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Top 30 Video Games VC Funds & Investors in Japan (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Japan Video Games startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Video Games startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
East Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $649k–$38M
JAFCO
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$425M
BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Australia Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain $2M–$40M
Deep30
VC Fund
2 Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Content $2.1M–$156M
Z Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Content $1.4M–$255M
Kyoto University of the Arts
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Gaming, Video Games, Machine Learning $8.5M–$33M
01Booster
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Gaming, Video Games $3.9M–$33M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Taiwan, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, Apps $229k–$928M
Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, Internet $1.1M–$89M
Presence Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Software $1.1M–$120M
Sisu Game Ventures
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States, Iceland Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $576k–$38M
FTX Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $250k–$135M
Miraidoa
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Myanmar Seed, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $933k–$125M
Japan Asia Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, China Series B, Series C Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care $5M–$283M
mixi
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Apps, Information Technology $6.4M–$794M
iFund
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Apps, Music, Gaming
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Incubate Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $362k–$113M
Gumi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Taiwan, Finland Seed, Series A Video, Gaming, Content $810k–$142M
HAKOBUNE
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series A Sales, Video, Gaming $4.5M–$33M
NES Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Food and Beverage, B2C $1.4M–$38M
BIGLOBE Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan, Taiwan Seed Mobile, Content, Marketing $1.1M–$14M
Fuji Startup Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, China, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, News, Internet $1.2M–$28M
AG Capital
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Internet $1M–$71M
JVIC VENTURE CAPITAL
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Mobile, Content, Marketing
K&P Partners
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Content, CRM, Finance $5.7M–$13M
SG INCUBATE
VC Fund
1 Japan Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Logistics $4.7M–$45M
KDDI
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, South Korea Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Internet $3.3M–$950M
DeNA
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Content, Internet $1.2M–$142M
Kulture
VC Fund
1 Japan Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Video Games
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Video Games 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: 443
  • Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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.
  • Lanturn — Register your business in Singapore globally. From incorporation services Singapore to business registration for foreigners & locals, we handle it all.
  • Rekosistem — Rekosistem is a Clean- & Climate-Tech Company that enables circular economy implementation in the waste supply chain by leveraging proprietary waste management operation systems to transform waste into recycled materials and renewable resources.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Since its founding in 1973, JAFCO has always worked with leading-edge entrepreneurs. The total capital commitments of its investment funds in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000. In addition to venture investment, JAFCO also carries out buyout investment and commit to thecreations of innovative technologies and services worldwide. As entrepreneurs’ closest partner in bringing their visions to life, JAFCO provides support in areas of HR, marketing/ sales, and back-office operations, in addition to providing financing.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$255M; Series B $8.3M–$425M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
  • QREATION — QREATION is a digital intellectual property studio specializing in producing a wide range of popular content that originates primarily from social media platforms. The company focuses on creating high-quality short-form entertainment, including short dramas, comedy sketches, and variety shows.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Video Games startups

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $4.2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Studio 369 — METALCORE is a free-to-play, first-person/third-person multiplayer mechanized combat game powered by towering War Machines fighting for dominance in large-scale battles.
  • Laguna Games — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
  • Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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Deep30
VC Fund · Kuramae, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Deep30 is specializing in AI technologies such as deep learning that consists of individuals connected to the University of Tokyo’s Matsuo Lab, which is famous for AI research.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series B $83M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
  • Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
  • Polaris.AI — Polaris.AI offers AI contract development, support and AI technology education services.
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$33M; Series A $2M–$142M; Series B $1.6M–$255M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
  • PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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Kyoto University of the Arts
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Kyoto University of Art and Design is one of leading art and design universities in Japan and has the highest number of students among domestic art schools at the undergraduate and graduate schools (including correspondence education). The university is located in the north-east area of Kyoto city, near historical cultural sites such as Ginkakujitemple, Manshu-in temple, Shisen-do temple, and Shugaku-in Imperial Villa. Excluding the field of music, the university covers almost all areas of art and design, including graphic design, animation, manga, film, fashion design, jewelry design, interior design, architecture design, landscape design, performing arts, fine arts, among others. In the school’s 37 years of history, many graduates have gone on and actively contributed to their areas of art and design both in and outside of Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $8.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miibo — miibo is an AI construction platform that allows businesses to develop conversational AI bots for their products and websites.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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01Booster
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

