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Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Japan

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Wellness startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wellness companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Japan

Investor	Wellness Japan investments
Genesia Ventures	4
ANRI	4
Money Forward Venture Partners	3
STATION AI	2
Monozukuri Ventures	2
Z Venture Capital	2
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)	2
Zeroichi Capital	2
Hiroaki Kitano	2
GMO VenturePartners	2
Daiwa Corporate Investment	2
NOBUNAGA Capital Village	1
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative	1
Takashi Okutani	1
One Capital	1
90s	1
Coconala Skill Partners	1
Archetype Ventures	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking	1
Accord Ventures	1
DeNA	1
Energia	1
START POINT	1
Meinan M&A	1
WERU Investment	1
Optima Ventures	1
JR East Start Up	1
Aichi Capital	1
M3.com	1
Sun Asterisk	1
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation	1
Fukuoka Financial Group	1
Framgia Holdings	1
Mistletoe	1
Yoshimori Ito	1
Kenji Kasahara	1
MTG Ventures	1
Tomohito Ebine	1
SBI Investment	1
Shizen Capital	1
Future Venture Capital	1
MAKOTO Capital	1
Junichiro Ueno	1
Segue Group	1
Asia Venture Group	1
TLM	1
And Factory	1
ASICS Ventures Corporation	1
Kamata Tomihisa	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
Oyraa Inc. — Oyraa provides online meetings and conference apps. Their interpreters will help you communicate not only in business but also in personal situations, such as in hospitals and real estate agencies.
Rara — Rara offers carbon-free and organic mushroom culture production equipment.

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.

STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Sustainability
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
Swell — Swell is an information technology company that specializes in providing web and digital platforms.

Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

REVORN — REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions.
ImaCreate — ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system.
Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!
WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.

Zeroichi Capital is an independent venture capital firm that invest/R&D startups. Zeroichi Capital assists in a variety of areas, including pre-startup consultation, ideation, business plan planning, establishment procedures, teaming up, and financing, with the goal of reaching the Series A round as soon as possible and putting you on agrowth trajectory beyond that.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
CrossVision — CrossVision offers solutions and services specific to the VTuber market.
WorkCircle — WorkCircle is an online application that offers an anonymous community for the IT industry where professionals connect and discuss careers.

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
Japan, United States

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
Nippon Hydropowtech — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.

NOBUNAGA Capital Village is a venture capital firm that seeks investment in early-stage and later-stage companies.

Investment focus

AgTech, Fitness, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

YADOKARI — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
Yozboshi — Yozboshi is a software firm that develops accounting software along with legal compliance consulting services.
Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.

Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative is the company research and investing information.

Investment focus

Content, Task Management, E-Learning
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pathee — Pathee is a search engine that finds specific information for people starting from their current location. The next-generation search engine to find information of close ones starting from the current location.
Insight Core — Insight Core is a store promotion specialized application platform service.
Omatsuri Japan — Omatsuri is Japan's first festival company specializing in Japan.We provide planning, management, promotion, and customer support for festival organizers from local governments to store associations.

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.

Investment focus

Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Age well 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.

One Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Sales
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

PeopleX — PeopleX encourages and assists employees in their professional development.
LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
primeNumber — primeNumber's is a SaaS-based data integration service that enables engineers to automate the data acquisition process, and systemN, a general-purpose data engineering PaaS platform.

90s aims for mutual growth of each business by returning the high-quality knowledge and networks cultivated within the community to the entrepreneurs who belong to them .

Investment focus

Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
Uniforce — Uniforce helps businesses expand sustainably by providing cloud-based and consulting services.

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

Portfolio highlights

QibiTech — QibiTech created HATS, a service in which a human operator remotely supplements the operation of a robot. Add-on edge calculator or software for various robots to increase robot flexibility. It also serves as a platform for connecting operation data to the business improvement system.
At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
Kenzo — Kenzo enables the operation of a construction-specific ordering platform.

