Draper Nexus Ventures

Draper Nexus is an early stage venture capital fund investing in B2B Startups. Main focus is Enterprise Tech and Hardware/Industrials. We bring a collaborative approach to work with entrepreneurs who are harnessing technology and data to transform and unlock value in established industries. We leverage our Corporate LP/industry relationships in Japan and the global reach of the Draper Venture Network to create a customer development advantage for our portfolio companies.
YC

Yusuke Chonan

Principal

Deepak Jagannathan

Senior Associate

Mitch Kitamura

MD

Akira Kurabayashi

MD

Hiro Rio Maeda

MD

Quaeed Q. Motiwala

MD

TN

Tetsujiro Nakagaki

MD

Tetsu Nakagaki

MD

Yoshimi Nomura

Director of Partnerships

217 past transactions

Vitriflex

Series B in 2012
Vitriflex, Inc. develops and manufactures transparent ultra-barrier films. Its products are used for various applications, such as moisture and oxygen protection, OLED displays, solar PVs, OLED lighting, flexible electronics, and quantum dot enhanced LCDs. Vitriflex, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. On November 8, 2019, Vitriflex, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

Tribute

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Finding a mentor in today’s fast-paced work environment can be tough. Tribute aims to redefine mentorship. Delivering an easy to use app for the enterprise that connects your workforce on-demand through shared life experiences and stories. Promoting a more authentic way to discover and connect with mentors, while using technology to simplify the process of delivering corporate mentoring programs. Tribute provides employers access to the insights they need to demonstrate results, while providing an innovative mentorship experience to serve today’s diverse workforce.

mazrica inc.

Venture Round in 2019
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

Venture Round in 2015
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.

Team Spirit

Venture Round in 2017
TeamSpirit specializes in building and providing companies with our cloud-based teamSpirit Workforce Success Platform.Today, no company can communicate its value without providing services that adapt to the various and diverse needs of end users. More and more, companies are required to make a shift from a labor-intensive paradigm to a broader, knowledge-intensive, service-based orientation. Employees, too, are faced with the necessity of changing the way they think about their work. Gone are the days of routine work; now, employees must think creatively, and demonstrate their unique professional capabilities. With the capital and business alliance forged with U.S.-based salesforce.com, Inc., TeamSpirit has completed a transformation from outsourcer to cloud service provider as they set out on their second start-up endeavor. Their experience making such a profound change taught us that the most effective way to inspire their employees to put forth 100% of their professional strengths is to establish a cycle of 1) visualizing daily activities, 2) receiving feedback from those around us, and 3) reflecting on their own activities and relating them to tomorrow.

Haven, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Haven, Inc. operates a cloud-based logistics platform for trading companies. The company’s trade management software enables to take control of logistics, including automated procurement, documentation, tracking, and payments. Its platform automates freight and logistics for commodity traders, food producers, and consumer goods companies. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in Switzerland.

Flect

Series B in 2018
Pursue to be able to provide happiness to everyone involved in FLECT by utilizing the Internet infrastructure technology that pursues everyone's life satisfaction through the Internet . That is the significance of the existence of FLECT. They offer cooperation services with clouds such as WEB application construction service linked with Salesforce, Heroku, Amazon Web Services from Salesforce CRM / Force.com introduction and customization support.

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.

Refcome

Seed Round in 2016
Refcome is a service to simplify the operation and effect measurement from policy design to revitalize referral adoption.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Query.AI

Seed Round in 2021
Query.AI, Inc. develops a cloud-based virtual analyst application to streamline information technology and security data management. It offers a decentralized data access and analysis technology that simplifies security investigations across disparate platforms without data duplication. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Brookings, South Dakota.

Team Spirit

Venture Round in 2017
TeamSpirit specializes in building and providing companies with our cloud-based teamSpirit Workforce Success Platform.Today, no company can communicate its value without providing services that adapt to the various and diverse needs of end users. More and more, companies are required to make a shift from a labor-intensive paradigm to a broader, knowledge-intensive, service-based orientation. Employees, too, are faced with the necessity of changing the way they think about their work. Gone are the days of routine work; now, employees must think creatively, and demonstrate their unique professional capabilities. With the capital and business alliance forged with U.S.-based salesforce.com, Inc., TeamSpirit has completed a transformation from outsourcer to cloud service provider as they set out on their second start-up endeavor. Their experience making such a profound change taught us that the most effective way to inspire their employees to put forth 100% of their professional strengths is to establish a cycle of 1) visualizing daily activities, 2) receiving feedback from those around us, and 3) reflecting on their own activities and relating them to tomorrow.

JASK, Inc.

