Japan Post Capital Co. Ltd.

ACROVE is a Japanese company focused on e-commerce, aiming to bring products to more consumers through EC (electronic commerce).

ConsumerData & InfrastructureE-commerceRetail TechSaaSTokyo, JP

Shunsuke Arai(代表取締役 社長執行役員 / グループCEO (Representative Director, President & Group CEO))Tetsuo Yamada(取締役 / 副社長執行役員 グループCOO)Toshiki Terashima(執行役員 CTO)Yuji Kozawa(執行役員 CAE)

Co-investorsHiroshima Venture Capital Co. Ltd.Shizuoka CapitalAozora Corporate InvestmentCyberAgent CapitalDai Nippon PrintingEast Ventures+7 more

A.I.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

Tomohiko Hori(代表取締役 (Representative Director / CEO))

Mirai Speaker (株式会社ミライスピーカー) plans, develops, manufactures, and sells age-tech audio products such as the "Mirai Speaker" and "Mirai Speaker Ear," aimed at making longer lifespans more comfortable through technology.

ConsumerHardwareHealthtechLongevityTokyo, JP

Hiroshi Yamaji(代表取締役社長/CEO)

Co-investorsMitsui Sumitomo Insurance CapitalTOPPAN HoldingsIyogin Capital

Leapnet is a platform that turns internal company data into a knowledge base using RAG and lets users build AI agents for business tasks, powered by a Japanese-language-focused LLM.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsDBJ Capital

DigitalBlast develops experimental platforms and devices for space life-science experiments, aiming to build infrastructure that supports human activity in space.

BiotechDeep TechSpace Tech

Co-investorsDBJ Capital

Co-investorsDG Incubation

akippa operates a parking reservation service in Japan, offering a paid "Value Plus" membership that provides earlier booking access and a standing 10% discount on parking fees.

ConsumerMarketplacesMobility & Transportation

Co-investorsJR East Start UP

AnyMind Group builds proprietary platforms for the business supply chain, covering e-commerce and D2C management, marketing, influencer and creator growth, manufacturing, logistics, and publisher monetization.

AdTechE-commerceMarketing TechSingapore, SG

Co-investorsDIMENSIONEndeavor CatalystJIC Venture Growth Investments

Applied EV builds the Blanc Robot, a cabinless autonomous vehicle, along with its Digital Backbone safety-rated programmable control system and an API-first IoV cloud platform for fleet management.

Logistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationRobotics

Apptronik builds humanoid robots designed to perform repetitive, physically taxing, and dangerous tasks in warehousing and manufacturing environments, aiming to free workers for higher-value activities.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsAustin, US

Jeff Cardenas(CEO)inNicholas Arden Paine(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardClarence Gordon Daugherty, IV(Director)Howard Lee Morgan(Director)inGeorge Samuel Rose(Director)

Co-investorsAssembly VenturesAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.B Capital GroupB4 CapitalBaseTwoBig Brain Holdings+22 more

Ascenders provides infrastructure and services for the sports industry, including talent placement platforms connecting sports professionals to organizations, asset management for sports facilities and academies, and performance support services for athletes.

B2B MarketplacesHR TechSports TechTokyo, JP

Co-investorsANOBAKAW Inc.

atena is a digital mail management service that receives physical mail at a dedicated address (or collects it from a company's mailbox), notifies recipients via Slack, chat, or web, and offers one-click PDF conversion, forwarding, or disposal.

Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsCoral Capital

CB Cloud transforms logistics operations using technology and industry expertise.

Logistics & Supply Chain

Co-investorsANOBAKAJR East Start UP

Co-investorsCanal VenturesDelight VenturesDentsu VenturesDRONE FUNDMobile Internet Capital, Inc.NOW Japan+5 more

DELIVERS.AI builds autonomous, zero-emission delivery robots with in-house software and hardware for last-mile delivery and out-of-home advertising (OOHA).

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRobotics

Co-investorsImpetus CapitalInveo VenturesStartersHub

EDGEMATRIX provides "video edge AI" technology that analyzes camera footage in real time to detect events such as fires, intrusions, and other anomalies, issuing alerts for safety and operational efficiency.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareIoTTokyo, JP

Hiroshi Ohta(Founder)inShinya Motohashi(Founder)in

Co-investorsSony Ventures Corporation

ESP is a logistics technology company.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSLos Angeles, US

Brian Smith(CPO)Dan Pimentel(Chief Executive Officer)Erik Benson(Chief Technology Officer)Jack Levis(Product Strategy Officer)James Burns(Chief Product Officer)Daniel Pimentel(Executive Officer, Director)

forest Inc. is a Japanese company operating across four business areas, including strategic investment through M&A, business succession, and growth investment.