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spacely — Spacely is a cloud software that allows you to easily create, edit and manage VR web contents using photos taken with a 360 degree camera. From April 1, 2018 the service name has been changed from 3D Stylee to Spacely.
any. — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs

MUFG manages the affairs of its subsidiaries within the group and the business of the group as a whole along with all relevant ancillary business.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Internet of Things
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.

Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Galapagos Japan — Galapagos is a manufacturing company that focuses on results.They trying to create an application that produces results in the application market where only good things are evaluated.

DeNA provides a social game platform, social games, e-commerce, and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs. Its current flagship business is its mobile social games platform Mobage which offers first, second, and third-party games on multiple localized player networks worldwide.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated is engaged in the provision of total solutions for electric business.The Company operates in four business segments. The Electricity segment is engaged in the provision of electricity. The General Energy Provision segment is engaged in the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as the provisionof services utilizing electricity and heat energy. The Information Communications segment is engaged in the telecommunication business, information processing and the design of information systems. The Others segment is involved in the provision of engineering services, the agent sale of real estate and the repair of instrumentations, among others.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
CO-NECT — CO-NECT is a cloud-based online ordering system designed to let users place and receive orders anytime.

START POINT is an event management company that provides support for loading and unloading equipment, setting up stages, and managing venues at live events. The company was founded in 2010 and based in Minami, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Food Processing, EdTech, Fitness
Funding Round, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
CO-NECT — CO-NECT is a cloud-based online ordering system designed to let users place and receive orders anytime.
HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.

Meinan M & A is a M & A company in the Tokai area. It is committed to the local community, and M & A rooted in the region through partnerships with financial institutions in the Tokai area.

Investment focus

Task Management, AgTech, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.

As a pioneer and innovator in venture capital in Japan for the past 2 decades, we are deeply engaged in developing and supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups by leveraging our strategic position as a conduit between government, business and academia.“WERU” is the first research unit in the field of entrepreneurship in Japan established byprofessors at the graduate school, Waseda University in 1993.　“WERU Investment” is the first venture capital closely associated with university research labs, centers and institutes in japan. WERU Investment provides financial services for institutional investors (e.g. Pension funds and Endowments) as a Japanese discretionary investment manager (DIM) by fully taking advantage of these research resources, accumulated know-how and strong network.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Synfini — Transforming modern drug discovery by uniting physical and virtual chemistry to deliver novel therapeutics for the benefit of human health and longevity.
Novity — Novity offers predictive maintenance, exceptional accuracy, and cold-start prognostics solutions for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.
Cinderelax — Cinderelax is a makeup video app through which individuals can learn makeup.

Optima Ventures is a company that invests and supports venture companies mainly in Shikoku.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Food Processing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

michil — michil is a glocalist business, research business, communication design business (advertising and PR). pre-research marketing using multifaceted information gathering tools, sales promotion events for Japanese companies
Play Life — PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information thatcoordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.
SmartRyde — October 5, 2021 Bloomberg featured CEO Sota Kimura's thoughts on the company's founding and future business development. March 19, 2021 What We Do to Protect Our Customer All staff are required to wear masks. Provision of alcohol-based disinfectants in

JR East Startup Program is a program operated by East Japan Railway that provides incubator and accelerator services to startups in Japan. The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Reservations, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
Petokoto — Petokoto is a media created with pet specialists such as certified veterinarians.
Lineside Marugoto —

Aichi Capital is a financial venture capital firm that is a 100% subsidiary of Aichi Bank. It was founded to help local communities by assisting customers with business succession and assisting in the development of venture and startup companies.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ByWill — ByWill creates and distributes environmental value while eventually becoming carbon neutral.
Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
GRA&GREEN — GRA&GREEN is a research and development agribio venture based in Japan

M3.com is a Tokyo-based company, providing medical-related services through the use of the internet. The company was founded with the goal of changing the world of medicine through full use of the power of the internet.M3.com represents the three Ms of medicine, media, and metamorphosis. The company provides its users with the latest medicalinformation and also serves as a source of information for health care workers. It is currently being used by more than 200,000 physicians, including more than 100,000 pharmacists, and trusted by more than 700,000 health care professionals.M3.com was established in 2000 with Sony Communications Network Corporation, a supplier of network-related services, as the largest stockholder. The company was founded in 2003.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series C
Japan, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

