MZ Web3 Fund

MZ Web3 Fund is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm dedicated to supporting Web3 projects, with a particular emphasis on their market entry. As an accredited investor, the firm possesses the financial capacity to back innovative and advanced Web3 initiatives. MZ Web3 Fund leverages its expertise to identify and invest in high-potential startups within the Japanese market. The firm's mission is to promote the growth of Web3 technology and facilitate its adoption in Japan through strategic investments in the blockchain sector.

Yuki Kanayama

Representative General Partner

13 past transactions

KEKKAI

Seed Round in 2024
KEKKAI operates a Web3 platform specializing in secure crypto-based transactions. It offers a security plugin that analyzes transaction simulations to detect risks and scams, enhancing overall safety within the industry.

Term Structure Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Term Structure Labs develops peer-to-peer fixed-income protocols for decentralized finance (DeFi), aiming to establish a term structure of interest rates. It offers customized zero-knowledge rollup services, facilitating transactions across various market conditions.

Pafin

Venture Round in 2023
Pafin, formerly known as Cryptact Ltd, is a technology company based in Shinjuku, Japan, that focuses on providing a comprehensive platform for individual investors in the cryptocurrency space. Founded in 2018, the company specializes in profit and loss calculation, tax assistance, and financial management tools tailored for cryptocurrency portfolios. By leveraging advanced technology, Pafin aims to enhance investment and asset management activities, offering users valuable insights and support for managing their virtual currency investments effectively.

D3

Seed Round in 2023
D3 its goal is to transform the domain name industry by effortlessly connecting Web 1-3.

ZTX

Seed Round in 2023
ZTX is a Web3 virtual world platform that fosters communities and empowers creators. It is a blockchain-based project resulting from a collaboration between Jump Crypto and ZEPETO, the largest avatar social network. ZTX's platform enables communities to build, play, and earn within an open-world environment, offering tools for IP partners to create 3D assets and expand their narratives.

Aki Network

Seed Round in 2023
Aki Network is a developer of a web3 platform that facilitates connections between users and crypto influencers. The platform serves as a comprehensive growth stack, utilizing on-chain data to provide insights into influencer promotion results. Aki Network has created a suite of products and services designed to enhance participation in high-quality project campaigns, ensuring that both users and influencers receive appropriate compensation. By bridging information gaps with extensive native data from its network, Aki Network also offers tools, including an influential score calculator, that empower users to develop their own influencer capabilities and engage effectively within the web3 ecosystem.

Ryodan Systems

Seed Round in 2023
Ryodan Systems develops zkRollup to construct an infrastructure based on Ethereum encryption technology, achieving almost no gas costs and data sovereignty.

Nefta

Seed Round in 2023
Nefta provides an ad network and pre-mediation solutions that aim to boost revenue performance and rebuild publisher trust in digital advertising. The company also offers a platform for game developers to integrate blockchain features, including gaming-specific NFTs, multi-chain wallets, tokens, and custom marketplaces, using APIs and SDKs for game development, publishing, and scaling, while delivering insights into blockchain game economies, monetization, and user analytics.

WEB3DEV

Seed Round in 2022
The WEB3DEV is based on 3 pillars: Community, Education and Building. Community: We created mechanisms with incentives to engage a community of software developers to create exclusive and high quality content about web3 technologies. The community members help each other to enter the web3 space. Our community is organized in pods, each pod for a different theme or blockchain. Each pod has a leader, which helps that pod to evolve, promoting growth to the ecosystem and the whole web3dev community. We already have leaders for Ethereum, Cardano, Algorand and Solana. We incentivize those pods, creating bounties and paying individual contributors when they create new content and deliver value. Education: The education platform, created by the community, is the place where everybody effectively learns about blockchain technologies. The courses are didactic self-paced project based learning. We give NFT reward as certificates for students who finish the projects. Building: We find companies that need developers and match our talent community members with maker demands. We build developers team for web3 companies and help these teams to succeed.

UnUniFi

Seed Round in 2022
UnUniFi is a blockchain optimized for NFT-Fi infrastructure, providing tools to integrate DeFi functionality into any NFT ecosystem. Built using Cosmos SDK, it aims to be the NFT-Fi hub for Cosmos and beyond.

Thirdverse

Series C in 2022
Founded in 2016, Thirdverse is a Japanese game studio specializing in multiplayer virtual reality (VR) games. It combines blockchain technology to create economic zones and immersive gaming experiences.

Oasys

Private Equity Round in 2022
Oasys is a blockchain platform specifically tailored for the gaming industry. It aims to create an ecosystem that facilitates the distribution of gaming channels. By integrating the advantages of public Layer 1 and private Layer 2 blockchain technologies, Oasys provides users with a high-speed experience that minimizes transaction fees. The platform addresses common challenges faced by game developers in integrating blockchain solutions, ultimately enhancing the value and support available to the gaming sector. Through its innovative technology, Oasys seeks to empower both developers and gamers, fostering a more efficient and rewarding gaming environment.

space data

Seed Round in 2022
Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learning the vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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