SBI Investment
Venture capitalTokyo · Pre-Seed–Growth · 1 people tracked
Also known as SBIインベストメント株式会社
Investment thesis
SBI Investment, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings established in 1996, invests in information technology, biotechnology, and life science companies across venture capital funds and provides advisory services including financial administration and public offering guidance. The firm operates as a venture capital investor based in Japan.
Team · 1 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 25 of 32 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×11Fintech ×6Deep Tech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×3Energy ×3B2B Marketplaces ×2
HQs:Japan×11United States×8Egypt×1India×1South Korea×1
Investments · 32 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 72025 · 32023 · 12022 · 112 dated
ASF is a Japanese EV venture that designs and builds original electric vehicles from scratch to Japanese standards, including the ASF2.0 commercial light van aimed at business drivers.
CleantechEnergyMobility & TransportationOsaka, JP
Hitomi Furikado(Representative Director & President)
Co-investorsEnergy & Environment Investment
Atomis develops metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous materials for gas control applications including separation, recovery, and storage.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyNew MaterialsKyoto, JP
Co-investorsDAIKIN INDUSTRIESTechstars
Nanameue, Inc. develops mobile apps and web services.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSocialTokyo, JP
Takahiro IshihamaTAKAHIRO ISHIHAMA(Founder)inKenji Higuchi
Co-investorsDG Daiwa VenturesSkyland VenturesAkatsukiEast VenturesFFG Venture Business Partnersmint VC+1 more
Breadfast is a delivery app offering groceries, fresh bakery items, fruits and vegetables, ready-to-eat meals, beauty, pharmacy, and household products, along with financial features like cashback and rewards.
ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationCairo, EG
Muhammad Habib(Founder)inAbdallah Nofal(Founder)inMostafa Amin
Co-investors4DX Ventures500 GlobalOutliers VCShorooq PartnersVershina CapitalVNV Global+5 more
Captain Fresh is building a vertically integrated, multi-species global seafood platform that combines physical supply-chain infrastructure with consumer seafood brands.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsAccelADB VenturesAnkur CapitalEvolvence India FundIncubate FundStride Ventures+5 more
Cellid is a fabless company developing AR glasses displays (waveguides) and spatial recognition engines for next-generation devices.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRoppongi, JP
Ken Shirakami(Representative Director & CEO)SATOSHI SHIRAGA(Founder)inKen Shiragami(Representative Director & CEO)
Co-investors15th RockGlobal BrainTechstarsTEL Venture Capital, Inc.Development Bank of JapanFFG Venture Business Partners+2 more
Cinnamon (株式会社シナモン) is a Japanese AI company that builds AI-based tools and research to support human decision-making and organizational knowledge, including work on large language models and RAG.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP
Miku Hirano(代表取締役社長 CEO)inYoshiaki Ieda(Founder)inHajime Hotta(Co-founder (共同創業者))
Co-investorsGolden Gate Ventures
Cognichip develops Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI), an AI system designed to accelerate semiconductor design by reducing design effort and time-to-market for chip manufacturers.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSemiconductorsRedwood City, US
Faraj Aalaei(Founder)inEhsan Kamalinejad(Founder)
Co-investorsCandou VenturesFPVGlobal Catalyst Partners JapanLux CapitalMayfield FundNewBuild.VC+1 more
Datumo Eval is an LLM evaluation platform that generates industry-specific question datasets from source documents and assesses LLM models and LLM-powered services using default or custom metrics via an agentic flow of multiple LLM agents.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Michael Hwang(Founder)inMichael (Minyoung) Hwang(Founder)in
Co-investorsACVC PartnersKB InvestmentKiwoom InvestmentSalesforce VenturesShinhan Venture Investment
Whitelabel buy-now-pay-later platform for retail finance at the point of sale.
