Top 20 Wellness Angel Investors in Japan (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Health Care, Fitness, Medical | $3.3M–$43M |
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Keijiro Yamagata
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Psychology, Virtual Reality | |
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Toru Ei
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $2.8M–$28M |
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Junichiro Ueno
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Psychology, Virtual Reality | |
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Katsuhiro Tamukai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Content, Fashion | $329k–$28M |
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Takuma Iwai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Keito Noguchi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Kamata Tomihisa
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Fitness, Medical, Genetics | |
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Mitsunobu Okada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A, Series B | Farming, Wellness, Lifestyle | |
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Kenji Kasahara
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Aerospace, Education | $329k–$64M |
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Makoto Takano
Angel
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1 | Japan, Philippines | Seed, Series B, Angel | Content, Sports, Human Resources | $1.4M–$221M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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1 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Content, Food and Beverage, Apps | $425k–$68M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Internet, Software | $2.8M–$16M |
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Consulting, SaaS, Home Services | $4.9M–$35M |
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Takashi Okutani
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care | |
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Yoshimori Ito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Series A | Medical, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Apps, Content, FinTech | $2.1M–$47M |
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Employment, Human Resources, Marketing | $9.1M–$26M |
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Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
Keijiro Yamagata is the Co-Representative of Scale Out and a Private Investor.
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- Industry: Wellness, Psychology, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xCura — xCura alleviating pain and anxiety of people with the help of technology and product therapy VR.
Toru Ei is a Kaizen Platform CGO, and Beautydoors CEO.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $7.1M–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Junichiro Ueno is the CEO of JuM Design.
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- Industry: Wellness, Psychology, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xCura — xCura alleviating pain and anxiety of people with the help of technology and product therapy VR.
Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $329k–$7.1M; Angel $2.8M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Keito Noguchi is a Brave group Representative Director, and Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Dr. Kamada earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. In 1984, he pursued his journey to establish his own business that focused on information appliances and mobile software, namely ACCESS Co., Ltd.. With great success, the company entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in 2001. He left ACCESS Co., Ltd. in 2011, and founded TomyK Ltd.in 2012 where he supports startups possessing revolutionary business ideas that revitalize the Japanese economy.
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- Industry: Fitness, Medical, Genetics
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
- Genomelink — Genomelink is a platform where people discover more with their DNA data and help businesses build, market and do research with it. The best founders in consumer genomics with real experience in the industry for many years, including M3, Inc. ($13B valued Meditech in Japan), a founding member of the Japanese version of 23andMe, and leadbioinformatician and software engineer at a joint-venture between Illumina and Sony. Raised $4M for Seed Round from Berkeley SkyDeck, SONY, and top-tier Japanese VCs. Supported by Illumina Accelerator, Carlos Bustamante Lab at Stanford University among others.
- MinD in a Device — MinD in a Device Co., Ltd. is a university-launched venture that aims to port human consciousness to devices (machines and computers) in the medium to long term based on long-term research results on consciousness. As the first step toward realization, we will evolve and deepen the "generation model" considered to be the source ofconsciousness, and promote the development of next-generation AI and social implementation.
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Mitsunobu Okada is the founder and CEO of Astroscale.
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- Industry: Farming, Wellness, Lifestyle
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
- Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.
Born in 1975, Kenji Kasahara grew up in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Inspired by the case studies of IT business he studied in a university seminar on management strategy and by the rapid rise of Internet business in Silicon Valley in the USA, he started up “Find Job !”, an online jobinformation site, in 1997. In 1999 Kasahara established eMercury, Inc. (mixi, Inc.) and assumed the post of representative director.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Aerospace, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $329k–$28M; Series A $7.7M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
- Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.
- Life is Tech — Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skillsand creativity
Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.
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- Industry: Content, Sports, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$48M; Series B $5.2M–$221M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
- CAN EAT —
- Progrit — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$68M; Angel $425k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Consulting, SaaS, Home Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $4.9M–$17M; Series A $24M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
Takashi Okutani Graduated from University of Washington( Seattle WA) 1997 Enter Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. 1997-2000 working at MUJI store in Tokyo Japan 2000-2002 be seconded to trading company called Sanyei Detschland GmbH(cooperated trading company) 2003-2007 working at household division & joined to establish MUJI in-house design office,mainly taking care of the project called World MUJI 2007-2010 working at Apparel Divison. Produced MUJI’s Iconic item called 90 Degree Sock. 2010-2015 General Manager of WEB Business Divison. Produce MUJI passport 2015-Join Oisix as Chief Omni-Channel officer.
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- Industry: Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AgeWell Japan — Age Well Japan is a conference and festival aimed at understanding Japan's super-aged society and defining new values for the future. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together young people and the elderly to exchange ideas.
Yoshimori Ito is the Director at Toggle Holdings..
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- Industry: Medical, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
- MTU — MTU offers medical security cloud services to medical organizations and delivers IT support, including the recent cyber harm to medical institutions, both online and offline.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.
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- Industry: Apps, Content, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$43M; Angel $2.1M–$20M; Series A $2.3M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
- Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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- Industry: Employment, Human Resources, Marketing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $9.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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