What stage does Coreline Ventures invest at?

Coreline Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.

Where is Coreline Ventures located?

Coreline Ventures is headquartered in Tokyo, JP.

Does Coreline Ventures lead rounds?

Yes, Coreline Ventures leads investment rounds.

Coreline Ventures

Venture capital

Tokyo · Pre-Seed–Growth · 13 people tracked

Also known as CORELINE MANAGEMENT LLC

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Investment thesis

Coreline is a boutique early-stage VC firm backing exceptional founders in Japan and the US who have the potential to become category definers. The firm positions itself as a hands-on partner that understands each company's unique market opportunity and helps founders differentiate and stand out. Coreline emphasizes early investment and long-term partnership, drawing on experience helping many entrepreneurs realize the value of their work.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Consumer Enterprise Software Fintech SaaS Sector AgnosticJapanRedwood CitySouth KoreaTokyoUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Growth

Tokyo, California, JP

Leads rounds

Leads

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2025

Private fund assets

$156.4M

VC funds

Tracked investments

Team · 13 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Arthur Kaneko· Co-Founder, Managing Partner· Oakland, California, United Statesin

Arthur Kaneko is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Coreline Ventures. He was previously CEO of RealScout, a real estate technology platform, and Vice President of Investments at DCM Ventures. He holds a degree from Stanford University and works with entrepreneurs building companies.

Matthew C. Bonner· Co-Founder, COO

Matthew C. Bonner is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Coreline Ventures, where he oversees operations, legal, compliance, finance, fund administration, and strategy. He previously spent nearly two decades at DCM leading legal and operational functions and almost eight years as venture fund counsel at Gunderson Dettmer, and began his career in tax at Ernst & Young. He is a licensed California attorney and a Certified Public Accountant, holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and earned a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting) from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Kenichiro "Ken" Hara· Co-Founder, Managing Partner· Tokyo, Tokyo, Japanin 𝕏

Kenichiro "Ken" Hara is Co-Founder and General Partner at Coreline Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Japan. He invests in both consumer and business companies and works with founders on stages ranging from product development to scaling.

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Osuke Honda· Co-Founder, Managing Partner· United Statesin 𝕏

Osuke Honda is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Coreline Ventures. Before founding Coreline, he spent 17 years as a general partner at DCM, and earlier worked at Mitsubishi Corporation and Globis Capital Partners. He holds an MBA from Keio University and a BA/MA in Law from Hitotsubashi University.

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David Cheng· General Partner

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Keita Morikawa· Venture Partnerin 𝕏

Keita Morikawa is a Venture Partner at Coreline Ventures. He began his career at McKinsey's Tokyo office working on strategy, M&A, and new business building, was promoted to Engagement Manager, and later worked as a Senior Engagement Manager in the London office. In 2024 he founded Opera Tech, an enterprise AI contact center company that was acquired by Sierra in 2026, where he now serves as Co-Head of Agent Development at Sierra Japan; he holds a BA in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Nakul Patel· Venture Partner· Acworth, Georgia, United Statesin

Nakul Patel is a Venture Partner at Coreline Ventures with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling technology businesses across the US and Asia Pacific. He previously spent five years at Google and eight years at Meta, and worked at startups including Parse and mmhmm. He now invests in and supports startups.

Karen Shum· Director of Finance· La Verne, California, United Statesin

Karen Shum is Director of Finance at Coreline Ventures. She previously served as a Controller at Aduro Advisors, held the Accounting & LP Manager role at DCM, and worked in finance roles at Kleiner Perkins and Sanderling Ventures, in addition to auditing venture capital firms and startups at PwC. She earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MSA from San Jose State University, and is a licensed CPA in California.

Keiko Miwa· Investorin 𝕏

Keiko Miwa is an Investor at Coreline Ventures. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at HIRAC FUND in Japan, where she handled investments across seed to pre-IPO stages and supported a portfolio company from initial investment through the fund's first IPO. Earlier she worked at UBS on M&A and capital raising in the manufacturing sector, covering financial modelling, due diligence, and defense advisory on large-scale activism cases. She graduated from Keio University in Japan.

Maria Palma Okubo· Director of Business Developmentin

Maria Palma Okubo is Director of Business Development at Coreline Ventures. She previously worked in HR at Tokyu Corporation and at Rakuten USA, where she ran Silicon Valley immersion programs for Japanese companies, and later worked at a Japanese VC firm. At Coreline she oversees PR, recruiting, and the Atlas seed investment program, and she holds a degree from Keio University.

Rikuto Echigoya· Entrepreneur in Residencein 𝕏

Yojiro Yamamoto· Investor𝕏

Yojiro Yamamoto is an Investor at Coreline Ventures. He previously worked as an analyst at McKinsey on due diligence projects for a global buyout fund, and during his studies participated in around ten deals ranging from SaaS to deeptech at several Japanese VC firms. He holds a BA/MS in Engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Yuko Chokki· Office Manager

What they invest in

from 23 of 36 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×10Fintech ×4EdTech ×3Construction Tech ×2Consumer ×2Creator Economy ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2

HQs:Japan×14United States×2Australia×1

Investments · 36 tracked

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AMDlab JP AI-powered architecture firm JPamd-lab.com𝕏

AMDlab is a Japanese company applying digital technology to the architecture and construction industry, developing software products and providing DX (digital transformation) support.

Construction TechPropTechSaaS

Atamaatama.plus

atama+ operates "進学個別 atama＋塾", a Japanese cram school (juku) and online tutoring service that uses the atama+ AI learning tool to analyze each student's weaknesses and recommend lecture videos and practice problems.

AI & Machine LearningEdTech

Caddicaddi.comin 𝕏

Carepatroncarepatron.com

Carepatron provides practice management and clinical workflow software for healthcare clinicians.

