Shumpei Fukui

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73 past transactions

Activaid

Seed Round in 2020
Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. Yasuaki Hasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

xica Co.,Ltd.

Series B in 2016
Xica Co.,Ltd. is engaged in the research and development of micro and macro information technology systems. The company provides statistical analysis application, data estimation and collection, and modeling analysis consulting services. Xica Co.,Ltd. was founded in February 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FlyData

Venture Round in 2014
FlyData Inc. is a SaaS data migration company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. We enable easy management of the data load process to the cloud, allowing customers to move large data sets seamlessly, securely and continuously to existing data warehouses. Our mission is to allow our customers to focus on their core business while we handle the real-time data processing.

TRIBEAU

Venture Round in 2017
Tribeau Inc. develops and operates a cosmetic surgery dedicated application that supports the desires of women who want to be cleansed by the team of cosmetic surgery experts. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ABEJA

Series B in 2016
ABEJA is a platform that integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies including IoT, big data and deep learning and enables to carry out sophisticated analyses with accumulated data. Also, on the basis of the platform, ABEJA offers variety of services optimized for each industries, especially for Retail, Manufacture, Infrastructure. Its platform supports the entire pipeline of machine learning / deep learning, from development, deployment, and operation.

Galapagos

Seed Round in 2020
Galapagos Co., Ltd. offers AI based design and application development services. It offers services, such as AIR Design, a design provision solution specializing in marketing creative; and development service for iPhone and Android applications. Galapagos Co., Ltd. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Galapagos

Series A in 2021
Galapagos Co., Ltd. offers AI based design and application development services. It offers services, such as AIR Design, a design provision solution specializing in marketing creative; and development service for iPhone and Android applications. Galapagos Co., Ltd. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FLUX

Series A in 2021
FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount and value of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.

WELMO

Seed Round in 2015
Welmo Inc. provides artificial intelligence service for the care and welfare industry that helps users make decisions. The company develops social resource management for medical, disability, and long term care. It also develops a platform of social resource information with nursing care. In addition, it provides after school services to disabled students. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in Fukuoka.

WELMO

Seed Round in 2016
Welmo Inc. provides artificial intelligence service for the care and welfare industry that helps users make decisions. The company develops social resource management for medical, disability, and long term care. It also develops a platform of social resource information with nursing care. In addition, it provides after school services to disabled students. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in Fukuoka.

Techtouch Japan

Series A in 2020
Techtouch, Inc. develops TechTouch, an intuitive website user manual. The company’s software is used in enhancing system education for employees; supporting burden reduction; and promoting system utilization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Spacely, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Spacely, Inc. develops a cloud software which offers creation and editing of virtual reality (VR) content. It also offers application program interface for business owners to develop their own VR services. The company was formerly known as 3D Stylee. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Beee Technology

Seed Round in 2019
Hexabase(formerly Beee Technology) is a venture company developing in-house IT services for corporations. Their greatest mission is to think, develop, and propose a system that can solve the business problems of corporate customers by making full use of the latest IT technology. Hexabase offers Cloud services and EBaaS [Hexabase] that specialized in corporate system development.

Trajectory, Ltd.

Venture Round in 2019
Trajectory is a operator of an AI Traffic Control system designed for fully autonomous navigation of unmanned aircraft.The company's products include automated drones which can fly for a long time, enabling clients access to an environment where everyone can use UAV (Unmanned Aircraft) easily and safely, and contributes to solving customer problems.

Hubble

Series A in 2022
Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents

LeapMind

Series B in 2017
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.

TVision Insights

Seed Round in 2015
TVision Insights, Inc. provides television attention measurement services for brands and their agencies, and TV networks to determine the true value of their video content and advertising using a technology. It uses computer vision algorithms to passively measure eyes on screen, a way to measure person-level engagement with video content. The company’s opt-in and panel-based TV measurement service generates second-by-second attention data from panel participants who install technology in their home. TVision Insights, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York, New York; and Tokyo, Japan.

xica Co.,Ltd.

Series A in 2014
Xica Co.,Ltd. is engaged in the research and development of micro and macro information technology systems. The company provides statistical analysis application, data estimation and collection, and modeling analysis consulting services. Xica Co.,Ltd. was founded in February 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Autify

Series A in 2021
Autify, Inc. develops artificial intelligence based software testing automation platform. The platform monitors UI changes as artificial intelligence changes with each release and automatically updates affected test scenarios. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DIGGLE

Seed Round in 2018
DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting. DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budget record comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.

