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Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Japan (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Japan Web3 startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Japan Web3 startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ceres
VC Fund
8 Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain $1.4M–$120M
East Ventures
VC Fund
7 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $473k–$35M
D4V
VC Fund
6 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce $876k–$89M
SBI Group
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $2.8M–$142M
SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$184M
Eric Di Benedetto
Angel
5 United States, Japan Seed, Series A FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs $1.8M–$89M
JAFCO
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$184M
Archetype Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $875k–$78M
Monex Ventures
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $458k–$30M
Mizuho Capital
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$269M
MIRAISE
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting $372k–$14M
NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
4 Japan, United States, Tanzania Series B, Series A Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology $3.1M–$184M
B Dash Ventures
VC Fund
3 Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland Seed, Series A Information Technology, Apps, Internet $804k–$44M
ANOBAKA
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $330k–$75M
Shima Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$11M
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Health Care $1.2M–$198M
Mask Network
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $900k–$25M
Gmjp
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Web Apps $1.7M–$5.5M
IVC
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Philippines Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $480k–$9M
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.5M–$100M
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund
3 Japan, China, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, E-Commerce $661k–$103M
Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Italy Seed, Angel Health Care, Medical, Software $208k–$2.7M
Portage Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$80M
Presto
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $1M–$225M
Fathom Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Norway, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$70M
Sora Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Taiwan, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin $500k–$6M
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, India Debt Financing, Series A Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy $1M–$2B
Social Leverage
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$50M
Oyster Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $150k–$45M
KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $850k–$100M
cFund
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $500k–$135M
Asteria
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Finance, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.4M–$109M
Takayuki Sugiura
Angel
2 India, Japan Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Fashion, Confectionery $457k–$800k
MT Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Apps, Beauty, Energy
Giftee
VC Fund
2 Japan, Indonesia Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Information Technology $345k–$2.9M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.3M–$142M
Komura Fujio
Angel
2 Japan Seed, Angel Content, Ethereum, Marketing
FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Singapore Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $102k–$59M
Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Japan, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, FinTech, Mobile $6.2M–$184M
DeNA
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.2M–$142M
XTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $558k–$17M
MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund
2 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$13M
DIMENSION
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Romania Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Content, Manufacturing $895k–$79M
Triatomic Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, Spain Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence $7M–$500M
Abstract
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$81M
F Ventures
VC Fund
2 Japan, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
2 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Yokohama Capital
VC Fund
2 Japan Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $272k–$85M
NOW Japan
VC Fund
2 Japan Seed, Series A Content, Software, Marketing $771k–$30M
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Ceres
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Ceres is a company providing internet marketing services and is engaged in the planning, development, and operation of smartphone media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Content, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
  • TASIMOVF — Founder of Asimov Foundation. Investing in the future of AI & Crypto (a much more meaningful space than FX) prev. @xbox
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in Japan Web3 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: 522
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$13M; Series A $2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
  • Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 7 in the past 12 months

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $876k–$33M; Series A $2.5M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $687M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Free Standard — Free Standard is a developer platform that offers product development and recommerce business implementation for the retail industry.
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SBI Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Web3 startups

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$142M; Series B $7M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gauntlet — Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
  • DriveWealth — DriveWealth, the global fintech investment rail and pioneer of fractional equities trading, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hands. We believe the future is fractional, transactional, and mobile. Every mobile device should bea gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s consultative support and cloud based, modern technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth.
  • NOT A HOTEL — NOT A HOTEL develops a vacation-home ownership and hospitality platform that enables customers to purchase usage rights to architect-designed homes and access a network of properties through a shared ownership model. The company offers vacation residences that can be purchased in increments based on annual usage, with ownership providing recurringaccess to the selected property and reciprocal use of other participating NOT A HOTEL properties. Its platform combines real estate ownership, hospitality operations, property management, reservations, concierge services, and digital tools that allow owners to manage stays, check in, and access services through a mobile application. NOT A HOTEL also provides hotel-style accommodation to guests and manages properties on behalf of owners, including maintenance, cleaning, and operational services. The company collaborates with architects, designers, and other creators to develop individually designed residences and is expanding its hospitality offering through additional properties and hotel brands.
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 584
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$106M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
  • Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Eric Di Benedetto
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $6M–$89M
  • 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.
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JAFCO
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 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: 304
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$142M; Series B $6.4M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
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Archetype Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$21M; Series A $2.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
  • RoboTruck — RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications.
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Monex Ventures
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$30M; Series A $1.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
  • Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
  • Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$79M; Series B $2.1M–$269M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CaTe — CaTe is based in Tokyo. CaTe develops and manufactures a Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for remote cardiac rehabilitation. Their invention allows heart disease patients to safely and successfully complete cardiac rehabilitation utilizing standing exercise in a confined space, such as at home, without the use of ergometers or similar instruments.
  • bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
  • FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
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MIRAISE
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 startups

