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Top 50 Web3 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 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 July 2025

Investor	Web3 Japan investments
Ceres	7
East Ventures	5
MIRAISE	4
JAFCO	4
SMBC Venture Capital	4
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Mizuho Capital	3
Mask Network	3
ANOBAKA	3
SBI Group	2
B Dash Ventures	2
Money Forward	2
DIMENSION	2
Shima Capital	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
KSK Angel Fund	2
NOW Japan	2
Monex Ventures	2
D4V	2
Yokohama Capital	2
PE&HR	2
Gmjp	2
MT Partners	2
Presto Labs	2
DeNA	2
Nippon Technology Venture Partners	2
Triatomic Capital	2
MZ Web3 Fund	2
SBI Investment	2
FreakOut Holdings	2
F Ventures	2
Venture Labo Investment	2
TIS Japan	1
Synchrolife	1
Gumi Ventures	1
KDDI	1
Japan Post Capital	1
GMO Pepabo	1
GameWith	1
Nomura Research Institute	1
Apple	1
GMO VenturePartners	1
Sora Ventures	1
Parallel Ventures	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital	1
Mizuho Bank	1
Genesia Ventures	1
MTG Ventures	1
Emoote	1
Internet Initiative Japan	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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AccordX — Cookpy operates a ghost restaurant service for individuals, allowing anyone to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens, and sell food via online delivery platforms.
Napcial — Napcial is an innovative AI-powered legal application designed to help couples update and personalize their wedding vows in a way that reflects their evolving relationship, values, and legal commitments.
Ness — Ness is a tech company that offers 3 service websites and analytic tools for NFT marketing tool, TikTok product and NFT holders.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.
SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
OPERe — OPERe is an IT company that specializes in the development of semi autonomous hospitalization guidance solutions.
Skygate Technologies — Founded in 2020, Skygate Technologies is building a network to deliver a large volume of data from observation satellites around the Earth to the ground and integrating the network into the web architecture. “Make Space accessible on the Web” is its motto, and the ability to develop both hardware and software is its strength. More information aboutSkygate Technologies can be found at www.skygate-tech.com.

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, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
Skygate Technologies — Founded in 2020, Skygate Technologies is building a network to deliver a large volume of data from observation satellites around the Earth to the ground and integrating the network into the web architecture. “Make Space accessible on the Web” is its motto, and the ability to develop both hardware and software is its strength. More information aboutSkygate Technologies can be found at www.skygate-tech.com.
Phytolipid Technologies — Phytolipid Technologies specializes in the research and production of lipids in plants and algae and is an expert in lipid analysis.

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

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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

Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Miletos — Miletos is the provider of AI expense scrutiny SaaS services.
Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.

Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GamerBoom — GamerBoom is an artificial intelligence-driven protocol for gaming data analytics, developed on the Solana blockchain.
Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Coral Finance — Coral Finance is a decentralized marketplace for trading premium derivatives that offers dependable, long-term liquidity solutions.

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, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
hicrea — hicrea is an AI-powered SaaS platform for fashion companies.
Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

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 A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kigen — Kigen provides technologies for enabling mobile communications for your devices. From SIM to eSIM and RSP, discover our products.
Carbon EX — Carbon EX is an online platform that connects carbon credit and emissions exchange suppliers with consumers.
Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.

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

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

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

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

DIMENSION is an investment fund management company.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Content
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Japan, India, Romania

Portfolio highlights

Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Rocket Link Technology — Rocket Link Technology is a product development company that specializes in designing LTP rockets for space travel.

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

Ava Protocol — For web3 builders, DeFi users, and teams automating on-chain workflows.
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.
Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.

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

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.

Next One for the World.

Investment focus

Content, Marketing, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, 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
Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.

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, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
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.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.

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, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.

gmjp is a web3 fund.

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

MT Partners provides real estate management and financial services.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Energy
Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
Updater — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
Orochi Network — Orochi Network's Verifiable Data Infrastructure is a promising step towards a more secure, scalable, and user-friendly Web3.
Infinity Ground — Infinity Ground Technology supports developers in using AI with Web3, making these technologies accessible to all.

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, Education, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tane — Dubai/NYC/Tokyo-based crypto-focused investment research firm. Investing in the Future of Decentralization.
Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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 —

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

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 — Skip cloning with NGS-verified, cell-free DNA up to 7 kb. Error rates as low as 1:70,000/bp. Manufactured in USA, shipped globally in 6 to 8 business days. .
iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.

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

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Progate — Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.
StaffAny — Workforce management software connecting Operations and HR for seamless scheduling and time tracking.
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.

F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Japan.

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.

Venture Labo Investment is venture capital firm that provides financial supports to invested companies at each growth stage.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, Indonesia, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

XDeli — XDeli is a digital application that offers food delivery and meal subsidy service for corporate employees.
Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
Batton — Batton is a product-developing company that sells AI-enabled RPA buttons and AI formats that allow papers to be automatically formatted.

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.

SynchroLife is the world's first social restaurant discovery service with a blockchain-based reward system for reviewers. It uses borderless cryptocurrency to give review rewards and cashback for dining out to users, and to connect users and restaurants to solve marketing problems for restaurants.

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.

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.

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.

