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Top 50 Web3 VC Funds in Japan

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC 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 Funds in Japan

Investor	Web3 Japan investments
Ceres	6
East Ventures	5
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
ANOBAKA	3
SMBC Venture Capital	3
Mask Network	3
NOW Japan	2
DeNA	2
MZ Web3 Fund	2
PE&HR	2
MIRAISE	2
Money Forward	2
Nippon Technology Venture Partners	2
B Dash Ventures	2
SBI Group	2
Shima Capital	2
Monex Ventures	2
FreakOut Holdings	2
Mizuho Capital	2
D4V	2
F Ventures	2
SBI Investment	2
KDDI	1
TIS Japan	1
Daiwa Corporate Investment	1
Genesia Ventures	1
XTech Ventures	1
Folius Ventures	1
Smrti Lab	1
giftee	1
DIMENSION	1
Japan Finance	1
SLD Entertainment	1
Fundamental Labs	1
Stone System	1
Sansei Capital Investment	1
Mizuho Bank	1
GoPlus Security	1
Presto Labs	1
Stratified Capital	1
Sora Ventures	1
iU Z investment	1
Sky9 Capital	1
Parallel Ventures	1
KSK Angel Fund	1
Gumi Ventures	1
Evolution Equity Partners	1
Incubate Fund	1
DFund	1
GameWith	1

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

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Content, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, China, 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.
HAKKI AFRICA — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Content, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.
MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
Fotographer AI — Fotographer.ai is a service that allows e-commerce companies and individuals interested in advertising creatives to generate product photos automatically for use on their websites and in marketing. Product photos for websites and commercials that need to be taken for each campaign or season can be generated using generative AI.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Oyl — Trade Bitcoin, Ordinals and BRC-20s all within your wallet.
Rivalz — An AI-Driven DePIN RollApp
Cellula — Cellula is a fully on-chain AI game that allows users to build, compose, and evolve their digital lives. Its unique Virtual Proof of Work (vPOW) asset distribution approach adds an incentive layer to games in the Cellula ecosystem.

Next One for the World.

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.
Geofra — 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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
Neighbor — The creative universe of Fortnite is infinite. To give an example , building fantasy and science fiction worlds, creating simple games and full-scale battle games can all be completed with Fortnite. Is the world of Fortnite, played by 350 million users worldwide, is it real or unreal? We will try to combining the vast world of Fortnite with the real world.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
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 — Borrow and Lend with Certainty & Flexibility

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
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.
Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.

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Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
Yuurea — Yuurea is a healthcare company that develops mobile applications for analyzing the health metrics from urine test and AI questionnaire.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Accounting
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, India, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Mekari — Transformasi bisnis Anda dengan software terintegrasi Mekari. Efisienkan proses bisnis & tingkatkan produktivitas karyawan Anda sekarang!
Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics platform that provides modern executives deep visibility of their numbers. Bunker provides intuitive financial dashboards and monthly reports.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, India

Portfolio highlights

G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
Fixx — Fixx is an automobile company that provides on-site car maintenance and other mechanic services.
Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Etaily — Etaily provides complete end-to-end omni-channel eCommerce services to ensure brands will successfully thrive in the digital economy
Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
BLOCKSMITH&Co — BLOCKSMITH&Co. is developing and distributing of Game&SocialFi services such as blockchain technology, crypto assets and virtual currency utilising NFTs on the Web3

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
PrismaStake — PrismaStake is a cutting-edge decentralized staking platform that provides users with new opportunities. Its innovative multi-chain staking platform aims to democratize cryptocurrency by allowing people of all backgrounds to generate passive income through ETH crypto staking, altcoin staking, and other methods.
Elixir Games — Elixir Games is a game company that develops next-generation games for power players.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

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

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 — 91springboard is a co-working company that provides part-time office solutions for startups, business owners, and small to large companies. The company offers 24×7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.91springboard was founded in 2012 by Anand Vemuri, Pranay Gupta, Varun Chawla,and Deepak Sharma.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Japan DX — Japan DX platform provides a comprehensive data-driven services to inbound tourists to Japan.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
GenerativeX Co — GenerativeX provides AI app development, consulting, and generative model development.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
SUN METALON — We localize metal part manufacturing, anywhere.
Hedgehog MedTech — Hedgehog Medtech is a medical firm focused on digital therapeutics (DTx). DTx is a pharmaceutically approved programmable medical device that assists patients' medical operations via smartphone apps.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Yogo Robot — Yogo Robot is a robotics company dedicated to developing automated delivery solutions. Yogo Robot offers an open, extensive, and versatile multi-robot ecological system that consists of smart delivery stations, robotic couriers, and Internet of Things devices. The system boosts efficiency in last-mile delivery and provides a more seamless userexperience than ever before. Yogo Robot is transforming how goods are transported and reimagining how humans and robots will coexist in the future by enabling the delivery industry with cutting-edge robotic technology at the terminal end.
WHYNOT Media — content franchise for the new generation
Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