HealthtechSaaS

Clear Currentclearcurrent.ai

Clear Current provides AI-powered transparency and automation for energy contract and tariff management, helping organizations extract insights from energy data to optimize procurement decisions and reduce costs.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise Software

John Reuter(Co-founder, CEO)inJake Masters(Co-founder, CTO)in

Ctrlroboticsctrlrobotics.comin 𝕏

Ctrl provides AI-enabled autonomous service robots that automate manual tasks such as item delivery and floor cleaning for businesses like hotels, hospitals, and warehouses.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics

Dubguilddubguild.com

Fish Audiofish.audio

Fish Audio provides AI voice generation and cloning software that creates studio-quality synthetic voices with emotional control and multi-language support.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS

Flagshipflagship.aiin

Flagship provides data and growth infrastructure for physical, brick-and-mortar retail, giving store networks the analytics visibility that eCommerce brands already have.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRetail TechSaaS

Simon Molnar(Founder)

FOLIOfolio-sec.com𝕏

FOLIO is an AI-powered robo-advisor that automatically manages investment portfolios by predicting market trends and dynamically adjusting asset allocation monthly.

AI & Machine LearningFintech

freee

GREEgree.net

Hanji株式会社hanji.inc

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)

Happy Elements

Jamm Payjamm-pay.jp

Jamm is a Tokyo-based fintech company building a payment product for Japan's market, focused on secure authentication, low fees by removing intermediaries, and payments made without lending to users.

FintechTokyo, JP

橋爪捷(代表取締役 (CEO))

Kakaokakao.ai

Linc Welllinc-well.com

Linc'well digitizes healthcare operations for clinics — covering online booking, medical interviews, payments, and electronic charting — and offers online consultations with prescription delivery.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Ltvltv.aiin 𝕏

LTV.ai is an AI marketing platform that automatically analyzes a brand's customer data, identifies revenue opportunities, and builds personalized email campaigns that are segmented, on-brand, and routed for approval in Slack.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing Tech

M2Xsoftwarem2xsoftware.com

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.

Mono Lystmono-lyst.com

Nocallnocall.ai

nocall.ai is an outbound-call automation service using generative AI (LLM-based voice technology) to conduct natural phone conversations for tasks like recruiting follow-ups, sales cold-calling, payment collection reminders, and appointment scheduling.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

O3Spaceo3space.org

O3 operates themed study cafés where students get three hours of free weekly access and can pay a membership (around $10/week) for 24/7 entry, coffee, and gamified study rewards.

ConsumerEdTechSocial

Luca(Founder)

PECOpeco-japan.com𝕏

PECO operates one of Japan's largest pet information media platforms, serving around 15 million monthly users.

ConsumerMedia & Entertainment

Picsartpicsart.comin 𝕏Feb 2021

Picsart offers a command-line interface that provides access to over 130 AI models for generating images, videos, and audio content, integrating tools from leading providers like Flux, Sora, Runway, and ElevenLabs.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsMiami Beach, US

Michael Vernal(Director)Hovhannes Avoyan(Executive Officer, Director)Tammy Nam(Executive Officer)Mikayel Vardanyan(Executive Officer)Kevin Boon(Executive Officer)Serena Dayal(Director)

RealScout in

Mountain View,, US

Drew Oetting(Director)Andrew Flachner(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Parikh(Director)

BoardOsuke Honda(Director)

route-D 製造業・流通業向けにAIプロダクトを展開し、現場起点の業務効率化と生産性向上を支援。route-d.co.jp

route-D develops and provides AI systems for Japan's manufacturing and distribution industries, aimed at supporting supply chain operations amid labor shortages.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainTokyo, JP

松本光暁 (Mitsuaki Matsumoto)(代表取締役 (Representative Director / CEO))當野良太 (Ryota Tono)(取締役 / 共同創業者 (Director / Co-founder))小倉拳 (Ken Ogura)(最高技術責任者 (CTO))

Sansancorp-sansan.com𝕏

Sansan builds products that capture and organize business relationship and contact data, using technology to help people understand and act on their professional connections.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSaaSSales TechTokyo, JP

Chika Terada(Representative Director, CEO, CPO)

Senpilotsenpilot.comin

Senpilot offers an AI platform built for utilities, with agents that analyze assets and build capital plans for engineering, draft evidence-backed regulatory filings, and handle customer service calls autonomously.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise Software

Squizifysquizify.comin

Squizify offers a food safety management platform that digitises HACCP checks, hygiene routines, and compliance logging, using IoT sensors and Bluetooth-connected devices for automated temperature monitoring and real-time reporting.

FoodTechIoTSaaS

Storesstores.fun𝕏

STORES is a store operations platform that combines cashless payments, POS registers, online shops, reservation systems, and mobile ordering under a single account.

E-commerceFintechRetail Tech

VisasQ

Watchfulhqwatchfulhq.com

Xyzxyz.inc

クラフトバンク建設工事受発注プラットフォーム「CraftBank」や建設業向けの業務管理ツールを開発・提供craft-bank.com

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

株式会社レンズlensinc.jpin 𝕏

Lens (株式会社レンズ) offers "Lens RM," a SaaS solution for managing and improving oversight of vendors and third parties.

CybersecurityFintechSaaS

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Clear Current Raises $4M+ in Seed Funding

Clear Current · finsmes.com · May 27, 2025

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Coreline Ventures invest at?: Coreline Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
What sectors does Coreline Ventures focus on?: Coreline Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
Where is Coreline Ventures located?: Coreline Ventures is headquartered in Tokyo, JP.
Does Coreline Ventures lead rounds?: Yes, Coreline Ventures leads investment rounds.

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