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Twist Bioscience develops a silicon-based synthetic DNA manufacturing platform that produces high-quality DNA, genes, and NGS reagents for customers in medicine, agriculture, and industrial chemicals.

BiotechDeep TechSemiconductorsSouth San Francisco, US

Emily Marine Leproust(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)William Charles Banyai(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Bill James Peck(Executive Officer, Promoter)Emily Leproust(Founder)in

BoardKeith Crandell(Director)Paul Conley(Director)in

Co-investors+ND Capital3E Bioventures CapitalARCH Venture PartnersAsset Management CompanyBay City CapitalBlack Opal Ventures+7 more

Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAdit Ventures Management, LlcAgilitas Private EquityAlba Infra PartnersALIVE Israel HealthTech FundAlkemi Growth Capital+73 more

Implicit is an AI-powered knowledge platform that aggregates technical content from manuals, tickets, and procedures to provide cited answers to both human workers and AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Cerity Partners VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Point72 VenturesPrime PartnersTensility Venture Partners+5 more

Co-investorsEight Roads VenturesPrime PartnersAozora Corporate Investment

Astrocade appears to be a gaming platform that hosts games and features creators with follower or player counts.

Creator EconomyGamingSocial

Co-investorsChaac VenturesLG Technology VenturesPrime PartnersThe Venture Reality Fund

Cheddar is a business and financial news media outlet that produces video interviews and coverage on markets, technology, the economy, and corporate earnings.

Media & Entertainment

Co-investorsComcast Ventures

Clear Labs develops fully automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms that process genomic data into insights for research and surveillance applications across infectious disease, food safety, and oncology.

BiotechData & InfrastructureDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Carlos, US

Sasan Amini(Co-founder & CEO)Ramin Khaksar(Executive Officer)inEdward Fan(Executive Officer)inBrodie Flanders(Executive Officer, Director)Kazutaka Ohno(Executive Officer)Farzad Naimi(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsMenlo VenturesKhosla VenturesNimble VenturesFelicis VenturesNimble PartnersPrime Partners+5 more

Co-investorsCanal VenturesDelight VenturesDRONE FUNDJapan Post Capital Co. Ltd.Mobile Internet Capital, Inc.NOW Japan+5 more

Clint Sever(Founder)in

Co-investorsDarwin CapitalDecheng CapitalForesite CapitalPrime PartnersACME CapitalCAVU Consumer Partners+1 more

Co-investorsDG Daiwa VenturesUntroD Capital

double jump.tokyo is an enterprise Web3 infrastructure company offering four solutions—corporate wallets, stablecoin payments, AI agent payments, and crypto asset accounting—for companies' authentication and payment needs.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechTokyo, JP

Hironobu Ueno(Director)yukinori matsuyainYukinori Matsuya(Director)Takashi Fujishima(Director)Ryo Manzoku(Director)Hiroyuki Kawamoto(Director)

Co-investorsFenbushi CapitalPrime PartnersZ Venture CapitalSBI Investment

Co-investorsSamurai IncubateAozora Corporate Investment

EXO makes protein-led snacks made with Acheta (cricket) protein, marketed as a sustainable fuel source for active and fitness-focused consumers.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech

Co-investorsPrime PartnersWakestream Ventures

Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and control platform offering experiments, monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US

Krishna Gade(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundaVentureBenhamou Global VenturesCisco InvestmentsE12 Venture Capital, LlcIn-Q-Tel+20 more

Palo Alto, US

Amit Paka(Executive Officer, Director)Krishna Gade(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)inBilal Zuberi(Director)inGeorge Mathew(Director)in

Co-investorsBGVDallas Venture CapitalInsight PartnersLDV PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLux Capital+3 more

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-investorsCoreline VenturesDnx VenturesPrime Partners

Forest Inc. is a Japanese company that acquires and operationally manages e-commerce brands and Japanese original products, focusing on businesses with over 100 million yen in sales or growth potential through online channels.

