Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Japan (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Eric Di Benedetto
Angel
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5 | United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs | $1.8M–$6M |
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel
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3 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Finance, Content | $320k–$28M |
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Sotaro Karasawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence | $109k–$14M |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Information Technology, Content, Software | $137k–$19M |
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Kazutaka Muraguchi
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Komura Fujio
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Ethereum, Marketing | |
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Takayuki Sugiura
Angel
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2 | Japan, India | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Finance | $457k–$800k |
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Osamu Ogasawara
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Content, Fashion, Finance | $19k–$28M |
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Toshihiro Inoki
Angel
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2 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Content, Fashion | |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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2 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $19k–$5.7M |
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Ken Suzuki
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | SNS, Hotel, Travel | $320k–$3.7M |
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Oki Matsumoto
Angel
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2 | Japan, Taiwan, Australia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $136k–$1.8M |
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Nikita Bier
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Mobile Apps | $2M–$33M |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $134k–$47M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $252k–$2M |
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Muraguchi Tomotaka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $375k–$385k |
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Bo Shen
Angel
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1 | United States, Switzerland, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.8M–$3.3M |
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Tomokaz Saito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel | Finance, Security, Blockchain | |
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Yamazaki Reijiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | CRM, Finance, Security | |
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Ziqi Jerry Zhou
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Security, Blockchain, Network Security | |
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Michael Carter
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Music, Dating | $850k–$1M |
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Howard Lindzon
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $450k–$50M |
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Mayumi Hara
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Blockchain, Information Technology | |
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Fujiyo Ishiguro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B | Content, Marketing, Blockchain | |
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Amin Azumude
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Apps, Finance, Artificial Intelligence | $86k–$3M |
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Taiga Matsuyama
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Analytics | $250k–$9.2M |
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Shinji Kimura
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $150k–$220M |
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Nick Plante
Angel
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1 | Gibraltar, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | |
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Lanham Napier
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Private Equity | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$175M |
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Joshua S. Levine
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech | |
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Gaku Saito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management | |
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $450k–$40M |
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Batara Eto
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $2.6M–$7.1M |
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Aerospace, Education | $329k–$7.7M |
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Jay Zaveri
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$6B |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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1 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series B, Angel | Apps, Sports, Content | $134k–$221M |
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Hironao Kunimitsu
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Virtual Reality, Content, Internet | $320k–$2.6M |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $329k–$28M |
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Kei Yoshikoshi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) | |
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Matt Maser
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Banking, Blockchain | |
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Mizuki Inoue
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | CRM, Finance, Security | $268k–$3M |
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Justin Waldron
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Chile | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $50k–$5.3M |
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James Gong
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain | |
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Ryutaro Katayama
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Art, Blockchain, Information Technology | |
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Koki Yabu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Finance, Data Mining | $1.7M–$3M |
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Louis Beryl
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $31k–$14M |
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Brian Norgard
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $750k–$15M |
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Dai Tamesue
Angel
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1 | Japan | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Sports, Health Care | |
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Private investor at the crossroads of finance & technology: seed, private & public, hedge and other alternatives. Over 30 IPOs and M&A exits in excess of $13 billion in aggregate value...Professional investor in software start-ups for over 25 years, first as a VC, then as a professional angel investor. Specialties include technologyinnovation in financial services, AI and mobile services. Most recent primary focus: disruptive financial technologies with massive impact. Original investor in Lending Club - the world's largest P2P lending marketplace -, Clairmail, now Monitise - the world's leader in mobile banking and mobile money -, Signio, now PayPal - the world's leader in online and mobile payments -, Sentient Technologies - a company seeking to solve the world’s most complex problems through massively scaled artificial intelligence -, etc.Currently, investor in such companies as: Alpaca, Aromyx, Coursekey, Fuzzy, GoShare, GraphWear, Jyve, LeadCrunch, PeerIQ, QMerit, Sentient, Siftery...Please have your project referred and strongly supported by one of my LinkedIn network connections for consideration.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $5.7M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $876k–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $510k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
- Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Sotaro Karasawa - Chief Technology Officer @ STAR FESTIVAL
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $109k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
- Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
- OPERA TECH — OPERA Lead is a sales-focused AI web chatbot service from Opera Technology that turns websites into 24/7 "exhibit booths" for lead generation.It deploys AI sales assistants on existing sites (via simple tag embedding, no redesign needed) to engage the 99% of visitors who don't convert via inbound methods alone. Key capabilitiesinclude direct booking of meetings, guiding users to whitepapers/webinars, and targeted lead qualification for efficient deal progression.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $215k–$19M; Series A $841k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $137k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Kazutaka Muraguchi is a VC at Nippon Technology Venture Partners. He Attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
- Gruff — Graph Co., Ltd. is a database renovation and AI algorithm development venture established by Harada Hiroe, a data scientist of the year award winner.Artificial intelligence-based business monetization support CRM support application development and operation Database commissioning development AI algorithm development.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Komura Fujio
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- Industry: Content, Ethereum, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ginkan — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.
