Colopl Next

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority. Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitment to support innovative entrepreneurs.

Sehong Jang

Executive Director

Tetsuya Nakashima

Investment Manager

Hideki Shiiki

Investment Manager

Wynn Wang

Senior Associate

Shintaro Yamakami

CEO and General Partner

97 past transactions

Return Helper

Series A in 2023
Return Helper makes cross border ecommerce return easy - for both seller and buyer. We enable ecommerce merchants in APAC to offer the most cost-effective return solution in US, UK, Europe and Australia. Return Helper is a data-driven platform that connect shipping carriers, 3rd party warehouses, sales channels and aftermarket services. We optimise not only the return process & the aftermarket activity for online retailers, thus reducing cost, maximising sales and saving environmental resources but also the buyer return experience which boosts customer loyalty

Rael

Series B in 2022
Rael is LA-based menstrual care and feminine wellness company that provides comfortable, high-quality products made of natural and organic ingredients. Led by three female co-founders, the company’s vision is to empower and inform women around the world with safe and healthy alternatives to the toxic conventional products normalized in the feminine care industry. Already a bestseller on Amazon, Rael products are also available to shop on GetRael.com as well as in Target stores. Rael’s expansive product offering is available in 13 countries and includes pads, tampons, pantyliners, period underwear, and feminine wash/wipes. Rael also expanded into the clean beauty space after their success with "period beauty" products. Since launching in 2017, the company has attracted investment from industry leaders including Spigen, BAM Ventures, Strong Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Korea and Thrive Market Ventures, among others.

Vogo

Series A in 2022
Vogo provides vivid live shopping.

Return Helper

Seed Round in 2021
Return Helper makes cross border ecommerce return easy - for both seller and buyer. We enable ecommerce merchants in APAC to offer the most cost-effective return solution in US, UK, Europe and Australia. Return Helper is a data-driven platform that connect shipping carriers, 3rd party warehouses, sales channels and aftermarket services. We optimise not only the return process & the aftermarket activity for online retailers, thus reducing cost, maximising sales and saving environmental resources but also the buyer return experience which boosts customer loyalty

LandVault

Series B in 2021
Admix is a monetisation platform for game developers that enables non-intrusive, programmatic product placements within their content. Admix is a programmatic platform for everything from immersive technologies to mobile games, selling their inventory to popular demand-side platforms and giving millions of advertisers the ability to buy game media in a couple of clicks.

Truck Lagbe

Series A in 2021
Truck Lagbe is Bangladesh's shipping and freight booking and logistics platform. Shippers can book short-haul and long-haul trips from vehicles ranging from 1 ton up to 25 tons in size. The app is available on Android and iOS.

SODA

Series C in 2021
Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.

PeaceTecLab

Venture Round in 2021
PeaceTecLab is into development and operation of sharing platform for lending and borrowing of things.

Exosphere Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.

LTE-X

Corporate Round in 2021
LTE-X is Providing a secure, high-speed, large-capacity IoT platform.

Shop LIT Live

Seed Round in 2021
Shop LIT Live is a live streaming platform that connects brands and merchants to consumers through immersive shopping experiences. The company provides a stage for brands to tell their stories and showcase their products.

inSTREAMLY

Seed Round in 2021
inSTREAMLY is an automated streamer management platform which brings brands and streamers together. Using micro-sponsorships, streamers are able to monetise their content lowkey, while giving brands an opportunity to connect with Generation Z in an innovative way. It's SaaS branch: Streamcoi is aimed for esports organizations, MCN's, agencies and tournament organizers.

Play Tango

Series A in 2021
Play Tango develops interactive learning products that aim to change the way children learn. Tango is a screenless smartboard that senses, reads, and provides real-time feedback on tangible blocks.

SODA

Series B in 2021
Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.

NRISE

Seed Round in 2020
NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.

SODA

Funding Round in 2020
SODA is a software company that engages in CMS software development media management business.

Izanagi Games

Seed Round in 2020
Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that publishes interactive games and films. The services provided by the company include the production and distribution of interactive piercing games and story-based movies, allowing creators and development teams to present their projects on a global platform and provide players with an immersive and seamless gaming experience.

Mepple

Seed Round in 2020
Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.

AccordX

Seed Round in 2020
AccordX is a platform that allows individuals to open a virtual restaurant, prepare food at cloud kitchens and sell food by online delivery.

Timee

Venture Round in 2020
Timee is Japan's leading gig working platform.

