B Dash Ventures

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space in partnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Hiroyuki Watanabe

President, CEO and Representative Director

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Tané

Seed Round in 2023
Tané is a "Crypto Builders Incubator". We intend to contribute to the crypto/Web3 ecosystem by leveraging the experience and expertise gained from developing and investing in web businesses and applications.

Flatt Security

Venture Round in 2021
Flatt Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based company specializing in cyber security software. Founded in 2017, Flatt Security focuses on providing comprehensive solutions to address various cybersecurity challenges. The company aims to protect businesses and individuals from a wide range of cyber threats, leveraging its expertise in software development to create effective security measures.

Flatt Security

Debt Financing in 2021
Flatt Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based company specializing in cyber security software. Founded in 2017, Flatt Security focuses on providing comprehensive solutions to address various cybersecurity challenges. The company aims to protect businesses and individuals from a wide range of cyber threats, leveraging its expertise in software development to create effective security measures.

Funds

Series C in 2021
Funds is a loan investment firm that lends money to businesses. It enables companies to invest in funds for business financing in 1 yen increments through silent partnership agreements.

Financier

Seed Round in 2020
Financier is a Web3 platform that provides end-to-end support for the formation and expansion of token ecosystems.

Oceangate

Venture Round in 2019
Oceangate develops 1katsu, a job-hunting platform for university students and new graduates. The company also provides recruitment consulting services.

AKS

Venture Round in 2019
AKS is a talent agency that involves in entertainment-related activities such as music, film, and merchandise production. 13 years ago, the company operates the AKB48 group and cherishes the sense of distance between fans and members based on the concept of idol.

Vernalossom

Seed Round in 2019
Vernalossom offers various services that include artist management, concert and event production, merchandising planning and sales, music, video production, copyright management, digital content delivery, and overseas expansion consulting.

Financier

Seed Round in 2019
Financier is a Web3 platform that provides end-to-end support for the formation and expansion of token ecosystems.

LeaR inc.

Seed Round in 2018
LeaR inc. provides event planning, production, direction various promotions, talent, model casting, video production, various designs.

LeaR inc.

Seed Round in 2018
LeaR inc. provides event planning, production, direction various promotions, talent, model casting, video production, various designs.

The Human Miracle

Seed Round in 2018
The Human Miracle is an event management company providing planning & production, including F&B design and facility management.

atta

Pre Seed Round in 2018
atta (formerlyWithTravel) is an accommodation metasearch service that recommends hundreds of hotels, apartments, and vacation rentals for your next holiday. We cover hotels and apartments in most holiday destination under one-site. Just search by entering your destination, dates, and number of guests. Sort your search results by price range, type of accommodations, or amenities. WithTravel App is currently available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malay, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. We cover major cities in Japan at the moment and will keep populating more accommodations for your discovery.

ORO Wealth

Series A in 2018
ORO Wealth lets retail investors access sophisticated advice and techniques that are available to high-net-worth individuals and institutions.

Crowdport, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Crowdport operates “Funds,” a P2P platform, connecting individual investors who wish to manage their assets with companies that wish to borrow operating funds.

BLAST Japan

Seed Round in 2018
BLAST, Inc. operates as a media company. BLAST, Inc. produce news and interviews on topics like career, fashion, lifestyle, and social justice issues.

One Media

Seed Round in 2018
One media provides YouTube channel production, SNS video creation and marketing, and live stream creation and planning. ONE MEDIA's unique visual storytelling, the message you want to convey is turned into video content. Everyday video distribution, viewing data analysis, creative planning, and production are all done in-house to deliver video content with unique value.

Cyber Security Cloud

Venture Round in 2017
Cyber security cloud is a web security service that visualizes and blocks cyber attacks on websites and web servers.

Funds

Seed Round in 2017
Funds is a loan investment firm that lends money to businesses. It enables companies to invest in funds for business financing in 1 yen increments through silent partnership agreements.

LOB

Venture Round in 2017
LOB Inc. is an ad technology company based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2016. The company specializes in developing and providing advertising platforms designed to enhance marketing effectiveness. Its primary focus is on creating innovative solutions that improve the distribution of advertising content, allowing clients to access superior advertising platforms and distribution channels. Through its marketing support tools, LOB aims to strengthen the brand presence of organizations, facilitating more efficient and impactful advertising strategies.