Takayuki Sugiura is an information security expert, he researches and develops security in various fields such as the Internet, smartphones, virtual currencies, information leakage, and IoT.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $457k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neukind — Make it Neukind
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Kids Snack Lab — Kids Snack Lab is a food manufacturing firm that produces and sells nutritional sweets for children.
Osamu Ogasahara is the founder, CEO, and president of FGN ABBA Lab.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $380k–$28M; Angel $64k–$474k; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$363k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- One Nova — One Nova is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
Graduated from Keio University, Department of Political Science and Law. 1998 Registered as an attorney. 2004: Mitsui & Co., Ltd. was established. Participated as a partner. 2006 Lecturer, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science. In 2011, Inoki Law Office was established. Currently Director, Creative CommonsJapan, Outside Director of SAKURA Internet, Representative Director of Cyberbond, Mercari External AuditorHe assumed the position of.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $182k–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$184k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.
As SmartNews’s Co-CEO, Ken is responsible for its business and corporate operations, as well as its product vision and strategy. Ken co-founded SmartNews with Kaisei Hamamoto in 2012, and has been a member of the board of directors since then. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in complex systems from the University of Tokyo, where, as a projectresearcher, he continues to study complex systems and the future of the Internet. Ken was honored as a Super Creator by the MITOH Program of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2003. His first book, published in 2013, has been widely read in Japan's academic community, where he's regarded as one of the most significant thinkers about the Internet society.
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- Industry: SNS, Hotel, Travel
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $320k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
Oki Matsumoto is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Executive Chairperson of Coincheck Group. Oki previously worked at JPX Market Innovation & Research as a Outside Director. Oki Matsumoto attended The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Angel $136k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
- WATASHIHA — WATASHIHA is a communication company.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in the design, manufacture, and sale of reusable rockets and peripheral components. SPACE WALKER also plans and submits proposals for space-related events and other related businesses.
Nikita Bier
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.
- Diagram — Diagram is a tool for design. They are reimagining UI design in the era of generative AI. They also provide a magical design tool powered by AI. The builders, creatives, and prototypers are looking to grow individually and together. They create radically powerful tools to improve the lives of UI designers.
- Airbuds — Airbuds is the new, fastest-growing social music app. Join our team of ambassadors to spread the word by throwing parties, hosting concerts and other creative activations.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $134k–$14M; Angel $137k–$1.3M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
- Amateras Space — Amateras Space is a startup driven by the mission to “expand the realm of human activity,” aiming to establish a next-generation spacesuit business by developing advanced, practical technologies that enable humans to work, explore, and thrive in space and other extreme environments.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $252k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
- Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
Muraguchi Tomotaka
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- Industry: Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $375k–$385k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- APTO — APTO is into AI development platform provision business and AI consulting business.
- Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Bo Shen - Founding/Managing Partner @ Fenbushi Capital
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hibit — Hibit is a Layer-1 blockchain that is specifically developed for AI agents and next-generation financial technology solutions.
- Web3Port — Web3port BUILDS tools CONNECTING Web3.0 startups and contributors to ACCELERATE innovation.
- Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
Tomokaz Saito - Corporate Legal Manager @ Mercari
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- Industry: Finance, Security, Blockchain
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Yamazaki Reijiro - Chairman @ Kufu Wedding
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- Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
- Stage:Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
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- Industry: Security, Blockchain, Network Security
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
Michael Carter is the Board Member and Founder of Playco. He previously worked at Orbited as a Founder and Lead Developer. Michael Carter attended Pomona College.