We are engineers investing in engineers. With experienced mentors, MIRAISE supports you hands-if basis, for business model, financial planning and presentation. All founders of our potfolio automatically join MIRAISE online community that gives you the peer-learning opportunities with other founders. Join us updating the normal!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $372k–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
  • Packative — Platform to design and order custom packaging online
  • CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
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NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Japan Web3 startups

NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Series A $5.1M–$142M; Series B $3.1M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
  • 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.
  • Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 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: Information Technology, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $804k–$34M; Series A $1.6M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Spike Studio — Spike Studio Inc., established in November 2023, is a Tokyo-based company specializing in generative AI and large language models. Their mission is to enhance Japan’s labor productivity tenfold by integrating advanced AI solutions into client operations and services. The company offers customized AI solutions, system integration, data analysis,predictive modeling, and training programs to help clients leverage generative AI effectively. Co-founded by CEO Shigeru Kuroyanagi and COO Hirohide Sano, Spike Studio aims to address challenges such as declining international competitiveness, an aging population, and labor shortages in Japan.
  • 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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ANOBAKA
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 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: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$11M; Series A $2.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
  • AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
  • NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 293
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
  • Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
  • Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 576
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$74M; Series B $4.3M–$198M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.4B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
  • WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
  • Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.
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Mask Network
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $900k–$4M; Series A $10M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • TBook — The first embedded RWA liquidity layer that brings institutional-grade tokenized yield into user-facing apps
  • Depinsim — The Free Internet Protocol. Earn free mobile data at https://t.co/xm18x6oDwx
  • Honeypot Finance — Learn what Honeypot Finance is: a multi-chain DeFi liquidity hub with perpetual trading (vault-based risk engine), spot trading via AMM-native matching, and Honey Genesis NFT staking across multiple blockchains.
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Gmjp
VC Fund · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

gmjp is a web3 fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Web Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voxl — An immersive social platform for building with voxels in VR.
  • Dora — Dora is a block explorer that is building a cross chain search engine. Dora is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and was founded in 2022.
  • Toonsutra — TOONSUTRA is home to award-winning comics & graphic novels across action, romance, fantasy, comedy & more. Read online or download the app.
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IVC
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9M; Pre-Seed $480k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wizzwoods — 1st pixel farm game integrates interchain capabilities with a SocialFi twist.
  • SuperIntent — SuperIntent is a cryptocurrency AI app that streamlines on-chain earning tactics. Developed on a multi-agent framework with abundant yield sources.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$35M; Series A $2.8M–$64M; Series B $2.8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
  • TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
  • 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.
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $661k–$9.7M; Series A $2M–$41M; Series B $2.2M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Rimowa — Rimowa designs characters not as mere “content,” but as immersive character operating systems that integrate naturally into everyday life, creating emotionally resonant experiences that seamlessly connect digital interaction, storytelling, and real-world consumer engagement.
  • Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
  • AI Mage — AI Mage is an IT company that provides AI solutions for anime production business industries.
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Berkeley Angel Network
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $208k–$2.7M; Angel $400k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
  • HealthMe — HealthMe is a marketplace platform that allows patients to shop for healthcare like they shop for any other product. They provide prepayment of packages, which streamlines office workflow, decreases no-shows, and enhances patient communications.
  • RealSeq Biosciences — We're discovering new biomarkers to advance next-generation diagnostics that provide deeper insights and improve more lives.
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Portage Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 31 in the past 12 months

