Top 50 Web3 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in February 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Web3 startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in February 2025
Investor | Web3 Japan investments |
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Ceres | 7 |
East Ventures | 5 |
MIRAISE | 4 |
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) | 3 |
Mask Network | 3 |
SMBC Venture Capital | 3 |
ANOBAKA | 3 |
SBI Group | 2 |
Nippon Technology Venture Partners | 2 |
B Dash Ventures | 2 |
SBI Investment | 2 |
Mizuho Capital | 2 |
Money Forward | 2 |
Triatomic Capital | 2 |
PE&HR | 2 |
FreakOut Holdings | 2 |
D4V | 2 |
DeNA | 2 |
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners | 2 |
F Ventures | 2 |
Shima Capital | 2 |
Venture Labo Investment | 2 |
KSK Angel Fund | 2 |
DIMENSION | 2 |
Monex Ventures | 2 |
NOW Japan | 2 |
Presto Labs | 2 |
Gmjp | 2 |
MZ Web3 Fund | 2 |
Gumi Ventures | 1 |
Giftee | 1 |
Find Satoshi Lab | 1 |
Monday Capital | 1 |
Marblex | 1 |
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings | 1 |
COSIMO Ventures | 1 |
Dragonfly | 1 |
Sansei Capital Investment | 1 |
Stone System | 1 |
DWF Labs | 1 |
Planetarium | 1 |
Smrti Lab | 1 |
Meteorite Labs | 1 |
ChenXin Technology | 1 |
GoPlus Security | 1 |
Bitfinex | 1 |
Folius Ventures | 1 |
IMO Ventures | 1 |
NAC | 1 |
MUFG Innovation Partners | 1 |
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
- Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
- SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
- Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
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
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
- Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
- Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
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
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
- Zenmetry — Zenmetry primarily engages in the development of web services and business consulting.
- SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.
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
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
- iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
- Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
- Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Content, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
- Aimytech — Aimytech is a developer of buyer enablement tools that provides business negotiation and sales support cloud services.
- Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
- UBX Philippines — UBX Philippines is a fintech company passionate about creating opportunities and access for all by building solutions.
- Preferred Networks — Preferred Networks (PFN) was established in March 2014 in Tokyo with the goal to develop practical, real-world applications of deep learning, robotics and other latest technologies. PFN is currently focused on three priority areas – transportation systems, manufacturing and bio-healthcare – and also exploring the use of deep learning in personalrobots, plant optimization, materials discovery, sports analytics and entertainment. PFN has a U.S. subsidiary in Burlingame, California.
Nippon Technology Venture Partners is a Japanese independent investment firm that invests in technology-driven companies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Gruff —
B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
- Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
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
- Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Lazuli — Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to utilize data for analysis, search, recommendation, marketing & supply chain management.
- AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Torihada — Torihada is a creative firm specializing in influencer marketing, creating content, and digital marketing.
- MOSH Japan — MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners.
- Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Accounting
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Starley — Starley offers end-to-end development and implementation of artificial intelligence-related products.
- Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
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
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
- Elegen — Elegen is powering the bioeconomy with high-accuracy DNA synthesis that delivers industry-leading speed, length, and quality.
- iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Fashion, Education
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
- VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
- BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.
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
- SNS, Content, Finance
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
- VAZ — VAZ is a venture company that transforms everyday small changes into a better society together with YouTuber and other influential creators.
- 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.
- 91springboard — Explore 91Springboard, the best co-working company offering premium co-working spaces and shared office solutions. Whether you're a startup, freelancer, or team, enjoy flexible workspaces, modern amenities, and prime locations tailored to your needs.
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
- Financial Services, Software, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
- Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
- Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
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
- E-Commerce, Education, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, India
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
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
- Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
- Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.
F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Hong Kong
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.
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
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
- Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Japan, Indonesia, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
- SImount — SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.
- Batton — Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted.
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
- Buyandship — 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.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Content
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Japan, India, Romania
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Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan that finances seed and early stage investments in startup companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, China
Next One for the World.
