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Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Japan in May 2026

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 May 2026

Investor Wellness Japan investments
ANRI 6
Genesia Ventures 4
Money Forward Venture Partners 3
Nippon Venture Capital 3
epiST 3
Hiroaki Kitano 2
Susquehanna International Group 2
Iceblue Fund 2
90s 2
STATION AI 2
All About Japan 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
Dual Bridge Capital 2
D4V 2
Z Venture Capital 2
Zeroichi Capital 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
Monozukuri Ventures 2
Meinan M&A 1
B Dash Ventures 1
WERU Investment 1
Takashi Okutani 1
Yosemite 1
Asuka Holding 1
Keito Noguchi 1
Mizuho Capital 1
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 1
Hirofumi Miki 1
Kiraboshi Bank 1
Aichi Capital 1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
ABC Dream Ventures 1
Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund 1
And Factory 1
MTG Ventures 1
Mobile Internet Capital 1
Medical note 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
Yoshimori Ito 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Dawn Capital 1
One Capital 1
Gazelle Capital 1
Shizen Capital 1
Katsuhiro Tamukai 1
Kyowa 1
Sansei Capital Investment 1
OKB Capital 1
Sea Forest Circulation 1

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ANRI
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • 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.
  • Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
  • Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
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Genesia Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
  • Takumi Giken Kogyo — Takumi Giken Kogyo is a price technology developer to help parts manufacturers quickly identify acceptable product prices. Takumi Giken Kogyo assists in estimate calculation and product function through AI drawing search and repeat project determination function, enabling manufacturers with flexible customization of product functions based oncustomer requirements.
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Money Forward Venture Partners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
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Nippon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Upward — UPWARD is highly by linking CRM · schedule map / location information, is a cloud service for the visiting business of field sales easier. Field salespersons who have many customers and who are out of the office feel that it is difficult to grasp all customers to Kampek and measure the timing of visits no matter how memorable they are.
  • Surv Biopharma — Surv Biopharma develops a drug discovery platform that facilitates research and development of veterinary drugs and pharmaceutical products.
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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.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Fitness, Medical
  • 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.
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Susquehanna International Group
VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • ETHGas — ETHGas aims to redefine how users engage with Ethereum by providing low-latency, 3ms settlement times, and real-time trading, as well as a comprehensive product suite for exact order execution.
  • Lentra — Lentra provides a secure technology platform for banking services.
  • Hyperlayer — Build and launch modular financial products in weeks, not years. The programmable orchestration fabric for finance and loyalty.
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Iceblue Fund
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Iceblue Fund is the #Global #Founder's #Hands-on Fund for Global Entrepreneurs seeking for a whole new world Established in 2022 by two women.

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Investment focus

  • Consulting, FinTech, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Takadao — Takadao builds technology that enables communities to pool money together to mutually insure one another without the need for an insurance company.
  • Meme — MEME is a money app for parents and children to make money more familiar and simplifies the flow of money.
  • EduCare — EduCare provides affordable solutions to financial assistance for giving education to students.
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90s
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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.
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STATION AI
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Drones
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Things — Things offer product development and various information such as CAD, drawings, parts configuration, and price information.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
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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, Health Care, Task Management
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Anchi — Anchi is a technology company that provides user-friendly services to support V-talents.
  • 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.
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Daiwa Corporate Investment
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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.
  • Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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Dual Bridge Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Dual Bridge Capital is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • OMO — OMO is a hybrid online and offline used goods buying support service,
  • BRAND PORT — BRAND PORT a company engaged in M&A and development of consumer goods brands.
  • CommerceX Holdings — CommerceX Holdings is a DX infrastructure company group that uses technology to replicate retail growth, drawing on on-site knowledge gained from running its own businesses.
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D4V
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan

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, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
  • Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
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Z Venture Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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, Software, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
  • Vently — Discover the best nightlife events in SF.
  • Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
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Zeroichi Capital
VC Fund · Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan

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

  • Vitom — Vitom is a FoodTech startup that addresses the issues of sustainability and reliability in the food industry.
  • 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.
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GMO VenturePartners
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, 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.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Aperza — Aperza's mission is to contribute to redesigning the manufacturing industry by eliminating three barriers in the industry which are the barrier of information, transaction and communication which most of companies and people often face in this industry.Manufacturing industry is Japanese core industry. We would like to contribute to therebirth of this industry by those activities such as supporting those companies who challenges the global market and supporting those start-ups who tries brand-new industry trend such as Industry 4.0, smart factory or IoT. We believe that this lead to the increase of the people in this industry, and the growth of the industry eventually.
  • RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
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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

  • Hardware, Software, Robotics
  • 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.
  • Rutilea — RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency.
  • 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.
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Meinan M&A
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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.
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B Dash Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
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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.
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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.
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Yosemite
VC Fund

Yosemite is an investment management company.

