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Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Transportation startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in December 2024

Investor	Transportation Japan investments
Incubate Fund	14
SMBC Venture Capital	12
Nissay Capital	11
ANRI	9
Drone Fund	8
Mizuho Capital	8
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	8
DBJ Capital	7
YJ Capital	6
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	6
Globis Capital Partners	6
Genesia Ventures	5
Global Brain Corporation	5
ANOBAKA	5
DIMENSION	5
DCM Ventures	5
Vector	5
Energy & Environment Investment	5
500 Startups Japan	4
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	4
KDDI	4
Monex Ventures	4
B Dash Ventures	4
SOSV	4
SBI Investment	4
STRIVE	3
Spiral Ventures	3
XTech Ventures	3
Coral Capital	3
UntroD Capital	3
Archetype Ventures	3
W ventures	3
FFG Venture Business Partners	3
Hiroshima Venture Capital	3
Mirai Creation Fund	3
Lifetime Ventures	3
Future Venture Capital	3
UNITED	3
F Ventures	2
SPARX Innovation for the Future	2
Lotte Ventures Japan	2
Mercari	2
Shimizu Corporation	2
Shizen Capital	2
Kyocera	2
Tsuneishi Capital Partners	2
SPARX Group	2
Mistletoe	2
JA Mitsui Leasing	2
Kusabi	2

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.

Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Aerospace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
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.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

DBJ Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2010 through the integration of two venture capital firms of the DBJ Group, New Business Investment Co., Ltd. and Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Development Bank of Japan Inc.At DBJ Capital, we focus on venture firms which use newtechnologies and business models to grow and compete on the global market, regardless of their industry or scale. To meet the particular needs of each client, we mobilize the entire DBJ Group to arrange the best investment solutions, ranging from growth-spurring equity investment to financing schemes drawing on DBJ's vast networks.We also assist in venture start-ups. Our value enhancement team provides the kind of comprehensive, hands-on support needed to commercialize outstanding intellectual property and technologies developed by firms, research labs, and universities, and to carve out a place for them in the market.DBJ Capital will continue to play in a part in Japan's economic revival - by helping the firms we invest in to grow, and by encouraging the creation of new industries in Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.

YJ Capital is a Corporate Venture Capital of Yahoo Japan. Our value is to help global minded entrepreneurs build successful and lasting internet companies. We invest in all stages, all sectors in Asia, US and Israel.YJ Capital has a unique access to Yahoo Japan's operational experience and unparalleled Japan market entry support. Oursole LP allows us to focus only on our portfolio companies and make fast decision making.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States, Indonesia

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.
LEAN BODY — Lean Body is an online platform for fitness videos.
Stacked — Watch videos with your people on Stacked.com

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, 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.
STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.

Globis Capital Partners (GCP) is a venture capital firm in Japan. With its combination of local business presence through Globis Group and the experience of Western VC experience, GCP has set new VC standards in Japan, with hands-on, and in-depth industry expertise.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Leaner Technologies — Leaner Technologies provides cloud-based software for cost reduction analysis.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
Logipeace — Logipeace is a SaaS communication platform that offers semi-automation of logistics operations and communication using generative AI.
Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
Kasanare — Kasanare is a technology company that offers AI-based business specific cloud services.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

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.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

JOYCLE — JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services.
Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.

DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Advertising, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
COMICSMART — Comic Smart is animation production business that develops exclusive manga and anime content.

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

UJET — At UJET we are redefining customer experience with our cloud contact center platform.
Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.

Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.
Essen — Essen is a technological company that specializes in mobility and data analysis, as well as using data to improve transportation.

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.

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.

500 Startups is the most active seed VC in the world. 500 Startups Japan is a $35M regional fund focusing on Japan.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
NEL — NEL is a creative agency that offers a platform that connects brands and customers through purchases and SNS posts.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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.
Allganize — Allganize provides Alli, an AI document understanding platform that revolutionizes enterprise productivity. If you want a proper AI chatbot, enterprise chatGPT, or AI OCR, Allganize is the answer.
Secret Double Octopus — Provider of industry-leading FIDO-certified, rotation-based passwordless MFA with the fullest support for enterprise complexity. Click here for more!

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, 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.
Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

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.

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!

Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!
Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Aplaca.Lab — Aplaca.Lab is a driver substitution platform that provides an unprecedented new driving experience. They released a driving agency application for providing comfortable driving experiences. It enables driving agencies to optimize their resources and clients' safety, prevent accidents, and receive assistance in areas with limited transportationoptions.

Coral Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm in Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

ZAICO — Zaico is a management app that reduces the burden and optimizes energy efficiency for organizations.
Katagrma — KatagrMa is the first organization that optimizes the organization and human resources development.
Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.

W ventures is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds. They have been conducting investment to 25 companies in a total of about a year from the start of investment activities in April 2019. The company works not only with investment business but also with companies that provide services related to HR, PR,infrastructure, legal and accounting, etc., as incubation support after investment. It is also characteristic to provide support for the investor companies. In addition, in cooperation with other venture capital companies, Ar Rase TAGE startups regularly hold office hours that allow financing and business consultations to two companies at the same time and actively support startups are doing.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Uniam — Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products.
Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content

FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Content
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deltan — Deltan is a Minato-based orthodontic service provider.
KOALA Tech — Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.
Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.

Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

Investment focus

Task Management, Manufacturing, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
Industrial-X — INDUSTRIAL-X provides business consulting, structure transformation support, DX human resource development, solution procurement support, and BPO solutions. Their customers inquiries are addressed through online applications.

The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.

Investment focus

Robotics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MUSVI — MUSVI is an informartion technology company that provides spatial connectivity solutions, and community platform services.
Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.

Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ekei labs — build your longevity strategy with ekei labs
Artio — Early stage carbon creditSecure your carbon credits with early-stage insurance solutions driven by real-time risk monitoring. Mitigate risks and safeguard your investments in the carbon market. insurance with real-time risk monitoring
Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
Second Heart — Second Heart is a medical center that offers preventive diabetic care and awareness programs to avoid foot amputations.

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Content, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

LOMBY — LOMBY is a logistic firm that delivers orders through its robotic machines.
Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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.

SPARX Innovation for Future Co.,Ltd. was established in April 2020. We will build and verify temporary investment (investment intelligence) in new areas, centered on space, and make investments.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
Series B, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
Ark Edge Space — Ark Edge Space provides design, manufacturing & operational services for micro-satellites along with software solutions and consulting.
Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.

Lotte Ventures Japan supports and collaborates with businesses that embrace challenges and strive to build a better society in the future.

Investment focus

Rental, Furniture, Food Delivery
Series A, Series D
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Social Interior — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
Tailor App — Tailor App is a digital and live marketing agency.
Japan Future Agriculture — Japan Future Agriculture will vertically integrate agricultural production, processing, sales, and exports.

Under our mission to circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people, Mercari, Inc. aims to use technology to connect people all over the world and create a world where anyone can unleash their potential.

Investment focus

Apps, AgTech, Rental
Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Flamingo — Flamingo is to contribute to a multicultural society through IT.
Pocket Marche — Pocket Marche is a smartphone app that allows you to buy food while talking with farmers and fishermen across the country.

Shimizu Corporation is an architectural, civil engineering, and general contracting firm that offers planning, design, and build solutions for a broad range of construction and engineering projects worldwide. The company builds residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, while performing civil engineering works for roads and operatingreal estate businesses.Shimizu Corporation, through its subsidiaries, sells and leases construction materials and machinery. Its service portfolio includes design-build, general construction, project management, construction management, and renovation services. The company also offers investigation, planning, research, evaluation, diagnosis, soil investigation, surveying, and consulting in connection with construction works.Shimizu Corporation was founded in 1803 by Kisuke Shimizu and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Space Travel, Robotics, Internet of Things
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
Edgematrix — EDGEMATRIX is a startup spun out from the AI project team of a global venture company and provides "Edge AI Box", "Edge AI platform" and "Edge AI Solutions".
PicoCELA — PicoCELA has strived to develop and implement world best wireless backhaul technology. Our backhaul technology is realized in a unique protocol suite which utilized a dynamic tree routing algorithm and a wireless frame transfer technology to suppress radio wave interference. The technology is protected by more than 20 registered patents worldwide.For 10 or more multi-hop wireless relay set ups, our backhaul delivers stable broadband transmission with low latency. PicoCELA systems have been installed in over 100 sites in Japan and more than 3,000 units are operating every day. We have reduced the LAN cabling by more than 70% at most installation sites resulting in massive installation cost savings. We recently released PCWL-0400, an edge computer with backhaul WLAN and enterprise wireless access points to reduce not only cabling but amount of Big Data to be uploaded.

a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Fitness
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

xMap — Explore xMap, a premier location intelligence SaaS platform. Access vast data sets from multiple industries worldwide, visualize on maps, and drive data-driven decisions. Elevate your business strategy with unparalleled insights and achieve market leadership.
Queri — Queri is a software company that provides messaging services through custom-made videos, photos, and voice notes via the platform.
Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.

KYOCERA Corporation is a diversified manufacturing company that engineers products and solutions in various fields, including fine ceramics, semiconductor components, electronic components, telecommunications, energy solutions, and more. Company/Products/IR/Career information.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Axelspace — Axelspace is a startup company developing businesses in the microsatellite field. Axelspace plans to construct a monitoring platform to cover the entire globe on a daily basis at extremely low cost.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
24M Technologies — 24M Technologies develops energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. builds energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tsuneishi Capital Partners is a company that formulates and operates investment partnerships.

Investment focus

Energy, Robotics, Drones
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
KAMOMEYA — Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation.
POWERNEXT — POWERNEXT provides electric power supply & demand management, rate calculation, customer management & environmental value trading services.

SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.
Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DAIZ — DAIZ produces and sells plant-based meat, 'Miracle Meat' which uses germinated soybeans by the proprietary 'Ochiai Germination Method.' Also, DAIZ engages in research & development of raw materials and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
T2 Co — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

Venture Capital Fund in JAPAN

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Freelance
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

knowuit — knowuit is a company that provides supply chain efficiency solutions to shippers. It develops and provides "Newit," a supply chain DX tool for shippers.
Buddy Cloud — Buddy Cloud is a health management service for dogs and cats.
SalesNow — SalesNow is a database company that helps users see the company's recruitment status, financing, and changes in the number of employees.

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