B2B MarketplacesDirect to ConsumerE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSector AgnosticTokyo, JP

Yuki Kato(Founder & CEO)Shingo Yuhara(Representative Director & CEO)

Co-investorsDBJ CapitalJapan Post Capital Co. Ltd.NordstarPrime Partners

FUNDiT acquires and operates small to mid-sized IT businesses using AI and big data analysis for M&A targeting and operational improvement.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareShinagawa, JP

Co-investorsShizuoka CapitalDual Bridge CapitalJapan Post Insurance NEXT PartnersMitsubishi UFJ CapitalMitsui Sumitomo Insurance CapitalNANKAI NEXT Ventures+2 more

infobox is a B2B sales intelligence platform that integrates company data (covering 2.55 million invoice-registered Japanese corporations) with a company's own sales data and uses AI to analyze it, helping teams build targeted prospect lists using 200+ attribute tags.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Inworld AI provides a full-duplex audio streaming platform that enables real-time conversational AI interactions with intelligent turn-taking, function calling, and multi-model routing capabilities for developers building conversational applications.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsMountain View, US

Ilya Gelfenbeyn(Founder)inKylan Gibbs(Founder)inMichael Ermolenko(Founder)in

Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesBrave CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Disney AcceleratorFirst Spark Ventures, LlcIntel Capital+11 more

Kaka Creation is an animation studio that uses AI to produce short-form animations for social media platforms and client commissions, and offers AI-assisted coloring for manga and anime.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Takehara(Representative)

Co-investorsAPOLLO CAPITAL

Minato, JP

Shinya Kawanaka(Founder)

Co-investorsGlobal Brain

Kognitos builds an agentic AI automation platform that lets business users write automation logic in plain English, executed deterministically by a patented neurosymbolic engine across 130+ enterprise integrations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Jose, US

Binny Sher Gill(Executive Officer, Director)Binny Gill(Founder)in

BoardAshmeet Sidana(Director)in

Co-investorsClear VenturesEngineering CapitalFin CapitalKhosla VenturesPrime PartnersProsperity7 Ventures+1 more

LiveLike develops interactive digital engagement tools for sports and entertainment audiences.

Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSNew York, US

Miheer Walavalkar(Founder)in

Co-investorsComcast VenturesCourtside VenturesPrime PartnersScrum VenturesBigfoot CapitalElysian Park Ventures+1 more

LiveLike is a New York-based fan engagement platform providing interactive and gamification tools for sports broadcasters and media companies.

New York City, US

Co-investorsTechstarsCourtside VenturesElysian Park VenturesGreycroft PartnersTPG

LoomAi builds real-time personalized 3D avatars from a single selfie for video calls, messaging and games; acquired by Roblox in 2020.

Co-investorsGFR FundPresence Capital

MacroFab operates a software platform for contract electronics manufacturing, connecting businesses to a network of manufacturing facilities and generating itemized quotes and production-ready orders from uploaded design files.

Advanced ManufacturingB2B MarketplacesHardwareSaaSHouston, US

Mikhail Govshteyn(Director)Christopher Church(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJason Seats(Director)

Co-investorsATX Venture PartnersBMW i VenturesCathexis VenturesEdison PartnersFoundryTexas HALO Fund+1 more

Co-investorsB3 CapitalGreen Meadow VenturesMaC Venture Capital

Mysten Labs builds infrastructure and tools for web3, focusing on making decentralized systems secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption.

Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Deep TechDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US

Adeniyi Abiodun(Founder)inKostas Kryptos Chalkias(Founder)Sam Blackshear(Founder)Evan Cheng(Founder)in

Co-investorsa16z cryptoAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzArrington CapitalBasecamp FundBig Brain Holdings+21 more

Narvar provides AI-powered software for post-purchase customer experiences, offering delivery estimates, tracking, returns management, and fraud prevention for retailers and e-commerce brands.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSan Mateo, US

Amit Sharma(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardBrian O'Malley(Director)

Co-investorsAccelBattery VenturesCommerce VenturesCrosscut VenturesHigh AlphaHomebrew+6 more

NEW STANDARD is a "meaning design" company that focuses on creating new meanings and broadening perspectives, publishing knowledge on meaning-centered design and the evolving values of Millennial, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha audiences.

Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSector Agnostic

Co-investorsTOPPAN HoldingsGlobis Capital PartnersSony Ventures Corporation

Co-investorsCanal VenturesJapan Post Capital Co. Ltd.

Operates a cross-border business platform.

Tomonari Hamano(Founder)in

Co-investorsDnx VenturesGlobis Capital PartnersJapan Post Capital Co. Ltd.PayforwardPrime Partners

OpenWeb builds a community and engagement platform that helps publishers and brands manage online conversations and audience interaction across the open internet.

AdTechMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSocialNew York, US

Nadav Shoval(Founder)Jim Dailyin

Co-investorsInsight PartnersGeorgianIndex VenturesSamsung NextThe New York TimesWTI+5 more

Overtime creates and operates new sports leagues and media IP — including OTE and OT Select in basketball and OT7 and OT Nationals in football — while producing over 150 weekly pieces of original sports content for its global audience of next-generation fans and athletes.

ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSports TechBrooklyn, US

Daniel Porter(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Weiner(Founder)inZack Weiner(Founder)in

Co-investors359 CapitalAndreessen HorowitzBezos ExpeditionsBlack CapitalSpark CapitalWinslow Capital+14 more

MUSCAT GROUP is a Japanese company that grows and produces consumer brands through brand production, M&A, and technology, including oral beauty brand MiiS and cosmetics brand Fujiko.

ConsumerE-commerce

Roforco connects games with influencers and secures brand and IP partnerships, having worked with creators such as Flamingo, ItsFunneh and Meganplays and brands including Cosmopolitan, Unilever and Sunsilk.

ConsumerCreator EconomyGamingMarketing TechSan Francisco, US

Brain Xiang(Founder)inTom Middleton(Founder)

Co-investorsY Combinator

Shoma Takeo(Founder)

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT CapitalGMO VenturePartners

Skyflow provides a data privacy vault delivered via an API that lets companies store, protect, and manage sensitive customer information such as financial, healthcare, and other personal data.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US

Anshu Sharma(Co-founder & CEO)inRoshmik Saha(Co-founder)inAmruta Moktali(Chief Product Officer)inKen Laversin(Chief Revenue Officer)inDaniel Wong(Head of Security Engineering)in

Co-investorsCanvas VenturesFirestreak VenturesFoundation CapitalMouro CapitalMS&AD VenturesPrime Partners

JustPark Insights is a parking data platform that centralizes information from equipment, payments, and applications to provide real-time visibility into parking metrics.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMobility & TransportationSaaSSan Francisco, US

Wen Sang(Founder/CEO)inMaokai Lin(Founder/CTO)in

Co-investorsGovtech FundOyster VenturesY CombinatorKhosla Ventures

Solsten builds an audience-understanding platform that uses psychometrics and AI to profile the psychological makeup of a company's users, primarily to help game studios and brands design more engaging experiences.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGamingMarketing TechBerlin, DE

Bastian Bergmann(Co-founder)inJoe Schaeppi(Co-founder & CEO)

Co-investorsGFR FundKonvoy VenturesPrime PartnersSisu Game VenturesSupernode GlobalDecathlon Capital Partners+1 more

Survios is a video game studio that develops and publishes immersive VR and action games, including licensed titles set in the Alien universe and Rocky/Creed boxing franchises.

Gaming

James Iliff(Founder)in

Co-investorsEastward Capital PartnersLux CapitalPrime PartnersQualcomm VenturesSamsung NextShasta Ventures

Techtouch provides a no-code Digital Adoption Platform that overlays on-screen operation guides and navigation onto existing web systems and applications to reduce input errors and support workload.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

井無田 (Imuda)(Co-founder)日比野 (Hibino)(Co-founder)Naka Imuta(Founder)in

Co-investorsDnx Ventures31VenturesDBJ CapitalPrime PartnersSony Ventures CorporationAozora Corporate Investment

Tsukuruba describes itself as a company built on the mission of "inventing places" (場の発明) to help people realize their own way of life through a platform.

PropTech

Co-investorsMIRAI SOUZOU

Company working on fully autonomous driving technology, presenting itself under the slogan "We Overtake Tesla." The page is a recruitment section seeking team members to work on self-driving vehicle development.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMobility & TransportationTokyo, JP

Issei Yamamoto(Founder & CEO (代表取締役CEO))Daisuke Tanaka(取締役COO)Masato Morishima(取締役CFO)Yu Yamaguchi(執行役員 兼 CTO)Yugo Tokuchi(執行役員 兼 CSO)

Co-investorsBonds Investment GroupKDDI Open Innovation FundShochiku VenturesSpiral CapitalZ Venture Capital

STEAM Carnival is a traveling, high-tech carnival that combines science, technology, engineering, art, and math into midway games and attractions.

ConsumerEdTechGamingMedia & EntertainmentLos Angeles, US

Eric Gradman(Executive Officer, Director)Brent Bushnell(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardRyan McIntyre(Director)Mark Solon(Director)

Co-investorsJAZZ Venture PartnersPrime Partners

Tynker is a digital learning platform providing coding curriculum and courses for children through schools and parents.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechChicago, US

Kelvin ChongKrishna VedatiSrinivas Mandyam

Co-investors500 GlobalFelicis VenturesGSV VenturesNew Ground VenturesPrime PartnersNew Ground Ventures+2 more

Account engagement platform helping B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth.

