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Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Travel startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Travel startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Venture United
VC Fund
7 Japan Seed, Series A Software, Travel, Content $39k–$30M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$64M
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $362k–$113M
Kotaro Chiba
Angel
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Drones, Travel $700k–$213M
Yusuke Sato
Angel
4 Japan, Indonesia, United States Seed, Angel Content, Internet, Food and Beverage $320k–$43M
Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $7.1M–$638M
JTB Corp.
VC Fund
3 Japan, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Travel, Leisure, Sales $1.5M–$85M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Internet $2.7M–$553M
Hideto Fujino
Angel
3 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Travel, Reservations, Real Estate $2.6M–$43M
Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 Japan, India, Hong Kong Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $1.9M–$142M
Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $100k–$57M
Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan Series B, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $1.5M–$170M
Angel Bridge
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Seed Information Technology, Software, Consulting $746k–$170M
Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, India Series B, Seed Apps, Manufacturing, Software $4.1M–$992M
Ken Takayama
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Reservations, Travel, Apps $6.2M–$43M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Content, Food and Beverage
Vector
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia Seed, Corporate Round Software, Internet, Marketing $1.5M–$43M
Beenos Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile $535k–$51M
Mistletoe
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mobile $709k–$57M
Freebank
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A CRM, Laser, Sales
VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund
2 Japan, China, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Content $200k–$77M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Health Care, Software $4.5M–$425M
Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, France, Singapore Series A, Seed Software, Task Management, Internet $3.1M–$71M
Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, SNS, Software $497k–$41M
East Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
Yu Akasaka
Angel
2 Japan, Australia, Hong Kong Seed, Angel Content, Food and Beverage, Apps $425k–$68M
Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Series A Marketing, Travel, Reservations $8.5M–$45M
Paul Kuo
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Reservations, Travel, SaaS $43M–$43M
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3M–$369M
Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Travel, Reservations, SNS
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Taiwan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, Apps $229k–$928M
TLM
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Information Technology, Content, SNS $480k–$78M
BASE Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Content, Marketing $195k–$72M
SOURCENEXT
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States Seed, Angel, Series B Reservations, Travel, Software $43M–$43M
500 Startups Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Internet, Software, SaaS $2.8M–$300M
Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel
1 Japan, Germany Seed, Angel Shopping, Apps, Travel
Nissay Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Ethiopia Seed, Series A Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Series A, Series B SaaS, Internet, Financial Services
North Pacific Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Corporate Round Manufacturing, Financial Services, Staffing Agency
Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, Belgium Series A, Series B Content, Medical, Task Management
Mitsui Fudosan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Thailand Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Content, Marketplace
Mynavi
VC Fund
1 Japan, India, Vietnam Seed, Corporate Round Software, Marketing, Internet
Suneight Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, India Series A, Series B Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce
Hirofumi Miki
Angel
1 Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, Marketing, Internet
Hokuyo Bank
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B AgTech, Travel, Farming
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
Nagoya TV Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet
Mamoru Taniya
Angel
1 Japan, Singapore, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Content, FinTech $2.1M–$47M
UB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Hong Kong, United States Seed, Series B Information Technology, Software, Task Management
Enigmo
VC Fund
1 Japan, Singapore, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A, Series B Fashion, Art, Music $5.9M–$14M
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Venture United
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Travel startups

Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$21M; Series A $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

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.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$34M; Series A $4.3M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

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
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$48M; Series A $2.8M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
  • Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Travel startups

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Drones, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$43M; Series A $13M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Yusuke Sato
Angel · 4 investments in Japan Travel startups

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$43M; Angel $320k–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Globis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Series A $8.3M–$282M; Series B $7.1M–$638M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $534M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
  • Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
  • Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.
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JTB Corp.
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$57M; Series A $2.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Goodwings — Choose responsible travel options, track emissions, and offset them for free with Goodwings. Our sustainability-focused travel management system helps you travel responsibly while reducing your carbon footprint.
  • byFood.com — Food tours, cooking classes, dining experiences & tastings in Japan. Enjoy a meal in Japan and help children around the world thr
  • Tablecross — Tablecross is a Marketing consulting business for restaurants.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 439
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$156M; Series B $5.2M–$553M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