Sector Agnostic

Co-investorsDBJ CapitalDentsu VenturesNordstarPrime Partners

GrubMarket is a food tech company operating a B2B and B2C marketplace in the U.S. and Canada, offering both wholesale produce delivery at discounted prices and AI-powered SaaS software solutions for food supply chain businesses including inventory management, warehouse operations, and eCommerce platforms.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US

Mike Xu(Founder/CEO, , President)in

BoardHans Tung(Director)in

Co-investorsBascom VenturesBattery VenturesBuilders + BackersCastor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)Celtic House Asia PartnersDisruptive Ventures+20 more

Co-investorsAccord VenturesJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsZENRIN FUTURE PARTNERS

IRIS Data Lab provides LINE marketing support and SaaS tool implementation services in Japan, including its own products such as Atouch (LINE-based online shopping and in-app payments), Eltre (LINE quiz creation for promotions and learning), and L-channel (data integration across SaaS tools).

E-commerceMarketing TechSaaSTokyo, JP

安達教顕(代表取締役 (CEO))

matsuri technologies is a Japanese company building software-driven businesses in the travel and accommodation sector, focused on developing the tourism industry and labor-saving (automation) solutions to address staffing shortages.

PropTechSaaSTravel & Hospitality

Co-investorsDG IncubationGlobis Capital PartnersOpen Network LabPrime PartnersMitsubishi HC Capital

MILIZE develops financial services using AI, generative AI, big data, and financial engineering, offering products such as life-planning tools that visualize asset longevity and financial advisory platforms.

AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSaaSTokyo, JP

田中 徹(CEO・代表取締役社長)

Co-investorsDG Incubation

Misapplied Sciences develops display technology that lets many people looking at the same screen or sign each see different content at the same time, viewable with the naked eye and without special glasses.

AdTechDeep TechHardwarePasadena, US

Albert Ng(Executive Officer, Director)Paul Dietz(Executive Officer, Director)David S. Thompson(Executive Officer)Paul H. Dietz(CEO, Assistant Secretary and Director of Issuer)David Thompson(COO and Secretary of Issuer)

BoardCarl Ledbetter(Director)

Co-investorsJoyance PartnersScrum VenturesTech Square Ventures

Tokyo, JP

Shin Hasegawa(Founder)

Co-investorsSamurai IncubateShizuoka Capital

Co-investorsCanal VenturesDentsu Ventures

Operates a cross-border business platform.

Tomonari Hamano(Founder)in

Co-investorsDentsu VenturesDnx VenturesGlobis Capital PartnersPayforwardPrime Partners

Co-investorsDelight VenturesSpiral CapitalAozora Corporate Investment

Beans provides a dispatch and routing platform with enhanced location data and doorstep-level geocodes to optimize last-mile delivery operations.

Logistics & Supply ChainSaaSPalo Alto, US

Nitin Gupta(Founder)

Co-investorsSaama CapitalTwin Ventures

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

ConsumerMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsCoreline VenturesFIRSTLIGHT Capital

PRONI operates a concierge-style B2B matching service that connects buyers with suitable vendors, combining IT technology with human support to simplify procurement decisions such as research, comparison, and quoting.

B2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

Norio Kuriyama(代表取締役 Founder)Daisuke Shibata(代表取締役 CEO)

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT CapitalJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsMobile Internet Capital, Inc.Nippon Venture Capital

Recho develops voice AI technology for enterprise contact centers, enabling real-time conversation understanding and context preservation to automate customer interactions while preserving company-specific knowledge and processes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Shi Qiu(Founder)in

Co-investorsGlobal BrainKDDI Open Innovation FundW Inc.East VenturesSBI Investment

Co-investorsG-STARTUP

RoomClip is a Japanese interior and home decor platform where users share and browse over 6 million real photos of rooms, DIY projects, and products to find home ideas and shoppable items.

ConsumerE-commerceSocial

Co-investorsFemto PartnersNOW Japan

ROXX is a Japanese company that aims to raise the incomes of people without academic or career credentials by connecting individuals to opportunities and helping companies grow, using technology to address social challenges in Japan's shrinking labor market.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSTokyo, JP

Taro Nakajima(Representative Director & President (CEO))inDaisuke Ueki(Senior Executive Officer, COO / SVP of Business)Hiroto Nishimura(Senior Executive Officer / SVP of Corporate)Toshiki Takase(Executive Officer, CAO)Kota Matsumoto(Executive Officer, CTO)George Yoshimoto(Executive Officer, CFO)

Co-investorsSeibu Shinkin CapitalSkyland VenturesSMBC Venture Capital

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-investorsCoreline VenturesDnx VenturesGMO VenturePartnersSumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.Incubate Fund

talentbook builds AI-powered recruitment and employer-branding solutions, such as "Talentbook Story" and "Talentbook Campus," that surface employees' real career stories as relatable role models.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR Tech

Co-investorsCanal VenturesIyogin CapitalJR East Start UPShizuoka Capital

Informetis develops energy optimization solutions that combine energy-related data with proprietary AI, collecting data from power sensors in homes, offices, and factories into a cloud IoT platform for analysis.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyIoT

WealthPark builds a technology platform for alternative asset investing, covering assets such as real estate, art, whisky, wine, and unlisted equities, aiming to broaden access to alternative investment opportunities.