Amanda Kahlow(Founder)inJason Zintakin

Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBase Venture Management, Inc.Battery VenturesField VenturesHarmony Partners+12 more

Ubiquity6 develops multiplayer technology and infrastructure for shared, collaborative experiences.

Deep TechDeveloper ToolsGamingSocialSan Francisco, US

Anjney Midha(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)Ankit Kumar(Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer)

BoardPhineas Barnes(Director)

Co-investorsIndex VenturesBenchmarkFirst Round CapitalGradient VenturesKleiner PerkinsLDV Partners+2 more

Upside Foods produces cultivated meat using cell-based technology.

BiotechFoodTechSan Francisco, US

Uma Valeti(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAlwyn CapitalCPT CapitalFifty YearsFuture VenturesJoyance PartnersMcWin Capital Partners+10 more

Vidmob provides software to help brand marketing teams discover top-performing creative requirements, maintain consistent brand guidelines across advertising platforms, and manage creative data at scale.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechNew York, US

Alex Collmer(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inStephanie Bohn(Executive Officer)Greg Lieber(Executive Officer)Jason Donnell(Executive Officer, Director)George Rose(Director)Craig Coblenz(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsBuildGroupeGateway CapitalInterlock PartnersJDS SportsPROOFShamrock Capital+1 more

Co-investorsPrime Partners

WOTA develops small-scale decentralized water recycling systems and autonomous water treatment control systems.

CleantechClimate TechHardwareImpact & Social GoodTokyo, JP

Yosuke Maeda(代表取締役 (Representative Director))

Co-investorsDEEPCORE Inc.Development Bank of JapanMitsubishi UFJ Asset ManagementSMBC Nikko SecuritiesSoftBank GroupSumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank+4 more

Kauche Farm is a gamified mobile app feature integrated into the Kauche app where users nurture virtual crops through daily watering and quests to earn free product coupons.

ConsumerGamingMarketplacesSocialTokyo, JP

Kempei Monna(Founder)in

Co-investorsDelight VenturesGlobal BrainMobile Internet Capital, Inc.New Commerce VenturesPrime PartnersSony Ventures Corporation

Kakehashi develops digital transformation software for pharmacies in Japan, serving the country's roughly 60,000 dispensing pharmacies.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Takashi NakagawaYutaka NakaoSatoshi EbiharaShingo Ito

Co-investors500 GlobalAozora Corporate InvestmentCoral CapitalDnx VenturesGlobis Capital PartnersJIC Venture Growth Investments+3 more

Japanese manga publisher and Webtoon studio producing original vertical-scroll comics distributed in 11 countries.

前田儒郎(Founder)in

Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.DBJ CapitalFunds StartupsGlobal BrainKDDI Open Innovation FundPrime Partners+2 more

Metagen Therapeutics (メタジェンセラピューティクス) is a biotech venture developing fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) therapies and medical services based on gut microbiome research, including an FMT drug candidate (MGT-006) for ulcerative colitis.

BiotechDeep TechDigital HealthTsuruoka, JP

Taku Nakahara(代表取締役社長CEO (President & CEO))Jun Terauchi(CSO)

Co-investorsFast Track InitiativeGlobal BrainMIRAI SOUZOUNippon Venture Capital

Yoani Group is the parent holding company for the Yoani anime production group, responsible for strategic planning and management support across its subsidiary companies.

Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentTokyo, JP

Masashi Kurata(Representative Director)

Co-investorsGlobal BrainGlobis Capital PartnersShizuoka CapitalSkyland VenturesTBS Innovation PartnersW Inc.+1 more

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-investorsAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.Miyako CapitalXTech Ventures

Mellow operates a platform that matches mobile shops such as food trucks (kitchen cars) with vacant spaces, connecting mobility-business operators with locations like offices and neighborhoods.

FoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesMobility & TransportationTokyo, JP

石澤(代表取締役社長兼CEO (President & CEO))

Co-investorsOpen Network LabPKSHA Technology CapitalPrime Partners

HERALBONY is a Japanese art and lifestyle brand that licenses and commercializes artwork created by artists with disabilities (including intellectual disabilities and autism), turning their work into products under an "artist first" model that fairly compensates the artists and welfare facilities.

ConsumerCreator EconomyImpact & Social GoodMedia & EntertainmentMorioka, JP

松田文登(Co-founder)松田崇弥(Co-founder)

Co-investorsJR East Start UPMPower