Restream

Series A in 2020
Restream is a multi-streaming solution that allows producers to analyze and interact with their viewers across platforms. Using the platform, users can stream live video to any live stream service. The platform includes ingesting service in over 80 countries serving a million users. Capabilities include analytics, scheduling, shared chat, monitoring, and seamless integration with encoders. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

BitStar

Venture Round in 2020
BitStar is an entertech company that accelerates the growth of video and content creators via content creators platform with agent support.

Aiello

Seed Round in 2020
Aiello provides End-to-End Open Voice Platform(AOVP) to reduce the entry barrier for business customers and enable own voice service for domain-specific applications.

Epigno

Seed Round in 2020
Epigno provides human resource management solutions for medical and nursing care institutions. They reduce the work burden of medical and nursing care personnel and increase the retention rate in the organization. They support the future medical and nursing care of patients and their families by providing a sustainable healthcare system to medical and nursing care workers.

Arblet

Seed Round in 2020
Since the company was founded in 2016, Arblet Inc. focuses on developing non-invasive methods to measure inner body changes. Arblet’s mission is to elucidate the mystery of mankind.

SYRUP Japan

Series B in 2020
Syrup develops Pet Tech platforms. The company's services include OMUSUBI, an adoption service that matches dogs and cats with pet owners, and Petokoto, a media platform that provides reliable information from veterinarians

Petokoto

Seed Round in 2020
Petokoto is a pet wellness company that creates and sells fresh food, runs pet media, and keeps pets happy. It is suitable to become an information source that combines accuracy, completeness, and updateability by utilizing the collective knowledge of experts both inside and outside the company and demonstrating their respective expertise. The company aims to develop a world where pets can be loved as family members.

Torana

Seed Round in 2019
With the vision of "Let's increase happy parent-child time," Torana Inc. provides a rental subscription service, "Toysub! a rental subscription service that delivers toys optimized for infants and toddlers as they grow, in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, "Toysub!" serves approximately 15,000 households. Based on data from over 400,000 toy evaluations and over 100,000 toy planning sessions, we have established engineering and operations to select and deliver the best toys for children's growth.

Bunch

Seed Round in 2019
Bunch is the first app that allows its users to play their favorite games with friends over video chat. Its platform is the easiest way for players to discover, play, and share live mobile games with their friends. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York City, New York.

Drivemate

Series A in 2019
Drivemate is a leading peer to peer car sharing service in Thailand. If you own a vehicle, put it for rent on Drivemate so it can pay for itself. Drivemate provides trust to both parties with a full insurance coverage and customer service.

Crunch Style

Venture Round in 2019
Crunch Style is a flower subscription service that makes it easy to make a flowery life.Deliver seasonal flowers from approximately 70 florists nationwide. Since it is delivered to the post in a special box, you can receive it even if you are away from work or going out.

Elaly

Corporate Round in 2019
Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.

Nanome

Seed Round in 2019
Nanome is a software company that offers a collaborative XR software platform for scientific discovery. The platform accelerates existing computational workflows at the molecular scale and unlocks more scientists to leverage powerful molecular computations + AI. Nanome has worked largely on projects with companies in the biopharma industry, as well as other industries, including food & beverage, material science, and education.

A1A

Seed Round in 2019
A1A offers a cloud-based manufacturing and procurement system for manufacturers. The company is a startup founded in 2018. It develops products for the purchasing department of the manufacturing industry. A1A pursues optimal purchasing at optimal prices using purchasing related data centered on estimates accumulated by companies.

JapanWork

Corporate Round in 2019
"JapanWork" is an AI-based recruitment service that provides support to foreigners living in Japan until they get a job through English chat. With more than 150,000 users, mainly permanent residents, on Facebook, it is the largest service in Japan.

RambleOn

Venture Round in 2019
RambleOn is a developer of applications and consulting services in Tokyo, Japan. The company provides various solutions utilizing artificial intelligence technology as well as various solutions using blockchain technology.

DogHuggy

Corporate Round in 2019
DogHuggy is a matching service that allows pet owners who cannot take care of a doggy on a trip or the like to stay at a dog house nearby.

Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing

Corporate Round in 2019
JAPAN FUDO is a company that develops and manufactures new products related to wind, such as the world's most compact wind tunnel "Aero Optim" series and double propeller wind turbines.

BitStar

Series C in 2018
BitStar is an entertech company that accelerates the growth of video and content creators via content creators platform with agent support.