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.
  • LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
  • Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
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Hideto Fujino
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Reservations, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$43M; Series A $8M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.9M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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.
  • Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.
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Recruit Strategic Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$57M; Series B $6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Steady — Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income Home Page Steady Your Income
  • ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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Hiroshima Venture Capital
VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$23M; Series B $4.7M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
  • RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.
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Angel Bridge
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Angel Bridge is a angel investor groups in Japan and provide high quality and abundant funds to excellent companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$113M; Series A $746k–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.
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Yamaguchi Capital
VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm. Yamaguchi Capital Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is based in Yamaguchi-ken, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $10M–$81M; Series B $4.1M–$992M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M; Angel $6.2M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Software, Content, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
  • DrumRole Co — DrumRole Co is a process management services provider for the small factories and manufacturing industry.
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
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Vector
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$43M; Corporate Round $2.1M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
  • Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $10M–$51M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
  • Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
  • Delivered Korea — Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country.
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Mistletoe
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $709k–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
  • Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
  • 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.
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Freebank
VC Fund · Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Freebank provides funds, supports, and develops venture business managers with the aim of moving forward with the next decade. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Laser, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
  • ORENDA WORLD — ORENDA focuses on developing high-definition 3D simulation systems that apply gamification and real-time rendering technology.
  • QD Laser — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
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VOYAGE VENTURES
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Voyage Ventures is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China, and othergrowing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded on March 25, 2011, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$34M; Series A $1.4M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
  • Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
  • ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 513
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$170M; Series B $5.7M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
  • Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$14M; Series A $3.1M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Z-Works — "Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave.
  • NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, SNS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$41M; Angel $1M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
  • Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
  • Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Travel, Reservations
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $8.5M–$45M; Series A $14M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Paul Kuo
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 536
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
  • Ridge-i — Ridge-i is proposing and developing an appropriate combination of technologies including AI in various phases of the company.We provide AI technology optimized for business needs. Ridge-i features Ridge-i's comprehensive ability to realize impact at business sites, from AI consulting focusing on machine learning and deep learning, to solutiondevelopment.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Reservations, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $840k–$92M; Series A $229k–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
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TLM
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$21M; Angel $2M–$5.7M; Series B $11M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.9M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Mederi — Mederi is a FemTech company that operates Ubu, a women's wellness brand.
  • Requpo — Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
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BASE Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

BASE Partners is an independent venture capital organization organized by members who are professionals in each field such as managers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers and accountants, and who are also entrepreneurs at the same time.Early and middle, mainly in the seed stage before and after the establishment. Up to the stage, we invest inall entrepreneurs and their challenges, and we also provide hands-on management support to startups that lack resources, experience and networks as well as funding.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Content, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$21M; Series A $4.3M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabu — Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry.
  • Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
  • CLEAR INNOVATION — CLEAR INNOVATION Co., Ltd. is a technology company with the mission to "Turn the unconventional into the new normal." This reflects a commitment to reshaping standards by addressing and solving potential problems previously deemed unsolvable, and by establishing new de facto infrastructure for society. The company positions itself at theforefront of innovation, consistently pursuing solutions that others have given up on and challenging norms to create lasting positive change.
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SOURCENEXT
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

SOURCENEXT is principally engaged in the planning, development and sale of software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Reservations, Travel, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $43M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Owl Labs — Owl Labs is a collaborative tech company revolutionizing how the world communicates through inclusive and immersive video experiences. Built for modern organizations, we’re dedicated to empowering hybrid and remote teams with our award-winning collaborative technology and product suite.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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500 Startups Japan
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$21M; Series A $7.9M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koska — Koska is a service that automates highly accurate cost calculation without trouble in the IoT system.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
  • Pocket Concierge — Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Tsunezawa Kahoko