Liquid Global

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Liquid Global is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide liquidity to the crypto economy.The company's platform offers trading services for major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum against fiat currency pairs in Japanese yen, US, Singapore and Australian dollar and Euro among the others, enabling businesses and users to exchange cryptocurrencies in a hassle-free manner.

Les Trois Graces

Venture Round in 2017
Les Trois Graces operates its business centered on three divisions, the apparel business, the food business, and the entertainment business.

MimiTV

Venture Round in 2017
MimiTV is a beauty-oriented video media that provides information on makeup, hair arrangements, cosmetics, etc. that can be more cute and beautiful from tomorrow for women in their late teens and late twenties. Models and entertainers who are supported by the generation appear on Youtube, introducing regular makeup and trendy makeup. On Facebook and instagram, short videos of about 30 seconds are used to create videos that can quickly raise the sense of beauty during gaps, making it easy to incorporate trends.

Candle

Venture Round in 2017
Candle Co., Ltd. is looking for new colleagues. Candle Co., Ltd. is equality in opinion whether it is a management team or an intern, and they are always moving toward the future they want to realize with the shortest route while always allocating all the resources to the top priority.

PIALA

Venture Round in 2017
PIALA is a startup specializing in beauty and health areas, including cosmetics and health foods, and food areas.

HOMMA

Venture Round in 2017
HOMMA is a start-up tech home builder that specializes in designing modern homes that improve the living experience. Takeshi Homma founded the company, which has offices in the Bay Area, Portland, Oregon, and Tokyo, Japan. HOMMA is a company comprised of home builders, architects, designers, and engineers.

HOMMA

Seed Round in 2016
HOMMA is a start-up tech home builder that specializes in designing modern homes that improve the living experience. Takeshi Homma founded the company, which has offices in the Bay Area, Portland, Oregon, and Tokyo, Japan. HOMMA is a company comprised of home builders, architects, designers, and engineers.

VRIZE

Seed 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.

MediBang

Venture Round in 2016
MediBang is the creator of the art app MediBang Paint and runs an online platform ART street for sharing and viewing manga and illustrations.The birth of the internet has made it easy for people to share their art with other people.Because of this, the gap between writers, artists, and their audience has never been smaller than it is now.

VEGEO VEGECO

Venture Round in 2016
VEGEO VEGECO is a service that delivers safe and safe vegetables from Kyushu.

Sotoasobi

Venture Round in 2015
Yamamoto, such that was the experience that harbor the feelings, his is the first time overseas, Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole that even in some American Wyoming for the first time visited location.The location that you stay in the senior of the wedding, such as wolves and American bison (Buffalo) is inhabited, it was the land that nature is now still remains.So Yamamoto goose bumps the whole body has to remember the feeling like standing is, together and apart from the members who had come from Japan, or spend time in one nature, return to experience a variety of outdoor local. And, "the moment when the mind is impressed" obtained in this earth, will lead to that produce the "play outside" after.

Enechange

Seed Round in 2015
Tokyo-based Enechange, the company offering an energy price comparison site under the same name .They are disseminating information on electricity and energy, useful electricity savings and savings right now, in order to liberalize the electricity in 2016.Enechange.Jp/try/detail Let's now begin the power company to choose in! The middle person is a graduate student intern! I am studying every day.

Sprocket

Seed Round in 2015
Sprocket is a web-based customer development platform that delivers the latest digital marketing information.

C Channel

Seed Round in 2015
C Channel is an online video-based media targeting women aged 20 to 34, focusing on offering lifestyle-related information ranging from hairstyling, food, to travel tips.

Fukurou Labo

Venture Round in 2015
Fukurou Labo is a Tokyo-based marketing solutions for smartphone apps company. Fukuro Labo offers the official version with a twist in distribution tactics since they learned there are very few deep link-enabled apps in Japan.

