Top 45 Sports Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Content | $4.3M–$30M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series B, Angel | Content, Sports, Human Resources | $1.4M–$221M |
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Dai Tamesue
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Sports, Health Care | |
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Kevin Chou
Angel
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2 | United States, Japan, Israel | Seed, Series A, Angel | Gaming, Video Games, eSports | $625k–$14M |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $228k–$25M |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, SNS, Software | $497k–$41M |
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Health Care, Fitness, Medical | $3.3M–$43M |
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Yoshinori Fukushima
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Software, Marketing | $2.5M–$1B |
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Yuto Nagatomo
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Video, Beauty | $7.1M–$68M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Content | $425k–$28M |
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Kentaro Uryu
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Sports, Internet | $765k–$68M |
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Ishikawa Ryo
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Sports, Internet | |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$68M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Recruiting, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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2 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Series A | Finance, Content, Internet | $420k–$354M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Consulting, SaaS, Home Services | $4.9M–$35M |
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Eiko Hashiba
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Fitness, Health Care | |
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Pre-Seed | Sports, Education, Information Technology | |
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Internet, Local, Sports | $9M–$68M |
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Takashi Sato
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | FinTech, Software, Analytics | |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $6.9M–$73M |
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Narita Shuzo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Task Management, Content, Internet | $2.5M–$18M |
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Kamata Tomihisa
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Fitness, Medical, Genetics | |
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Akihiro Nishino
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Content, SNS, Audio | $28M–$68M |
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Naoki Yamada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Sports | |
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Taku Namura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet | |
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Yoshihito Nishioka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Content, Social Media | |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Internet, Task Management, Content | $553k–$68M |
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Koji Ninomiya
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Rental, Sports, Video Editing | |
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Haruki Satomi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Sports, Fantasy Sports, Media and Entertainment | |
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Murakami Hiroki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet | |
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Kei Nishikiori
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet | |
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Siqi Chen
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Gaming | $700k–$23M |
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Virtual Reality, Gaming | $320k–$38M |
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $320k–$33M |
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content | $4.4M–$41M |
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Sadoshima Ryuhei
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Fitness, Information Technology | |
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Yoshikazu Tanaka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Gaming, Sports | $17M–$28M |
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Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps | $2.1M–$14M |
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Matsumoto Yoji
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Rental, Sports, Video Editing | |
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Minoru Moriya
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet | $5.7M–$14M |
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Health Care, Travel, Content | $5.7M–$11M |
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Seiji Kurokoshi
Angel
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1 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel | Sports, Travel, Fashion | $11M–$68M |
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Yuki Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet, Recruiting | |
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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 .
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.
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.
- CAN EAT —
- Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- 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.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
- SAMURAI Security —
Kevin Chou is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SuperLayer. He previously worked at Kabam as a Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Chou attended UC Berkeley, Haas Business School.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $625k–$14M; Series A $12M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
- Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
- YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
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.
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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
Yuto Nagatomo - President, CEO, and Founder @ Cuore Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: SNS, Video, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $33M–$68M; Angel $7.1M–$26M
- 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.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- SAURUS JAPAN —
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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.
Kentaro Uryu - Legal advisor @ Adot
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- Industry: Beauty, Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $14M–$68M; Angel $765k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adot — Adot specializes in product development, service growth, branding, and PR. Its services include Branding business and sales promotion business. It also supports the challenges and reforms of companies. It is not only in the field of advertising but also in a professional team in business development and development. It aims to promote"Aesthetic-conscious management" and focus on "social significance," such as "whether the whole society will be enriched," rather than the conventional business of "just do it."It was founded on July 26, 2012, and is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- SISI — SISI company provides beauty products made from natural ingredients. They also offer a skin analysis program led by a skin expert, allowing customers to take care of their body and skin after a thorough examination. They also sell beauty products online and provide delivery.
Ishikawa Ryo
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- Industry: Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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.
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.
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
- Grafto —
- 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 —
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.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Joined Goldman Sachs in 2001. 2003 Experience planning and management of budgets at Lore Alu Japan. In 2007, he was engaged in PE investment at Unison Capital. Get an MBA at MIT. The Company will launch VISASQ in 2012.
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- Industry: Fitness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob
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- Industry: Sports, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan
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- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RIZAP — RIZAP is a chain of a private gym that offers fitness training and consulting services.
- Join Digital — Cloud-managed connectivity and workplace analytics enables businesses to optimize their workplace environment, capturing occupancy and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) data, and simplifying high-performance software-defined networking and WiFi experiences.
- Hippo Insurance — Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$68M; Series A $62M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
- Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
- 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.
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.
Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.
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- Industry: Fitness, Medical, Genetics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
- Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
- MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
Akihiro Nishino is a Japanese comedian.
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- Industry: Content, SNS, Audio
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $28M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- alu Japan — alu is providing service to enjoy more manga.
Naoki Yamada
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
Taku Namura
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- Industry: Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
DescriptionYoshihito Nishioka is a Japanese tennis player.
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- Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tential — With the power of AI, TENTIAL analyzes detailed purchasing behavior and attributes online and aim to deliver its customers' products based on their own information.
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.
Koji Ninomiya is the Board of Directors at Fan Communications.
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- Industry: Rental, Sports, Video Editing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DanceNow — DanceNow is developing a studio business, services for instructors, and dance-related businesses. They offer lesson matching, studio management efficiency support, and peripheral support services. It also provides remote dance lesson system development services.
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Browse database — It's Free!Haruki Satomi - Chairman of the Board and CEO @ SEGA Games
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- Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
Murakami Hiroki
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- Industry: Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Kei Nishikiori
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- Industry: Sports, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Siqi Chen is the Chief Financial Officer of Runway. He previously worked as an Advisor at Laserlike Inc. Siqi attended UC San Diego, where he obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Pre-Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
- Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
- Sauna by Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
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.
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.
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $4.4M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
- NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
- Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
Sadoshima Ryuhei - President & CEO @ Safie
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
- Voxela, Inc. — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
Yoshikazu Tanaka founded GREE in December 2004, and serves as the company's founder and chief executive officer. Before founding GREE, he previously worked at So-net Entertainment Corporation and Rakuten, Inc. While at Rakuten, Inc., he started developing SNS GREE in his spare time. This project became GREE.Tanaka earned abachelor's degree in Law from Nihon University in 1999.
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- Industry: Apps, Gaming, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $17M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RATEL — Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players.
- Appify Technologies — Appify Technologies, Inc.
Masayuki SHOBAYASHI
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nupp1 — Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
- Pan For You — Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.
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Browse database — It's Free!Matsumoto Yoji - Vice President @ FAN Communications
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- Industry: Rental, Sports, Video Editing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DanceNow — DanceNow is developing a studio business, services for instructors, and dance-related businesses. They offer lesson matching, studio management efficiency support, and peripheral support services. It also provides remote dance lesson system development services.
Minoru Moriya is a director at AuB.
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- Industry: Health Care, Nursing and Residential Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M-Box — M-Box provides IT solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and operates web services.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus
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- Industry: Health Care, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
Seiji Kurokoshi (黒越誠治) is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Sports, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $11M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ezay — Ezay provides a mobile platform that connects rural 'mom-and-pop' shops with B2B market place and provide financial and logistics services.
- CURBON — CURBON is a Japan's largest photo learning site for C2C,Provides learning content such as video lectures and photography classes, Lightroom presets, etc.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android
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- Industry: Sports, Internet, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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