The gateway to TIS's corporate.Solution,and Group Information, Corporate Data, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series C, Seed
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Credify — Credify serviceX enables digital ecosystem operators to offer attractive and contextual financial services, built on top of a verified digital identity platform
Pixmoving — PIX Moving develop and manufacture the next-gen smart vehicles powered by its proprietary Ultra-skateboard chassis platform. PIX is an innovator and global leader of groundbreaking smart connected vehicles. Based on the research and development of PIX Ultra-skateboard chassis platform, a wide range of purpose-built robo-vehicles, commercialvehicles and passenger cars can be built and developed. Currently PIX products have expanded to 20 countries around the world and the company is growing rapidly. With the modular architecture, PIX products are more smart and flexible, covering 30+ application scenarios worldwide, which makes PIX a full-stack autonomous driving company with the most versatile scenario solutions. Moreover , PIX has developed the award-winning large-scale in-house metal 3D printing system, the dieless forming system as well as the real-time manufacturing. Combined with its patented vehicle generative design algorithms, PIX is capable of reducing vehicle parts and the assembly work by 70%, which enables easier maintenance and meanwhile disrupts the automotive industry from design to manufacturing, beaconing the next-generation of smart vehicle production.
Aino Indonesia — Aino Indonesia is a payment processing company and system integrator for public transportation.

Daiwa Corporate Investment is a private investment firm of Daiwa Securities Group that has been engaged in overseas VC investments by taking advantage of an extensive business network in Japan and foreign countries, long experience and professional knowledge, and by supporting the growth of a number of overseas portfolio companies and their stockexchange listings.

Investment focus

Task Management, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early-stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Content
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
Oikos Music — Oikos Music is a media company that provides service to support artists by purchasing music rights.
Aerial Partners Japan — Aerial Partners is a professional group that supports social implementation of blockchain technology.The Aerial team exists for the realization of a world in which innovation opportunities are not lost due to soft friction in systems and values, and hard friction in technology. Vision

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Task Management
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
Pictoria — Pictoria produce total events for entertainment.They handle a wide range of events, from talk events to events using advanced technologies such as 3D motion capture.

Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.

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.

Investment focus

Marketing, Internet, CRM
Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Japan

Portfolio highlights

SIRU+ — SIRU+ is a startup that enables you to convert consumer purchasing data into nutrients and visualize and quantify consumer shopping trends. Through the app developed by the company, consumers can know their nutrition status. The service “SIRU+ (SIRU+)” is an app that lets you know the nutrition of what you bought by simply registering a super pointcard.
XMart — Xmart is a Costs can be reduced by simply sending invoices for one month.
WAmazing — WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese thatdemand a local phone number.WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biophilia — Biophilia is a company specializing in pet-related, consulting business, internet service business, and consignment development business. The company was established in August 2017 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
TapNow — TapNow is a social networking platform.
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope is a collaborative, cloud-based research platform for organizing and tracking scientific activities.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Japan, India, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.

SLD Entertainment operates and manages cafes and restaurants under "kawara CAFE＆DINING" brand.

Investment focus

Content, Ethereum, Marketing
Series A
Japan

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.

A Web3 specialized VC fund, investing in the fundamental innovations that reshape the economy and the society.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.

Stone System provides web application development, system consulting, and server administration services. The company was founded in 1990 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fressets — Fressets is a Startup to challenge the creation of social infrastructure using blockchain technology.

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

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 Inc. — 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.

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.
Vena Energy — Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region.

GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
FuzzLand — Fuzzland is a smart contract automated analysis solution provider. We help blockchain projects to find vulnerabilities and secure their smart contracts.

Presto Labs is a quantitative trading firm building automated trading systems fueled by data-driven quantitative analysis and delivering sustainable returns.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Yooldo — Yooldo provides blockchain gaming accessible and encourages players to have fun and play fairly.
Taiko Labs — A decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup.
Analog — Analog is the world’s first layer-0, Omni-chain platform that leverages proof-of-time (PoT) to validate time data (events). With PoT, all nodes have a fair chance of being selected to validate time data and participate in the consensus process on the Timechain (an ordered sequence of immutable verified time data). This contrasts with proof-of-work(PoW)-powered networks that require computationally-intensive resources to mine blocks or proof-of-stake (PoS)-enabled networks where nodes must stake enough coins. The Analog network is the first realistic attempt in helping the world to move from a “timeless mess” to a “time-driven” environment via PoT consensus. Besides solving the problem of verifiability of time data, the Analog network also prioritizes interoperability. It establishes a radically decentralized, secure, and trustless layer-0 where multiple networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum can anchor their transactions. Most importantly, the Analog Timegraph leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to create a validated pipeline of time data that businesses can privately leverage to power the next generation of time-dependent applications. Unlike other Blockchain application programming interface (API) models that involve the use of third-party oracles, Analog’s Timegraph API allows data providers to become their own oracles on the Timechain. This creates an entirely new marketplace of time data that is set to power the next generation of decentralized applications (DApps).

