Angel Bridge Co.,Ltd.

PLAINER develops a no-code software enablement platform that lets SaaS and software vendors build interactive product demos in virtual environments for sales, onboarding, internal demos, and training.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechTokyo, JP

小林 大(代表取締役CEO)佐野(CXO)

Co-investorsALL STAR SAAS FUNDMIRAISE

Zen Intelligence (formerly SoftRoid) develops Physical AI, including AI foundation models and robots for automating construction site management, inspection, and data collection.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechRoboticsTokyo, JP

野﨑 大幹(代表者 (Representative))

Co-investorsRice CapitalFIRSTLIGHT Capital

precal is an automated pharmacy reception and prescription data-entry service for pharmacies in Japan, where patients scan prescriptions at a tablet and remote online clerks enter the data.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Co-investorsDBJ CapitalOpen Network Lab

PR TIMES is a press release distribution service that helps companies distribute news releases to media and the public, with content syndicated across more than 260 partner sites.

Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Co-investorsbasepartnersDD Holdings Venture CapitalDIMENSIONi Cubed Venturesi-nest capitalKintetsu Venture Partners+7 more

Masashi Takanobu(Founder)inRyoma I.(Founder)in

Co-investorsGlobal BrainMobile Internet Capital, Inc.Scrum VenturesGenesia Ventures

Atransen Pharma is a pharmaceutical company developing cancer therapies that target amino acid transporters, specifically LAT1 (large neutral amino acid transporter), which cancer cells overexpress to take up amino acids needed for growth.

BiotechHealthtech

Fivot provides financial services for both businesses and individuals, offering lending products aimed at supporting startup growth and savings services that help individuals save money toward their goals.

FintechTokyo, JP

Shogo Abe(代表取締役 (Representative Director / CEO))

Co-investorsCanal VenturesNippon Venture CapitalSony Ventures CorporationSpiral CapitalSpiral Innovation Partners

Flex Capital provides debt financing for startups and SMEs in Japan, offering unsecured, unguaranteed products including venture debt (up to ¥300M), revenue-based financing, and invoice payment financing.

Fintech

Raised 650M JPY in a Series A round.

GeneTech provides non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) using fetal cell-free DNA from maternal blood, along with clinical laboratory testing services, offered to certified medical institutions in Japan.

BiotechDigital HealthFemTechHealthtechMedical DevicesTokyo, JP

後藤 幸七(代表取締役 (Representative Director))

Goooods is a B2B wholesale marketplace connecting retailers and buyers with over 3,000 domestic and international brands across categories like food, beauty, household goods, fashion, and interior products.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail TechTokyo, JP

Louis Nonouchi(Founder)inKeisuke Kanno(Founder)in

Co-investorsIncubate USVela PartnersZ Venture Capital

Hanji develops and provides an AI tutor for middle and high school students in Japan, using educational technology to support individualized learning.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechTokyo, JP

Yosuke Murata(Co-Founder & CEO)Naoto Tsujimoto(Co-Founder & CPO)

Co-investorsCoreline Ventures

Heartseed develops cardiac regenerative medicine, creating heart muscle cells from iPS cells for transplantation to treat heart failure, with its lead pipeline HS-001 nearing clinical trials.

BiotechHealthtechMedical Devices

Keiichi Fukuda(代表取締役社長 (President & CEO))

Co-investorsAstellas Venture Management LLCKeio Innovation InitiativeMedical Incubator Japan K.K.SMBC Venture CapitalSumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.UTokyo Innovation Platform Co. Ltd.

Raised 3B JPY in a Series C round.

HITOTSU develops digital transformation software for hospitals and healthcare providers, including communication tools, messaging platforms, and incident reporting systems.

Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

佐藤 公彦(代表取締役)

Co-investorsBeyond Next Ventures

Japan Hydro Powtech develops proprietary hydrolysate manufacturing technology to convert previously discarded food materials into edible products without chemical treatment and with low energy use.

Circular EconomyFoodTechNew Materials

熊澤 正純(代表取締役 (Representative Director))

KYCC Corporation is a Japanese regtech company that provides corporate risk databases and a SaaS compliance-check tool (RiskAnalyze) for KYC/AML and customer due diligence, along with consulting and expert-support services.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSTokyo, JP

飛内 尚正(代表取締役社長 (President & CEO))北住 和弘(取締役 COO)

Co-investorsSeibu Shinkin Capital

Lisuto develops an AI tagging tool ("AIタッガー") that reads CSV files containing product text such as item descriptions and automatically generates the search-filter tags needed for products to appear in refined searches.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail Tech

Genome engineering-based drug discovery and biomanufacturing R&D support.

Taiki Ishikura(Founder)in

Co-investorsAozora Corporate InvestmentDelight VenturesGlobis Capital PartnersMIRAI SOUZOUUTokyo Innovation Platform Co. Ltd.

Raised 1.14B JPY in a Series A round.

M2X is a cloud-based equipment maintenance management app that lets factory maintenance teams schedule inspections, log and share equipment troubles in real time via smartphone, track repairs, manage spare-part inventory, and auto-calculate metrics such as uptime, MTTR and MTBF.

Co-investorsCoreline Ventures

MechanoCross is a Hokkaido University spin-out that develops and provides mechanochemical organic synthesis technology, including solvent-free "mechano" reaction methods and insoluble high-performance materials.

CleantechDeep TechNew MaterialsSapporo, JP

伊藤 肇(取締役 (Co-founder; Hokkaido University Distinguished Professor))久保田 浩司(取締役 (Co-founder; Hokkaido University Associate Professor))齋藤 智久(代表取締役 (CEO))

Co-investorsSpiral CapitalSpiral Innovation PartnersXTech Ventures

Raised 3B JPY in a Series B strategic round.

