Top 50 Web3 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in May 2026

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• Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
• AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

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• Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
• Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
• ReDelta — Redelta provides a technology‑enabled platform and advisory services for cross‑border mergers and acquisitions between Japan and Southeast Asia. The service operates an In‑Out marketplace that connects corporate buyers, business owners, and investors pursuing expansion or divestiture. Engagements include deal sourcing, preliminary screening,valuation viewpoints, and coordination with local professionals throughout the transaction process. Sector and country reports, market briefs, and knowledge articles support planning and investment theses. The platform centralizes mandates and opportunities and facilitates communication between counterparties to accelerate initial discussions. Consulting support also addresses partner introductions and market entry considerations linked to post‑transaction growth.

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• QREATION — QREATION is a digital intellectual property studio specializing in producing a wide range of popular content that originates primarily from social media platforms. The company focuses on creating high-quality short-form entertainment, including short dramas, comedy sketches, and variety shows.
• Forward — Forward is a SaaS-based startup that offers recruitment agency services.
• Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.

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• GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile with GIG-A. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
• 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.

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• Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
• Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
• Bluefield Energy — Bluefield Energy redefines Japan's electricity sector through technology-driven renewable energy solutions. Its mission centers on liberating people and society from energy constraints by tackling high costs, environmental impact, and supply instability.

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• Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
• FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
• AI Silk — AI Silk are innovative conductive fibers produced with a dyeing technique. By using natural silk and giving conductivity to the fiber itself, They have succeeded in producing electrodes that reduce some of the risks and challenges of conventional medical electrodes, which can cause discomfort,skin and in vivo inflammation, and measurement failuredue to sweat or other elements. Their brand, AI Silk, is a new material that has strong and diverse application potential, even beyond the health / medical field.

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• Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
• warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
• AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.

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• Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
• Omnis — OMNIS
• Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.

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• InfiniMind — The intelligence layer for the physical world. Transform petabytes of video into structured, searchable intelligence.
• BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
• 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.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• MODE — With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants.
• OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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• 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.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
• Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations

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• Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
• Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
• Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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• 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.

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• 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.
• BIO Protocol — The BIO Protocol (BIO) allows onchain scientific communities to fund, build, and co-own research and products in specific biomedical domains including lifespan, brain health, and rare disorders. BIO, founded by senior VitaDAO members, empowers worldwide communities of scientists, patients, and investors to take science into their own hands andbring solutions to life more effectively than traditional pharmaceutical companies.
• Temple Digital Group — Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets.

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• Efficient Computer — Efficient Computer is ushering in a new era of computing with our ultra-energy-efficient programmable processors.
• Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
• Axiom — Axiom Math AI is information technology startup that builds self-improving superintelligence.

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• 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.
• Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.

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• 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.

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• warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
• manebi — manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.
• 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.

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• Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
• Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
• AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.

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• Progate — Progate is an online platform to learn programming. Learn to build your own apps and services.
• Coco — Coco is a communication tool. They develop software that will help the service sector become more customer-oriented. They improve customer satisfaction by digitizing customer surveys and converting telephone interactions with customers to text chat.
• 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.

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• Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
• Aerem — Make the switch to rooftop solar effortlessly with Aerem solution's innovative solar finance and technology solutions. Discover how we're making solar adoption easier than ever before and start saving on your energy costs.
• Power Wave — Power Wave seeks a carbon-neutral world using wave technology for wireless power, tackling global warming and fuel depletion.

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• 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

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• Kigen — Kigen provides technologies for enabling mobile communications for your devices. From SIM to eSIM and RSP, discover our products.
• Digift — Security Token DEX: Bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
• Fleak — Ingest and transform data in minutes. Deploy in 1 click. Monitor in real-time for data correcteness and cost. Transform the way your team does data, forever.

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• Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
• ZABoooN — ZABoooN is a shipping company that offers crew labor management, movement management, and ship management services.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• BRC20.com — BRC20.com is a decentralized finance infrastructure that incorporates features allowing users to engage in the cryptocurrency market.
• CryptoSlate — CryptoSlate was founded in 2017 by Seattle-based technology entrepreneurs, Nate Whitehill and Matthew Blancarte.As strong believers in blockchain technologies, they envisioned a more streamlined way to get a glimpse of the cryptocurrency universe - including the latest crypto news, blockchain companies, products, cryptocurrency prices andblockchain events.CryptoSlate's mission is to deliver transparent and accurate coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption.
• Blockspace Media — Blockspace Media is a media publishing agency that offers digital media content aimed at covering the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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• Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
• Dora — Dora is a block explorer that is building a cross chain search engine. Dora is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and was founded in 2022.
• Asymmetry Finance — The Home of The High-Yield Customized Stablecoins

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• 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 —

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• Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
• Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
• Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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

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• AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
• Hera Biotech — Hera Biotech is a biotechnology company that is mainly developed for women's health and reproductive medicines. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
• Dandelion Science — The central nervous system is one of the most complex biological pathways. At Dandelion, we are working to target the data pathways of the brain with the potential to reimagine the paradigm.