Japan Post Capital is an investment and management financial consulting business.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shizai — Shizai operates a platform that enables the creation of original packaging at low cost and high quality. The company supports sustainable packaging production and warehouse selection, delivering value to various industries through technology. Shizai's platform is particularly beneficial for businesses operating in e-commerce and D2C(Direct-to-Consumer) sectors. The company also emphasizes the use of sustainable materials in its packaging solutions.
Sukedachi — Sukedachi had focused on the unique business habit in the Japanese construction industry that construction workers are order receivers as workmen themselves and are also orderers as small enterprises, and the firm started this service. Sukedachi allows workpeople specialized in construction works receive to notification of recruitment ofconstruction jobs which meet their pre-registered conditions including residence and occupation. With this service, construction workers who are seeking jobs can contact directly to each desired construction site, and constructors suffering from chronic manpower shortage can recruit workers on almost ideal on-demand conditions.
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator

GMO Pepabo, Inc. established in 2003 as a web hosting service company. Since its foundation the company has focused on consumer-targeted Internet services, and today it comprises four business segments: Hosting which operates consumer domain registration and web hosting services, Ecommerce Support which provides ecommerce platform solutions,Customer to customer (C2C) marketplace for handmade products, and Community that facilitates communication among Internet users through blogging and media portal services.

Investment focus

SNS, E-Commerce, Web Development
Seed, Funding Round
Japan, Singapore

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Bunzz — Bunzz is a development platform for DApps (decentralized applications using blockchain technology). It provides modularized, frequently used contracts and eases the development of DApps' web3 development infrastructures.
New Revo — New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".
Neworld — New World Co., Ltd. is a startup company from Fukuoka that aims to make the Japanese brand the No. 1 in the world. For everyone who loves Japan, we will take the leap forward with Japanese manufacturing companies, including the operation of the EC site "CRAFT STORE".

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.

NRI-short for the Nomura Research Institute-is a class-leading business consultancy and technology solution firm headquartered in Tokyo. With 50 years of experience in systems and strategies, they have grown from boutique financial IT specialist to Japan's leading consulting and technology solution firm.Nomura Research Institute itsinception about 40 years ago, NRI has always been on the cutting edge. Whether by advising policy proposals and corporate strategies or promoting new system development and management, they have always strived to push the boundaries and explore new horizons. At NRI, they are dedicated to helping provide their clients with new business models in the 21st century.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Japan, Jersey

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Komainu — Komainu is a regulated digital asset custody services provider.
Blockchain Lock(BCL) — They are a technical group specialized in block chains and IoTs established by many experienced management teams in the Internet, block chain and IoT industry. As the first member company of the BCL Foundation with the mission of "Unlock the World" meaning to unlock the world, they will make the world based on Tokyo a more secure andconvenient one with block chains and IoT's power I will change it.

Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Transportation
Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Grant
United States, China, Taiwan

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gamma — gamma. is a media and technology company centered in music, film, podcasting, and creative services.
Globalstar — Globalstar offers high quality, low-cost satellite voice and data services to commercial and recreational users from virtually anywhere in more than 120 countries around the world.Globalstar, which was established in 1991 and began commercial service in late 1999, currently offers service from virtually anywhere across over 120 countries, aswell as from most territorial waters and several mid-ocean regions. Signals from a Globalstar phone or modem are received by the company's constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites and relayed to ground-based gateways, which then pass the call on to the terrestrial telephone network.
M3 Technology — M3 Technology is a manufacturing company that specialises in the comprehensive cycle of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, from design and testing to production and marketing. The company primarily focuses on the design and sales of high-end power management ICs, delivering efficient and stable voltage regulation with minimal inductanceand low interference.

An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
OTO Capital — India's most trusted place to buy bikes, scooters and electric scooters of all brands on loan and in cash. Digital Process. Lowest EMIs. Fast Deliveries - OTO
Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.

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, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Ord.io — Search, browse, and vote on ordinal inscriptions like never before.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.

Crypto investment fund

Investment focus

Blockchain, Email, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
Vesicle — Vesicle is a fruit and vegetable company that provides distribution and delivery of fresh vegetables.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

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, Software, Internet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Singapore, United States

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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.
Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Optus Finance — Optus Finance provides financial services realted to the telcom sector.

Genesia Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed/early stage startups in Japan and Southeast Asia. Since it's inception in Dec 2016, Genesia Ventures has invested in over 90 companies in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the US. Genesia Ventures invests in various sectors: SaaS, marketplace, Media, Finance, Insurance,RealEstate, Healthcare, Medical, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, Construction, HR, Agriculture, Sports, Retail, Entertainment, etc.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amoibe — Amoibe is a company providing engineer training services for the AI era called “amoibe OJT".
Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Handpickd — Sorted operates as an omnichannel platform for fruits and vegetables. Sorted provides fruits and vegetables that come straight from the farms.

MTG Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of MTG that invests in beauty and wellness tech, food tech, and sports tech sectors.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
Lx Design — Lx Design is an application that connects schools with people who wants to work as a teacher.

"Entertain the world. Resonate with creators" Emoote is a Web3 venture capital firm based in Singapore and Tokyo. Focuses on Entertainment, Media and Lifestyle.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

XPLA — XPLA, Universal Content Powerhouse for a Sublime Creative Experience. Layer 1 blockchain that serves as a hub for digital media content.
Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating the World Abstraction Layer for AI and AI Agents.
The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.

Internet Initiative Japan is an Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions provider. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and contentdesign. Moreover, the company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ was listed on NASDAQ in 1999 and on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.

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