Top 50 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2025
W Ventures is a Berlin based Venture Design and Venture Capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Indonesia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
- Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, China
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Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
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- 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.
- Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
- Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- 10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
- RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
- Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Akatsuki offers MobileSocialGame services. They utilize cutting edge technology and ideas to realize and deliver their ambitions to their users. They provide new value to society through the services we manage daily. Providing services throughout the world that brighten up everyone's daily lives.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
- MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, Content
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
- FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
- Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Singapore
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.
- M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
- NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
- Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
- Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
- Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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Investment focus
- Software, Task Management, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
- COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Wellness, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
- Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
- MagicPod Japan — MagicPod provides an automation cloud service through AI technology. MagicPod was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Medigle — Medigle is a consulting firm that provides medical consulting and B2B services.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
- NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
- Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.
STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Sustainability
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
- Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.
Saison Ventures is investment arm of Credit Saison.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Content
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.
- Luca Japan — LUCA Japan provides digital access to alternative investments, including but not limited to private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit.
- Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
- Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- CloudLegal — CloudLegal provides AI-powered legal services, combining generative AI with legal expertise to streamline corporate operations.
- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
- Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
- Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
- KG Motors — KG Motors is an automotive firm that manufactures electric vehicles that can be moved comfortably and safely by one person.
Zeroichi Capital is an independent venture capital firm that invest/R&D startups. Zeroichi Capital assists in a variety of areas, including pre-startup consultation, ideation, business plan planning, establishment procedures, teaming up, and financing, with the goal of reaching the Series A round as soon as possible and putting you on agrowth trajectory beyond that.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Fitness, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- CrossVision — CrossVision offers solutions and services specific to the VTuber market.
- WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Health Care
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
- Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
- Japan Tobacco — Japan Tobacco operates diverse businesses across the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and processed food sectors.
Next One for the World.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
- Sporttrade — Sporttrade is a marketplace. We're the only regulated prediction market for betting. We make it easy to place, track, and sell your bet to make a profit.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
- Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
- Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
- Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.
This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Apps, Content
- Series A, Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
- A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
- ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions.
The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Consulting
- Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
- ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
- GROWTH VERSE — GROWTH VERSE is a developer of Aimstar an all-in-one tool that offers data integration, analysis, and policy implementation services.
In 1992, GLOBIS started out with one marketing course in a small, rented classroom in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Since then, the management environment surrounding Japanese companies has reached an unparalleled turning point requiring dynamic change and creativity. The history of GLOBIS is the continual pursuit of creative change and innovationdrawing upon our own experience in starting and growing businesses. In "People" infrastructures, we have turned out a large number of business leaders and supported corporate clients in enhancing their management capabilities. In "Capital," we have supported the creative efforts of venture businesses, and in "Knowledge," we have published numerous books on management. With each new day, GLOBIS takes another step toward becoming the No. 1 business school in Asia as well as Asia's No. 1 venture capital firm. Yoshito Hori
Chairman and CEO of GLOBIS Corporation
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Pet, Sustainability
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
Official corporate site of Uzabase, Inc., the provider of SPEEDA, NewsPicks and other services
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Investment focus
- Content, Information Services, SNS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Arches — Arches is a sharing platform focusing on Asian market. It's mission is to accelerate the growth of our global clients sharing the respectable knowledge, network, resources of local experts on our platform. We provide the experts / distributors matching platform and help our clients to understand the industry, enter Asian market throughknowledge sharing between the local experts and clients.
- EventHub — Deliver engaging B2B events with the event platform designed with lead generation and nurturing in mind. Webinars, expos, conferences, job fairs, meetups, and more.
- Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited ("MSI") was formed in October 2001 through a merger between the former Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.("Mitsui Marine") and the former The Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. ("Sumitomo Marine").
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Internet of Things
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- T2 Co — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
- Taiyi Guanjia — Taiyi Guanjia is a company that combines technology and medical health innovation, aiming to enhance the insurance industry and create a robust medical and health ecosystem.
- Upstream Security — Upstream provides a cloud-based automotive cybersecurity solution for protecting connected vehicles from cyber threats. Gain automotive-specific cyber threat intelligence to prevent and detect cyber attacks with Upstream's connected vehicle security.
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Internet of Things
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- OOYOO — OOYOO Co., Ltd. is a DeepTech venture that combines international entrepreneurial spirit, and a 'Made In Japan' excellence, to bring the latest innovations in clean technology to society for a smarter, cleaner, and more mobile world.
- Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
- Impact Circle — Impact Circle social investment platform that focuses on providing impact finance and visualization services by creating job opportunities.
Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology.
The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
- Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
- Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.
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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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Internet, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
- ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
- DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
- Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Deluxe Multi-Sport Portable Digital Scoreboards Features backlit display and wireless key ring remote control.,
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Investment focus
- Sports, Education, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Japan
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.
Dual Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
- nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
- Doctor's Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.
FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
- aiESG — aiESG offers an AI platform that conducts ESG assessments of supply chains and facilitates an in-depth sustainability evaluation.
- Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting is a commercial broadcasting services provider.
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Investment focus
- Video Editing, Media and Entertainment
- Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- FIREBUG — FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.
- ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States
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- Spacely — Spacely is a cloud software that allows you to easily create, edit and manage VR web contents using photos taken with a 360 degree camera. From April 1, 2018 the service name has been changed from 3D Stylee to Spacely.
- any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
- FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
The Asahi Shimbun, which was first published in 1879, is one of Japan’s leading newspapers. They strive not only to protect both peace and democracy but also to strengthen them, and to serve the community and the people as a “company with vision and purpose.” That is The Asahi Shimbun Company’s core purpose—their point of origin.The Asahi Shimbunhas an extensive news-gathering network that provides seamless coverage every day. In Japan, there are general bureaus and bureaus in all 47 prefectures; with an additional 5 general bureaus and 29 bureaus in place around the world. All in all, there are 320 domestic and global news-gathering bases.
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- Big Data, Apps, Art
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Japan, United States
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- Fuller — Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab.App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active usersof the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more.App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market.Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.
- ookami Japan — Ookami provides Player, a sport media application. It is a startup that creates new value of sports by harmonizing individuals and IT technology. The company offers technology solutions, with a particular focus in financial services software, application and communication software, software as a service, and online social networking services.
- Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
Double Sharp Partners is a corporate venture capital that invests in start-up companies and entrepreneurs who provide advanced and innovative businesses and services that use IT to solve social issues and inefficiencies. The firm aims to create a prosperous and comfortable future together with entrepreneurs by funding start-up companies thatchallenge innovation ahead of change.
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- Food Processing, Rental, Fitness
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Japan
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- Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
- Social Interior — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
- HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.
Meinan M & A is a M & A company in the Tokai area. It is committed to the local community, and M & A rooted in the region through partnerships with financial institutions in the Tokai area.
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- Task Management, AgTech, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- KAERU — KAERU offers financial and payment services to make shopping more convenient.
- Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
- Spacewasp — Spacewasp provides plant-derived interior spaces made from all kinds of plants.
Aichi Capital is a financial venture capital firm that is a 100% subsidiary of Aichi Bank. It was founded to help local communities by assisting customers with business succession and assisting in the development of venture and startup companies.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Series A
- Japan
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- Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
- Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
- Seiwa Holdings — Seiwa Holdings is a company that specializes in the welding of large structures. It holds a significant share in the large sign industry in the Chubu region. The company also has a subsidiary, Toei Coating, which boasts one of the largest facilities in Gifu for electric zinc plating. Seiwa Holdings is also involved in the production of road signposts and bridge fall prevention devices. The company operates in the financial services industry and has a workforce of 2 employees.
Asuka Holding is a principal investment firm.
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- Sports, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Japan
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- BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
- WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
- Cube — Cube is enabling everyone to invest in the simplest manner possible along with guidance from the world’s top performing investment managers - the same that guide the world’s richest families. The service is already live in India, and soon to be available across USA and multiple Asian countries. Cube has an experienced team that comes from theworld of fintech, entrepreneurship, design, systems, banking, and global sales. It is founded by Satyen Kothari, a battle scarred entrepreneur who is on his 5th adventure. He has previously founded Citrus Pay in India and three companies in the Silicon Valley. Citrus was sold in 2016 in India’s largest fintech cash deal at the time and was processing $2 bn at its peak and servicing 20 mn users.
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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- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
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- K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
- Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
- LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
Daiwa Logistics is a provider of logistics and trade business related to export and import overseas. The company has obtained various licenses for the freight vehicle transportation business, warehousing business, industrial waste collection and transportation, construction business, home building business, etc.Daiwa Logistics was founded in 1959and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan
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- Diving, Transportation
- Series A
- Japan
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- T2 Co — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
The Seed Capital is a Japan-based venture capital firm.
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- Information Technology, Audio, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan, Singapore
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