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shopping, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Menew — Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
  • Valise — Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.
  • Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Recruit Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Recruit Holdings is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in HR and recruitment services. Also, the company provides information services to help people discover opportunities for life. Their global network spans worldwide, including Asia, the U.S. and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Presto — Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Our enterprise-grade touch, vision, and voice technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests.
  • Mystifly — Mystifly is an anywhere-to-anywhere B2B global airfare marketplace with fares from 900+ airlines, multi-GDS and also 170+ LCCs, across 70+ points of sale countries across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The company focuses on applying the right mix of technology and inventive thought process to disrupt the air travel industry.
  • SKALE Labs — SKALE is a 100% decentralized network that will bring the power of Ethereum to billions of users through a world of interconnected, limitless SKALE chains.
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North Pacific Bank
VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

North Pacific Bank provides various banking products and services for individuals and corporations in Japan. It offers deposits, and negotiable certificates of deposit, as well as loans. North Pacific Bank also offers ATM, foreign exchange, and investment trust services. It operates 171 branches and 3 overseas representative offices. HokuyoSogo Bank that began operation in 1917 became North Pacific Bank in 1989. It has its headquarters in 1917, with its headquarters in Sapporo in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Staffing Agency
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezowin — Ezowin is a management firm dedicated to developing agricultural products and connecting Japanese agriculture to future generations.
  • Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
  • Forest Digital — Forest Digital is a media company that provides video, presentation, animation, and VR production services.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, China, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
  • 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.
  • Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
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Mitsui Fudosan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (三井不動産株式会社 Mitsui Fudōsan Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a major real estate developer in Japan. Mitsui Fudosan is one of the core companies of Mitsui Group.The Mitsui Fudosan Group, in pursuing its mission to “bring affluence and comfort to urban living,” aims to provide services that satisfy customers by fully understandingdiversifying customer needs and desires, and creating new value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Content, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Axelspace Holdings — 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.
  • Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Mynavi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Japan, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
  • Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.
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Suneight Investment
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Suneight is a independent Venture Capital firm that invests and supports business development of all the stages of the venture companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
  • Virohan — Virohan is India's leading professional training partner of NSDC, providing paramedical diploma courses in MLT, OTT, HA, etc for 12th pass and graduates.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
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Hokuyo Bank
VC Fund · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Hokuyo Bank provides various products and services to support its customers' needs for raising funds necessary for their business activities. It supports the efficiency and rationalization of customers' financial and accounting operations by providing various solutions to meet a wide range of their needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Travel, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Akan Adventure Tourism — Akan Adventure Tourism creates, promotes, and markets activities for tourists in the adventure-tourism segment, with the goal of attracting overnight visitors by using the world-class natural resources of the Lake Akan Hot Spring and its surrounding area.As a company providing guidance to this region with earning potential (that is, creating andmaintaining business models, increasing employment and the population, and creating resources for destination marketing organizations (DMO) who do not rely completely on the government). The company aims to maximize the value of the Lake Akan Hot Spring (by finding clients who highly value the magic of the Lake Akan Hot Spring, or, in other words, by creating activities that target adventure tourists seeking high-value-added adventures).
  • Farmnote holdings Japan — Firm Note Holdings Co., Ltd., established in December 2016, is a pure holding company with SkyArc Co., Ltd., which operates the web integration business, and Farm Note Co., Ltd., which operates the agricultural IoT solution business.
  • Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.
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Innovation Network Corporation of Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) is a public-private partnership aimed at promoting innovation and enhancing value.Leveraging the rich history of Japanese technological prowess, INCJ aims to provide financial, technological and management support in order to promote the creation of next-generation businesses through “openinnovation,” or the flow of technology and expertise beyond the boundaries of existing organizational structures.INCJ will draw on funding as well as management and technological expertise from the public and private sectors. INCJ is actively reviewing various investment opportunities in areas of green energy, electronics, IT and biotechnology to infrastructure-related sectors such as water supply. Each investment will be thoroughly vetted to ensure it meets the exacting standards of INCJ's Innovation Network Committee, which will make the final investment decisions.INCJ is capitalized at 280 billion yen, with the Japanese government injecting 266 billion yen and 26 private corporations (refer to details in Appendix below) providing a further 14 billion yen. The government will also provide guarantees up to a total of 1,800 billion yen for INCJ investments, giving it an investment capability of approximately 2,000 billion yen. INCJ will be established for a period of 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudian — Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
  • Seajacks — Great Yarmouth based Seajacks owns and operates self-propelled jack-up vessels which safely and efficiently install and maintain offshore wind farms worldwide. Equipped to service the demands of the offshore energy industry, Seajacks Kraken, Leviathan, Hydra, Zaratan and Scylla are all capable of working independently or in tandem. Utilizingdynamic positioning for fast and efficient rig moves, without the use of tugs gives Seajacks year-round operating capability in harsh conditions. Seajacks’ on and offshore crews work in full conjunction with every client, looking to provide the most cost-effective solutions in the safest environments possible.
  • Vehicle Energy Japan — Vehicle Energy Japan specializes in development, manufacturing and sales of automotive lithium-ion batteries.
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Nagoya TV Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Nagoya TV Ventures is wholly owned by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, invests in everything from seed to later stage in companies focused on media, entertainment, video, and internet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gatari — Gatari is developing an AR audio platform, including the AR camera app Vismuth, which can call avatars in reality.
  • Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
  • Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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UB Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

