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

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

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

Investor Travel Japan investments
Monex Ventures 5
Venture United 4
Japan Finance Corporation 3
Recruit Strategic Partners 3
Globis Capital Partners 3
Incubate Fund 3
JTB Corp. 3
Mizuho Capital 3
Freebank 2
ANOBAKA 2
Mistletoe 2
Vector 2
SMBC Venture Capital 2
Beenos Partners 2
B Dash Ventures 2
SOURCENEXT 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
Yamaguchi Capital 2
Angel Bridge 2
TLM 2
500 Startups Japan 2
Hiroshima Venture Capital 2
BASE Partners 2
VOYAGE VENTURES 2
Monozukuri Ventures 1
QB Capital 1
Hokuyo Bank 1
Nissay Capital 1
Recruit Holdings 1
Suneight Investment 1
VELTRA 1
AZURE PLUS 1
Hoshino Resorts 1
Vision Japan 1
Japan Airlines (JAL) 1
North Pacific Bank 1
Development Bank of Japan 1
Mynavi 1
Kemuri Ventures 1
Mobile Internet Capital 1
Nextblue 1
JA Mitsui Leasing 1
YJ Capital 1
PR Times 1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 1
Slogan 1
Mitsui Fudosan 1
NEC Corporation 1
Hokkaido Bank 1
Kickstarter 1
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Monex Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan
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
  • 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
Venture United VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Venture United is a provider of venture capital for entrepreneurs, especially for internet-related businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ZEST — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
  • Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
  • Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.
Recruit Strategic Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Japan, India
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.
Globis Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
JTB Corp. VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Leisure, Sales
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Denmark
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.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
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
Freebank VC Fund · Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • CRM, IT Management, Video Conferencing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
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.
  • QD Laser, Inc. — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
  • Digital Cruise — Digital Cruise Provides cloud services for video distribution and digital signage.
ANOBAKA VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 14 investments 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
  • 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.
Mistletoe VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Mobile
  • 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.
  • Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
  • 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.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 49 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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
Beenos Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
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.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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
SOURCENEXT VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SOURCENEXT is principally engaged in the planning, development and sale of software.
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Investment focus
  • Reservations, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Japan, United States
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.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
  • Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
Yamaguchi Capital VC Fund · Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Apps, Manufacturing, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
  • 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.
  • Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.
Angel Bridge VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Consulting, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
  • 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.
  • Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
TLM VC Fund
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • nanameue, Inc. — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
  • Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
500 Startups Japan VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • 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.
Hiroshima Venture Capital VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.
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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.
BASE Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Manufacturing, Task Management, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabu — Sabu is an online work agency that offers back-office operations, web production, and outsourcing services for the dental care industry.
  • Utill — Utill is anything that expands the possibilities of not only production but also our own services
  • Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
VOYAGE VENTURES VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • Software, Internet, Content
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, China, Germany
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.
Monozukuri Ventures VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
  • ImaCreate — ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system.
  • Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
QB Capital VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Zip Infrastructure — Inquiry : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDmxd1TpPP331TY4VoRsvn0yWX3Ca5Jd-bfBiuPwvpD2SKtA/viewform
  • Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
Hokuyo Bank VC Fund
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
  • AgTech, Travel, Farming
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, 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
Recruit Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
  • SaaS, Internet, Financial Services
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
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.
Suneight Investment VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan, India
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.
VELTRA VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
VELTRA is a site dedicated to local tours where you can book over 14,000 kinds of overseas optional tours. A wide range of genres that can be participated overseas such as sightseeing tours, world heritage sightseeing, marine sports, diving, golf, spa and esthetics, dinner cruise, show entertainment, etc. are enriched!
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Consulting, Advertising
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
AZURE PLUS VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
AZURE PLUS develops solution services centered on the IT business and media business.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Travel Agency, Service Industry
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Hoshino Resorts VC Fund · Nagano, Nagano, Japan
Hoshino Resorts version of Japan Luxe, presenting unforgettable journey to places of unrivaled Japanese beauty. imagine yourself in a traditional inn by a river with beautiful scenery or at a grand hotel atop a hill overlooking the ocean, soaking in a quality hot spring to soothe your body and mind.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Matcha Japan — MATCHA is a web magazine for travelers to Japan. It covers 9 languages: Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, 한국어, ภาษาไทย, Indonesian, Việt Nam, etc.
Vision Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Vision is an international standard for information security management systems.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism, Social News
  • Corporate Round, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • TourBase — TOUR BASE, which creates a super tourism nation Nippon, is the base of travel Naka.The tour base operates a tourism logistics platform with the vision of “Creating a super tourism nation Nippon”. Travel Naka base will be set up in the sightseeing spots in Japan to build a micro logistics network specialized in sightseeing spots.
  • AdInte — AdInte provides online and o2o advertisement solution which focus on mobile internet in Japan and South Korea.
  • Pocket Change — Pocket Change exchanges foreign currencies to/from electronic money.
Japan Airlines (JAL) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Airlines provides airline services in Japan and internationally. The company offers scheduled and non-scheduled air transportation services, and aerial work services. It operates a fleet of 174 owned and 48 leased aircraft. Its main hubs are Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and Tokyo International Airport as well as Osaka’s KansaiInternational Airport and Osaka International Airport.The company was founded by Professor Dr. Walter Leal Filho, at European Sustainability Science School of Research and Education