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- Industry: Apps, Music, Dating
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $850k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
- Callback — Callback is building a next-generation loyalty platform for independent stores
- Dandy — Exclusively in LA, invite only.
Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $450k–$8.5M; Series A $1.5M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
- Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
Mayumi is a serial entrepreneur has been creating businesses and developing brands for 10 years with a vision in various industries. In 2014 she found that Japanese traditional artisans dealing with national treasures were undervalued, then founded FRAME00. Crypto startup project "Dev" makes the creator's challenges sustainable.
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- Industry: Apps, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Dev Protocol — Dev Protocol tokenizes creators' visions and builds a multiverse ecosystem. Get started in minutes with Clubs, no coding required.
Fujiyo Ishiguro is a President & CEO at Netyear Group Corp. Fujiyo Ishiguro After working at Brother Industries and Swarovski Japan, Ms. Ishiguro founded a high-tech specialty consulting firm in Silicon Valley and advised clients such as Yahoo!, Netscape, Panasonic, and Sony on US-Japan alliances and technology transfers. She is a foundingmember of Netyear Group in US and Japan, devising comprehensive digital marketing solutions for corporate clients that resolve fundamental business issues as CEO. The company was listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2008. Ms. Ishiguro graduated the School of Economics at Nagoya University and received an MBA from Stanford University. She had been a member of the Government committee for the past several years, such as Cabinet Office “The future to choose” Committee, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) “IoT” Committee, and so on.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Netyear — Netyear offers a variety of strategic internet professional services that lead brands to their business innovation in the digital age. The company’s service portfolio includes strategic consulting, communication design, web development, data analysis, mobile application development, social media marketing, and more. Its clients include KDDI,Skyperfect TV, NHK Educational, and Recruit.Netyear was founded in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Cinnamon AI — Cinnamon AI develops AI-based business platforms to extend human potential by eliminating repetitive tasks. Cinnamon AI offers a computer system that has human intelligence such as academic, recognition, and judgment that helps to select appropriate and flexible correspondence according to the partner and circumstances, based on patternsaccumulated as data, allowing users to focus on creative work.
- SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
Amin Azumude is the Representative Director and Founder of Cryptact.
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- Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
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- Industry: Apps, Finance, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Angel $86k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nose ID — Nose ID is a mobile application designed to monitor and protect pet dogs in the vicinity.
- Givearth — Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities.
- StoryHub — StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools
Taiga Matsuyama graduated form Waseda University, Matsuyama has been engaged in venture company support for more than ten years in Tokyo, after experience as a consultant at Accenture.Matsuyama became one of the board member of NetAge, Inc (IPO 2006), start-up incubator known by having invested in MIXI – Japanese top SNS and support severalstart-up companies.He also has contributed to the activity for create the start-up eco-system in Tokyo through the NPO Organization BVA (Bit Valley Association). Currently he has established Kronos Fund with angel investors, venture capital fund for investment in emerging early-stage companies.Kronos Fund has invested in more than 20 companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $250k–$9.2M; Angel $320k–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippo — Shippo is the best multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce businesses. Find the best shipping rates, integrate with e-commerce platforms, print shipping labels, track package delivery, and verify addresses with either our shipping API or web app.
- CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.
- Spectra Japan — Spectra is a Provision of services for artists and fans company.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $150k–$107M; Series B $4M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skydrop — Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
- Drifting in Space — Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
Nick Plante is a product developer and software architect, with experience bringing dozens of web, mobile, and crypto products to market over his career as an entrepreneur and consultant. An advisor to HAX since its founding in 2012, Nick joined SOSV full-time in 2015 and founded dlab in 2018 to explore new topics in data decentralization andblockchain technology applications.Prior to joining SOSV, Nick co-founded several companies, including Mogotest and Wefunder, and consulted for a variety of businesses ranging from small product startups to Fortune 500 companies. He has made significant contributions in the areas of developer tools and infrastructure (Mogotest), open source (Docmeta), e-commerce (Wantful), and crowdfunding (Wefunder and the US JOBS Act, shaping the future of equity crowdfunding). He also created the RumbleX hackathon series, the largest online development competition of its kind. Nick was an early believer in Bitcoin (ran a small scale mining operation in 2011), and is passionate about open source, open governance, the democratization of finance, and urban / local sustainability.Nick holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Gibraltar, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- API3 — First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds.
- dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
- Daler Trading — Pioneers in crypto liquidity and digital assets market making, specializing in crypto options and futures trading.
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Browse database — It's Free!Lanham Napier is Co-CEO at Build Acquisition Corp.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Canada, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $4M–$36M; Private Equity $4M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amelia — Amelia is the enterprise's Trusted AI leader. Amelia has a proven track record of innovation in automation and Conversational AI as a pioneer in AI. Amelia's platform captures the rapid innovation of AI ecosystems and transforms them into enterprise-grade products that are ready for customer consumption. Amelia is used by businesses toincrease revenue through conversational experiences and increase productivity through operations automation.
- dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
- MinIO — MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native, and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.
Joshua S. Levine
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- Shur — Shur is a B2B2C connecting the financial services industry to millions of Professionals with Student Loans. Our company-based financial wellness programs integrate alternative credit scoring, advice, insurance, and banking. Borrowers move from debt to wealth creation, while we build new revenue for banks and other financial institutions.
Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering , Graduate School of Engineering 2007 Graduated from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering April 2007 Joined Goldman Sachs Securities. He is engaged in a variety of investments, from non-performing loan investment, private equity investment, real estate investment toship investment, in the strategic investment department, which is a proprietary investment team. May 2010 Moved to Goldman Sachs Investment Partners to become an investor at his own discretion. Participate in a global hedge fund with total assets of over 800 billion yen, and as a hedge fund manager, invest and manage up to 80 billion portfolios in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, CDS, derivatives, loans, etc. February 2019 Appointed Cryptact Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
- Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
Previously, Batara Eto co-founded Mixi and brought the company public in Japan. He was responsible for creating Mixi in December 2003, and he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mixi until 2008. He started his investment career by co-founding East Ventures and made their first investment in 2010.Batara holds bachelor degree in Computer Sciencefrom Takushoku University Japan.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7.1M; Series A $2.6M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
- Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
- Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Aerospace, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $329k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $3M–$3.4M; Series A $3.1M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voicetep — Voicetep is a unique dating app that enables users to begin meaningful connections without needing to share photos or exchange messages, instead fostering relationships through voice-based interactions that emphasize personality, authenticity, and genuine communication from the very first encounter.
- AVIATE — AVIATE Inc. is a Tokyo-based technology startup that designs and builds AI-driven business automation systems. The company develops TASKBASE, an operational workflow layer that allows enterprise teams to run backend business operations entirely from natural language prompts.
- Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
Jay Zaveri is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the President and Board of Directors of Aether Bio and Founder and Partner of Natural Capital.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $25M–$6B
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cleerly — Cleerly is a healthcare company whose mission is to create digital care pathways to prevent heart attacks. The company develops a new standard for coronary artery disease by integrating quality clinical science with the latest-generation AI, in order to offer actionable clinical insights to every stakeholder in the heart care pathway.Throughthese data-driven solutions, the company aims to provide a comprehensive solution for cardiovascular disease evaluation that offers value to the healthcare system and improves heart health for patients at risk of heart attacks.
- Litterati — Litterati is an app that encourages users to pick up and track litter.The app plans to let users join groups, so that schools, clubs, and other communities can track their collective efforts rather than having to go solo. It will also introduce maps, so litter-pickers can see what else is being picked up in their neighborhoods.
- Kingdom — Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $134k–$3.3M; Angel $137k–$735k; Series B $5.2M–$221M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CAN EAT — CAN EAT is an information-intensive web service that can be expected to prevent allergic accidents.
- Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
Hironao Kunimitsu was born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from Okayama High School, he spent several years traveling around the world. He visited over 30 countries including the US, China, India, Canada, and others in Central and South America.In 1996 he entered Fudan University in China, and then later went on to study at Santa MonicaCollege in the US. In 2004 he entered Atmovie Inc. where he produced movies and televised dramas, and was appointed company director in the same year. In 2007 he founded gumi Inc., and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014.
