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Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Japan in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in January 2025

Investor Wellness Japan investments
ANRI 5
Genesia Ventures 4
Money Forward Venture Partners 3
90s 2
epiST 2
Z Venture Capital 2
Zeroichi Capital 2
STATION AI 2
Nippon Venture Capital 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
D4V 2
Hiroaki Kitano 2
Iceblue Fund 2
Susquehanna International Group (SIG) 2
Monozukuri Ventures 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
All About Japan 1
And Factory 1
Mizuho Capital 1
East Ventures 1
DeNA 1
Sun Asterisk 1
Fukuoka Financial Group 1
SBI Investment 1
Mobile Internet Capital 1
TLM 1
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 1
Framgia Holdings 1
Kenji Kasahara 1
Tomohito Ebine 1
Dawn Capital 1
Dual Bridge Capital 1
Hakuhodo DY Ventures 1
LiB Consulting 1
Takuma Iwai 1
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union 1
Vector 1
Hirofumi Miki 1
Optima Ventures 1
OKB Capital 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Energia 1
WERU Investment 1
Takashi Okutani 1
Archetype Ventures 1
Meinan M&A 1
MTG Co., Ltd. 1
Japan Science and Technology Agency 1
Higin Capital 1
Kiraboshi Bank 1
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ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Taian — Taian, which specializes in bridal industry services and software. They also provide ''Concept Marry,'' which allows couples to design invites and seating charts that match their wedding theme, as well as display guest information on Oiwaii.
  • Congrant — Congrant is a fundraising platform that collects donations and charity for NPOs, social enterprises, and voluntary organizations.
  • Japan Career — Japan Career is a company that offers a job change and employment help platform tailored to international talent.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Wellness, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
  • Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
  • Earth Boat — Earth Boat is an accomodation company that specializes in manufacture, sales, and support services of trailer houses and portable saunas.
90s VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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 .
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • OASIZ — Oasiz is a creative agency that provides vertical video production and business consulting services.
  • 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.
  • Urth — Urth is an IT company that specializes in architectural design by providing corporations with a metaverse for architects' business models.
epiST VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
epiST is an advanced technology internalization consulting company.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Medical, Children
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryzae — Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes.
  • Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
  • Dataseed — A technology company driven by data, focusing on AI solutions for sustainability and ESG, based in Japan, for Japanese Enterprises.
Z Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, South Korea, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Hopae — On A Journey To Universal Trust. Finally implement a practical Decentralized Identity Solution.
  • Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Zeroichi Capital VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
STATION AI VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
STATION AI provides a support program at "PRE-STATION Ai".
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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.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Gecipe — Gecipe is a video service for e-sports players.
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Task Management, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
  • Hydro Powtech Japan — Nippon Hydropowtech uses proprietary technology and experience in hydrolysate production to investigate new food applications.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
  • Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.
  • SUN METALON — Next Generation Sustainable Metal Manufacturing
Hiroaki Kitano Angel
Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.
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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.
Iceblue Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Iceblue Fund is the web3 founder’s hands-on fund for global entrepreneurs seeking for a whole new world. Iceblue Fund provide investment support to global companies that operate services
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, FinTech, Health Care
  • 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.
  • Urth — Urth is an IT company that specializes in architectural design by providing corporations with a metaverse for architects' business models.
  • EduCare — EduCare provides affordable solutions to financial assistance for giving education to students.
Susquehanna International Group (SIG) VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • Sporttrade — Sporttrade is America's most dynamic sports betting platform. Sports betting, meet stock trading.
Monozukuri Ventures VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Startup First. A global VC focused on IoT small lot manufacturing and startup investment. Support to hardware growth from business model to supply chain
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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.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
All About Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
All About Japan provides media and digital marketing, recommendation media, global marketing, trial marketing and commerce, and lifelong learning services. They also provide internet, advertising, and media services.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Task Management, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
  • toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.
  • Matsuri Technologies — matsuri technologies is a real estate tech company that provides solutions to support private property rentals. The company's products include m2m Systems, an Airbnb management platform that helps business operators to manage their accounts, communicate with guests, automate check-ins, offer customer service, and more.
And Factory VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Investment focus
  • Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SNS
  • Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 37 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Precal — Precal is an information technology company that develops applications that are common with pharmacies, pharmacists, and dispensing clerks.
  • Any — any. develops and offers knowledge sharing tool Qast.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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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.
DeNA VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
Sun Asterisk VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sun Asterisk provides digital creative studio business promoting industrial digitalization.
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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.
Fukuoka Financial Group VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, 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.
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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.
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Mobile Internet Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • KAKEAI — KAKEAI, an AIcloud system that improves the status of member management in the middle management layer as its main business.
  • Katagrma — KatagrMa is the first organization that optimizes the organization and human resources development.