PLNAR

Series A in 2018
Plnar is an insurtech software provider, transforming the insurance claims process. Contactless inspections for interior property claims result in significantly better customer experiences, shorter cycle times, and lower costs. Their patented technology platform has given desk adjusters the power to generate fully realized 2D and 3D models of interior spaces from digital photos.

Vantage Point

Seed Round in 2018
We create experiences that change the way you think. Vantage Point's immersive training experiences and platform leverages Virtual Reality (VR) and focuses on Enterprise training. Vantage Point was founded under the belief that while technology can cause apathy, immersive technology can drive empathy and fundamentally make the world more human. We believe that the heart of all we do is human. The way we make the world more human is by using technology to teach and inspire people to become the very best versions of themselves they always hoped to be. Today Vantage Point is actively developing the platform and the products to train people on EQ-driven and Soft Skills that matter, with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to unlock their full potential. We are "The Next Frontier in Immersive Enterprise Training". Vantage Point is used by the top Fortune 500s, Global Law Firms, Startups, and more. Vantage Point is a female and black-founder led company. We are the future of workforce learning.

Timee

Venture Round in 2018
Timee is Japan's leading gig working platform.

Supermedium

Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is building a space of immersive VR utilities starting with a comic book reader. From the pioneers of WebVR and creators of A-Frame (https://aframe.io).

InstaVR

Series B in 2018
InstaVR is out-of-box integrated SaaS Virtual Reality(VR) marketing solution. InstaVR enables anyone to quickly and easily author publish-ready interactive VR apps for all mobile and desktop platforms, and analyse user behaviours by using InstaVR heat-map display.

InstaVR Japan

Venture Round in 2018
InstaVR is a global VR platform that promotes the use of Virtual Reality in business. It is used by 50,000 businesses around the world, including US government agencies.

Cloudike

Series A in 2018
Cloudike powers cloud storage. Cloudike helps OEMs, mobile and Internet service providers acquire, retain, and upsell their customers by offering a compelling personal cloud experience under their own brand.

Alter

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Alter is a platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse. Developers can pipe avatars into their apps, games, and websites. They offer computer vision, 3d technology, web3, machine learning, avatars, rendering engines, blockchain, and NFTs.

Cach

Seed Round in 2018
CACH, Inc. operates as an IoT company. CACH is a company that accelerate the development and mass production of IoT devices such as structural deformation monitoring.

VAZ

Venture Round in 2018
VAZ is a venture company that transforms everyday small changes into a better society together with YouTuber and other influential creators.

Famzon

Venture Round in 2018
Famzon is a D2C footwear brand that offers an online shopping platform for women's footwear.

Fyusion

Series B in 2017
Fyusion is a 3D computer vision and machine learning company that develops products that make images as intelligent as they are beautiful. These immersive, interactive photorealistic 3D images viewable on any mobile, desktop, VR, or Augmented Reality device are captured using only a smartphone or any other camera. Its commercial focus is on iOS and Android capture for automotive and eCommerce imaging at scale. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Odd Concepts

Venture Round in 2017
Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.

Floreo

Seed Round in 2017
Floreo is a virtual reality therapy system for autism, ADHD and anxiety therapy. Floreo is now used by over 100 therapy clinic businesses and school districts. We're a trail blazer for digital therapeutic reimbursement as the first VR behavioral health company w/ an approved CPT 3 reimbursement code. And we're partnered with Meta to help bring Floreo VR to public schools.

Channel Talk

Series B in 2017
Channel Talk is an AI messenger that is focused on helping DTC companies provide VIP-level customer service. We raised $40 million USD in our Series C, and are one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups, currently servicing more than 150,000 brands across the world. At Channel Talk, we believe that a good product nurtures growth in a business and that simple conversations with customers can become the driving force for success. We help you stand out by utilizing AI to resolve repetitive inquiries so you have time to build genuine relationships through our powerful CRM and provide excellent support to your customers.

3rd Eye Studios

Seed Round in 2017
3rd Eye Studios is a collection technology, movie, TV and game industry veterans building atmospheric and sophisticated games, and groundbreaking technology & tools for game developers. Located in Helsinki and Shanghai, 3rd Eye Studios was founded in June 2016 by a group of game industry veterans, who previously worked in senior positions at companies like Remedy Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Bugbear Entertainment, RedLynx and Moon Studios.