ExMed.io

Venture Round in 2017
ExMed.io is a Japanese health technology startup that aims to connect doctors through IT and help them provide better medical care.

AlpacaAI

Seed Round in 2015
We are a team of professionals from high-tech and financial industries including Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Lehman, Barclays, et al. We built our own proprietary AI technology for capital markets, and are currently working with number of top financial institutions globally.

Tutorial

Series A in 2020
Tutorial Inc. develops robotic process automation (RPA) software solutions. The company also offers consulting service related to RPA introduction. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

any.

Series A in 2021
any.inc. operates a knowledge and information sharing platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Axiverse

Series A in 2019
Axiverse, Inc. develops and operates shift creation automation application software shiftmation. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Shibuya Ku, Japan.

any.

Venture Round in 2022
any.inc. operates a knowledge and information sharing platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Spacely, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Spacely, Inc. develops a cloud software which offers creation and editing of virtual reality (VR) content. It also offers application program interface for business owners to develop their own VR services. The company was formerly known as 3D Stylee. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mobingi

Seed Round in 2015
Mr. Wayland Zhang (Zhang Zhang), who has entrepreneurial experience and experience selling services, founded in January 2015. As its main business, they develop and operate ITcloud services such as Mobingi ALM. The ITcloud service is called “Effortless Cloud” and aims to simplify and automate cloud operations. Mobingi ALM provides cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and rifle CYCLE configuration management, easy to understand and manageProvides a dashboard. By making a desk and a top of cloud computing, cloud computing that was operated only with CUI, more familiar to business people who are not familiar with CUI andTargets such as development teams. It has already been introduced in SB Cloud and Fujitsu, and in the future not only the layer that is missing net technology, but also net companies that already have cloud know-how to target business. They will expand it.

Resilire

Seed Round in 2021
The management service for Supply-chain risks.

Alpaca Securities LLC.

Seed Round in 2015
Alpaca API enables developers to build investing apps, brokerage services, trading algorithms that can access the market for commission-free. Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in the bay area California and a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms. (Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures)

mazrica inc.

Series A in 2017
mazrica, Inc. designs and develops an online business support platform. It also offers business consulting. mazrica, Inc. The company offers senses: a sales force automation(SFA) / customer relationship management (CRM) software, which maximizes organizational performance by intuitively grasp the progress of sales opportunities, centralized information management, and support until operation established. mazrica, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Xica

Series A in 2014
Xica provides a specialized needs-based analysis application that utilizes the results of statistics and consulting. The company aims to send suggestions to all data and deliver happiness to all.

LeapMind

Seed Round in 2014
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.

xica Co.,Ltd.

Series B in 2015
Xica Co.,Ltd. is engaged in the research and development of micro and macro information technology systems. The company provides statistical analysis application, data estimation and collection, and modeling analysis consulting services. Xica Co.,Ltd. was founded in February 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Laboratik

Series A in 2020
Laboratik Inc. develops and operates Smart bot A; platform. It enables real-time analysis and engagement, such as relationships and emotions in the organization from in-house chat conversation through natural language processing technology. The platforms features include connection; bot measures and visualizes communication with team and detect biased communication in the team, emotions; analyzes positive / negative degree of chat utterance using natural language analysis technology, and Share ideas; automatically collects comments tagged during chat. Laboratik Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Dennoo

Seed Round in 2013
Dennoo Inc. develops and delivers a cost-per-second advertising platform. Its platform allows users to measure the number of seconds that the advertisements are physically viewable on the screen in terms of area; and enables users to calculate the value/cost of advertisements based on the cost-per-second of this viewable time. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

UPWARD,Inc.

Series D in 2018
UPWARD,Inc. offers cloud based customer relationship management services for smart device and location information utilization. The company designs, develops, and markets geographical information systems (GIS) and location based services (LBS) solutions. The company offers location and positioning suits. Its markets its product under GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) and MapServer brand names. UPWARD,Inc. partners with DM Solutions Group, Inc., MapInfo Corporation, and Hokkaido CMC, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

MakeSchool

Venture Round in 2015
MakeSchool provides a higher education degree program, creating a more direct connection between education and employment. MakeSchool provides instructional, curricular, admissions, and other services to help operate innovative new college programs in partnership with established universities. MakeSchool ensures relevance of education for the modern economy and accessibility to students of all backgrounds.

