Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Japan (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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RION
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A | Sports, Wearables, Sporting Goods | |
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Kaga Electronics
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Taiwan | Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Education, Software, Consulting | $445k–$14M |
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Adways
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $944k–$39M |
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Keio Innovation Initiative
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology | $826k–$41M |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $470k–$21M |
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Ricoh
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series C, Series A | Software, Consulting, Artificial Intelligence | $4.9M–$27M |
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FIH Mobile
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Equity | Apps, Automotive, Augmented Reality | $2.2M–$125M |
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Innovation Engine
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Spain | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $663k–$85M |
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Edge Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Pet, Apps, Events | |
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IPBridge
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Sports, Content, Education | |
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- Industry: Sports, Wearables, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Kaga Electronics is a Japan based company engages in the sales of electronic components, electronic devices and other. It operates through following segments: Electronic Components, Information Equipment, Software and Other. The firm generates majority revenue from the Electronic Components.
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- Industry: Education, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$6.6M; Corporate Round $445k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DriveX — DriveX is a consulting firm that helps in creating new businesses using AI solutionst.
- Linkage — Linkage is a Online health support business and Online specific health guidance.
- CI Partners — CI Partners mission is to "eliminate the word 'disability' from this country," and with the message "Everyone is a star."
Based in Tokyo, Adways is a mobile marketing solution provider mostly known for its Asia’s largest mobile CPI adnetwork “AppDriver” and mobile app measurement & tracking tool “PartyTrack” used by great number of major app developers around the world. Since 2004 when it opened the first overseas office in China, Adways has been aggressivelyexpanding its mobile app distribution network in Asian markets. Now with 1,000 employees in 11 countries (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the USA), Adways supports app developers worldwide to maximize their user acquisition and monetization and furthermore thrives to provide new value to the market. Haruhisa Okamura is Founder and CEO of Adways who has grown Adways from a small startup to an international corporation with over a thousand employees around the world. In 2006, Adways went public and Okamura was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to list a company in Japan at that time.You can read his story here: "How a high school dropout became a multi-millionaire entrepreneur" http://www.techinasia.com/high-school-dropout-multimillionaire-entrepreneur/
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2M–$39M; Venture - Series Unknown $944k–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Rentio — Rentio is a site that can be used anytime without buying 1,000 kinds of cameras and the latest home appliances.
- MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.
Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $826k–$14M; Series A $2.2M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- ElleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
- Starlight Engine — Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 685
- Round size: Seed $470k–$16M; Series A $1.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $525k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
- Smart Craft —
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
Ricoh provides innovative products and services, and it is expanding its business in three customer segments: office, printing, and others.The company provides image equipment such as MFPs and printers for offices and visual communication products that support new work styles. In addition, the company solves problems for office customers throughtotal solutions that combine IT environment construction, network environment operation support, and user support.
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- Industry: Software, Consulting, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series C, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series C $4.9M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
- Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company.
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- Industry: Apps, Automotive, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series B $16M–$25M; Post-IPO Equity $6.2M–$111M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingxi AR — Lingxi AR is an AR optical display technology provider, providing optical solutions for partners developing AR glasses. It is committed to the development of lightweight glasses with large field of view. The optical modules are equipped with nano-scale coupling gratings and optical waveguide technology. AR 3D imaging can be achieved with an angleof view of up to 36 degrees.
- SoundHound — SoundHound Inc. is the only company offering an independent voice AI platform that delivers a custom branded voice assistant, allowing companies to keep their brand, customers, and data.
- Journey Technology — An augmented reality technology company.
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Japan, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series A $663k–$52M; Series C $2.9M–$85M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- CoA Nexus — CoA Nexus develops and operates a skillshare matching platform for human resource research and development.
- bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
- Bridgesmile Corporation — Bridgesmile operates an on-site installation and replacement service platform.
Edge Lab provides various support services for IP business.
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- Industry: Pet, Apps, Events
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
- Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
- Crowd Credit — Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator.We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries.Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend toindividuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy.In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.
IPBridge is a company specializing in the management of intellectual property and funds.
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- Industry: Sports, Content, Education
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
- KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
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