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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $729k–$2.6M; Angel $320k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Gatari — Gatari specializes in the planning, development, and operation of XR services. Auris, a futuristic audio guide, and Vismuth, a camera app that transforms reality into a story, are two of Gatari's services.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $329k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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- Industry: Web3, Blockchain, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Apas Port — Apas Port is an NFT production firm that provides Web3 sessions, straining, and advisory services to clients seeking NFT projects.
Matt Maser
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Telcoin — Telcoin provides low-cost, high-quality financial products for every mobile phone user in the world.
Mizuki Inoue - Director @ Kudan
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- Industry: CRM, Finance, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $268k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudan — Built on spatial perception technology, we seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds in 3D, driving industrial transformation through robotics and digital twins.
- G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
- Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks) — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $933k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Truffle — Truffle develops an infrastructure creator's platform to enhance the web experience for developers and creators. The platform focuses on providing tools and resources that streamline the development process, enabling users to build, deploy, and manage web applications more efficiently.By offering a suite of features tailored to the needs ofdevelopers, Truffle aims to simplify complex tasks and improve productivity. The platform supports various aspects of web development, including collaboration, version control, and deployment, making it easier for creators to focus on their projects.Truffle's commitment to innovation and user experience positions it as a valuable resource for developers looking to optimize their workflows and enhance their online presence. Through its platform, Truffle seeks to empower creators by providing them with the tools they need to succeed in the digital landscape.
- Remix — Remix is a platform combining AI and mobile gaming, designed to offer on-chain, AI-powered games.
- Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
Ming Gong the Co-Founder of ChainB, is widely recognized on the internet under the pseudonym ""rage prince Gong."" Ming graduated with a degree in math and specializes in IT and financial securities analysis. He has many years of experience in IT and finance, and focused mainly on industry study and investment analysis whileserving at the Delong Group. In 2012, he began devoting his time to the development of digital currency and the blockchain industry. Additionally, he translated a large amount of relative materials and wrote the blockchain white paper. His publications includes ""Blockchain Society,"" ""Blockchain - A New Economic Blueprint,"" and ""Digital Currency"" etc. Ming participated in the development and investment of many blockchain and digital asset programs, and created the new media company ChainB, which has become influential in the blockchain industry.Currently Ming serves as Vice President of the Beijing Blockchain Technology Application Association. He is also a member of the Internet Finance Association - Blockchain Group, as well as Senior Researcher at China Blockchain Study Alliance. He is a member of the IT professional committee at the Chinese Securities Investment Fund Association, and member at the Policy Committee of the Quantchain Foundation, with several other positions.
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- Industry: FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Global Risk Exchange — Global Risk Exchange (or "GRE") is a blockchain based, decentralized and open global risk exchange market, with the purpose of helping individuals, companies and organizations to access and trade and manage their risks. GRE completely reconstructed traditional risk management tools(insurance and derivative contracts) in a decentralizedway, and will become the underlying operation system to support insurance and derivative transactions in the era of blockchain. GRE aims to build the infrastructure and trading platform for risk management industry in the blockchain driven world in the near future, by providing a fundamental protocol for the creation of risk events, pricing, trading, information collection and oracles to verdict specific risks. It will enable individuals and institutions around the globe to achieve risk and return equilibrium.
He holds a BA in Economics and a Master of Sociology from Keio University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. After regenerating many companies as president, he served as a representative of Giuliani Partners Japan and the president of Japan's oldest and largest art auction company Christie's Japan. He has also served as a number ofprominent corporate outside directors and director of art groups. Participated in the creation of Whiz Partners, a leading venture capital firm, and is still a managing partner of international venture capital.
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- Industry: Art, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.
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- Industry: Content, Finance, Data Mining
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $1.7M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobcast Group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
- SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $31k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Tenant Turner — Tenant Turner helps property managers eliminate vacancy.
Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $750k–$12M; Pre-Seed $2.7M–$3.1M; Series A $5.6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Frond — Building new spaces for communities that can't share a place.
- Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Hedges — The easiest way to trade commodities.
Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
- SAMURAI Security — SAMURAI Security is a best support tech company.
Web3 Angel investor funding in Japan at a glance
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