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

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Web3 Japan investments
Ceres	7
East Ventures	5
MIRAISE	4
JAFCO	4
Mask Network	3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
ANOBAKA	3
SMBC Venture Capital	3
DeNA	2
Gmjp	2
Nippon Technology Venture Partners	2
Triatomic Capital	2
PE&HR	2
MZ Web3 Fund	2
SBI Investment	2
Mizuho Capital	2
FreakOut Holdings	2
F Ventures	2
Venture Labo Investment	2
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
Presto Labs	2
D4V	2
Sky9 Capital	1
Galaxy Interactive	1
Square Enix	1
Giftee	1
Monday Capital	1
Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings	1
Dragonfly	1
Sansei Capital Investment	1
Stone System	1
DWF Labs	1
Meteorite Labs	1
Bitfinex	1
NAC	1
MUFG Innovation Partners	1
Dentsu Group	1
FINOLAB	1
WAGMI Ventures	1
Coconala Skill Partners	1
Incubate Fund	1
Japan Finance Corporation	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, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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

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

Sanu — SANU is a subscription service that offers a home in nature.
Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.
Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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.

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.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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

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.
Josh Collaboration — Josh Collaboration is a software company that provides mailing, fax transmission, and partner management services.

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, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
DelizMart — Deliz Mart is a digital-driven platform that helps to solve food distribution challenges and reduce cost transactions in the food industry.
Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.

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

Tané — 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.

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

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.

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, Fashion, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
VIE STYLE — VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services.
BEAM Technologies — BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems.

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

Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
TOKYO GameFi — TOKYO GameFi is a Web3 firm formed by a management team of developers and engineers with previous experience at CyberAgent.

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

Quemix — Quemix is an IT company specialized in providing quantum computing solutions.
Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

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 — 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.

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

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.
Solaris — Solarisbank is Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their own financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their own product offering. The platform offers digital bankaccounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers.To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.

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.
Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
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.

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

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Ava Protocol — The event-driven execution layer for secure onchain automation across AI agents, DeFi, RWA, NFTs, and more.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.

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

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.
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.

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, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Aracan — Aracan is an e-commerce business that provides online and offline car-sharing services for vehicles.
GEOFLA — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.

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.

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.

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.

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Finland, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
HyperSpace — We invent, build, and operate next-gen attractions connected to digital lifestyles.
Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.

Square Enix develops, publishes, and markets interactive entertainment titles worldwide. It publishes online games, mobile entertainment, music, and DVDs. The company’s products include Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Heroes & Generals, Deus Ex Human Revolution Director’s cut, Final Fantasy Original Soundtrack, SaGa Frontier OriginalSoundtrack, Xenogears Original Soundtrack, Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack, and Space Invaders.The company also provides PlayOnline, a cross-platform online community; and multiplayer online role-playing games for PC, Mac, and Linux. Square Enix was founded in 1989 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
MANTRA — MANTRA is a developer of machine translation technology.
Elixir Games — Elixir Games is a game company that develops next-generation games for power players.

Giftee is a service that makes it simple to give gifts via the internet. They offer simple presents that may be sent right away along with sentiments like thank you, congrats, and excellent job. via line, twitter, email, etc., It is a method for creating redeemable eGifts that can be used in stores as well as for selling the created eGifts on thewebsite of your business.

Investment focus

Content, Blockchain, Web Design
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

Venture Capital with a focus on Blockchain, AI and VR

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Gibraltar, India

Portfolio highlights

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

The official site of the TOKAI TOKYO FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.

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

Investment focus

Content, Medical, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

DWF Labs is the leading crypto venture capital company, market maker & liquidity provider. We help build strong web3 companies.

Investment focus

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

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.
Bidask Protocol — Bidask Protocol is a buying and selling platform that works on the TON blockchain that helps people trade more easily.
World Liberty Financial — World Liberty Financial intends to function as a cryptocurrency platform primarily focused on stablecoins, which are digital currencies fixed to a constant value, often $1. The network is supposed to offer services such as borrowing and lending, with a new cryptocurrency called $WLFI at its basis.

Measure & Predict with Meteorite Labs

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Bitfinex is the longest-running and most liquid major cryptocurrency exchange. Founded in 2012, it has become the go-to platform for traders & institutional investors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

NAC engages in delivery-related businesses such as home delivery and Duskin, and residential-related businesses.Since the company's founding, it has been engaged in various businesses. Starting with Duskin, NAC entered the environmental hygiene business for restaurants, architectural consulting utilizing the customer base, and in 2002, andthen home sales and home water distribution business. Furthermore, in 2013, JIMOS Co., Ltd., which handles the mail-order business, was grouped, and NAC's business is developing as a "useful company for living" centered on the two axes of living and living.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Medical
Series A, Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

INNOPHYS — INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planningto expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.
wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
Robot Consulting Co., Ltd — [Metaverse, Intellectual Property, Legal Tech, SaaS] Robot Consulting Introduction Video>>> https://youtu.be/URCrcZ45lbY , Youtube Channel>>> https://www.youtube.com/@robotconsulting , Press Releases>>> https://robotconsulting.net/en-news/

MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Dentsu Group is a global advertising agency that provides marketing, media, PR, digital marketing, and promotion services.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

Promote FinTech ecosystem in Japan by supporting FinTech initiatives of both startup and corporate members. and accelerating open innovation.

Investment focus

Data Visualization, Financial Services, Cloud Data Services
Seed, Angel
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

Join our syndicate to gain access to venture backed web3 startups. WAGMI Ventures is a global syndicate of 10,000+ strategic execs from some of the largest crypto companies giving founders distribution partners.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
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.

coconala Skill Partners is a matching platform venture capital firm that creates encounters between seed / early-stage entrepreneurs and skill partners who want to support their aspirations.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Online Portals, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 .

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

Portfolio highlights

Gatebox — It is a research laboratory beyond dimension" which is researching and developing to realize "a world where you can live with a character". Therefore, Gatebox Co., Ltd. refers to itself as "Gatebox Lab" and conducts research and development beyond dimension in the area of Akihabara day and night. Dreaming that day,coming to meet beyond dimension.
NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
Mjolnir Spaceworks — Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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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