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

Investor Wellness Japan investments
ANRI 5
Genesia Ventures 4
Nippon Venture Capital 3
epiST 3
Money Forward Venture Partners 3
Z Venture Capital 2
Monozukuri Ventures 2
Susquehanna International Group 2
STATION AI 2
D4V 2
Dual Bridge Capital 2
GMO VenturePartners 2
90s 2
Daiwa Corporate Investment 2
All About Japan 2
Iceblue Fund 2
Zeroichi Capital 2
MTG Co., Ltd. 1
Future Venture Capital 1
Nagoya Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation 1
ASICS Ventures Corporation 1
Dawn Capital 1
Optima Ventures 1
Mistletoe 1
Sun Asterisk 1
Meinan M&A 1
DeNA 1
Suzuyo 1
Global Brain Corporation 1
And Factory 1
FFG Venture Business Partners 1
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank 1
OKB Capital 1
ABC Dream Ventures 1
MTG Ventures 1
Vector 1
Dai-ichi Kangyo Credit Cooperative 1
LiB Consulting 1
TLM 1
Aichi Capital 1
Asia Venture Group 1
Fukuoka Financial Group 1
Double Sharp Partners 1
Energia 1
JR East Start Up 1
Kiraboshi Bank 1
B Dash Ventures 1
Sea Forest Circulation 1
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting 1
MAKOTO Capital 1
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ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 26 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
  • Asusola — Asusola engaged in the renewable energy power generation business
Genesia Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 23 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
  • Manabie — Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning,integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
  • Mined — Mined is a marketplace that provides online lessons in various subjects for elementary school students. Mind develops and operation of education-related services.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 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.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
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.
Money Forward Venture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 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.
  • MagicPod Japan — MagicPod provides an automation cloud service through AI technology. MagicPod was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Z Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 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.
  • 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.
  • Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
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.
Susquehanna International Group VC Fund · Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States · 4 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 a marketplace. We're the only regulated prediction market for betting. We make it easy to place, track, and sell your bet to make a profit.
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.
D4V VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 8 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, 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.
  • 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.
Dual Bridge Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 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
  • 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.
  • Dr.’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.
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, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
  • RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
  • 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!
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.
Daiwa Corporate Investment VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments 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.
  • Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.
  • COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
All About Japan VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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
  • 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.
Iceblue Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 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.
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.
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.
  • GRA&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.
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
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.
Suzuyo VC Fund · Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan · 5 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
  • 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.
  • GROWTH VERSE — GROWTH VERSE is a developer of Aimstar an all-in-one tool that offers data integration, analysis, and policy implementation services.
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.
FFG Venture Business Partners VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 15 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
  • Oxxx — Oxxx is an e-commerce management agency that provides EC site management, planning, and sales of frozen home delivery infant food mogumo.
  • aiESG — aiESG offers an AI platform that conducts ESG assessments of supply chains and facilitates an in-depth sustainability evaluation.
  • Josan-shes — Josan shes is web start up that offers nursing service to women and babies.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 16 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
  • Financial Services, Finance, Health Care
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
  • Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
  • Japan Tobacco — Japan Tobacco operates diverse businesses across the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and processed food sectors.
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.
Aichi Capital VC Fund · 5 investments 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.
Asia Venture Group VC Fund · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Asia Venture Group is a hands-on, private Internet Holding Company and focuses on long-term value creation in South East Asian online markets. Asia Venture Group targets the sweet spots of the Asian internet space by combining: state of the art international know-how and expertise, rigorous execution excellence, outstanding international managementtalent, and the best local partners. Asia Venture Group focuses on digital distribution models and is extremely selective in terms of the companies it supports, which allows strong engagement in day-to-day operations.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Malaysia, India, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals
Fukuoka Financial Group VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka Financial Group provides banking and financial services that contributes to the development of the regional economy.It operates through the Banking and Others divisions. The Banking division offers deposits, loans, and domestic and foreign exchange services. The Others division provides guarantees, business revitalization support,receivable management, and collection services. The company was founded on April 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Media and Entertainment, Management Consulting
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CellAxia — drug discovery bio-venture aiming at practical application of advanced research such as cell therapy .
  • Monstar Lab — Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide.The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesomesolutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.
  • Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
Double Sharp Partners VC Fund · Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Double Sharp Partners is a corporate venture capital that invests in start-up companies and entrepreneurs who provide advanced and innovative businesses and services that use IT to solve social issues and inefficiencies. The firm aims to create a prosperous and comfortable future together with entrepreneurs by funding start-up companies thatchallenge innovation ahead of change.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, Rental, Fitness
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
  • subsclife — subsclife is a Furniture design platform.
  • HIDEOUT CLUB — HIDEOUT CLUB is a food and beverage company.
Energia VC Fund · Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated is engaged in the provision of total solutions for electric business.The Company operates in four business segments. The Electricity segment is engaged in the provision of electricity. The General Energy Provision segment is engaged in the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as the provisionof services utilizing electricity and heat energy. The Information Communications segment is engaged in the telecommunication business, information processing and the design of information systems. The Others segment is involved in the provision of engineering services, the agent sale of real estate and the repair of instrumentations, among others.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Food Processing
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Co-nect — Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.
  • CO-NECT — CO-NECT is a cloud-based online ordering system designed to let users place and receive orders anytime.
JR East Start Up VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
JR East Startup Program is a program operated by East Japan Railway that provides incubator and accelerator services to startups in Japan. The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Reservations, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
  • Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
  • Lineside Marugoto
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.
B Dash Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 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
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.
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting is a commercial broadcasting services provider.
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Investment focus
  • Video Editing, Media and Entertainment
  • Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • FIREBUG — FIREBUG enables comedians, actresses, models, artists, managers, and creators to develop their skills. They arrange production plans for numerous talents and create IP and advertising items based on the social networking sites of the talents. Additionally, they offer marketing solutions built around a range of talent-focused content. They offerbasic marketing assistance and advertising for businesses.
  • ACCEL Stars — ACCEL Stars is a fitness and wellness firm that offers sleep diagnosis and examinations like sleep health, hygiene and medical devices.
MAKOTO Capital VC Fund · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Manufacturing, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
  • Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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