Vrex Lab

Seed Round in 2017
Vrex Lab is a global startup focused on bringing engaging, fun experiences via mobile VR/AR applications.

MOVER Japan

Venture Round in 2017
MOVER is a Types and characteristics of debt useful for funding such as card loans and factoring.

Payke

Corporate Round in 2017
Payke Multicomponent is an application that allows to view all the information of products in their mother tongue. The application Payke makes it possible to connect products around the world to the Internet by utilizing the bar codes that are scattered throughout the world. the company's goal is to build an enormous database based on barcodes. It is to reorganize and organize products around the world into a single database and allow anyone to freely access there. Anytime, anywhere, anyone will be able to touch the information of products around the world.

Bytescale

Series A in 2017
Bytescale makes it easy for developers to handle images, videos, and audio at scale.

Sider

Series A in 2017
Sider is a developer and provider of code review tool intended to analyze and identify non-standard codes, security flaws, and bugs.The company's product helps engineering teams maximize productivity by automatically analyzing every pull request against custom per-project rulesets, as well as general best practices, enabling users to improve productivity while reducing the total time spent on product development.

Pinscreen

Seed Round in 2017
Pinscreen is an American technology company and VFX studio that develops the most advanced generative AI technologies for film production and interactive experiences with its headquarter in Los Angeles and branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The company offers end-to-end solutions for AI lip sync, face reenactment, face swaps, de-aging, and avatar digitization. Pinscreen works with some of the most prolific film makers and production studios, and its customers include Netflix, Amazon Studios, Miramax, Warner Bros, Apple, Google, Adobe, DARPA. Among its accolades, in 2019, Pinscreen developed the first real-time deepfake technology which was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and SIGGRAPH 2020. The company is also the first to demonstrate AI lip sync for a complete feature film, and the ability to process over thousands of 4K HDR movie shots within a year. Pinscreen is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and won the Epic MegaGrants in 2020. Pinscreen was founded in 2015 by Prof. Hao Li, MIT TR35 winner and Professor of Computer Vision at MBZUAI. He is known for his contributions in Apple’s Animoji technology, the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, and actively innovates in the space of neural rendering, deepfakes, and digital humans.

Craful

Venture Round in 2017
Craful is an ecommerce company. It offers an online platform that enables users to buy and sell handmade, handicraft products such as accessories and home decor. The company was founded in 214 and is headquartered in 2015 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

Hachidori

Series A in 2017
Hachidori providing a chatbot development tool “hachidori” that does not require programming and a chat and shift business management application “CAST” specialized in stores that employ part-time workers : Takashi Ban) has completed financing through third-party allotment with three companies as underwriters.

Psychic VR Lab

Seed Round in 2016
Psychic VR Lab is a startup company that handles fashion VR and MR shopping service STYLY. They are creating a future where they will live in space.

Visbit

Seed Round in 2016
Based in Silicon Valley, Visbit, Inc. is a visual technology company enabling 360-degree video and VR content creators to deliver the highest quality streaming and viewing experiences to consumers across multiple VR platforms. With the patented Visbit View-Optimized Streaming (VVOS) technology, Visbit is the first to offer a streaming service that can deliver and play 360-degree VR videos without noticeable latency in 4-8K resolution over regular Wi-Fi and LTE across VR headsets and platforms. Visbit’s technology allows premium quality 360-degree VR video to be viewed without downloading or heavy compression, which improves user experience, increases user reach at existing bandwidth and saves overall data usage – closing the gap between VR content requirements and typical network speed capabilities. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information go to www.visbit.co.

PlayFab

Series B in 2016
PlayFab is a cloud-based provider of tools and services for building and managing online games. PlayFab offers services like profile management, multiplayer servers, and matchmaking, in-game commerce and marketplaces, deep analytics, server operations, and management, and much more. The experienced team at PlayFab is dedicated to arming the most creative game talent with state-of-the-art backend services and tools so they can focus on the fun while staying competitive in today’s market. PlayFab brings together all the features you need, from leaderboards to virtual currency to user authentication to purchasing, all without needing to write a single line of code. It also offers a range of pricing plans to meet the diverse needs of its customers, from free plans for small indies to enterprise-level plans for major publishers.

Pie

Seed Round in 2016
Create 360 videos and 360 GIFs in seconds, with or without a 360 camera, and share them instantly with friends and followers on Pie.

Kakutoku

Venture Round in 2016
Kakutoku provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.