Christer Holloman(Founder)Todd Latham(CEO)
Co-investorsDawn CapitalDG Daiwa VenturesDN CapitalFINTECH CircleGlobal BrainGreen Shores Capital+5 more
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-investorsDentsu VenturesFenbushi CapitalPrime PartnersZ Venture Capital
Gist provides brand visibility and advertising solutions for the generative AI marketplace, offering custom AI search, engagement tools, and data-powered insights to help brands and marketers maintain visibility and performance in AI-driven digital environments.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechPasadena, US
Bill Gross(CEO of ProRata & Gist)
Co-investorsMayfield FundBettor CapitalBOLD CapitalCalibrate VenturesMVP VenturesTouring Capital
Sequen offers an API-first platform that powers search, recommendations, and chat using a shared model that learns across customers without exposing their data.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechDeep TechE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesRoboticsSaaSSector Agnostic
Ian Sigalow(Founder)inGrant LaFontaine(CEO & Co-Founder)Logan Head(Co-Founder)Alexandre LeBrun(CEO & Co-founder)Yann LeCunSaining Xie(Chief Science Officer)
Co-investorsGreycroftRenaissance Venture CapitalAMD VenturesAmplify Partners CVAndreessen HorowitzCRV (Charles River Ventures)+13 more
IgGenix is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on antibody discovery and development for allergies and immunological diseases.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechSouth San Francisco, US
Kari Nadeau(Scientific Co-Founder)
Co-investorsKhosla VenturesAllerfund Ventures, LlcFemHealth VenturesGlobal BrainMedical Incubator Japan K.K.ShangBay Capital LLC
Kaizen Platform offers a professional support service where specialist teams provide end-to-end assistance for digital transformation (DX) projects, spanning consulting, workshops, creative production (video ads, websites, SNS operations), development, SES, and recruitment support.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsColopl NextSTRIVEZ Venture CapitalDentsu Innovation PartnersGREE VenturesMizuho Capital
Mesh provides a people management platform that helps leaders build engaged and high-performing teams through AI-driven performance management features including personalized nudges, real-time coaching, and insights combining employee and performance data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Saurabh Nangia(Founder)inGaurav Chaubey(Founder)inRahul Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsRTP GlobalY CombinatorCoinbase VenturesLiberty City VenturesModerne VenturesParadigm
Mesh automates accruals accounting for finance teams by extracting transaction data from accounts payable systems and communication platforms to generate audit-ready entries, reducing manual month-end close work.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Erin Kim(Founder)inNandini Ramakrishnan(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorCoinbase VenturesLiberty City VenturesModerne VenturesParadigm
Mesh provides a real-time B2B verification API that helps companies verify and onboard legitimate U.S. businesses, including SMBs and licensed professionals, by checking business registration, professional licenses, and business risk signals.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAfore CapitalAscend Venture CapitalCoinbase VenturesEssence Venture CapitalLiberty City VenturesModerne Ventures+1 more
Mesh Payments provides a corporate travel and expense platform combining corporate cards, expense management, and travel booking with an AI-driven orchestration layer that automatically codes, categorizes, and reconciles transactions.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Oded Zehavi(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalEntrée CapitalLaunchpad CapitalMeron CapitalTLV PartnersLiberty City Ventures+1 more
Mesh operates a global crypto payments network that connects exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms into a single infrastructure layer, allowing users, businesses, and AI agents to send and receive payments from any wallet on any blockchain.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSSilicon Valley, US
Bam Azizi(CEO & Co-Founder)inAdam Israel(CCO & Co-Founder)inArjun Mukherjee(Chief Technology Officer)inJeff Hendren(Chief Revenue Officer)inDacheng Zhao(SVP, Product)inDanny Villarreal(SVP, Customer Success)in
Co-investorsAltaIR CapitalB3 CapitalCoinbase VenturesEvolution VenturesFlorida FundersMirana Ventures+9 more
Miresso develops beryllium materials and supply chain solutions for fusion energy applications.
Deep TechEnergyNew MaterialsMisawa, JP
Masaru Nakamichi(CEO)Yu Nakano(Technical Development Director)
Co-investorsGlobal BrainKeio Innovation InitiativeMPowerNTT DOCOMO VenturesSpiral CapitalSpiral Innovation Partners+1 more
New Innovations develops OMO (Online-Merge-Offline) services and solutions, along with robots for industrial automation.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsSaaSTokyo, JP
Keito Nakao(Co-CEO & CTO)Tsutomu Yamada(Co-CEO)
Co-investorsGlobal BrainKDDI Open Innovation FundShizuoka CapitalNissay CapitalSMBC 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
Co-investorsGlobal BrainJapan Post Capital Co. Ltd.KDDI Open Innovation FundW Inc.East Ventures
Santé builds a point-of-sale system designed specifically for liquor retail stores.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechRetail TechSaaSNew York City, US
Darren Fike(Founder)in
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesKima VenturesOperator CollectiveTrail Run CapitalVeridical VenturesY Combinator+2 more
Tamr provides an AI-native master data management (MDM) platform that unifies, cleans, and enriches enterprise data in real time.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsDcode CapitalFoothill VenturesGranite HillGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelMassMutual Ventures+7 more
BALLAS designs, develops, manufactures, and sells construction materials.
Advanced ManufacturingB2B MarketplacesConstruction TechSaaSTokyo, JP
Co-investorsANOBAKAGlobal Brainmint VCAozora Corporate InvestmentDaiwa House VenturesKyoto Capital Partners+4 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Greycroft · startuphub.ai · Aug 20, 2026
Datumo · en.wowtale.net · Aug 3, 2026
Santé · pulse2.com · Jul 19, 2026
Breadfast · brandiconimage.com · Jul 14, 2026
Cognichip · semiengineering.com · Jul 13, 2026
Mesh · venture5.com · Jul 10, 2026
Mesh · venture5.com · Jul 10, 2026
Mesh · venture5.com · Jul 10, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has SBI Investment made?
- SBI Investment has 6 tracked investments.
- What stage does SBI Investment invest at?
- SBI Investment invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is SBI Investment's typical check size?
- SBI Investment typically writes checks of $2M – $227M.
- What sectors does SBI Investment focus on?
- SBI Investment focuses on Biotech, Cleantech, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Medical Devices, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is SBI Investment located?
- SBI Investment is headquartered in Tokyo, JP.
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