How many investments has Coreline Ventures made?

Coreline Ventures has 36 tracked investments.

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.

Who does Coreline Ventures co-invest with?

Coreline Ventures most often shares deals with DCM Ventures, Angel Bridge Co.,Ltd., Globis Capital Partners, among 38 tracked co-investors.

Coreline Ventures

Venture capital

Tokyo · Pre-Seed–Growth · 14 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 SaaSSector AgnosticJapan Redwood City South Korea Tokyo United States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Growth

Tokyo, California, JP

Leads rounds

Leads

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2025

Last 12 months

1 investment

Private fund assets

$156.4M

VC funds

Tracked investments

Team · 14 people

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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, COOin

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 Partner· Tokyo, Japanin 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.

Nakul Patel· Venture Partner· Carlsbad, Californiain

Founding team member at Workplace from Facebook, previously at Parse and Google.

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· Investor· Tokyo, Tokyo, Japanin 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 Development· Tokyo, Japanin

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 Residence· Minato, Tokyo, Japanin 𝕏

Rikuto Echigoya is a Venture Partner at Coreline Ventures. He previously held Business Development and Sales Manager roles, with experience in inside sales, B2B sales, and sales processes, and has a technical education. He is fluent in English and Japanese.

Yojiro Yamamoto· Investor· Tokyo, Tokyo, Japanin 𝕏

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 26 of 38 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×17SaaS ×15Enterprise Software ×5Fintech ×4Cloud Computing ×3EdTech ×3Advanced Manufacturing ×2Construction Tech ×2

HQs:Japan×15United States×3Australia×2Canada×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 17 portfolio companies

41%

solo founders

7 of 17 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×72 founders×93 founders×1

Investments · 38 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2025 · 1 2023 · 1 2021 · 13 dated

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Co-investorsDBJ Capital DCM Ventures Globis Capital Partners GMO VenturePartners SMBC Venture Capital

AMDlab JP AI-powered architecture firm JPamd-lab.com 𝕏

AMD Lab develops digital products and cloud services for architects and construction professionals, aimed at automating design workflows and providing building information management tools.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingConstruction TechDeveloper ToolsPropTechSaaSTokyo, JP

Akihiro Fujii

Atamaatama.plus

An AI-powered tutoring platform that uses learning analytics to create personalized curricula for students preparing for exams, combining output-focused problem-solving practice with progress management to improve academic performance.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechTokyo, JP

Caddicaddi.com in 𝕏

CADDi builds an AI data platform for the manufacturing industry, alongside a procurement platform for custom (made-to-order) parts, using data and AI to unlock knowledge from the production floor.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesSaaSTokyo, JP

Yushiro Kato(Founder)in加藤勇志郎(代表取締役CEO・共同創業者)

Co-investorsDCM Ventures Globis Capital Partners Atomico Founders' Co-op Ubiquity Ventures

Carepatroncarepatron.com in 𝕏

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

HealthtechSaaS

David Pene(Founder)inJamie Frew(Founder)in

Co-investorsBlackbird Ventures Tq Ventures Llc

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

Co-investorsAvesta Fund City Light Rho Capital Partners Rho Ventures

Ctrlroboticsctrlrobotics.com in 𝕏

Ctrl develops robotics technology focused on making robots useful, powerful, and simple to operate for automation tasks.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRobotics

Dubguilddubguild.com

Fish Audiofish.audio in 𝕏

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

Shijia Liao(Founder)inRissa Cao(Founder)inJiahua Liu(Founder)in

Co-investors359 Capital Vocal Ventures

Flagshipflagship.ai in

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)in

Co-investorsTidal Ventures Veridical Ventures

FOLIOfolio-sec.com 𝕏

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

Co-investorsDentsu Ventures Dnx Ventures Prime Partners

Freee

Enterprise cloud/SaaS accounting software provider.

Co-investorsGlobis Capital Partners Headline Headline Growth Management, LLC Sumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.

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)

Co-investorsAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.