01Booster is an incubator and accelerator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ReEir — ReEir is a research firm that develops global regenerative medicine and cell therapy products for ulcer patients.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games 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: 88
  • 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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Mobile Internet Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$47M; Series A $3M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
  • Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
  • NanoFrontier — NanoFrontier continues to market technologies that are widely available and incredibly inexpensive.
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Presence Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Presence Capital is a venture fund investing in early-stage augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Finland, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • TRIPP — Eyes open. Mind Open. World open. Experience a world of awe and wonder with TRIPP.
  • Sandbox VR — Step inside a new dimension and experience a new reality with your friends. See, touch, and hear. VR as it was meant to be. Sandbox VR, In Here, It's Possible.
  • Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
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Sisu Game Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $576k–$4.6M; Series A $6.1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • emptyvessel — Emptyvessel is a gaming community that helps in crafting the new horizons of gaming.
  • Seven Stars — De perfecte match in IT. Die maken wij. Als IT-flex regisseur en specialist in IT-bemiddeling verbinden we professionals met de beste IT-opdrachten. Snel, soepel en zonder gedoe. We make IT spark.
  • Antihero Studios — Antihero Studios creates multiplayer mobile games focused on social interaction and community engagement.
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FTX Ventures
VC Fund · Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

For builders, by builders. We back great teams building great products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$14M; Series A $9M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tactic — Tactic helps companies that hold or interact with cryptocurrencies manage their finances in a clean, compliant way. The platform provides a clear view of an organization's treasury and a robust transaction audit trail in an accounting-friendly format. Tactic works seamlessly with existing custody solutions including Gnosis Safe and traditionalfinancial software like QuickBooks.
  • Martian — Martian provides to store, send, receive tokens and manage & mint NFTs in a secure.
  • Edge Tradeworks — Edge Tradeworks is a marketplace platform that offers an easier and more efficient way to whole loan trading. The platform facilitates whole loan trading via algorithmic counterparty matching, sophisticated loan analytics, and online price negotiation. It also offers an innovative solution to increase profitability, enhance asset-liabilitymanagement, and expand footprint.Loan Transactions and Technologyreplaces the manual, an opaque, and slow process used by banks and credit unions to buy and sell loans with an automated and transparent platform filled with unparalleled analytical resources. Their mission is to provide their clients with simple control over their own trades.
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Miraidoa
VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tear Exo — Tear Exo is a biotechnology research company that produces and sells liquid biopsy using materials for molecular recognition.
  • TelaAxon — TelaAxon develops artificial intelligence technology for sustainable operations, enhancing human-AI coexistence, safety, and wellness.
  • Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
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Japan Asia Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

JAIC is Japan's largest independent venture capital firm and has accumulated experience and know-how over a period of 15 years as a pioneer of venture capital investments in Asia. Building on such strengths, they are establishing a globally linked organization that pursues investment opportunities centering on the three regions of Japan, Asia,and the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Japan, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$283M; Series C $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FacePeer — FacePeer is looking for people who want to challenge at startup.
  • REGiMMUNE — REGiMMUNE Corporation is a private biopharmaceutical company developing innovative solutions for treating immune disorders caused by nonspecific and/or excessive immune reactions. REGiMMUNE uses its proprietary technology platform, reVax (reverse vaccination), to target immune tolerance against specific disease-causing antigens throughinduction of regulatory T cells (Treg). This technology has potential applications in a number of immune system disorders and diseases including Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Currently, the company has one clinical-stage compound in a Phase I/II trial in the United States (RGI-2001) as a treatment for GvHD associated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and has a second product in preclinical development (RGI-3001) as a new treatment for T1DM. In addition, it has a number of well-differentiated compounds in its research-stage pipeline.In healthy individuals, the normal immune system works to protect humans from disease-causing viruses, bacterium, and cancers; or foreign antigens such as peanuts, wheat and tree pollens. Conventional immunosuppressants have several significant side effects associated with long-term administration including risk of infection, toxicity and relapse. Products developed with ReVax technology are expected to reduce or eliminate such side effects as well as reduce long-term treatment.
  • Integral Geometry Science — Integral Geometry Science is a specialized manufacturer of measuring equipment and signal / image processing software.
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mixi
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Mixi is a Japanese social networking service that allows users to connect with their friends in a convenient way.It enables users to send and receive messages, write in a diary, read and comment on others' diaries, organize and join communities, and invite their friends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Apps, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$794M; Series B $6.4M–$283M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Anique — Anique is a service that utilizes blockchain technology to make artworks.
  • Inspire High — Inspire High is an online school for 13-19 year olds to meet unanswered questions.
  • Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
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iFund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
  • YUIMEX — YUIMEX specializes in copyright, digital content, animation, and network entertainment services.
  • Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • Omnis — OMNIS
  • Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games 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: 269
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$46M; Series A $5.2M–$113M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021

