Top 15 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Japan
A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Wine and spirits startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Japan
Investor | Wine And Spirits Japan investments |
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Nissay Capital | 2 |
Spiral Ventures | 1 |
Makuake | 1 |
Ken Takayama | 1 |
Nobuyuki Nakagawa | 1 |
Ningxia State Investment | 1 |
Takashi Nagao | 1 |
Takashi Mitachi | 1 |
Seio Nagami | 1 |
Toru Shimada | 1 |
MAKOTO Capital | 1 |
Hideto Fujino | 1 |
DOGAN beta | 1 |
JAFCO Group | 1 |
Challenjers Capital | 1 |
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
- Yap — Yap helps pharmaceutical businesses enter the market in a multitude of methods.
- Pocket Sign — Pocket Sign develops digital platforms that store e-signatures and other authentication details for it's users privacy and security.
Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, Indonesia
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- BharatNXT — BharatNXT is a B2B fintech platform. BharatNXT's objective is to become the go-to partner for SMEs on their path to becoming major companies for their business payments, credit, compliance, and sourcing needs.
- Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!
- PolicyStreet — PolicyStreet is a regional full-stack InsurTech company. We customise insurance solutions for businesses and consumers.
Makuake is a operation of various support services centered on the cloud funding platform "Makuake".It is a product production support project utilizing R & D technology.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
- Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Wakaze — Wakaze is a Japanese sake brewing startup.
- Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate — Minimal - Bean to Bar Chocolate is a Chocolate startup
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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- Reservations, Travel, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi
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- Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Angel
- Japan
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- SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.
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- Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Japan
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- Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.
Takashi Nagao
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- SNS, Video, Brewing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
Takashi Mitachi joined BCG in 1993 and is the head of BCG’s Japan operations. He leads the Strategy practice in Japan and is also a core member of the Financial Institutions, Marketing and Sales, and Organization practice areas.Takashi has led projects for Japanese and multinational clients in a wide range of financial and consumer industries.He has also written a book, The BCG Way – the Art of Strategic Insight, which focuses on how to develop capabilities to generate strategic insight.Before joining BCG, Takashi worked for 14 years at Japan Airlines, where his positions included manager of the corporate planning department at the head office in Tokyo. He holds an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School and a BA in American literature from the University of Kyoto.
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- SNS, Brewing, Employment
- Seed, Series A
- Japan
Seio Nagami
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- Task Management, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.
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- Medical, Manufacturing, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan
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- 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 .
Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos
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Investment focus
- Reservations, Travel, Real Estate
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States
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- HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
- Address Japan — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
They believe that the fundamental challenge facing the local economy is the lack of employment diversity. Although it is a simple example, it is easier to understand if you compare the Tokyo metropolitan area with Kyushu and list the companies that can achieve annual income of 10 million yen at the age of 30 (probably with a head office in KyushuMost companies with the highest annual income will be infrastructure company
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Investment focus
- Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
- Geofra — Geofra develops Planning and creation of items that rejuvenate the movement of people in physical areas, regional revitalization initiatives
- Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- Japan, United States
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- Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
- Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
Challenjers Capital invests in China, and help build iconic brands of tomorrow. They determined to invest in the start-ups, which create authentic products and services, instead of companies, which inflate their margins with marketing fees.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ji Space — Ji Space provides cross-generation portable NAS T2, and the upgraded Z4pro,that are to meet the different storage needs of users.
- Sun Food — Sun Food is a manufacturer of food seasonings with two major brands, "Taiyang" and "Axiangpo."
- Alexander Wang — Alexander Wang is a Fashion and Apparel Retailer.
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