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Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Japan in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 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 April 2025

Investor	Wellness Japan investments
ANRI	5
Genesia Ventures	4
Nippon Venture Capital	3
Money Forward Venture Partners	3
epiST	3
D4V	2
Z Venture Capital	2
Zeroichi Capital	2
STATION AI	2
Daiwa Corporate Investment	2
Iceblue Fund	2
GMO VenturePartners	2
Hiroaki Kitano	2
Dual Bridge Capital	2
Susquehanna International Group	2
Monozukuri Ventures	2
90s	2
All About Japan	2
M3.com	1
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation	1
JR East Start Up	1
MS JAPAN	1
Yazawa Ventures	1
One Capital	1
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative	1
en-Japan	1
Chikako Morimoto	1
Coconala Skill Partners	1
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking	1
Gazelle Capital	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
START POINT	1
Toru Ei	1
NOBUNAGA Capital Village	1
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company	1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank	1
Seibu Shinkin Capital	1
Mint	1
Accord Ventures	1
Shizen Capital	1
Katsuhiro Tamukai	1
Direct Marketing MiX	1
Double Sharp Partners	1
Kenji Kasahara	1
Tomohito Ebine	1
OKB Capital	1
Sea Forest Circulation	1
Suzuyo	1
Framgia Holdings	1
Vector	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.

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

Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
Conoris Technologies — Conoris Technologies is a staffing agency that offers security check support services for companies.

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.

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.
Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
EneCoat Technologies — EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.

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

SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
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.

epiST is an advanced technology internalization consulting company.

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.

D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lecto — Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services
Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
Genba Hub — Genba Hub specializes in providing business management systems for construction and maintenance enterprises.

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

Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Trace — Secure and reliable voice AI customer support agents for banking, insurance, fintech, and more. We integrate with existing core systems and leverage the latest in AI research to resolve all customer calls end-to-end.
Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

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.

Dual Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
Series A, Seed, Series C
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Awarefy — Awarefy is a mental health tech startup that offers CBT-based apps to maximize well-being.
nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
Doctor's Prime — Doctor's Prime is a technology company that provides is a part-time job information service for optimizing the working style of doctors.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.
Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.

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.

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.
Grand Green — GRA&GREEN is a research and development agribio venture based in Japan
Towing — Towing is an agricultural company that provides farming, manufacturing, and recycling services.

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 —

MS JAPAN operates as a recruitment service for business administration positions and professionals.

Investment focus

Beauty, Content, Wellness
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.

Yazawa Ventures is a seed-focused venture capital firm that invests in startups.

Investment focus

Wedding, Software, Wellness
Pre-Seed, Seed
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

xCura — xCura alleviating pain and anxiety of people with the help of technology and product therapy VR.
Out Loud — Out Loud is an IT company that offers integrated language assistance services with the help of AI and LLM.
ReLife Technology — ReLife Technology offers online consultation services that help to solve the problems of people who are troubled by marital problems.

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.
Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
H2 — H2 Corporation offers an automation solution called "AI Estimation" for estimating tasks.

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.

En-Japan provides solutions for the improvement of employees and organizations. The company works within the recruitment field and manages six recruiting websites and a briefing site for management and HR professionals. En-Japan was founded in January 2000 and is based in Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan.

Investment focus

Task Management, Recruiting, Marketing
Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

RevComm — RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
ONLY STORY — ONLY STORY is a manager matching platform.
Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.

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Investment focus

Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.

Investment focus

Finance, Fitness, Software
Seed
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.
Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Codeless Technology — Codeless Technology is a software development company that helps businesses save time, reduce errors, and improve overall efficiency.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Symbiobe — Symbiobe develops and promotes a resource-recycling material production platform that effectively utilizes natural biomass resources and photosynthetic organisms, which have not been fully exploited in the past, and to update manufacturing around the world to a form that can be passed on to the next generation, thereby making sustainable society...
DoctorMate — DoctorMate is a service that allows you to consult with your doctor about problems at your nursing home.They will reduce the risks and burdens related to medical care from the field of nursing care, and support the creation of a system that allows nursing care providers to concentrate on daily care with peace of mind.
GC Therapeutics — Discover GC Therapeutics, a pioneer in scalable, cutting-edge cell therapies designed to revolutionize treatment across a broad range of therapeutic areas.

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.

Toru Ei is a Kaizen Platform CGO, and Beautydoors CEO.

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.

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

CuboRex — CuboRex realizes creative mobility using its crawler technology.
RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
Robofull — Robofull is a manufacturing firm that specializes in the design and sale of automation equipment for factories to solve the labor shortage.

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Investment focus

SNS, Apps, Content
Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.
ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Energy
Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
Gojo & Company — We are enabling financial inclusion for everyone by partnering with financial service providers.
Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.

Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.

Investment focus

Task Management, Apps, Education
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Rehas — Rehas is a healthcare solution provider that specializes in home medical care and employment support services.
ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
Pinpin Kirari — Pinpin Kirari is a web platform that supports the region of the elderly.

Mint operates as an independent venture capital firm specializing in the early stage of startups. It focuses on bridging the boundaries between finance and business, investors and entrepreneurs, creating a foundation for startup growth, and supporting entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Video Chat
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
Respo — Respo is a service that enables people to save money by buying things at a discount.
Sky Link Technologies — Sky Link Technologies specializes in the establishment of new technologies for the improvement of people's convenience.

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
Seed, Series A, 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
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

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

Portfolio highlights

xMap — Explore xMap, a premier location intelligence SaaS platform. Access vast data sets from multiple industries worldwide, visualize on maps, and drive data-driven decisions. Elevate your business strategy with unparalleled insights and achieve market leadership.
Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Woodstock — Woodstock is an investment app that allows to invest in US stocks.

Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.

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.

Direct Marketing MiX is a staffing, recruiting, consulting, and marketing company.

Investment focus

Wellness, Child Care, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

BABY JOB — BABY JOB offers nursery support and child care support businesses.
GoFood — GoFood operates an online food delivery service providing healthy & sugar-restricted frozen foods for a healthy lifestyle.

Double Sharp Partners is a corporate venture capital that invests in start-up companies and entrepreneurs who provide advanced and innovative businesses and services that use IT to solve social issues and inefficiencies. The firm aims to create a prosperous and comfortable future together with entrepreneurs by funding start-up companies thatchallenge innovation ahead of change.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Rental, Fitness
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
subsclife — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.

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

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."
Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .

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

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.

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.

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.

Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.

Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions. The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Consulting
Funding Round, Series A, Corporate Round
Japan

Portfolio highlights

KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.

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.

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.

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.

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