Series A in 2017
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

Peatix Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Peatix Inc. develops and builds a global event registration platform that provides event organizers with tools to create, promote, manage and sell out events of all sizes. It offers tools that enable event organizers of various shapes and sizes to manage and organize events; and attendees to purchase tickets for an event. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

UsideU

Seed Round in 2018
UsideU, Inc. designs and develops artificial intelligence enabled digital dispatch service by using reinforcement learning technologies to help solve the service worker shortage. The platform offers solution for remote communication and multi-modal automated communication. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

MomentFeed, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2020
MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of the local-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue.

Tribyl, Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Tribyl, Inc offers artificial intelligence based sales coach and customer intelligence software. It provides Smart Playbooks, a solution that extracts tribal knowledge from calls, emails, documents, and notes; Guided Customer Journeys, enforce playbooks in real time; and flexible and modular platform. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Zmanda

Series B in 2007
Zmanda, Inc. develops open source backup and disaster recovery software solutions for government and educational institutions worldwide. It offers Amanda, an open source software solution for backup and recovery of networked computers; Amanda Enterprise, a centralized backup of heterogeneous systems and applications; and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. Its product suite backs up Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases, as well as solutions run on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and Solaris. The company offers network backup and recovery training services and support. Zmanda, Inc. also sells its products through its online store. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado. As of May 7, 2018, Zmanda, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Betsol, Inc.

Diligent Robotics

Series B in 2022
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

MomentFeed, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of the local-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue.

Kakehashi

Series B in 2019
KAKEHASHI is the opportunity of Their foundation to want to become "Kakehashi connecting medical treatment and patients" "Kakehashi connecting medical care with a bright future". Japan is a country possessing world-class medical technology and medical system, it is a country with prominent longevity to be proud of in the world. In 2060, one in 2.5 people will enter an unprecedented super aging society of 65 years old and over, one in four will be over 75 years old. To think about the way of medical care that supports the healthy life expectancy in Japan is nothing but creation of the future image of Japanese society.

Cylance

Series C in 2015
Cylance is the first company to apply artificial intelligence, algorithmic science, and machine learning to cybersecurity and improve the way companies, governments, and end-users proactively solve the world’s most difficult security problems. Using a breakthrough mathematical process, Cylance quickly and accurately identifies what is safe and what is a threat, not just what is in a blacklist or whitelist. By coupling sophisticated math and machine learning with a unique understanding of a hacker’s mentality, Cylance provides the technology and services to be truly predictive and preventive against advanced threats.

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.

GCT Semiconductor

Series F in 2011
GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS RF transceivers and CMOS single-chip Satellite-DMB digital receivers and other SOC solutions serving 3G and 4G mobile handset manufacturers while reducing component cost, lowering power consumption and offering a smaller footprint.

Uplift

Series B in 2017
Uplift is an enterprise Buy Now, Pay Later solution serving over 100 of the world's top travel brands. Through personalized, flexible payment options, Uplift helps consumers take control of their budget and experience a world of travel. With a complete range of payment options, Uplift unlocks higher conversions and lifetime customer value for merchant partners. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sight Machine

Series B in 2016
Sight Machine specializes in manufacturing analytics and used by Global 500 companies to make better, faster decisions about their operations. Sight Machine's analytics platform, purpose-built for discrete and process manufacturing, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise. The platform is powered by the industry’s only Plant Digital Twin, which enables real-time visibility and actionable insights for every machine, line, and plant throughout an enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sight Machine

Series B in 2016
Sight Machine specializes in manufacturing analytics and used by Global 500 companies to make better, faster decisions about their operations. Sight Machine's analytics platform, purpose-built for discrete and process manufacturing, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise. The platform is powered by the industry’s only Plant Digital Twin, which enables real-time visibility and actionable insights for every machine, line, and plant throughout an enterprise. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

OCT

Venture Round in 2019
OCT helps users to communicate and manage construction sites more easily via it's platform ANDPAD.

Refcome

Series A in 2017
Refcome is a service to simplify the operation and effect measurement from policy design to revitalize referral adoption.

Four Fusion, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Four Fusion, Inc. provides web communication services to customers. It provides services, which includes sales and implementation services of Zendesk application; online customer service consulting and marketing; and chat center construction and operations. The company was founded in 2000 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.

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.

Fyde

Seed Round in 2019
Fyde helps companies with an increasingly distributed workforce to mitigate breach risk by enabling secure access to critical enterprise resources for their employees, partners, contractors, and outsourcers. Fyde’s flagship enterprise product provides granular access controls for your enterprise apps and workloads, continuously monitors access requests, improves the security posture of endpoints and protects user identities against phishing and account takeover attacks.