UniFa — UniFa is the developer of LookMee, an AI and IoT-powered healthcare solution for tracking kindergarteners' physical and mental growth. The system consists of LookMee Nap Check, an IoT sensor that aims to secure a baby's naptime; LookMee thermometer, which measures and monitors the baby's body temperature; and LookMee Photo, acommunication and photo-sharing service that collects data from children at kindergarten to give parents a better idea of their child's well-being
iDoctus — iDoctus develops mobile and online clinical information and decision support software that enables Latinamerican and Spain's physicians to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care. Currently almost 20% of physicians in target regions use our smartphone and tablet applications.
Kringle Pharma — Kringle Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops pharmaceutical products based on its research on hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and NK4. Its HGF has the regenerative healing ability in regard to liver cells, as well as various cells and organs; and NK4 is a bi-functional molecule, which inhibits the invasion and metastasis of tumorcells as an HGF-antagonist, as well as possesses antiangiogenic activity. The company’s pipeline includes recombinant human HGF for the treatment of acute renal failure, skin ulcers, and CNS diseases; and recombinant human NK4 and NK4 gene drugs for cancer therapy. Kringle Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Toyonaka, Japan.

Sun Asterisk provides digital creative studio business promoting industrial digitalization.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Security
Series A, Seed, Corporate Round
Japan, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
Justiceye — Justiceye provides AI-controlled security and surveillance camera solutions.
Flare — Flare is an application for drivers to increase revenue. It is a network system for automobile advertisement.They can offer automobile advertisement in the most appropriate form with the latest technology.

Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co. Ltd. operates as a venture capital company. The Company provides small businesses investments, medium size businesses investments, and other businesses. Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation serves customers throughout Japan.

Investment focus

Health Care, Video, Drones
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
GRA&GREEN — GRA&GREEN is a research and development agribio venture based in Japan
Carbon Fiber Recycle Industry — Carbon Fiber Recycle Industry co.ltd. offers carbon fiber recycling services and further sells the fiber. It also sells carbon fiber recycling plant and equipment. The company as founded in 2006 and is based in Kani Gun, Japan.

Fukuoka Financial Group provides banking and financial services that contributes to the development of the regional economy.It operates through the Banking and Others divisions. The Banking division offers deposits, loans, and domestic and foreign exchange services. The Others division provides guarantees, business revitalization support,receivable management, and collection services. The company was founded on April 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan.

Investment focus

Health Care, Media and Entertainment, Management Consulting
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

CellAxia — drug discovery bio-venture aiming at practical application of advanced research such as cell therapy .
Monstar Lab — Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.
Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.

Framgia Holdings

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Wellness
Seed, Series A
Japan, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
Flare — Flare is an application for drivers to increase revenue. It is a network system for automobile advertisement.They can offer automobile advertisement in the most appropriate form with the latest technology.

Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

Yoshimori Ito is the Director at Toggle Holdings..

Investment focus

Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Age well 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.
ONE — One is a Japanese startup. It primarily creates and operates consumer apps, some of which have been sold to publicly traded Japanese corporations.This runs the BeReal exchange application "BeMatch."
Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Airato — Airato specializes in the development of radiation therapy using artificial intelligence technology.
Auba — Auba is engaged in open innovation program, consulting specialized in Ol, and media outreach activities.
Lx Design — Lx Design is an application that connects schools with people who wants to work as a teacher.

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
Seed, Angel, Series A
Japan, United States

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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.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

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

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MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
Owners Co — Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization.
Oxford Quantum Circuits — Oxford Quantum Circuits developing technology using the power of quantum to do things which have never been achieved before, from enabling life-changing drug discoveries to developing new battery technologies.

a privately run venture capital fund established by former business owners. We support challenging initiatives for Japan.