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Investment focus
- Content, Marketing, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
- GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
Presto is an algorithmic trading firm where researchers and engineers solve challenging problems in global financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Zkcandy — The L2 Gaming ZK Chain supercharged by iCandy Interactive and ZKsync
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Ranger Finance — Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight.
gmjp is a web3 fund.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
- Seed
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
- Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
- Asymmetry Finance — The Home of The High-Yield Customized Stablecoins
Accredited Venture Capital backing Japan Market Entry for All Web3 projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, United States, Singapore
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 — Experience predictable yields and secure fixed-rate solutions with Term Structure. Join us to leverage fixed-term lending, borrowing, and maximizing your DeFi returns.
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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Investment focus
- Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, Finland
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.
- Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
- Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
Giftee is a service that makes it simple to give gifts via the internet. They offer simple presents that may be sent right away along with sentiments like thank you, congrats, and excellent job. via line, twitter, email, etc., It is a method for creating redeemable eGifts that can be used in stores as well as for selling the created eGifts on thewebsite of your business.
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Investment focus
- Content, Blockchain, Web Design
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.
Building enjoyable web3 products.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Gaming, Blockchain
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Singapore, United States
Venture Capital with a focus on Blockchain, AI and VR
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Gibraltar, India
Portfolio highlights
- AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
- Hera Biotech — Hera Biotech is a biotechnology company that is mainly developed for women's health and reproductive medicines. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
- Dandelion Science — The central nervous system is one of the most complex biological pathways. At Dandelion, we are working to target the data pathways of the brain with the potential to reimagine the paradigm.
Go beyond the Playground and into an infinite Universe!
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Web3, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Singapore, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- XRADERS — Powering informed decision making for investors
- Carv — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
- CARV — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
The official site of the TOKAI TOKYO FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
- Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ADDX — Private market Investment with lower minimums. ADDX gives investors access to private equity, hedge fund, real estate & other alternative investment choices.
- PayPay — PayPay is an online payment app.This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. * 2 For PayPay, per person, the “granting limit for one payment” is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the “total granting limit for one month” is equivalent to 30,000 yen. If you pay by credit card other than Yahoo! Card, the grant rate is0.5%. * 3 If you pay with a credit card other than Yahoo!
- Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.
COSIMO digital, previously COSIMO Ventures, is a pioneering digital asset management firm offering asset management, advisory, custody, broker-dealer, and blockchain and Web3 development services.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, Blockchain, Sports
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Defactor — Globally empowering businesses to tokenise real-world assets by offering decentralised open-source financial technology. Unlock a new financial future.
- ICHI — Grow any token with low-slippage, on-chain liquidity
- BEASY — BEASY Wallet & Forge makes it easy for collectors and creators to mint, buy, sell, trade, and manage their own NFTs. No crypto knowledge required!
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
- Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
Sansei Capital provides portfolio management, corporate management support, and financing services.
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Investment focus
- Content, Medical, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
Stone System provides web application development, system consulting, and server administration services.
The company was founded in 1990 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Fressets — Fressets is a Startup to challenge the creation of social infrastructure using blockchain technology.
We help build strong Web3 companies
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LogX — About LogXLogX is the leading Perpetual DEX on Layer 2 networks. Supported by top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital Coinbase Ventures IOSG Hashed and more LogX combines a simple user friendly interface with extremely fast order matching built on proprietary scalable infrastructure. Currently live on 15+ networks LogX stands out as the mostomnipresent Perp DEX in the market.We offer two distinct products to cater to different types of traders1. LogX Pro: An advanced order book-based platform designed for experienced traders, live on three networks. 2. LogX OG: Featuring an innovative AMM based DAMN pool infrastructure, built for scalability and live on over 10 networks, perfect for new traders.Our Competitive Edge and Uniqueness:- Low Cost High Liquidity Offering: LogX sets a new standard in decentralized trading with unmatched cost efficiency and high liquidity across multiple pairs. - Technological Superiority: Our DAMN-based AMM pool enables rapid deployment of perpetual DEXs on new networks and ecosystems. - AI-Based Trading Bots: We are the first in the perps industry to offer fully functional AI trading bots executing strategies like grid trading.At LogX we prioritize composability seamlessly integrating with other protocols while allowing other protocols to integrate with us. This makes LogX a versatile choice for applications like wallets copy trading platforms and analytics platforms.
- Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.
- Quantlytica — Quantlytica is the creator of an AI-powered multi-chain liquidity distribution system meant to optimize liquidity strategies. The company's platform uses machine learning and statistical models to do horizontal assessments of returns, liquidity risks, and safety across DeFi projects.