UB Ventures is venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Task Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Monoxer — Monoxer is a Information Technology.
  • Commune — Commmune is a co-creation marketing tool that enables the acquisition and use of user insights around the user community. The company's service "commmune" provides a community environment to improve user engagement for companies that provide services using SaaS and subscription models with the goal of reducing churn rates. By usingthe service, companies can centrally communicate their information and interact with users. In addition, companies that issue member accounts can also implement single sign-on (SSO) by linking the service with their member database. Set incentives according to conditions, such as giving a certain point when a core user posts useful information to other users, or giving a certain point when a light user shares information It is possible to create an environment in which PDCA can be rotated at a high speed by activating communication between companies and users and analyzing them alone or in conjunction with MA tools and CRM tools.
  • Imaginostics — Our technology, QUTE-CE MRI (pronounced “cute-see”), quantifies vascular structure, function, and leakage anywhere in the body. This breakthrough heralds a new understanding of the vascular pathophysiology of disease while providing clinical scientists new tools for drug development and evaluation of therapeutics. After raising an initial $1M seedround and validating its technology in pre-clinical trials, Imaginostics now seeks to raise $3M to conduct clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital and begin commercialization. Despite more than 40M MRI scans performed each year in the US, 70% of cancers are detected late and no neurodegenerative disease is detected early. Conventional gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) MRI scans lack the quantitative precision necessary for measuring biomarkers that can predict future onset of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other forms of cognitive impairment. In preclinical studies, our patented biomarkers were able to map blood-brain barrier leakage due to mild head impact using less than half the number of subjects required by conventional DCE-MRI, with a significant improvement in the clustering of the control and experimental groups into non-overlapping segments seen in the results.
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Enigmo
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Travel startups

Enigmo is a web start-up, based in Shibuya, Tokyo. The company offers various web services for both the wired Internet and cell phones. It expanded its operations to overseas markets by bringing pressblog, a marketing promotion service for blogs to Korea. BuyMa, a shopping platform, has users in more than 50 countries. In September 2007,Enigmo localized their user-driven blog promotion and video service "rollmio" into English.Currently, the company has plans to also offer their social sharing service "Sharemo" in an international version.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Art, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $5.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
  • SHAREDINE — SHAREDINE is a Food and Beverage start up.
  • Surf Music — SURF Music is a 2-sided digital marketplace and collaboration ecosystem for music makers and buyers to sell/procure unreleased demos across the global entertainment industry.
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Travel Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 137 deals from 250 investors.

250
investors
in Japan Travel startups
137
deals
in Japan Travel startups
$11M
median round
in Japan Travel startups
20%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Seed
most common funding stage
83/17
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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