Top 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

Investor	Wine And Spirits Japan investments
Nissay Capital	2
CITIC Agriculture	1
Challenjers Capital	1
Makuake	1
JAFCO Group	1
Ningxia State Investment	1
Money Forward Venture Partners	1
Spiral Ventures	1
DOGAN beta	1
MAKOTO Capital	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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
HQ — HQ offers next-generation employee benefits platform.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
Angel, Series A, Seed
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Menusifu — Founded in 2013, Menusifu is a data-driven company that strives to utilize the most advanced technology to remedy the current chaotic restaurants’ management situation. It builds an ecosystem that provides a comprehensive operation management system, ranging from the supply chain, sufficient organization, to customers’ management. CurrentlyMenusifu is expanding its business footprint in North America. Its mission is building smart restaurants.
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.

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

JAFCO Group is a venture capital firm that primarily invests in domestic and foreign private companies.

Investment focus

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 — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
Japan

Portfolio highlights

Xige Guanlan Group — Xige Guanlan Group is a manufacturer of Chinese vine bottles.

Money Forward Venture Partners operates HIRAC FUND, a seed fund specializing in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Wellness, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.
Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
Earth Boat — Earth Boat is an accomodation company that specializes in manufacture, sales, and support services of trailer houses and portable saunas.

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/

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
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!
Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.

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