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.
  • 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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Gumi Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$38M; Series A $5.7M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $294M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Breaker — Breaker is Japan's global digital studio.
  • New standard — NEW STANDARD Co., Ltd. moves society through three STUDIO businesses, and provides ideas that the millennials are enthusiastic and solutions for business issues for companies and brands.
  • inXile Entertainment — inXile-entertainment.com is the home for inXile entertainment, developer of Wasteland 2, The Bard's Tale, Torment: Tides of Numenera, and The Mage's Tale video games.
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HAKOBUNE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

HAKOBUNE is an independent venture capital business that invests in outliers and misfits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sales, Video, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lokiar — Lokiar is a logistics network that links ports, manufacturers, and warehouses with customers.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
  • Japan GX Group — Shibuya Blend Green Energy platform analyzes company processes and resources, recommends and plans improvement initiatives, and addresses corporate ESG challenges, assisting companies in balancing business and environmental protection.
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NES Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

NES Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$38M; Series A $24M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
  • Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
  • Foodies Prime — Foods Prime provides restaurant reservations using a mobile app that includes tools for foodies to browse and invite dinner parties exclusively to members.
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BIGLOBE Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

BIGLOBE Capital was founded in 2007

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Content, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.
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Fuji Startup Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Fuji Startup Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings, specializes in startup to early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, News, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, China, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$28M; Series A $4.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $736M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Tasogare — Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee.
  • The ROOM4D — The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company.
  • PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
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AG Capital
VC Fund · Shiba, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

AG Capital is an investment firm that provides investment and property management solutions for middle-size businesses. The company was founded on December 12, 1985 and its headquarters are located in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$71M; Series A $14M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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JVIC VENTURE CAPITAL
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

JVIC VENTURE CAPITAL engages in the venture capital investment and consulting business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Content, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.
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K&P Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

K&P Partners is an independent venture capital firm investing in digital technology and media companies. Kamio Hideaki and Shinya Matsumura co-founded the Tokyo, Tokyo-based firm in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, CRM, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Manabi-aid — Manabi-aid is an internet based company.The aim of the learning aid master is really simple and clear.This is a challenge to "improve the student's academic ability".Not to mention the limitations of group lessons. This is because the polarization of so-called "children who can" and "children who do not" isprogressing.
  • Robot Start — RobotStart is a company specializing in robot related business with the main target of communication robot. The company was established in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
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SG INCUBATE
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

SG Incubation was born as an investment company for the formation of corporate venture capital (CVC), which invests in Kyushu's first startup company.Regardless of the stage of growth, the startup company that will be the investor will first value the “human nature” of the manager, determine whether it is a company that should support thefuture, and provide capital and management back up. The Seibu Gas Group will continue to aim for new business areas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Logistics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series A $17M–$43M; Series B $4.7M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BI Brid — BI Brid provides IT solutions and services for the medical industry.
  • Tenchijin — Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data.
  • ORENDA WORLD — ORENDA focuses on developing high-definition 3D simulation systems that apply gamification and real-time rendering technology.
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KDDI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services. It also has a ownership stake in two Japanesecable television companies, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) and Japan Cablenet (JCN). KDDI's mobile phone and web arm is branded as "au". The company is the current No. 2 in Japan's mobile communications market, trailing NTT DoCoMo and ahead of SoftBank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $8.5M–$950M; Series B $3.3M–$638M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
  • Lebo Robotics — Lebo Robotics is an inspection robot for the maintenance of wind power generation blades.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tane — Dubai/NYC/Tokyo-based crypto-focused investment research firm. Investing in the Future of Decentralization.
  • Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Kulture
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Japan Video Games startups

Kulture invests in enterprises to collaborate on entertainment development and encourage the creation of new in-house services, intellectual property, and performers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Metaverse, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Video Games VC funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 52 deals from 124 investors.

124
investors
in Japan Video Games startups
52
deals
in Japan Video Games startups
$14M
median round
in Japan Video Games startups
19%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage

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