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))

Co-investorsDG Daiwa Ventures ANRI XTech Ventures

Kakaokakao.ai

LayerXlayerxsecurity.com in 𝕏Sep 2025 · $100M

LayerX offers an Interaction Security Platform that gives security teams visibility and control over how users and on-device AI agents interact with AI tools, SaaS applications, identities, and data at the last mile.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

David Vaisbrud(Founder)in

Co-investorsGlilot Capital Partners Dell Technologies Capital JAFCO Group Jump Capital TCV

Linc Welllinc-well.com in

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

金子和真(Founder)in

Co-investorsDCM Ventures Sony Ventures Corporation

Ltvltv.ai in 𝕏

LTV.ai builds an AI-powered platform for retention marketing that automatically designs and executes customer retention campaigns without manual input.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsProtagonist

M2Xsoftwarem2xsoftware.com

M2X is a cloud-based mobile application for equipment maintenance and field operations management.

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaSTokyo, JP

岡部晋太郎(Representative Director)

Co-investorsAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.

Mono Lystmono-lyst.com

Nocallnocall.ai 𝕏

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

Shogo Hayashiin

Co-investorsSkyland Ventures

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.com 𝕏

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

ConsumerMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT Capital Japan Post Capital Co. Ltd.

PicsArtpicsart.com in 𝕏Feb 2021

Picsart offers a command-line tool that generates images, video, and audio from the terminal, providing access to 130+ AI models across the three media types.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsMiami Beach, US

Hovhannes Avoyan(Executive Officer, Director)inMikayel Vardanyan(Executive Officer)Tammy Nam(Executive Officer)Kevin Boon(Executive Officer)Artavazd Mehrabyan(Executive Officer)inCraig Foster(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsDCM Ventures EBRD Venture Capital Investment Programme Formula VC G Squared Graph Ventures RTP Global +4 more

RealScoutrealscout.com in

Mountain View,, US

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

BoardDrew Oetting(Director)Osuke Honda(Director)in

Co-investorsDCM Ventures

route-Droute-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))

Co-investorsSpiral Capital Spiral Innovation Partners

Sansancorp-sansan.com 𝕏

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)

Co-investorsDnx Ventures GMO VenturePartners Japan Post Capital Co. Ltd.Sumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.Incubate Fund

Senpilotsenpilot.com in

Senpilot develops AI agents designed to transform the utilities sector.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise SoftwareToronto, CA

Hao XuFabio Kume

Squizifysquizify.com in

Squizify is a digital food safety management system that helps restaurants and food businesses across Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific, and the United States manage compliance through task management, temperature monitoring, food labeling, auditing, and training.

Enterprise SoftwareFoodTechIoTSaaS

Daniel McDouall

Storesstores.fun in 𝕏

A point-of-sale and salon management system for hair salons, nail, eyelash, and esthetics businesses in Japan that combines appointment booking, customer management, POS checkout, and cashless payment processing.

E-commerceFintechRetail TechSaaS

VisasQ

Voice AIMay 2023

Santa Monica-based Voice AI operates a real-time speech-to-speech AI voice-changing platform for creators and gamers.

Santa Monica, US

Paul Kats(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Heath Ahrens(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardOmar Hamoui(Director)

Co-investorsSenseAI Ventures 359 Capital 645 Ventures Andreessen Horowitz Capital Today Carya Venture Partners +4 more

Watchfulhqwatchfulhq.com in

Xyzxyz.inc

クラフトバンク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

Co-investorsAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.Delight Ventures

株式会社レンズlensinc.jp in 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.

CybersecurityFintechSaaSTokyo, JP

Shingo Fushimi(Founder)inTakashi N(Founder)

Co-investorsCoral Capital DG Daiwa Ventures

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

ProFound Therapeutics Receives Investment to Tackle Preeclampsia and Eclampsia

Flagship · prnewswire.com · Aug 27, 2026

Wispr Raises $280 Million At $2 Billion Valuation As Revenue Grows 150%+ Quarterly And Voice AI Push Accelerates

Voice AI · pulse2.com · Aug 17, 2026

Akamai in advanced talks to acquire Israeli startup LayerX for $250 million | Ctech

LayerX · calcalistech.com · May 12, 2026

Clear Current Raises $4M+ in Seed Funding

Clear Current · finsmes.com · May 27, 2025

Caddi Raises $5M for Record-to-Code AI Automation | Caddi Blog

Caddi · trycaddi.com · Mar 5, 2025

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Coreline Ventures made?: Coreline Ventures has 36 tracked investments.
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.
Who does Coreline Ventures co-invest with?: Coreline Ventures most often shares deals with DCM Ventures, Angel Bridge Co.,Ltd., Globis Capital Partners, among 38 tracked co-investors.

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