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $6.6M–$33M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flex — 10x higher credit limit. 0% interest for 60 days. No personal guarantee. No personal liability for construction
  • Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
  • Faye — Travel insurance that goes the distance to cover you at every step of your journey with incredible coverage, 24/7 support, instant claims processing and more.
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Presto
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Presto is an algorithmic trading firm where researchers and engineers solve challenging problems in global financial markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7M; Series A $1.9M–$225M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asgard Finance — Asgard helps fearless investors take confident, strategic positions in the evolving Internet Capital Markets, providing the tools, insights, and support they need to act boldly and capitalize on emerging digital opportunities.
  • Orochi Network — Orochi Network's Verifiable Data Infrastructure is a promising step towards a more secure, scalable, and user-friendly Web3.
  • Temple Digital Group — Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets.
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Fathom Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Backing Deep Innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Norway, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $30M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Runhouse — Runhouse is an ML platform that demolishes research, production, and infra silos for ML Engineers, Researchers, and Data Scientists. Runhouse OSS is a unified interface into compute and data infra which is unopinionated, ergonomic, and powerful enough for fast experimentation, full-scale deployment, and everything in between.
  • Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes.  After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind.  It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
  • Camino — Building permitting and licensing software designed to be user-friendly. Made for government agencies in North America.
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Sora Ventures
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Sora Ventures acquires and operates publicly traded companies across Asia, integrating disciplined Bitcoin treasury strategies on the balance sheet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Taiwan, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
  • CryptoSlate — CryptoSlate was founded in 2017 by Seattle-based technology entrepreneurs, Nate Whitehill and Matthew Blancarte.As strong believers in blockchain technologies, they envisioned a more streamlined way to get a glimpse of the cryptocurrency universe - including the latest crypto news, blockchain companies, products, cryptocurrency prices andblockchain events.CryptoSlate's mission is to deliver transparent and accurate coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption.
  • RabbitX — Trade with zero fees forever on RabbitX. Instantly deposit with 10+ options and trade 100+ markets with 50x leverage. Save on every trade.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.The MUFG Group turned its eye toward the expected operatingenvironment changes over the next decade, and launched the new medium-term business plan, which outlines the strategies that will be implemented over the first three years of this period. The new plan is designed to guide us as they strive to realize their corporate vision—“Be the world's most trusted financial group.” By accelerating initiatives that span across business entities, regions, and business groups, they will work to live up to the expectations of their customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders.The MUFG Group aims to achieve stable and sustainable income growth through seeking diversified revenue bases especially in customer segment both domestically and abroad, and capital efficiency by improving productivity. In addition, they will enhance shareholder value by conducting capital management flexibly taking the balance of (1) enhancement of further shareholder returns, (2) maintenance of a solid capital base and (3) strategic investments for sustainable growth, into consideration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$209M; Debt Financing $88M–$2B
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fidra Energy — Fidra Energy is committed to supporting renewable energy generation through efficient battery energy storage production. Learn more.
  • Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
  • Caliche Development Partners — Caliche Development Partners acquires, develops, and operates subsurface hydrocarbon storage assets and associated pipelines. Caliche Development Partners team brings over 175 years of combined midstream asset development experience, including project finance, facility design, permitting, construction, marketing, and operations.CalicheDevelopment Partners focuses on the development and operation of midstream storage and transportation assets needed to meet the changing demands of the global energy landscape.
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Social Leverage
VC Fund · Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Retrofit — Retrofit provides personalized, holistic weight management solutions that transform lives and workplaces. Diabetes prevention & metabolic syndrome programs.
  • Newcase.ai — Connect all facts from records, depositions, and evidence into clear timelines with one intelligence layer. Get case-wide context that uncovers contradictions and highlights key admissions with exact citations.
  • ProducePay — Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providingunprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
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Oyster Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Capital for extraordinary founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Series A $4M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
  • Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
  • New Social Theory — New Social Theory is a FinTech company focused on empowering the creator economy. We believe that the future of content and commerce lies in fostering deeper connections between creators and their passionate fan bases.
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$41M; Series A $2.2M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buy&Ship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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cFund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

cFund is an early-stage sector agnostic venture firm in the Blockchain industry anchored by IOG and managed by Wave Digital Assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $500k–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
  • Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
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Asteria
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Infoteria Corporation is a Japanese company that specializes in providing software and related support, consulting, and training.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Tech Bureau — Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
  • Crypto asset market — Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
  • Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
  • Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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Takayuki Sugiura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Confectionery
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Japan