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Fitness
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan

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Queri — Queri is a software company that provides messaging services through custom-made videos, photos, and voice notes via the platform.
zeteoh — Located in Tokyo, Zeteoh is dedicated to simplifying operational efficiency for frontline workers around the globe. Our main innovation is a user-friendly no-code platform using LLMs designed as a comprehensive hub to streamline complex operational tasks. Integrated within this platform is TRAILS, our specialized indoor tracking solution, servingas a vital component in enhancing overall workflow optimization. This integration empowers businesses in sectors like logistics and construction to leverage advanced location tracking as part of their efficiency strategies. Our focus is on making sophisticated optimization tools accessible and manageable, enabling companies to concentrate on their core activities while we facilitate the complexities of data integration and workflow improvement. Zeteoh stands for bringing advanced technological solutions into everyday business practices, making them as intuitive and straightforward as everyday apps.
Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.

Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Myanmar

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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.
LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.

MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan

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Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

Junichiro Ueno is the CEO of JuM Design.

Investment focus

Wellness, Psychology, Virtual Reality
Seed
Japan

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xCura — xCura alleviating pain and anxiety of people with the help of technology and product therapy VR.

Segue Group provides information technology solutions and services. It engages in the design of the IT infrastructure and network security products in the IT system, sales, construction, operation, maintenance services.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

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lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.

Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international managementtalent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series C
Malaysia, India, Japan

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iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals

TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, SNS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Japan, United States

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Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
nanameue, Inc. — Nanameue creating a new future that makes people smile and has a fun experience. Create your own place by connecting people to people in “nanameue” way.
Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.

And factory is a smartphone business company that works on different service applications centered on the smartphone business. It develops applications that connect users and services at and factory, which challenges the possibilities of smartphones. The company mainly develops tool-based apps, game capture board apps, and manga apps.And factorywas founded in September 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS
Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
Japan, Singapore

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AIQ — AIQ is a Artificial intelligence technology development
MIRROR FIT — MIRROR FIT provides online fitness services. MIRROR FIT features include AI-assisted high-level form checks, game-like exercises, communication with friends, and positive support. They have programmes for novices and advanced users. It includes content such as live lessons from popular trainers, personal training, and over 300 different types ofon-demand classes.
Skyfall — Skyfall is a media business and internet advertising company. It is an online advertising platform for online marketing, internet advertising, digital advertising, and web advertising which uses the internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.

ASICS Ventures Corporation, a venture capital arm of the company that would accelerate and invest in startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Japan, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bisu — Every day we flush precious information on our bodies down the toilet. Bisu helps people capture these data and lead healthier, happier lives. Our product is a home health lab that provides personalized advice to help you look, feel and perform at your best, through easy, accurate urine and saliva tests. We are graduates of HAX, the world'sleading hardware accelerator, and have won numerous awards including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, MedTech Innovator, the Edison Awards, UK Tech Rocketship Awards and the British Business Awards. At CES 2020 we won the IHS Markit Innovation Award and were named by CNET as one of the top health-tracking devices.
LYMB.iO — We are on a mission to make the world more active using the power of gamification.In a time, where technology fosters an inactive lifestyle, we realized that physical activity needs to be more attractive to stay relevant. Our mixed reality sports solutions enable athletes to train in more engaging ways, provide coaches with data analytics, helpkids to improve their motor skills and make it easier and fun for all of us to start working out and stick with our training routine. But apart from making sports as fun as gaming, we’re especially proud of getting inactive people moving – the kids and adults that never considered taking up a sport.
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. — Seevix is a privately held biotech company producing high-strength, biocompatible spidersilk fibers, identical to natural fibers. Through recombinant DNA technologies, we are unique in our ability to replicate the natural self-assembly process of spidersilk creation. Seevix targets applications where the fibers’ mechanical properties can radicallyimprove existing products and provide solutions for unmet needs in a variety of industries.

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.

Investment focus

Fitness, Medical, Genetics
Seed, Angel
Japan, United States

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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