VRize

Venture Round in 2016
VRize is the company developing ad network business in the virtual reality (VR) space,the company has introduced a new service called VRize Video to date.

Chikyu Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Chikyu Inc. offers customer management, negotiation management, data analysis, and development of cloud-based marketing support software. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

SMARTCAMP Co.,Ltd.

Series B in 2017
Smart camp is a company that manages Internet services and this company is good at B2B marketing.

Mobingi

Series A in 2017
Mr. Wayland Zhang (Zhang Zhang), who has entrepreneurial experience and experience selling services, founded in January 2015. As its main business, they develop and operate ITcloud services such as Mobingi ALM. The ITcloud service is called “Effortless Cloud” and aims to simplify and automate cloud operations. Mobingi ALM provides cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and rifle CYCLE configuration management, easy to understand and manageProvides a dashboard. By making a desk and a top of cloud computing, cloud computing that was operated only with CUI, more familiar to business people who are not familiar with CUI andTargets such as development teams. It has already been introduced in SB Cloud and Fujitsu, and in the future not only the layer that is missing net technology, but also net companies that already have cloud know-how to target business. They will expand it.

Spacely, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Spacely, Inc. develops a cloud software which offers creation and editing of virtual reality (VR) content. It also offers application program interface for business owners to develop their own VR services. The company was formerly known as 3D Stylee. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Bespoke

Seed Round in 2016
Tokyo-based Bespoke Inc. is a leading developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology dedicated to multilingual guest services through easy access to information, local recommendations, and solutions. Its products include Bebot, the internationally-popular AI concierge. Bespoke Inc. has developed AI technology for well-established clients serving users from over 100 countries, such as Holiday Inn, Sofitel Hotels & Resorts, Narita International Airport.

LeapMind

Series A in 2016
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.

Inner Resource K.K.

Seed Round in 2019
Inner Resource K.K. develops and operates a industry specific cloud purchasing platform repura that enables procurement, purchasing, and inventory management. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bunkyo-ku, Japan.

Compath Me, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Compath Me, Inc. is a software developer that develops a mobile application for its users. Its product KiDDY is a mobile-based application that allows users to take, upload, and share kids’ photos with their family members. The company’s application also allows users to add and edit the titles and comments on uploaded photos in the diary, as well as top create an album. Compath Me, Inc.’s application is available on App Store and Google Play. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

AlpacaAI

Series A in 2018
We are a team of professionals from high-tech and financial industries including Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Lehman, Barclays, et al. We built our own proprietary AI technology for capital markets, and are currently working with number of top financial institutions globally.

Hubble, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Hubble, Inc. develops and offers cloud based application software for storage of legal documents. The company's software allows API integration with CloudSign, DocuSign, and other electronic fasting services. Hubble, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

HiCustomer Co., Ltd.

Seed Round in 2018
HiCustomer is a developer of a customer success management platform intended to act as an engine for business growth. The company's platform offers calculation of a customer health score, automatically detects withdrawal signs from customer usage data and aggregates information about customers, enabling clients to fully utilize the resources of their customer success team.

Hacobu

Seed Round in 2016
Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform to accumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.

HiCustomer Co., Ltd.

Series A in 2019
HiCustomer is a developer of a customer success management platform intended to act as an engine for business growth. The company's platform offers calculation of a customer health score, automatically detects withdrawal signs from customer usage data and aggregates information about customers, enabling clients to fully utilize the resources of their customer success team.

FLUX

Seed Round in 2019
FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount and value of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.

SkyDisc,Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
SkyDisk provides one-stop services that are necessary to make it easier to use the IoT service. Their mission is to solve business problems by visualizing data through sensors and analysis.

FILEFORCE

Seed Round in 2015
Fileforce provides highly secure and scalable cloud file service for businesses and enterprises of all sizes. Fileforce enables your enterprise to safely and securely store, manage, access and share files from anywhere, using computer, tablet or smartphone.