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.
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MT Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Beauty, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
  • Milamore — Designed in New York and handcrafted in Japan, Milamore believes that niche is a new luxury. They are committed to creating high-quality fine jewelry that's true to price, without compromising on their core values – living boldly, respecting heritage and celebrating the very best craftsmanship that the world has to offer.
  • Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.
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Giftee
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$2.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $345k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WED — One Financial is an application that anyone can introduce card settlement immediately with one smartphone.
  • Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.
  • Treasure in Stomach — Treasure in Stomach is a food manufacturing company that develops vegan, gluten-free, and Muslim-friendly products and content.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$142M; Series B $5.3M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
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Komura Fujio
Angel · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Komura Fujio

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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FreakOut Holdings
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

We are spread out into global with our mission "Give people work that requires a person" through our freak'in technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $747k–$14M; Series A $102k–$47M; Series B $10M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
  • FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
  • 91springboard — Discover premium coworking spaces, private enterprise offices and managed office spaces. Flexible workspaces with modern amenities and exceptional hospitality designed for growing businesses.
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Nippon Technology Venture Partners
VC Fund · Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $6.2M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • COMSA — Comsa is a conduit for future ICOs that want to exist in the COMSA ecosystem. As part of the project, a COMSA team is now already in place to provide companies with consultation, expertise and solutions to support their very own ICOs and implement blockchain technology into their business practices using our Zaif exchange and mijin privateblockchain software, all at the same time, as a one-stop solution.
  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
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DeNA
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $2.5M–$142M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
  • Shizuku AI — Shizuku is an open-source Android app that enables other apps to access elevated system APIs without requiring full root access on your device. It achieves this by running a background service launched via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or wireless debugging on Android 11+, granting limited privileged permissions safely.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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XTech Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

XTech Ventures aims to achieve dramatic growth for investee companies by supporting entrepreneurship, multifaceted management support, and IPO support for the excellent middle class who are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $558k–$17M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $415M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.
  • Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.
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MZ Web3 Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Accredited Venture Capital backing Japan Market Entry for All Web3 projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
  • KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
  • Term Structure Labs — Lock in predictable rates. Amplify yields instantly. Deploy strategies with confidence on TermMax.
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DIMENSION
VC Fund · Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Content, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$79M; Series B $895k–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 400F — 400F develops services to solve problems related to people's lives and assets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo.
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.
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Triatomic Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Founder-driven venture capital firm helping great entrepreneurs build 'century-defining' businesses & technologies. Focused on deep tech, health tech, new economy, and AI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$100M; Series B $35M–$500M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
  • Axiom — Axiom Math AI is information technology startup that builds self-improving superintelligence.
  • Zapata Quantum — Zapata builds software applications and accelerates capabilities for Enterprises ready to compete with quantum computing
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Abstract
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups, 54 in the past 12 months

Abstract is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco with $1.5 billion in assets under management. We are sector-agnostic and invest in seed and early stage companies. Our reputation among founders is built on fierce loyalty, unparalleled connections, and a relentless drive to help them win.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 400
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$9.8M; Series A $9.3M–$33M; Series B $25M–$81M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • June — Transform enterprise system deployment with June. AI-driven implementation for Salesforce, Snowflake, SAP & more. No downtime, faster delivery, full control.
  • Foundation Industries — Foundation Industries provides manufacturing technology and services focused on fast, low-volume, high-mix CNC machining for hard tech companies. The company offers an online portal where engineering teams can upload designs, define specifications, and receive transparent quotes for custom components. Its system supports domestic production runswith turnaround times as short as two days for qualifying orders. Foundation Industries focuses on helping hardware teams move efficiently from design to production by simplifying quoting, ordering, and tracking in one place. The company serves deep tech and physical engineering organizations that need rapid prototyping and small-batch production of precision-machined parts. Its services are intended to reduce lead times, increase predictability, and support the development and launch of complex hardware systems.
  • Foundational Industries — Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products.
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F Ventures
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$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.
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Yokohama Capital
VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Yokohama Capital as a venture capital firm conducts investment and rehabilitation support for small and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $272k–$85M; Series B $2.8M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JPYC — JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all.
  • Varinos — Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer.
  • Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
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NOW Japan
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Japan Web3 startups

Next One for the World.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $771k–$14M; Series A $1.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
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Web3 Investor funding in Japan at a glance

Stats across 310 deals from 615 investors.

615
investors
in Japan Web3 startups
310
deals
in Japan Web3 startups
$7.8M
median round
in Japan Web3 startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
87/13
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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