Planetarium is a company that wants to return the sovereignty of online games to users through blockchain technology.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, Japan, South Korea
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- Yooldo — Gaming Reinvented, Blockchain Empowered
- Supervillain Labs — Supervillain Labs is a gaming studio that specializes in Web3 gaming innovation to develop socially interactive gaming experiences.
- Baby Shark Universe — Baby Shark Universe is a web3 platform that offers interesting adventures and the opportunity to earn rewards.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Japan, Singapore
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- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- JOJO — JOJO is an on-chain derivatives trading platform that offers decentralized trading solutions and financial instruments over the blockchain.
- Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Measure & Predict with Meteorite Labs
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- Fashion, Blockchain, Marketplace
- Series A
- Hong Kong
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- Aki Network — Aki offers a web3 growth stack to track actual influencer promotion results using on-chain data-driven goods. A variety of products and services have been developed by Aki Network to enable more users and influencers to participate in high-quality project campaigns and get commensurate compensation.
- Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.
- Brand New Vision — BNV is the platform that provides 3D product creation, tokenisation, community building, and interoperable wearability for fashion brands to enter the metaverse.
ChenXin Technology
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- News, Blockchain
- Series A
- Japan
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- Block001.cn — Block001.cn is a blockchain news portal based in China.
GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
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- Web3, Security, Blockchain
- Seed
- Japan, Singapore, United States
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- FuzzLand — Fuzzland is a smart contract automated analysis solution provider. We help blockchain projects to find vulnerabilities and secure their smart contracts.
- RootData — Rootdata is a visual and structured crypto projects data provider, offering crypto investors and entrepreneurs with fundraising data with more transaction clues, and is committed to becoming a data entry for discovering high-quality crypto assets.
- Mint Blockchain — Mint Blockchain uses NFT assets and offers Web3 developers infrastructure services like as NFT asset issuance, trading, indexing, and storage.
Bitfinex is the longest-running and most liquid major cryptocurrency exchange. Founded in 2012, it has become the go-to platform for traders & institutional investors.
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- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Japan
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- NAKA — Elly POS is an irreplaceable all-in-one device with multiple payment methods. Accepting cards, crypto and digital payments. Future-proof, transparent and secure.
- Onomy Protocol — The Forex and Real World Asset Hub
- DM2C Studio — This is a web3 project by DM2C Studio,a group company of DMM. The project will be propelling New Entertainment Frontiers in the Digital Realm using proprietary tokens.
Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
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- Matr1x — Matr1x is the first-ever mobile shooting game in the Web3 industry.
- OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
- Sleepless AI — Sleepless AI is a Web3+AI virtual companion gaming platform that leverages AIGC and LLM to generate rich story-based gameplay and dynamic interactions with characters to provide players with emotional support and an engaging gaming experience.
IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, China, Singapore
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- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Vessel Finance — Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.
- Insight Technology — Insight Technology is an instrument manufacturer and seller company that specializes in instrument sales, intelligent instrument sales, mechanical equipment research and development, and more.
NAC engages in delivery-related businesses such as home delivery and Duskin, and residential-related businesses.Since the company's founding, it has been engaged in various businesses. Starting with Duskin, NAC entered the environmental hygiene business for restaurants, architectural consulting utilizing the customer base, and in 2002, andthen home sales and home water distribution business. Furthermore, in 2013, JIMOS Co., Ltd., which handles the mail-order business, was grouped, and NAC's business is developing as a "useful company for living" centered on the two axes of living and living.
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- SaaS, Legal, Medical
- Series A, Series C
- Japan
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- INNOPHYS — INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planningto expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
- wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
- Robot Consulting Co., Ltd — [Metaverse, Intellectual Property, Legal Tech, SaaS] Robot Consulting Introduction Video>>> https://youtu.be/URCrcZ45lbY , Youtube Channel>>> https://www.youtube.com/@robotconsulting , Press Releases>>> https://robotconsulting.net/en-news/
MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Japan, Indonesia
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- MNTSQ — MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.
- Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
- Ripcord — Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering. Its focus is on smart robotics digitization, smart content management with AI, and helping enable RPA and business processes.Ripcord is based in Hayward, California, and is backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,Google Ventures, Lux Ventures, Legend Star, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.
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