Hacobu

Series A in 2017
Hacobu offers an integrated solution "MOVO (MOVO)" centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform to accumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, "to optimize carrying". That is Hacobu 's mission.

SMARTCAMP Co.,Ltd.

Series A in 2015
Smart camp is a company that manages Internet services and this company is good at B2B marketing.

Hubble

Venture Round in 2019
Cloud-based software specialized for contracts and other legal documents

Datasection Inc.

Venture Round in 2009
Datasection Inc. engages in the marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, international SNS, and business data utilization and optimization businesses in Japan. Its solutions include social media analysis, artificial intelligence image analysis, online data collection and analysis, collection and processing public information, and corpus and machine learning data. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

O: Co.,Ltd.

Venture Round in 2019
O: Co.,Ltd. develops application for individual sleep management. The company provides better sleeping habits to employees by recording and visualizing sleeping conditions and coaching based on sleep hygiene. It visualizes the status of sleeping situation and productivity of each organization and group to which the employee belongs in the form of a dashboard. The company uses this service for employee health management, business reform, and organization improvement. O: Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Techtouch Japan

Seed Round in 2019
Techtouch, Inc. develops TechTouch, an intuitive website user manual. The company’s software is used in enhancing system education for employees; supporting burden reduction; and promoting system utilization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Alpaca Securities LLC.

Venture Round in 2018
Alpaca API enables developers to build investing apps, brokerage services, trading algorithms that can access the market for commission-free. Alpaca is a technology company headquartered in the bay area California and a team of diverse background individuals with deep financial and technology expertise, backed by some of the top investors in the industry globally. We are proud to be supported by the love of enthusiastic community members on various platforms. (Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures)

Laboratik

Seed Round in 2018
Laboratik Inc. develops and operates Smart bot A; platform. It enables real-time analysis and engagement, such as relationships and emotions in the organization from in-house chat conversation through natural language processing technology. The platforms features include connection; bot measures and visualizes communication with team and detect biased communication in the team, emotions; analyzes positive / negative degree of chat utterance using natural language analysis technology, and Share ideas; automatically collects comments tagged during chat. Laboratik Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

SkyDisc,Inc.

Series A in 2017
SkyDisk provides one-stop services that are necessary to make it easier to use the IoT service. Their mission is to solve business problems by visualizing data through sensors and analysis.

mazrica inc.

Seed Round in 2016
mazrica, Inc. designs and develops an online business support platform. It also offers business consulting. mazrica, Inc. The company offers senses: a sales force automation(SFA) / customer relationship management (CRM) software, which maximizes organizational performance by intuitively grasp the progress of sales opportunities, centralized information management, and support until operation established. mazrica, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ABEJA

Seed Round in 2014
ABEJA is a platform that integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies including IoT, big data and deep learning and enables to carry out sophisticated analyses with accumulated data. Also, on the basis of the platform, ABEJA offers variety of services optimized for each industries, especially for Retail, Manufacture, Infrastructure. Its platform supports the entire pipeline of machine learning / deep learning, from development, deployment, and operation.

Autify

Seed Round in 2019
Autify, Inc. develops artificial intelligence based software testing automation platform. The platform monitors UI changes as artificial intelligence changes with each release and automatically updates affected test scenarios. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TVISION INSIGHTS Co. Ltd.

Venture Round in 2016
TVISION INSIGHTS is a company that measures the "viewing quality" of television. Utilizing state-of-the-art human body recognition technology developed by TVISION, it is rare in the world to acquire TV viewing status in the living room and convert it into data, and a very unique data set that does not exist is founded It has been acquired and accumulated since then. Currently, we have expanded our bases globally and have expanded to Tokyo, Boston and New York. While challenging challenges in different markets,we are continuing to grow rapidly to realize the original potential of TV.

Datasection Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Datasection Inc. engages in the marketing research, data provision and processing, image analysis, international SNS, and business data utilization and optimization businesses in Japan. Its solutions include social media analysis, artificial intelligence image analysis, online data collection and analysis, collection and processing public information, and corpus and machine learning data. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FlyData

Seed Round in 2011
FlyData Inc. is a SaaS data migration company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. We enable easy management of the data load process to the cloud, allowing customers to move large data sets seamlessly, securely and continuously to existing data warehouses. Our mission is to allow our customers to focus on their core business while we handle the real-time data processing.