FintechPropTechSaaSTokyo, JP

川田 隆太(Founder & 代表取締役CEO)in手塚 健介(取締役副社長COO)in白崎 純平(専務取締役CFO / 米国事業責任者)in藤井 貴浩(執行役員 CTO)in吉本 祐貴(執行役員CDO)in

Co-investorsDG Incubation

Co-investorsCanal VenturesZ Venture CapitalGenesia Ventures

Goma Books is a Japanese publisher that releases print-on-demand (POD) and e-book titles distributed through Amazon and other digital bookstores, covering topics such as health, medicine, business, self-help, and manga.

Media & Entertainment

Co-investorsDnx VenturesFIRSTLIGHT Capital

Styleport develops a 3D digital twin platform for real estate and construction markets that enables users to virtually visualize and share spatial environments, facilitating better space selection decisions and communication across time and location barriers.

Construction TechDeep TechPropTechTokyo, JP

Akihiko Madokoro(Representative Director (CEO))Osamu Chujo(Director)

BoardHideo Horii(Director)Yukihiro Nakamura(Director)

Co-investorsGlobal BrainSony Ventures CorporationSTRIVE

SmartNews operates a news aggregation app that gives users access to articles from around 3,000 media outlets, along with weather information, coupons, and a points reward program.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerMedia & EntertainmentTokyo

Kaisei Hamamoto(Executive Officer, Director)inJason Holtman(Executive Officer)Cory Ondrejka(Executive Officer)Masaki Hayashi(Executive Officer)Chao Song(Executive Officer)Yi Ren(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsGlobis Capital PartnersGMO VenturePartnersJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsSocial StartsSumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.

A Japanese company that issues and operates digital securities (security tokens), including the individual-investor product "renga" backed by real estate such as hotels.

Crypto & Web3FintechMarketplaces

山本(代表 (Representative))

Co-investorsPKSHA Technology CapitalMetaProp

Japanese influencer marketing company operating the toridori base / toridori marketing matching platform; TSE Growth-listed (9337).

Co-investorsNOW Japan

Co-investorsANOBAKA

Hacobell provides freight arrangement services and logistics DX systems, combining on-the-ground transportation operations with technology to address logistics challenges.

B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Co-investorsEnergy & Environment Investment

Funds is an online investment platform, operated by Funds, Inc., that lets individuals invest from as little as 1 yen in fixed-yield funds tied to loans to vetted companies.

Fintech

Blue Innovation is a Japanese company that develops an Edge-to-Cloud platform (BEP) for operating and managing drones, robots, and devices, along with drone-based inspection and disaster-response solutions such as indoor inspection using the ELIOS 3 spherical drone, power-line inspection (BEPline), and tsunami-alert drone systems.

Cloud ComputingIoTRobotics

Takayuki Kumada(代表取締役社長 (President & CEO))

BoardMasayuki Kumada(取締役 (Director))

Co-investorsDRONE FUNDNippon Venture CapitalTBS Innovation Partners

Co-investorsDG Incubation

Mercari is a marketplace platform that enables users to buy and sell used and secondhand items, offering a wide selection of products across various categories.

Circular EconomyConsumerMarketplacesTokyo, JP

Tommy Tomishima(Founder)inRyo Ishizuka(Founder)in

Co-investorsGlobal BrainGlobis Capital PartnersGMO VenturePartnersSumitomo Mitsui Trust nvestment Co. Ltd.

Unifa develops "Lumie" (Look at me), a suite of products for childcare facilities and parents that includes IoT devices such as a medically registered body-motion sensor and childcare AI to record children's photos, health status, and developmental notes.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechIoTSaaS

Co-investorsFujitsu VenturesMinerva Growth PartnersMPowerShizuoka Capital

RiverField is a Japanese university-spinout that develops surgical robotics based on pneumatic precision-control technology, including its Saroa Surgical System for minimally invasive surgery.

Deep TechMedical DevicesRoboticsTokyo, JP

Co-investorsBeyond Next VenturesHiroshima Venture Capital Co. Ltd.

Sukutachi is a mobile app that connects construction businesses and craftspeople to discover work opportunities and expand their professional networks.

Construction TechMarketplaces

Co-investorsANOBAKAMiyako CapitalMPowerGenesia Ventures