Stratified Capital is a blockchain venture capital with its headquarter in Singapore. The fund aims to provide seed investment and incubation to early-stage blockchain related projects to get higher alpha and bring new vehicle to investors into adiversified & institutional-quality portfolio of digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Apps, Fitness
Seed, Funding Round
Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Soul Land — SoulLand is a gamified social subscription platform designed to tackle Web3's sinking information and social demands through the use of gaming.
CrystalFun — Crystal Fun is a decentralized game ecosystem and studio. It seeks to effortlessly combine high-quality games into a sustainable economic ecology, ushering in a new gaming experience to Web3.
Merlin Chain — Merlin Chain offers a native scaling solution.

Sora Ventures is Asia's leading investment firm dedicated to blockchain technology and digital asset. The firm has several businesses including early-stage investments, incubation, advisory, secondary trading, OTC, blockchain development, and blockchain conferences.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
Ordz Games — Ordz Games is a gaming provider for the Bitcoin eco-chain.
Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.

iU Z investing offers investment opportunities and solves the problem of Japan's startup environment.

Investment focus

Security, Blockchain, Network Security
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for society, the environment and individual lives. Sky9 Capital team includes senior experts, entrepreneurs, and experienced investors from diverse backgrounds. Since 2011, the team hasmanaged a number of USD and RMB funds, whose total assets under management of nearly USD 2 billion.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wiseetec — Suzhou Xinrui Technology is a semiconductor equipment research and development company.
Riffusion — Riffusion allows users to make short music clips with AI-generated vocals.
Babel AI — Babel AI offers users full-process AI services for software development, operation, and maintenance. Its objective is to increase software development efficiency by recreating automated and visible AI-generated software workflows and software operating environments.

Crypto investment fund

Investment focus

Email, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Seed

Portfolio highlights

Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
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.
Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

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.

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.

Evolution Equity Partners is an international venture capital investor leveraging deep sector expertise to help exceptional entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies. The firm has a focus on cyber-security, enterprise software and consumer related opportunities and brings significant resources to portfolio companies seeking to expand ininternational markets. Evolution Equity Partners has invested in well-known companies including AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Carbon Black, Onapsis, Security Scorecard, Cognitive Security, DF Labs, 60K Group and others. The firm purchases both primary and secondary shares investing in high growth businesses across multiple stages, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. Visit us at www.evolutionequity.com or follow us on Twitter at @EvolutionEquity

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Software, Network Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Oleria — Meet Oleria, a new security approach that adapts to your organization and enables you to achieve business outcomes without compromising innovation.
Metomic — Metomic detects, classifies and controls sensitive data in cloud applications to simplify compliance and offer security peace-of-mind.
Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.
Retrocausal — Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that help manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, train better, and improve the processes they drive. Our RetroActivity "Virtual Supervisor" platform uses an AI-enabled camera to analyze the tasks performed on your assembly line in real-time, offering audibleand visual alerts when mistakes happen to ensure the operator completes the build correctly before the next step in the process. Our platform also continuously performs time studies on assembly processes to help your business accelerate Kaizen events.

DFund is a professional investment company.

Investment focus

Blockchain, B2B, B2C
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bhex.com — BHEX is the next generation digital asset trading platform, with top grade performance of matching system which designed for million level of concurrent transactions. It further evolves to a globally distributed multi-nodes system and provides decentralized custody and clearing services of digital assets to institutional and retail investorstransparently.
WOO Network — WOO X is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
Lambda — Lambda is a fast, safe, and scalable blockchain infrastructure project, which provides decentralized applications (DAPPs) data storage capabilities with unlimited scalability and fulfills services such as multi-chain data co-storage, cross-chain data management, data privacy protection, PDP, and distributed intelligent computing through logicdecoupling and independent implementation of Lambda Chain and Lambda DB

GameWith is an online game information community that provides its users with hints and tips for smartphone games. Its initial focus is providing strategy guides for the rapidly expanding (and updating) mobile gaming market. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Video Games
Seed, Corporate Round
India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Game Server Services — Game Server Services is an asset, game keeps important player data such as billing currency and character level.
GamingMonk — GamingMonk is an eSports gaming company based out of New Delhi, India. eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console & Mobile. They currently have 2 verticals - Offline Tournaments & an Online eSports Portal.Offline Tournaments are held across India covering 8 cities so far with an expansionplan of covering 16 cities by next year.Online eSports Portal was launched in Aug 2017 with an idea of bringing the tournaments experience online & with a vision to reach out to every gamer in India.With a passion and a commitment to the best gaming experience, they at GamingMonk, have strived to create a community for gamers.A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and gamers always know where to find an extra life.

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