Mitiga

Series A in 2021
Mitiga, Ltd designs, develops, and offers hybrid managed security services for hybrid cloud environments. The company's solution includes managed services for email, endpoints, network, cloud attacks, database info, and website. The company's services includes incident response, breach readiness, and emergency assitance. The company is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Flow Solutions

Seed Round in 2019
Flow leverages IoT and existing retail data sources to standardize data communication across large retail chains while using AI to enable data-centric decision making through all levels of the organization.

Airhouse

Series A in 2022
Airhouse, Inc. develops and offers Airhouse, an application for logistics and ecommerce operations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Hubble

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

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.

vArmour Networks, Inc.

Series B in 2013
vArmour is a leader in data defined perimeter security. Where the world of mobile, virtualization and cloud has moved beyond the traditional perimeter, threats are more sophisticated and CIO’s require greater visibility and control of their data. Based in Mountain View, California, vArmour is founded by security and technology experts from Juniper, Netscreen, RSA and Silvertail. Find out more at www.varmour.com

Macrometa

Series A in 2021
Macrometa is an information technology company. It delivers a global, stateful, real-time serverless database, event processing, and compute runtimes across 175 worldwide edge data centers. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

POL

Seed Round in 2017
POL is creating a platform that maximizes the possibilities of researchers. It is a laboratory that is a place where innovative science and technology are created that greatly advances society. Its first project "LabBase" would like to create a society that can solve problems in job hunting for science-based human resources, issues of companies wanting to adopt them, issues faced by laboratories, and so that science-based human resources can be used more effectively.

from scratch Co.Ltd.

Series A in 2015
The company is very important to data in its IT business. As of 2018, “b → dash” accumulates huge amounts of data such as distributed data such as 32 million unique customer IDs and 92 billion yen., and it is a service that utilizes the data. In August 2019, a contract was concluded with KKR, a major U.S. investment company, Goldman Sachs, a major U.S. investment bank, and a third party allocation with existing shareholders.

Petalfox, Inc.

Funding Round in 2020
Petalfox, Inc. operates as a text-commerce flower delivery company. It enables users to buy flower bouquets by ordering via text messages. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Task Human

Seed Round in 2020
You go to a network of doctors for medical problems, but where do you go for wellness and self-care? Your wellness needs are just as unique as YOU are. Whether you are just a curious person and want to learn something new (Ex: Try Pilates for the first time) or want to master your craft (Train for a marathon at a high level), why waste time reading cookie-cutter articles and watching generic videos when you can talk live to a human expert in that area? Well, because even mighty Google hasn't made it that easy to find and engage instantly with live human pros!!. Introducing TaskHuman - With TaskHuman, you just search a topic (ex yoga, or HIIT or Clean Eating) and get connected instantly to live professionals over video call. You'll stay accountable, motivated and focused on your wellness goals all while saving time, commuting miles and cash. - On TaskHuman, every session is with a live human coach and 1-on-1 over video call, leading to a richer and more personalized experience, as opposed to other platforms that only offer generic content, pre-recorded videos and text-only communication.Or if you are shy or video call is simply not your thing, choose audio call or text instead. - Try a 1:1 yoga session with a yoga master or get personalized clean eating advice from top holistic health coaches. From just your phone or tablet!! - We've build in state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) to instantly match you with our providers that are online and available NOW. - We also have the most diverse network of hundreds of coaches covering a thousand topics across the wellness spectrum—including physical fitness, mental wellbeing, relationship coaching, life coaching, and so much more. - With a revolutionary pricing model, all coaches are covered under one simple pricing model for you. Just buy coaching minutes you need and use the minutes on ANY provider in our platform. Its that easy! - Enterprise deployments with unlimited coaching minutes available as well!

UNCOVER TRUTH

Series B in 2018
UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.

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.

Studist Corporation

Seed Round in 2021
Studist develops and provides a manual creation and sharing platform "Teachme Biz". Teachme Biz is a platform that allows instant delivery and browsing management. It produces a standard work procedure manual based on images and videos. The company is a startup with the vision of eliminating a loss of information transmission in a company and realizing a “society where all of the intellectual vitality can be seen”.

Peatix Inc.