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• ADDX — Private market Investment with lower minimums. ADDX gives investors access to private equity, hedge fund, real estate & other alternative investment choices.
• PayPay — PayPay is an online payment app.This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. * 2 For PayPay, per person, the “granting limit for one payment” is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the “total granting limit for one month” is equivalent to 30,000 yen. If you pay by credit card other than Yahoo! Card, the grant rate is0.5%. * 3 If you pay with a credit card other than Yahoo!
• Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.

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• RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
• MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
• Asoview — ASOVIEW Inc. is an online booking website that provides booking services for weekend leisure activities like skydiving and rafting. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.

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• Rice AI — Rice AI is a decentralized AI smart-contract protocol designed to provide autonomous training and incentive mechanisms for robots.
• Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
• Block Street — Blockstreet is a multichain platform driving USD1 stablecoin adoption, smart contract deployment, and cross-chain DeFi growth tools.

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• MNTSQ — MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.
• Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
• Ripcord — Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering. Its focus is on smart robotics digitization, smart content management with AI, and helping enable RPA and business processes.Ripcord is based in Hayward, California, and is backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,Google Ventures, Lux Ventures, Legend Star, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.

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• MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
• Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.
• SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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• GIG-A — Open a bank account in Japan from your mobile. Receive salary, manage everyday spending, or transfer money with ease.
• Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
• Unyte — Unyte offers an integrated platform that enables technological growth in the field of blockchain, as well as the development and proficient management of DAOs.

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• mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
• EVAA Protocol — The first decentralized lending protocol on TON that lets users lend or borrow assets without going to a centralized intermediary.
• Prime Protocol — Prime Protocol is a decentralized multiple blockchain prime brokerage that allows to borrow against the value of the entire portfolio across all blockchains.

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• Comvey — Comvey provides a shopping experience that is friendly to people and the earth. It primarily offers a foldable share bag online.
• SoVa — SoVa operates an accounting firm that combines technology and experts.
• ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

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• Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
• Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
• Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.

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• GINKAN — GINKAN is the managing company of SynchroLife, the world's first restaurant recommendation platform where users and can earn cryptocurrency token rewards for dining out and posting restaurant reviews. GINKAN was selected for Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 in the fintech category and we won for best domestic fintech company and won the audienceaward at the Plug and Play Japan Batch 1 EXPO (Demo Day) in September 2018.GINKAN was also selected for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s MUFG Digital Accelerator’s Batch 4 and won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, and AWS Award in a triple win on their demo day on July 26, 2019.

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• KEKKAI — KEKKAI is a wallet Security product create an environment where all users can enjoy Web3 with ease and secure.
• Aruya Umu — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.

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• Ancient8 — Ancient8 is building an ETH gaming Layer 2 with OP Stack. Ancient8 offers a suite of Web3 gaming infrastructure tools that serve as the distribution and marketing channel for games globally.
• Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
• Nexus — Nexus is a DEX Layer 1, purpose-built to give users around the world access to a new era of verifiable finance.

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• OMTrade — OMTrade is a cryptocurrency copy trading platform that aims to make cryptocurrency copy trading more equitable, sustainable, and creative.
• Aki Network — Aki offers a web3 growth stack to track actual influencer promotion results using on-chain data-driven goods. A variety of products and services have been developed by Aki Network to enable more users and influencers to participate in high-quality project campaigns and get commensurate compensation.
• Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.

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• NAKA — Elly POS is an irreplaceable all-in-one device with multiple payment methods. Accepting cards, crypto and digital payments. Future-proof, transparent and secure.
• Onomy Protocol — The Forex and Real World Asset Hub
• DM2C Studio — This is a web3 project by DM2C Studio,a group company of DMM. The project will be propelling New Entertainment Frontiers in the Digital Realm using proprietary tokens.

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• 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.
• Domuz — Domuz is a firm that wants to utilize technology and design to create a lifestyle that makes potted plants and flowers more comfortable.

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• INDX — Unstructured data support, AI utilization without exposing confidential data, rapid implementation. Extensive experience in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. Provide company-specific AI solutions with custom tuning.
• Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
• Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.