Connehito

Venture Round in 2015
Connehito is a Tokyo-based mobile Q&A app for female users. Their app, Mamari, is a "life support site for women" to resolve the question of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing. From early pregnancy symptoms and childbirth preparation, until often frustrating childcare, Connehito sends information to resolve mothers' troubles every day.

Spika

Seed Round in 2015
Spica Inc. operates Nailbook, a photo-sharing service that offers a wide range of photos of nail art designs. It was founded in April 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

3 Minute

Venture Round in 2015
3MINUTE inc. Is the world "s best YouTuber management production specializing in girls. We provide attractive contents to the world via YouTube whithin 3minutes.

Meetscom

Series A in 2015
Meetscom is engaged in the development of voice social matching services. The company was founded in December 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mynet

Venture Round in 2015
Mynet is a software development company. They provide network engineers, server engineers, system engineers, programmers, and support services.

Mynet

Venture Round in 2015
Mynet offers community games to the Japanese and Asian markets. It offers role-playing games such as Emblem of Falkyrie and Angel Master. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Crevo

Seed Round in 2015
Crevo operates a web-based platform for language free open-crowd sourcing contest that enable user to find custom design from all over the world. The company was formerly known as PurpleCow Inc. Crevo was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mynet

Venture Round in 2015
Mynet offers community games to the Japanese and Asian markets. It offers role-playing games such as Emblem of Falkyrie and Angel Master. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

MediBang

Venture Round in 2014
MediBang is the creator of the art app MediBang Paint and runs an online platform ART street for sharing and viewing manga and illustrations.The birth of the internet has made it easy for people to share their art with other people.Because of this, the gap between writers, artists, and their audience has never been smaller than it is now.

RECLO

Venture Round in 2014
RECLO is a luxury brand consignment application that allows the user to consign and sell branded products. Anyone can purchase a wide range of second-hand brand items (including new and rare items) such as clothes, bags, watches, accessories, and jewelry at up to 90% off. All products have been judged by experienced appraisers. Responsible quality assurance. In addition, since you can return the product after purchase, customers who are uneasy about purchasing online, such as size and condition, should shop with peace of mind.

Active SONAR

Venture Round in 2014
Active SONAR .Inc is a subscription e-commerce company for the Japanese market. It offers RECLO and FLIP, e-commerce applications. Active SONAR .Inc was founded in November 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

QLL

Venture Round in 2014
QLL (Quick Language Learning) Pte. Ltd. is a company specialized in developing language learning apps, they are based in Taiwan and registered in Singapore. 2007, they launched a break-through Chinese learning gadget, “Pocket Chinese Tutor”, it is an Mp4 player with Chinese speech assessment function, it can help learner correct their accent of speaking Chinese.

Gumi

Venture Round in 2014
gumi Inc. is a mobile entertainment content publisher and developer based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2007 by Hironao Kunimitsu. The company specializes in developing, operating, and distributing online games for smartphones and tablets, achieving notable success both domestically and internationally. Its flagship title, Brave Frontier, gained widespread acclaim and popularity across the globe. gumi also engages in blockchain technology and extended reality (XR) services, which encompass virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). With multiple subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North America, gumi collaborates with renowned partners such as SEGA and LINE to enhance its offerings and provide high-quality entertainment applications to users worldwide. Moreover, the company supports various game services, including native applications, browser-based games, and localization services for third-party content.

Gunosy

Venture Round in 2014
Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources, and presents them according to how hot the topic is.Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create their own personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.

Dailysocial.id

Series A in 2014
DailySocial is Indonesia's #1 tech portal covering startups, apps, gadgets, game, social media, enterprise and future technology.

BitFlyer

Seed Round in 2014
bitFlyer, Inc. is a virtual currency exchange based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Bitcoin transactions and blockchain development services. Founded in 2014, the platform enables customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins, alongside a variety of altcoins such as Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. bitFlyer offers a comprehensive suite of services, including trading platforms for both casual and professional users, an Application Programming Interface for account management, and e-commerce payment solutions for businesses. Additionally, the company operates fundFlyer, a crowdfunding site that facilitates fundraising efforts using Bitcoin. With a focus on security, bitFlyer aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for digital currency transactions.

