Top 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) 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 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in July 2025
Investor | Wine And Spirits Japan investments |
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Nissay Capital | 2 |
MAKOTO Capital | 1 |
DOGAN beta | 1 |
Challenjers Capital | 1 |
Spiral Ventures | 1 |
Money Forward Venture Partners | 1 |
CITIC Agriculture | 1 |
JAFCO Group | 1 |
Ningxia State Investment | 1 |
Makuake | 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, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Ethiopia
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- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
- Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
- Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
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
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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 .
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
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- Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
- Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
- Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
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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- Menusifu — MenuSifu powers over 15,000 restaurants across the U.S. with advanced POS solutions. From seamless ordering to efficient payment processing, our technology helps restaurant owners streamline operations and drive growth.
- Sun Food — Sun Food is a manufacturer of food seasonings with two major brands, "Taiyang" and "Axiangpo."
- Tiaohai Tavern — Tiaohai Tavern is a community tavern service provider.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, Indonesia
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- Remind — Remind provides e-waste management and recycling solutions for electronic waste.
- Remind — Ethical Circular Material, Comprehensive e-waste recycling and trading solutions for a sustainable future. Be the changemakers with us!
- Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.
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
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- 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.
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.
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 is the hangout app where you can enjoy games, videos, music, and more with friends.
- 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.
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.
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
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- 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
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