11M–$38M; Angel $320k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
- Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Web Design
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
- STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Industry: Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $9.6M–$26M; Angel $7.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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- Industry: Fashion, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- Parallel — Parallel is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $933k–$18M; Series A $57M–$142M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.
Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost
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- Industry: Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $553k–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
- Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
- SPeak — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.
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- Industry: Task Management, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.
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- Industry: Software, Web Design, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $6.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
- Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
- STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $360k–$14M; Angel $709k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
- Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
- Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Consulting, SaaS, Home Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $4.9M–$17M; Series A $24M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Taizo Son is the Co-Founder of VIVITA. Taizo Son attended the University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Angel $737k–$2.2M; Series A $1.8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Favolist5 — Favolist5 is a software company that develops an abbreviated voice SNS based on web3 for personal media.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Yoshitsune Ido
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- Industry: Robotics, Information Technology, B2C
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.
1997 Graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. In 2002, he completed the doctoral program at the same graduate school. Ph.D. (Engineering) He was a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology since the same year. After working as a visiting researcher at Stanford University in August2005, Associate Professor of Technology Management Strategy, Institute of Research, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2007. Co-Representative, Associate Professor, Global Consumption Intelligence Donation Course, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University. Professor from 2019, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Engineering, Department of Technology Management Strategy. He specializes in artificial intelligence, web mining, big data analytics. The Society of Artificial Intelligence received the Paper Award (2002), the 20th Anniversary Project Award (2006), the Field Innovation Award (2011), and the Merit Award (2013). At the Society of Artificial Intelligence, he has been a student editorial committee and an editorial committee, and vice chair/director since 2010. Chairman of Ethics from 2014 to 2018. Chairman of Japan Deep Learning Association since 2017.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
- MemoriaPet — Memoria Pet operated by Next Paradigm 2 Co., Ltd. Creates full-color 3D-printed pet figurines from a single uploaded photo. Uses AI to generate 3D models, followed by full-color 3D printing.
- Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Browse database — It's Free!After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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- Industry: News, Social Media, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Aerospace, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $329k–$28M; Series A $7.7M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
- Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
- Life is Tech — Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skillsand creativity
Yasuyuki Kin
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.
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- Industry: Content, Legal, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $14M–$48M; Angel $733k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HERP — HERP is a recruitment management platform.
- Issues — Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
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- Industry: Content, Sports, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$48M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
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- Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
Yuki Naito - CEO,President @ Drecom
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- Industry: Internet, Manufacturing, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $652k–$38M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
- Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
After joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he studied at Harvard Business School. After graduating, he joined Globespan Capital Partners, an independent United States VC, and worked as a director of investment. He started LocationValue after the company's representative in Japan. Joined Google after selling the company to NTT DOCOMO. He served asDirector of Product Development for Google Maps and General Manager for Android. He left Google in February 2018 and started Smartround Co., Ltd. in May.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SNS, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $9.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
- Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.
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- Industry: Internet, Local, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $9M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
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Browse database — It's Free!Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.
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- Industry: Big Data, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $480k–$198M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
- Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
- space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan
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- Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudan — Kudan has been providing proprietary Artificial Perception technologies based on SLAM to enable use cases with significant market potential and impact on our lives such as autonomous driving, robotics, AR/VR and smart cities
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Art
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elaly — Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
- Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
- OPERA TECH —
Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Qurate Inc. (Japan) — Plan, create and manage all your content, across all your channels with all your teams. Try for free now.
- Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
- noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
Masahiko Inada is the Venture Advisor at DNX Ventures. He was Founder and Chairman at Kabuku Inc. He attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Theoria — Theoria is a marketing team that brings together practical knowledge.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
- Theoria Japan — Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.
Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems
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- Industry: Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$62M; Angel $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
- H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $7.6M–$9.7M; Angel $3.4M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $933k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
- Breakr — Unleash the power of music with Breakr. Explore a dynamic platform connecting artists, brands, and creators. Join us in reshaping the landscape of music discovery.
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