WritePath

Seed Round in 2014
WritePath is a global online solution provider for multi-lingual translation, document editing, proofreading and copy writing. Our mission is to provide B2B clients timely translation services via the T-Booster Internet platform in various languages and in high quality. WP targets clients that are Internet savvy, self-serve and with limited project management requirements and recurring demand, unlike traditional translation agencies. Our platform business model helps clients worldwide to go local in no time.

QuiverVision

Seed Round in 2014
QuiverVision is a one-stop shop for Augmented Reality content and lesson plans for Pre K to Year 6 and beyond. We develop the software behind the world’s best Augmented Reality Coloring Experiences. Our premier app, “Quiver”, makes learning fun. By combining amazing augmented reality technology with educational coloring pages, the Quiver App delivers engaging and magical experiences for all. The Quiver App makes a huge range of educational topics fun to learn about by letting the users creativity and imagination run wild. Every colored page comes to life in its uniquely colored way, giving the artist an immediate and special sense of ownership and pride! The Quiver App is immersive, educational, exciting and inspiring – a must have tool for the classroom or at home where kids can develop skills and retain knowledge like never before. Quiver makes lessons interactive, fun, and unforgettable, and we're sure your students will enjoy using Quiver Augmented Reality in the classroom. Here's a 45-sec video showing feedback from some teachers and kids: https://youtu.be/u_01V3sipL4 Media: - TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/17/colar-uses-augmented-reality-to-brings-your-kids-drawing-to-life/

Iemo

Venture Round in 2014
IEMO is an online lifestyle site that specializes in interior decoration and housing.It's a Japanese "online-media focusing service company on home goods and furniture. There are currently 150,00 items on the platform. We users can also see sets of curated items. The service is very simple. The users can create pages using interior design images from its database of 15,000 pictures.

Gunosy

Venture Round in 2014
Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources, and presents them according to how hot the topic is.Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create their own personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.

SODA

Venture Round in 2014
SODA is a software company that engages in CMS software development media management business.

Gumi

Series G in 2013
gumi Inc. is a mobile entertainment content publisher and developer based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2007 by Hironao Kunimitsu. The company specializes in developing, operating, and distributing online games for smartphones and tablets, achieving notable success both domestically and internationally. Its flagship title, Brave Frontier, gained widespread acclaim and popularity across the globe. gumi also engages in blockchain technology and extended reality (XR) services, which encompass virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). With multiple subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North America, gumi collaborates with renowned partners such as SEGA and LINE to enhance its offerings and provide high-quality entertainment applications to users worldwide. Moreover, the company supports various game services, including native applications, browser-based games, and localization services for third-party content.

Gunosy

Venture Round in 2013
Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create their own personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.

Alim

Venture Round in 2013
Alim specializes in the planning, development, and production of games for iOS and Android. The company has released games for Android and iOS. It also provides planning, development, production, sales, and maintenance of digital content distribution services.

e27

Venture Round in 2013
e27 is a media company focused on Asia’s technology startup ecosystem. The company provides reports on the latest news that impacts the technology startup ecosystem and technology industry, highlights web and mobile applications that emerge from Asia, profiles the founders behind these startups, and provides its readers with thoughts and insights from industry professionals and mentors. It also organizes the Echelon Conference, a technology startup event for entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, government organizations, and technology companies to impart their knowledge and passion to delegates. e27 was founded in 2006 and is based in Singapore.

Gunosy

Seed Round in 2013
Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources, and presents them according to how hot the topic is.Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create their own personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.

Pal+

Seed Round in 2012
Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Oh My Glasses

Series A in 2012
Oh My Glasses TOKYO is a lifestyle brand that offer high quality made in Japan eyewear at an affordable price.Oh My Glasses has been providing an eyeglass e-commerce service that offers five sets of eyeglasses at a time upon order, and buy one if you can find any favorite among them. So customers can try them on before buying.

Oh My Glasses

Seed Round in 2011
Oh My Glasses TOKYO is a lifestyle brand that offer high quality made in Japan eyewear at an affordable price.Oh My Glasses has been providing an eyeglass e-commerce service that offers five sets of eyeglasses at a time upon order, and buy one if you can find any favorite among them. So customers can try them on before buying.
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