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
TLM VC Fund
TLM is a venture capital that invests basically in seed rounds, including some Series A startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Content, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, 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.
  • STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
  • Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
Framgia Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Framgia Holdings
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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.
Kenji Kasahara Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Information Technology, Robotics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States
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.
  • 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.
Tomohito Ebine Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Home Services, Information Technology, Consulting
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, United States
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.
Dawn Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Dawn Capital is a representation of new values being created for a new era, which brightens the globe by supporting and investing in start-up businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
Portfolio highlights
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
  • Atlast health — Atlast Health provides high-quality psychological care to patients through technology.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
Dual Bridge Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Dual Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.
Hakuhodo DY Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series D
  • Japan, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
  • Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
LiB Consulting VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
LiB Consulting is a management consulting firm focused on marketing and sales strategies.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
  • chikaku — Chikaku is a service that automatically sends photos and videos taken with smartphones to your home TV without any hassle.
Takuma Iwai Angel
Takuma Iwai Co-CEO of Advisor Time.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union VC Fund · Yotsuya, Kyoto, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Daiichi Kogyo Credit Union is provides financial services.
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Investment focus
  • B2C, Rental, Wellness
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
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.
  • Mediclo — Mediclo is a real estate company that provides renting, property management, and B2C services.
  • Otetsutabi — Otetsutabi is a regional revitalization platform that offers the opportunity for participants to help at accommodations and breweries in rural areas that struggle with seasonal labor shortages. The locals offer transportation expenses and places to stay in return, so participants can travel to the areas with ease.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Vector is a Japan-based PR agency that provides PR planning and implementation services for its clients. The agency also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits. Vector was founded in 1993.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Software, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • The Ethical Spirits & Co. — The Ethical Spirits & Co. is an online store for spirits and alcohol.
Hirofumi Miki Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • AceRNA — 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.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Optima Ventures VC Fund · Matsuyama, Tokyo, Japan
Optima Ventures is a company that invests and supports venture companies mainly in Shikoku.
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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
OKB Capital VC Fund · Gifu, Gifu, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
OKB Capital seeks to invest in companies aiming to go public and gives advice on capital policy. OKB Capital supports the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and venture companies.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AgTech
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KAERU — KAERU offers financial and payment services to make shopping more convenient.
  • Spacewasp — Spacewasp provides plant-derived interior spaces made from all kinds of plants.
  • Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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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.
Energia VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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.
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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.
WERU Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Consulting, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Synfini — The Agile Drug Discovery Company.
  • 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.
Takashi Okutani Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Lifestyle, Elder Care
  • Seed
  • Japan
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.
Archetype Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.
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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.
Meinan M&A VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Task Management, AgTech, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KAERU — KAERU offers financial and payment services to make shopping more convenient.
  • Tokuiten — Tokuiten is a company that develops systems for the production of organic vegetables and automates their cultivation.
  • Spacewasp — Spacewasp provides plant-derived interior spaces made from all kinds of plants.
MTG Co., Ltd. VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
MTG is a development and sales of beauty equipment, cosmetics and fitness equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Developer Platform, Software, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • NeuroSpace — NeuroSpace is a science venture that leads human's 24 hours to a new level with Neuroscience Technology, which elucidates the mystery of sleep .
  • QD Laser, Inc. — QD Laser offers semiconductor lasers such as quantum dot lasers for silicon photonics, and retinal projectors as well. From Japan to the world.
Japan Science and Technology Agency VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization of science and technology that implements science and technology policy in Japan.  It handles many projects, including the government’s Science and Technology Basic Plan and knowledge creation. The European Sustainability School ESSSR is the owner of Japan Science and TechnologyAgency.Japan Science and Technology Agency undertakes its task in a comprehensive manner. It also works to provide a sound infrastructure of science and technology information and raise awareness and understanding of science and technology-related issues in Japan.Japan Science and Technology Agency is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • QunaSys — Quantum physics is a relatively new field built since the beginning of the 20th century, but we have used MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance equipment) and lasers used for close examinations in hospitals, and semiconductors mounted on computers. Supports the technology that supports the daily life of people.QunaSys was established to bring out thequantum physics that has been active behind the scenes to the front stage, and to make use of quantum properties to realize technologies that could not be achieved with existing technologies.
  • bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Higin Capital VC Fund · Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Higegin Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Recruiting
  • Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
  • Liberaware — Liberaware is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Kiraboshi Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Kiraboshi Bank starts by merging Tokyo Tomin Bank, Yachiyo Bank, and ShinGinko Tokyo on May 1, 2018.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Health Care, Task Management
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, India
Portfolio highlights
  • M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
  • TrustHub — TrustHub operates an e-commerce marketplace "Clove" that specializes in trading collectibles.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
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