Top 20 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Japan
A list of 20 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 20 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Japan
Investor | Wine And Spirits Japan investments |
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Nissay Capital | 2 |
Nobuyuki Nakagawa | 1 |
Takashi Nagao | 1 |
Makuake | 1 |
Hideto Fujino | 1 |
Suntory Holdings | 1 |
Vector | 1 |
Money Forward Venture Partners | 1 |
SMBC Venture Capital | 1 |
Ningxia State Investment | 1 |
Toru Shimada | 1 |
DOGAN beta | 1 |
Takashi Mitachi | 1 |
MAKOTO Capital | 1 |
CITIC Agriculture | 1 |
Challenjers Capital | 1 |
Spiral Ventures | 1 |
JAFCO Group | 1 |
Ken Takayama | 1 |
Seio Nagami | 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, Medical, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, Ethiopia, United States
Nobuyuki Nakagawa - President and CEO @ Mynavi
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
- Angel
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
Takashi Nagao
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Investment focus
- SNS, Video, Brewing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Japan
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
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Suntory is a world leading consumer product company. Find information about our company, business, performance and CSR activities.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- The Ethical Spirits & Co. — The Ethical Spirits & Co. is an online store for spirits and alcohol.
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
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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
- AiCAN — AiCAN provides system planning and development, data analysis, IT, and consulting services related to child welfare.
- newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- Manpuku Holdings — Manpuku Holdings is a food and beverage company that specializes in sushi, yakiniku, fried chicken, bento, and rice balls.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
- Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
- Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.
Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.
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
Portfolio highlights
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.
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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Investment focus
- SNS, Brewing, Employment
- Seed, Series A
- 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 .
CITIC Agriculture serves as the only platform to plan and execute CITIC Limited’s agriculture investment strategy. CITIC Agriculture focuses on agricultural biotechnology with a mission of upgrading China’s agricultural industry. Leveraging CITIC Limited's advantages in capital, branding and internationalisation, CITIC Agriculture today isbuilding and shaping globally competitive agricultural companies.
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage, Drones
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Japan
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- EAVISION — EAVision is a smart agricultural robotics company that uses computer vision for autonomous crop protection. Its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine AI visual recognition and precision spraying to allow farmers to protect their produce even in challenging geographical environments.
- Xige Estate — Xige Estate operates a wine estate that has more than 30,000 acres of its own vineyards. It has advanced production equipment, including fermentation tanks, intelligent temperature-controlled brewing systems, pre-processing equipment, filling lines, and vineyard intelligent agricultural control systems.The company was founded in 2017 and isheadquartered in Qingtongxia, Ningxia, China.
- Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.
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
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- 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.
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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- Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
- BharatNXT — Make secure business payments with BharatNXT. Our platform offers services from Vendor payments to GST payments. Experience simple credit card payments for businesses. Get started today!
- 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!
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.
Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do
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Investment focus
- Reservations, Travel, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Japan
Seio Nagami
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- Task Management, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Japan
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