Top 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026
Top 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2026
| Investor | Wine And Spirits Japan investments |
|---|---|
| Nissay Capital | 2 |
| CITIC Agriculture | 1 |
| DOGAN beta | 1 |
| Challenjers Capital | 1 |
| Makuake | 1 |
| MAKOTO Capital | 1 |
| Spiral Ventures | 1 |
| Money Forward Venture Partners | 1 |
| Ningxia State Investment | 1 |
| JAFCO Group | 1 |
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Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
- Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
- Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based 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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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage, Drones
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Internet, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- China, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- 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
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
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 .
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
Portfolio highlights
- Fragaria — Discover innovative farming practices and high-quality, year-round fruits in India with Fragaria's advanced agricultural technology.
- VeXeRe.Com — Founded in 2013, VeXeRe.com is the largest online bus ticket platform in Vietnam. They help passengers book bus tickets conveniently thanks to their 1,000+ bus companies network and coverage for trips within Vietnam and from Vietnam to neighbor countries. Their payment channels include online payment, payment at 24/7 convenience stores, banktransfers, and other channels that provide customers with convenient booking experience.
- Instapay Technologies — Instapay is the only e-wallet in Malaysia to offer a corporate portal. It enables you to self-manage the salary payment process with greater visibility. It serves to streamline payroll processing within organizations while promoting finances.
Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- Trustart — Trustart engages in real estate research business and real estate big data provision. The company offers real estate big data and big data subscriptions.
- ARCS — ARCS specializes in developing assisted reproductive medical devices using robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.
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- Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
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