Matcher Japan

Seed Round in 2016
Matcher is a job hunting information account for the matching service "Matcher", which allows you to "visit OBs and OGs easily for those who are worried about the companies you care about." We will deliver common sense in job hunting, know-how gained by knowing, useful contents, etc.

InstaVR

Series A in 2016
InstaVR is out-of-box integrated SaaS Virtual Reality(VR) marketing solution. InstaVR enables anyone to quickly and easily author publish-ready interactive VR apps for all mobile and desktop platforms, and analyse user behaviours by using InstaVR heat-map display.

Polyarc

Seed Round in 2016
Polyarc is a Seattle based creative studio building new and original worlds through the visual and interactive magic of virtual reality.

BitStar

Series A in 2016
BitStar is an entertech company that accelerates the growth of video and content creators via content creators platform with agent support.

Theta EdgeCloud

Seed Round in 2016
Theta EdgeCloud is the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment. The platform empowers AI teams with unrivaled GPU price-to-performance as the first hybrid cloud-edge computing architecture. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

InstaVR Japan

Venture Round in 2016
InstaVR is a global VR platform that promotes the use of Virtual Reality in business. It is used by 50,000 businesses around the world, including US government agencies.

Pinscreen

Seed Round in 2016
Pinscreen is an American technology company and VFX studio that develops the most advanced generative AI technologies for film production and interactive experiences with its headquarter in Los Angeles and branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The company offers end-to-end solutions for AI lip sync, face reenactment, face swaps, de-aging, and avatar digitization. Pinscreen works with some of the most prolific film makers and production studios, and its customers include Netflix, Amazon Studios, Miramax, Warner Bros, Apple, Google, Adobe, DARPA. Among its accolades, in 2019, Pinscreen developed the first real-time deepfake technology which was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and SIGGRAPH 2020. The company is also the first to demonstrate AI lip sync for a complete feature film, and the ability to process over thousands of 4K HDR movie shots within a year. Pinscreen is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and won the Epic MegaGrants in 2020. Pinscreen was founded in 2015 by Prof. Hao Li, MIT TR35 winner and Professor of Computer Vision at MBZUAI. He is known for his contributions in Apple’s Animoji technology, the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, and actively innovates in the space of neural rendering, deepfakes, and digital humans.

Owlchemy Labs

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2010 with the mission to build absurd and polished games, Owlchemy Labs has developed and published multiple original gaming titles spanning over 20 desktop and mobile platforms, including one of the first VR-enabled games on Steam. Their titles include Job Simulator (a Sundance Official Selection), the Adult Swim published Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-ality, and the award winning desktop and mobile games Dyscourse, Jack Lumber, Snuggle Truck, and the Dejobaan collaboration, Aaaaaculus! Owlchemy continues to share VR knowledge with the community as the founders of the 2000 member strong VR Austin group and as speakers on VR around the world. More information about Owlchemy Labs can be found at http://owlchemylabs.com

Vicarious, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Vicarious is an entertainment platform about people, their lives and sharing their stories in VR. By building upon the media assets on their mobile phone and mixing that with stickers, 3d animated emoji & characters, particle effects, environmental geometries, audio and 360 photos/videos, Vicarious enables the average social media user to create and share snippets of their life in a visually communicative medium. It a quick, fun and connected VR social media platform.

Limitless

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in Spring 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, WA, Limitless Ltd is the creator of the patent-pending Limitless Creative VR Environment platform, speeding the way for film and game makers to realize the true promise of real-life interactive characters in VR.

Symmetry Dimensions

Seed Round in 2016
Symmetry Dimensions Inc. aims to digitize real-world events and make them easy to use for everyone. We are progressing communications in smart city and urban planning with the development of a digital twin that enables a virtual reproduction of static and dynamic events happening in the real world along with the provision of a digital infrastructure that allows anyone to easily access such data.

Massless

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Massless has enabled NFT launches generating over $50M USD. We work with established and emerging talent from Hollywood and beyond to help them form new independent studios that break free from the traditional media & entertainment industry. The new creator economy will be built on the blockchain and Massless is a deep tech company making the creative platform for Decentralized Media. The Massless Team is a unique collection of Physicists, Engineers, Entrepreneurs & Creatives that develop high tech products for the business of media & entertainment. Join us to empower creatives to develop ground breaking content, receive the returns they deserve, while benefiting all consumers with diverse, unique, and new content.

