# Top 10 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in June 2026

## Nissay Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

## Money Forward Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## CITIC Agriculture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage, Drones

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.

## Spiral Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology

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/

## Ningxia State Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ningxiang, Hunan, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Ningxia State Investment is an investment firm.

## MAKOTO Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Manufacturing, Software

MAKOTO Capital engages in VC business, venture studio business, and management consulting business.

## Challenjers Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

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.

## Makuake
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Product Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage

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.

## DOGAN beta
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Internet

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

## JAFCO Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

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

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