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Top 50 Wellness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in April 2025

A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in April 2025

Investor Wellness Japan investments
ANRI 5
Genesia Ventures 4
Money Forward Venture Partners 3
Nippon Venture Capital 3
epiST 3
90s 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
Iceblue Fund 2
All About Japan 2
Susquehanna International Group 2
Zeroichi Capital 2
Z Venture Capital 2
D4V 2
STATION AI 2
Dual Bridge Capital 2
Monozukuri Ventures 2
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
Asuka Holding 1
MTG Co., Ltd. 1
Future Venture Capital 1
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation 1
ASICS Ventures Corporation 1
Higin Capital 1
Dawn Capital 1
Optima Ventures 1
Mizuho Capital 1
Mistletoe 1
Sun Asterisk 1
Meinan M&A 1
DeNA 1
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company 1
Suzuyo 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
And Factory 1
Safie Ventures 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank 1
Medical note 1
Seibu Shinkin Capital 1
Yosemite 1
OKB Capital 1
ABC Dream Ventures 1
MTG Ventures 1
Vector 1
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative 1
LiB Consulting 1
TLM 1
Hakuhodo DY Ventures 1
Mint 1
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ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 25 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
  • 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 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
  • 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.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 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
  • 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.
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.
  • 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.
epiST VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
90s VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 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
  • 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.
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.
Iceblue Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 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.
All About Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • Argos — Argos provides the online insurance medical treatment service.
  • toggle — toggle is the social implementation of technology in the real estate area.
Susquehanna International Group VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States · 6 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.
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
  • 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.
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
  • 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
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 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
  • 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.
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, 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.
Dual Bridge Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
  • LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
  • IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation VC Fund · Nakamura, Nagano, 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.
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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.
ASICS Ventures Corporation VC Fund · Kobe, Kyoto, Japan
ASICS Ventures Corporation, a venture capital arm of the company that would accelerate and invest in startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Sports, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Bisu — At home testing made simple! Get personalized insights and expert advice tailored just for you. Begin your journey to wellness now!
  • LYMB.iO — We are on a mission to make the world more active using the power of gamification.In a time, where technology fosters an inactive lifestyle, we realized that physical activity needs to be more attractive to stay relevant. Our mixed reality sports solutions enable athletes to train in more engaging ways, provide coaches with data analytics, helpkids to improve their motor skills and make it easier and fun for all of us to start working out and stick with our training routine. But apart from making sports as fun as gaming, we’re especially proud of getting inactive people moving – the kids and adults that never considered taking up a sport.
  • Seevix Material Sciences Ltd. — Seevix is a privately held biotech company producing high-strength, biocompatible spidersilk fibers, identical to natural fibers. Through recombinant DNA technologies, we are unique in our ability to replicate the natural self-assembly process of spidersilk creation. Seevix targets applications where the fibers’ mechanical properties can radicallyimprove existing products and provide solutions for unmet needs in a variety of industries.
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.
  • AMI Corp — AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Dawn Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 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
  • Nicoli — Nicoli is a company that creates content and advertisements that increase happy time for parents and children .
  • 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.
  • Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
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
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 46 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
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
  • Penetrator — Penetrator transforms the real estate market with space technology, tackling transaction issues and forming landslide observation systems.
  • Umee Technologies — Umee Technologies is an IT firm that offers full-stack development, conversational AI, and psychological analysis engine services.
Mistletoe VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
  • Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
  • Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.
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.
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.
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.
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan
This is the website of SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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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.
Suzuyo VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Suzuyo provides domestic and international logistics and transportation solutions. The company was founded in 1936 and based in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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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.
Global Brain Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 57 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Poetics — Poetics is an AI startup that develops communication related products concerning language and voice to provide business solutions.
  • Endophyte — Endophyte specializes in endophytic soil solutions, harnessing beneficial microorganisms to plant growth and agricultural productivity.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
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.
Safie Ventures VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Safie Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that uses video to innovate across industries and aims to impact the world through partnerships.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Voxela — Voxels is an AI powered platform on a mission to reinvent caregiving by making incident detection intelligent and actionable.
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 13 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, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
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.
  • Cellid — Cellid developing the waveguide-architecture display module for AR glasses and high-performance spatial recognition software.
  • Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.
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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.
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.
Seibu Shinkin Capital VC Fund · Shioya, Kumamoto, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Seibu Shinkin Capital is an investment, M & A, and incubation office that contributes to the promotion of the local economy.
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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.
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.
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.
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
  • 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.
  • Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.
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.
Vector VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative VC Fund
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative is the company research and investing information.
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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.
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.
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.
Hakuhodo DY Ventures VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 6 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.
Mint VC Fund · Higashi, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
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