Spaces

Seed Round in 2016
Spaces, officially formed in January 2016, says it’s already working on a range of VR and mixed-reality projects with companies including NBCUniversal, Microsoft, Big Blue Bubble and the Hettema Group. Platforms it’s developing for include Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR, PlayStation VR and Google Cardboard. “Spaces has a compelling and clear vision to be the catalyst for companies looking to create VR and MxR (mixed reality) experiences,” Comcast Ventures managing director Michael Yang said in a statement. “Spaces is combining remarkable capabilities, tools and creativity to push the boundaries of the VR frontier.”

Theta EdgeCloud

Seed Round in 2016
Theta EdgeCloud is the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment. The platform empowers AI teams with unrivaled GPU price-to-performance as the first hybrid cloud-edge computing architecture. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

YAMAP

Series A in 2016
YAMAP is an internet company that specializes in web and application development for mountain climbing and outdoor activity.

Fove

Series A in 2016
FOVE offers an eye tracking head mount display. Dive into virtual worlds that know where you are looking, what you are looking at and react to it. Think Iron Man meets Oculus. By tracking gaze position in real time it is possible to interact with and control objects on the screen in new ways.

Experiment 7

Seed Round in 2016
Experiment 7 is a game studio that is focused on the development of strategy games. They create VR strategy games that provide a "better than life" experience, allowing players to reunite with friends for a good old fashioned game night or meet new players online to form new friendships.

Kaizen Ad

Series B in 2016
Kaizen Platform Inc. is a marketing technology company that specializes in enhancing digital customer experiences through its various services, including UI/UX design, video production, and strategic marketing solutions. Founded in 2013 and operating from San Francisco and Tokyo, the company offers a range of tools for brands, agencies, and freelancers to collaborate on creating and testing marketing materials. Notably, Kaizen Ad serves as a video creative platform that delivers high-quality video advertisements efficiently, leveraging a global network of experienced designers. The platform facilitates multichannel marketing by integrating various tools and resources, allowing users to personalize content, automate conversions, and access analytics for performance improvement. Kaizen Platform caters to multiple sectors, including retail, finance, education, and healthcare, thereby supporting organizations in their digital transformation efforts.

Laxus Technologies

Corporate Round in 2016
Laxus Technologies is an online fashion-sharing platform that allows users to borrow designer handbags. They manage the application for unrestricted brand bag subscriptions. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. .

The Rogue Initiative

Seed Round in 2016
Where the greatest storytellers from film and video games are converging to create new AAA experiences for virtual reality and digital media. The Rogue Initiative is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company composed of award-winning entertainment industry professionals including alumni from Amblin Entertainment, Pixar, Dreamworks Animation, Disney and Activision Entertainment creating new AAA virtual reality, digital media experiences, film, and television content.

Hupro

Seed Round in 2015
Hupro is a platform for job services created to promote individual and societal improvement. The company's platform makes use of automatic matching and a unique algorithm that lessens the amount of labor required of job seekers, enables them to apply for their ideal employment quickly, and lessens the hardship of job changes.

Hupro Japan

Seed Round in 2015
Hupro are a tech company that uses technology to provide growth to individuals and society and produce people.Aiming to become a global company that represents Asia, as individuals and companies will always want to attract challengers from all over the world.

Traimmu

Angel Round in 2015
Traimmu is a operator of a recruitment platform intended to help people find the right opportunities.The company offers various services through its platform including recruitment information services, internship platform and a media platform for students, thereby providing direct introductions that connect students to short team internships.

Retinad

Angel Round in 2015
Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.

MAKEY

Seed Round in 2015
Makey is, make-up application for women.

Fuller

Venture Round in 2015
Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab. App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active users of the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more. App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market. Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.

Lancers

Venture Round in 2014
Lancers Inc. is a freelance job information company founded in 2008, with its headquarters in Kamakura, Japan. The company specializes in crowdsourcing services, connecting freelancers with various job opportunities. It has established a partnership with SAP Japan to create a platform that enables freelancers to access projects related to SAP-based work. Through this collaboration, Lancers aims to enhance the availability of freelance opportunities, facilitating a more efficient marketplace for both freelancers and businesses seeking specialized skills.

Fablic

Venture Round in 2014
Fablic is the maker of women-focused flea-market app Fril allowing females to verify their identity on the app through Facebook. Once verified, female users can upload photos and buy and sell clothing items with fixed prices using the application. Fablic was launched in 2012.
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