Relic

Startup offering the AI smart pillow 'Nemuris' to improve sleep quality.

Sales Marker is an intent-sales platform that detects companies' real-time web search behavior (roughly 5 billion records per day) to signal buying intent, then helps sales teams reach decision-makers across multiple channels and uses AI to analyze deals, structure summaries, and surface next actions.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsANOBAKA

ecbo operates ecbo cloak, a smartphone-based luggage storage service that lets travelers book and pay to store bags at over 2,500 partner locations across Japan (cafes, convenience stores, stations, post offices) and Taiwan, including oversized items.

ConsumerLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityTokyo, JP

Shinichi Kudo(Representative Director & President (CEO))

Co-investorsJR East Start UPSpiral Capital

Famione provides fertility and women's health support services for corporations, municipalities, and individuals, including fertility consultation, health literacy programs, and reproductive health diagnostic kits.

FemTechHealthtechWellness & Fitness

Co-investorsCanal VenturesOpen Network Lab

Firstcard is a credit-building platform that offers credit cards with no hard inquiry or annual fees to international students, immigrants, and others without SSN.

Fintech

Co-investorsANOBAKA

Foodies Prime is an invitation-only service that connects vetted food enthusiasts so they can attend hard-to-book, popular restaurants together.

FoodTechMarketplacesSocial

FOOLS Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells original footwear such as sculptural sneakers under concepts like "LEAP GRAVITY," selling directly to consumers through its own e-commerce site and social media.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceTokyo, JP

金丸 拓矢(代表取締役 (Representative Director))

Board坂部 三樹郎(取締役 (Director))

Co-investorsNOW Japan

Digital securities company with a mission of social value creation through investment.

Impact Circle builds a global team of experts in business development, microfinance, and governance to create social impact in both Japan and emerging markets.

FintechImpact & Social GoodSocialTokyo, JP

Satoshi Takahashi(Representative Director & CEO)

Co-investorsInclusion JapanEnergy & Environment Investment

INUPATHY makes a wearable device for dogs that uses a built-in heart-rate sensor and a proprietary analysis algorithm to interpret a dog's emotional state (relaxed, excited, happy, interested, stressed) and display it in real time via colored LEDs, with a companion app for logging.

ConsumerHardwareIoT

Co-investorsUntroD Capital

Startup leading the 'privacy tech' field, balancing personal privacy protection and corporate use of personal data.

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 RockAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.Beta venture capitalDnx VenturesAozora Corporate Investment

HR Tech startup running the collaboration SNS 'Spready' to create connections for business development.

Co-investorsFIRSTLIGHT CapitalGMO VenturePartners

A Japanese company whose representative director published a book explaining engineering careers, working as an engineer, moving into the field without prior experience, and the appeal of startups.

Kikumoto(Representative Director / President (代表取締役社長))

SUNDRED provides "Industry-Up as a Service," an integrated set of services aimed at co-creating new industries and building new business growth axes starting from societal needs.

Enterprise SoftwareImpact & Social Good

Vividir provides a financial planning and simulation platform that lets users structure numbers without building formulas, automatically generating linked KPIs and the three financial statements (PL/BS/CF) for real-time scenario simulation and budget-vs-actual management.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS

Social FinTech startup developing an investment platform that visualizes social impact.

Startup developing the microfluidic chip cell sorter 'On-chip Sort'.

Startup offering 'RURA', a next-generation remote customer service platform for stores.

Timeleap is a Japanese company that works with partners on projects including self-service terminals, cloud recording service integration, avatar applications, and BPaaS solutions.

SaaS

Startup operating in rural Myanmar aiming for an inclusive world that does not exclude low-income and poor populations.

Startup supporting DX and efficiency of corporate order/ordering operations with AI-powered RPA.

The page is a blog/column article discussing AI-OCR (optical character recognition) market share and product comparisons for improving business efficiency.

AI & Machine Learning

Asia's No.1 HubSpot partner, certified as an Elite Partner, HubSpot's highest partner tier.

366 is a consulting firm that helps religious organizations, primarily Buddhist temples in Japan, address management challenges.

Enterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS

Co-investorsbasepartners

Fashion startup born from co-creation with NTT Docomo Group's 'docomo STARTUP' program.

Relic (Relic Holdings) is a Japanese "business co-creation" company that supports new business development, innovation, and product development for client companies.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaS

D2C startup behind the globally expanding Japanese fashion sneaker brand 'grounds'.

MEAL FORWARD operates a "MEAL as a Service" (MaaS) model spanning e-commerce sales of curated meat and food products, its own Craft Wagyu Selection beef brand, restaurant support (wholesale supply and foodtech hardware rental), overseas expansion of Japanese food and food technology, and food consulting.

ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechTokyo, JP

Chihiro Murai(代表取締役 CEO)

Fukuoka-based IoT startup developing the town security 'smart watch-over platform'.

otta provides IoT-based safety monitoring (mimamori) services designed to track and watch over children and elderly people.

ConsumerHardwareIoT

Pro3 Lab develops AI-based solutions for business use, including agents for back-office task automation and knowledge search, plus a reply automation tool for the Chatwork messaging platform.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Sales intelligence startup offering 'Sales Marker', described as Japan's first intent sales solution.

Scalehack provides sales and marketing support services for businesses in Japan, assembling teams of sales and marketing professionals and offering tools such as AI-driven analysis that builds lists of high-intent prospect companies.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales Tech

Startup running a startup studio business and 'RUNTEQ', focused on training web engineers.

Startup running 'TAILOR WORKS', a B2B matchmaking engine to accelerate collaboration.

Startup running family support service 'Kirari Life Support' under the concept of 'another mother in Tokyo'.

Femtech startup running the personal fertility concierge service 'famione'.

Startup supporting new business development via the dynamic management simulator 'Vividir' and planning training.

IoT startup offering the pet healthcare wearable device 'inupathy'.