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Series A, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerX — PowerX strives to build a sustainable energy ecosystem to drive the world's transition to a decarbonized future.
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
  • Matter — Redefining the present, Reimagining the future.
North Pacific Bank VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Manufacturing, Financial Services, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Marugoto — Marugoto is a human resource company that engages in offering recruitment support and back office services.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Interstellar Technologies — Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service.
Development Bank of Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Development Bank of Japan is an integrated investment and loan service provider to domestic and international clients. They will support sustainability management that balances economic and social value and will help to realize a sustainable society.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Robotics, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • Estie — Estie is a Development of AI / machine learning algorithm and new business in real estate company.
  • AALTO HAPS — The AALTO Zephyr is the most persistent fixed-wing High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) on the planet, capable of flying in the stratosphere for days, weeks, months at a time.
  • CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Mynavi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mynavi Corporation provides information services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • Unstop — Unstop is an Early Talent Engagement & Hiring Platform with a community of ~4.5 Mn Students, Freshers, and 0-5 years Working Professionals. It enables companies to brand, source, engage, assess & hire talent #BeyondBoundaries from any college. In the process, student and early professionals get to explore opportunities and #GoBeyondResumes.Established in 2019 by Mr. Ankit Aggarwal as a blog called Dare2Compete, the idea was to give easy access to accurate information about corporate and student-organised competitions, challenges and festivals. 4 years on, Dare2Compete is now known as Unstop and is democratising hiring. A vision supported by strong pillars What was once a blog is now a thriving mutli-vertical ecosystem, which empowers students to showcase their skills, refine them; gain CV points, and eventually get recognized, rewarded, and hired in their dream companies. Unstop does this through - Learn, Practice, Mentorship, Compete, and Jobs.On one hand, students are empowered to enter the workforce and contribute to nation-building, on the other hand, companies get to source, engage, assess and hire these #Unstoppables through new-age hiring and engagement solutions. Leading brands such as Reliance, FedEx, Uber, Flipkart, Amazon, Kotak, PwC and others interact with students and early professionals at Unstop. First-of-its-kind super-app in the hiring spaceUnstop has over the years built solutions that revolutionises each phase of the hiring and engagement funnel. An organisation can complete their hiring from start to finish all on a single platform. Brand - No code custom microsite to engage and attract ~4.5 Mn students and early professionals across domains. Source - Job and internship listings bundled with a remote hiring platform. Engage - End-to-end execution of campus engagement solutions such as quiz, hackathons, hiring challenges, case study and innovation challenges. Assess - Coding, non-technical, domain specific and wide range of assessments to choose from. Hire - A remote hiring platform that allows access and an overview of the hiring funnel to the entire team, all on one platform. Our Moat: ~4.5 Mn community of students and professionals. Tech Platform can be created within days. But communities and behaviors like Whatsapp, Insta, LinkedIn, etc. takes ages.
  • 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.
  • 1Office — 1Office is an enterprise management software company that provides a toolkit for businesses in digital transformation solutions.
Kemuri Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AlgaleX — AlgaleX is a firm that utilizes discarded food waste to create ingredients such as plant-based proteins.
  • HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
  • Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
Mobile Internet Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • KAKEAI — KAKEAI, an AIcloud system that improves the status of member management in the middle management layer as its main business.
  • Katagrma — KatagrMa is the first organization that optimizes the organization and human resources development.
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Nextblue VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nextblue is a Tokyo and Berlin based early-stage Venture Capital investing in disruptive and impact-driven startups in Japan and EU
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • kencko — kencko started with the simple belief that organic fruits and vegetables should be available anytime, anywhere, in any shape or format. kencko is on a mission to reinvent fresh organic fruits and vegetables into convenient products that are hassle-free to consume while preserving all the goodness of freshly harvested produce.
  • Bento — Create a beautiful page to show your audience everything you are, create, and sell in one link. Designed in Berlin.
  • Bento — Discover the people and stories behind the coolest projects, and share how you've built yours.
JA Mitsui Leasing VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
JA Mitsui Leasing is a leasing company combining the features of an organization linked to an affiliate.
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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.
YJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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
PR Times VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Boasts more than two million monthly PV, share NO.1 of press release distribution listing services. Including monthly 100 million PV or more of the leading newspaper and communications company Web site, Japan's leading media functions that can be posted to the release to the features. The Facebook fan number of PR TIMES 4 million people morethan, followers number of Twitter accounts has become a 10 006 thousand people than, it is also effective in information diffusion in SNS.
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Investment focus
  • News, Travel, Database
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • The Bridge — Tech and Startup News from Japan
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 61 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, 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
Slogan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Slogan is a growth human capital that aims to create human-based ecosystem that generates new industries.
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Investment focus
  • Service Industry, Travel, Incubators
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • BoostIO — MAISIN&CO makes meetings efficient. MAISIN&CO was founded in 2014.
  • Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
Mitsui Fudosan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Content, Marketplace
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, United States, Thailand
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.
  • NIHON AGRI — 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.
NEC Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
  • Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
  • Vibe Video — We are creating the first of its kind ai driven app that will allow creatives to have a critical analysis of their music paired with visuals.
Hokkaido Bank VC Fund · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Hokkaido Bank is offers banking and financial services.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism, Hospitality
  • Seed
  • Japan
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).
Kickstarter VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer Electronics, Software, Fashion
  • Product Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Naked Root — Naked Root generates technology that makes it simple to grow plants.
  • IFO Corporation — A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
  • Uptime Industries — Lemony is a secure, on-premise generative AI platform that delivers organization-wide trust, ownership, and transparency in AI. It provides all AI needs in a box, on-premise, fully private and secure, no cloud access required - $499/mth for up to 5 users. Start exploring organization-specific AI on a desk with a single Lemony Box (Node), andscale for larger teams and increased multi-model usage with multiple Lemony Nodes. All business data are securely grounded in.
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