Co-investorsAVVSilicon VenturesTaurus VenturesValidusWaseda University Ventures

RECERQA provides AI-enabled supply chain services for order/procurement operations, combining consulting, an AI-native ERP with AI agents that autonomously handle purchasing and order registration, and a high-precision AI-OCR ("RECERQA Scan") that normalizes data.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Co-investorsNew Commerce VenturesGenesia Ventures

Raised 1.7B JPY in a Series A round.

Siiibo (branded Metaplanet Securities) operates a brokerage platform that lets investors buy corporate bonds issued by mid-to-late-stage startups and emerging-market listed companies.

Fintech

Co-investors15th RockBeta venture capitalDnx VenturesRelicAozora Corporate Investment

Varinos develops and provides genetic testing services applying genome technology, including a uterine microbiome (endometrial flora) test used in fertility and reproductive medicine.

BiotechDigital HealthFemTechMedical DevicesTokyo, JP

桜庭 喜行(Founder & Chairman (former CEO))長井 陽子(Co-founder)Sakuraba(CEO)Yoshiyuki Sakuraba(Founder)inYoko Nagai(Founder)in齊藤 洋一(代表取締役CEO)

Co-investorsFast Track InitiativeMIRAI SOUZOUMiyako CapitalSony Ventures Corporation

Craft Bank provides construction-industry-specific management support, including its Craft Bank Office tool for job-level cost management, daily reporting via LINE, plus back-office outsourcing and recruitment support.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS

Co-investorsCoreline VenturesDelight Ventures

Co-investorsDBJ CapitalDnx Ventures

Joint venture with a subsidiary of listed Sato Holdings; business sold to the company in February 2018.

PartnerProp offers an AI-powered partner marketing platform based on the ELG (Ecosystem-Led Growth) model that helps manufacturers and their sales partners generate more deals through a reseller/distributor channel.

Marketing TechSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsDelight VenturesGenesia Ventures

Co-investorsBeyond Next VenturesMiyako CapitalUniversal Materials Incubator

Lisse provides AI-powered legal document review and legal compliance support services to enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechTokyo, JP

Miki Fujita(Representative Director & CEO)

Co-investorsGlobal BrainMPowerPrime PartnersSpiral CapitalSpiral Innovation PartnersAozora Corporate Investment

Takumi Giken is a Japanese company addressing challenges in the manufacturing/machining industry, working with processing and fabrication firms.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

前田 将太(代表取締役社長 (CEO))井坂 星南(取締役 CTO)原 崇文(取締役 CBO)

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT CapitalShizuoka CapitalUTokyo Innovation Platform Co. Ltd.Genesia Ventures

Innovative Space Carrier (将来宇宙輸送システム株式会社) is a Japanese company developing future space transportation systems.

Deep TechHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainSpace TechTokyo, JP

畑田 (Hatakuta)(CEO)畑田 康二郎(代表取締役社長 兼 最高経営責任者 (CEO))野村 (Nomura)(COO)

Co-investorsDentsu VenturesMiyako CapitalXTech Ventures

Facilo is an AI-powered sales operating system built for real estate brokerage firms, optimized for the mediation workflow of property search, proposal, viewing, and closing.

AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaSYono, JP

Yasutaka Umebayashi(Founder)in

Co-investorsCoral CapitalDnx VenturesGlobis Capital Partners

GenerativeX is an FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) consulting firm that helps large enterprises design and implement AI agents alongside strategy and organizational transformation.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

荒木 れい(代表取締役 CEO)上田 雄登(取締役 CAIO / 共同創業者)小坂 佳範(執行役員 CTO)桑原 茂雄(執行役員 / CDXO)

Board伊田 弥樹(取締役)

InProc provides AI-based services for procurement and supply chain management (SCM), combining data-driven operating models with expert support to help Japanese companies improve their procurement functions.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainTokyo, JP

吉江 拓哉(代表取締役 (Representative Director))中島 康貴(代表取締役 (Representative Director))

Co-investorsANOBAKA

Develops and sells next-generation cancer treatment machines (BNCT) with strengths in neutron-beam power supply for smaller, cheaper systems.

MagicPod is a no-code test automation platform that helps organizations automate UI testing for web and mobile applications across browsers and devices.

Developer Tools

Mign provides AI agents that automate building design review and compliance checking for architects and developers.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTech

Co-investorsSamurai Incubate

Orbital Lasers develops space optical technology centered on satellite lasers, including systems aimed at addressing space debris, satellite bus, and mission instrument development.

Deep TechHardwareSpace TechTokyo, JP

Tadanori Fukushima(Representative Director & CEO)Yoshiyuki Muramatsu(Director & CFO)Teppei Kato(Executive Officer, CBO (Chief Business Officer))Masayuki Maruyama(CLTO (Chief Laser Technology Officer))

Co-investorsJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsKeio Innovation InitiativeOSAKA University Venture CapitalUTokyo Innovation Platform Co. Ltd.

PeopleX is an AI-native HR platform that automates recruitment and employee development through AI-powered interviews, role-play simulations, and team assessments.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechTokyo, JP

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT Capital

Co-investorsSamurai Incubate

SmartRyde operates an online marketplace connecting taxi operators and travel agencies with international travellers to book airport-to-hotel ground transportation.

MarketplacesMobility & TransportationTravel & Hospitality

XAION DATA develops services using open data based on patented data collection and structuring technology, and provides AI/data solutions.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHR TechTokyo, JP

Yasuhide Sato(代表取締役CEO)石﨑優人(取締役CTO)金谷優樹(CFO)

Ondeck provides M&A advisory services for Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises, handling business analysis, valuation, buyer matching, deal structuring, and closing management.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechTokyo, JP

Co-investorsPayforward