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Investment focus

  • Legal, Water, AgTech
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
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Asuka Holding
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Asuka Holding is a principal investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Sports, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
  • Cube — Cube is enabling everyone to invest in the simplest manner possible along with guidance from the world’s top performing investment managers - the same that guide the world’s richest families. The service is already live in India, and soon to be available across USA and multiple Asian countries. Cube has an experienced team that comes from theworld of fintech, entrepreneurship, design, systems, banking, and global sales. It is founded by Satyen Kothari, a battle scarred entrepreneur who is on his 5th adventure. He has previously founded Citrus Pay in India and three companies in the Silicon Valley. Citrus was sold in 2016 in India’s largest fintech cash deal at the time and was processing $2 bn at its peak and servicing 20 mn users.
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Keito Noguchi
Angel

Keito Noguchi is a Brave group Representative Director, and Angel Investor.

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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.
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Mizuho Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

  • Lavol
  • Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
  • Metagen Therapeutics — Metagen Therapeutics is a Drug discovery and medical business company which utilizes microbiome science.
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Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
  • Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
  • Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.
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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.
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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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Aichi Capital
VC Fund · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
  • Grand Central — Grand Central is a consulting company specializing in the sales field.
  • Seiwa Holdings — Seiwa Holdings is a company that specializes in the welding of large structures. It holds a significant share in the large sign industry in the Chubu region. The company also has a subsidiary, Toei Coating, which boasts one of the largest facilities in Gifu for electric zinc plating. Seiwa Holdings is also involved in the production of road signposts and bridge fall prevention devices. The company operates in the financial services industry and has a workforce of 2 employees.
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ITOCHU Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
  • Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.
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ABC Dream Ventures
VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan

ABC Dream Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese media firm Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Social Media, Content
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • TYPICA — TYPICA is a marketplace where you can directly trade unique and high quality green coffee beans in units of one bag.
  • At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
  • Rei-Frontier — Rei-Frontier Inc. is the Japanese company which provides the mobile application using augmented reality technology. Rei-Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2008.
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Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan

The Paramount Bed Healthcare Fund works with startups to bring about innovations greater than what Paramount Bed would be able to create on its own.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, SaaS, Medical
  • Series B
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
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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.
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MTG Ventures
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

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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.
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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.
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Medical note
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Medical notes are medical media that connect doctors and patients. Specialists, physicians, and healthcare professionals working at the forefront provide easy-to-understand information on diseases. medical media will provide reliable information to those who are ill. With the cooperation of many teachers, we are disseminating information incooperation with academic societies.

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • One Medica — One Medica is a platform that provides people outside of China with access to Japan's state-of-the-art medical care. They collaborate with numerous Japanese medical facilities to offer online second opinions and comprehensive medical services for tourists visiting Japan.
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FFG Venture Business Partners
VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months

FFG Venture Business Partners is a large-scale enterprise that offers in traditional regional bank venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • FELIQS — FELIQS is a preclinical-stage start-up company established based on the robust science from molecular pathobiology, department of pharmaceutical science, Kyushu university.
  • ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
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Yoshimori Ito
Angel

Yoshimori Ito is the Director at Toggle Holdings..

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
  • MTU — MTU offers medical security cloud services to medical organizations and delivers IT support, including the recent cyber harm to medical institutions, both online and offline.
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Japan Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 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, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
  • Sunnies — Sunnies is a new-generation password manager that manages user privacy and account information.
  • Pathfinder — Pathfinder is a research and development company that provides MaaS and delivery vehicle application development services.
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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.
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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.
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One Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months

One Capital is an investment firm.

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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.
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Gazelle Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Gazelle Capital is a venture capital and investment firm.

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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.
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Shizen Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

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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.
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Katsuhiro Tamukai
Angel

Katsuhiro Tamukai is a COO of Cost Science.

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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.
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Kyowa
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kyowa provides health and beauty care products to customers.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Finance, Computer
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Hmcomm — Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutescreation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology.
  • lafool — lafool is a mental health tech company that provides an organizational diagnostic tool "Laful Survey" to realize health management.
  • earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
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Sansei Capital Investment
VC Fund · Koto, Tokyo, Japan

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

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Investment focus

  • Content, Medical, Task Management
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, China, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

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

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

  • Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
  • Brainbuddy — Brainbuddy specializes in sales support, business growth, recruiting, consulting, and training services.
  • Illumi Medical — Illumi Medical is a manufacturing company that produces medical equipment and devices for the healthcare sector.
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Sea Forest Circulation
VC Fund

Sea Forest Circulation is an investment firm.

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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.
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