# Top 50 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in June 2026

## Venture United
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Travel, Content

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

## Monex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

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

## Incubate Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Hiroshima Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

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

## Recruit Strategic Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

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.

## Mizuho Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## Japan Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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

## Globis Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

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.

## JTB Corp.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Sales

One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism.

## SMBC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

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.

## B Dash Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Apps

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.

## Vector
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, Internet, Marketing

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.

## TLM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Content, SNS

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

## Angel Bridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Consulting

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

## VOYAGE VENTURES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Content

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.

## Mistletoe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile

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.

## Daiwa Corporate Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Task Management, Internet

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.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## 500 Startups Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

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

## Yamaguchi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Manufacturing, Software

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

## BASE Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Content, Marketing

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.

## Freebank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Muromachi, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CRM, Laser, Sales

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.

## Global Brain Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Beenos Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

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 

## SOURCENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Reservations, Travel, Software

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

## YJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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.

## Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

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

## Mitsui Fudosan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Content, Marketplace

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.

## snow peak
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sanjo, Niigata, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Media and Entertainment

Snow Peak is a brand manufacturer that proposes a lifestyle that is nature-oriented, such as camping, mountaineering, and natural life. Its products are designed to function reliably in the field and to last for years to come.
The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Sanjo, Niigata.

## Hoshino Resorts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagano, Nagano, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Heritage Global Investment Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Travel Accommodations

Heritage Global Investment Holdings is an investment firm.

## H.I.S.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Corporate Round, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Electric Vehicle

H.I.S. is engaged in the provision of related services for overseas and domestic travel. They provide overseas bookings, package tour management, air courier services, discount airline ticket booking, and other services.

## Kyoto Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C
- Focus: Retail, Medical, Elder Care

Kyoto Capital Partners is an investment company affiliated with the Bank of Kyoto.

## Gaiax
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Real Estate, Travel, Construction

Gaiax is a startup studio that focuses on social media and the sharing economy to connect people in order to solve social issues. The company is also actively investing in sharing economy services both inside and outside the company, as a result of social media penetration, and 60% of new graduates are growing as startup studios that produceentrepreneurs.

## Monozukuri Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Internet of Things

Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, Information Technology

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

## Kickstarter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Product Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consumer Electronics, Software, Fashion

Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

## Kemuri Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Agriculture

Kemuri Ventures is a Japanese venture capital firm.

## Suneight Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Social Media, E-Commerce

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

## GOLDEN EGG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Consulting, Recruiting

Golden Egg Ventures is a venture capital firm affiliated with Egg Forward, Inc.

## AZURE PLUS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Travel Agency, Service Industry

AZURE PLUS develops solution services centered on the IT business and media business.

## Sansei Capital Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Koto, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Content, Medical, Task Management

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

## VELTRA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, Consulting, Advertising

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!

## Slogan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Service Industry, Travel, Incubators

Slogan is a growth human capital that aims to create human-based ecosystem that generates new industries.

## NEC Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology

NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.

## Development Bank of Japan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Robotics, Renewable Energy, Information Technology

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.

## Nagoya TV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Content, Internet

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.

## Tsuneishi Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuyama, Tottori, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, SNS, Beauty

Tsuneishi Partners provides services and products in shipbuilding, shipping, environmental, energy, and services. With regard to product development, the company has a lineup of container carriers and tankers centered on bulk cargo ships to meet the needs of various markets.
It was established in 1917 and is based in Hiroshima, Japan.

## SBI Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services

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

## Chukyo TV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Content, Audio, Travel

JOCH-DTV, branded as Chukyo TV, is the Chukyo metropolitan area flagship station of the Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System (NNS), owned by Nippon Television Holdings through the Chukyo TV. Broadcasting Co., Ltd. Its studios are located in Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.

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