Series A in 2013
Peatix Inc. develops and builds a global event registration platform that provides event organizers with tools to create, promote, manage and sell out events of all sizes. It offers tools that enable event organizers of various shapes and sizes to manage and organize events; and attendees to purchase tickets for an event. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FOLIO

Series A in 2017
FOLIO Co.,Ltd. develops web based asset management platform. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Roq.ad GmbH

Series A in 2022
“Identity as a service with German precision and global reach”. Roq.ad’s technology creates an accurate and up to date “map” of (almost) all digital devices used in a specific country. Linking all these devices correctly to individuals and households creates a rich “Identity Graph” powering the open Internet. Roq.ad originally had two product lines. In 2018, we split the company into two separate entities and sold the larger, lower margin, part of our business to our largest customer. Since then we focused on the enterprise SaaS part of our business, delivering identity resolution products to our customers. We started the enterprise SaaS business in 2017 Germany, expanded to Europe in 2018 and launched in the US in 2020. Our teams are located in Berlin, Germany / Poznan, Poland / Vilnius, Lithuania and San Mateo / US.

NeuraLegion Ltd.

Series A in 2022
NeuraLegion Ltd. designs and develops security software for applications. It offers NexDAST for dynamic application security testing, and NexPLOIT to integrate application security into the software development life cycle (SDLC). The company provides security consulting and mobile application security testing services. It serves financial services, healthcare, and government industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. It has additional offices in London, United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; and Mostar, Bosnia.

Commmune

Series A in 2021
Commmune is a co-creation marketing tool that enables the acquisition and use of user insights around the user community. The company's service "commmune" provides a community environment to improve user engagement for companies that provide services using SaaS and subscription models with the goal of reducing churn rates. By using the service, companies can centrally communicate their information and interact with users. In addition, companies that issue member accounts can also implement single sign-on (SSO) by linking the service with their member database. Set incentives according to conditions, such as giving a certain point when a core user posts useful information to other users, or giving a certain point when a light user shares information It is possible to create an environment in which PDCA can be rotated at a high speed by activating communication between companies and users and analyzing them alone or in conjunction with MA tools and CRM tools.

Magic Moment

Series A in 2021
Magic Moment Inc. provides consulting services centered on Revenue Ops, and insight board and knowledge solutions for sales solutions. The company provides consulting services ranging from customer acquisition to customer success, and unify business processes with data and technology. It also provides insight board data processing and integration services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Quark.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Customers want rapid fixes, but Customer Support remains broken for most enterprises who face huge support costs, low agent productivity and undetected duplicate issues. Quark is an Autonomous Support platform that interprets customer support issues to recommend resolutions automatically, skyrocketing agent productivity and enhancing customer experience. No need to figure out what to search for, search and then read lengthy documents. Quark does everything for you. The Quark platform (SaaS) that uses Deep Learning, classical NLP and Computer Vision to provide high accuracy at the lowest cost of ownership. For a quick demo of Quark -- https://youtu.be/mSoBaXbmXN0 .

SOC Prime

Series A in 2021
SOC Prime is the Platform to Advance Your Cyber Security Analytics. Our team has created the first and the largest in the world cross-platform cyber security content marketplace used by 6000+ security specialists from 3090+ organizations in 139+ countries. And to fuel the innovation further we drive forward the invention of the one common language for cyber security. And while we are profitable, we do contribute to the open-source community of the security industry.

FOLIO

Venture Round in 2018
FOLIO Co.,Ltd. develops web based asset management platform. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Alp, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Alp, Inc. engages in the development of technology solutions to solve the problems related to company monetization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Team Spirit

Venture Round in 2015
TeamSpirit specializes in building and providing companies with our cloud-based teamSpirit Workforce Success Platform.Today, no company can communicate its value without providing services that adapt to the various and diverse needs of end users. More and more, companies are required to make a shift from a labor-intensive paradigm to a broader, knowledge-intensive, service-based orientation. Employees, too, are faced with the necessity of changing the way they think about their work. Gone are the days of routine work; now, employees must think creatively, and demonstrate their unique professional capabilities. With the capital and business alliance forged with U.S.-based salesforce.com, Inc., TeamSpirit has completed a transformation from outsourcer to cloud service provider as they set out on their second start-up endeavor. Their experience making such a profound change taught us that the most effective way to inspire their employees to put forth 100% of their professional strengths is to establish a cycle of 1) visualizing daily activities, 2) receiving feedback from those around us, and 3) reflecting on their own activities and relating them to tomorrow.

Concept.io

Series A in 2013
Concept.io is the creator of Swell Radio, a delightful mobile app that streams personalized audio news and information. Swell helps users discover new content and expand their minds on the go. Concept.io strives to connect people with ideas and knowledge efficiently so we can all be more productive with our time. Concept.io is a technology startup funded by top-tier venture firms. The founding team consists of experienced entrepreneurs with a successful track record.

Rehasaku Co., Ltd.

Series A in 2019
Rehasaku is a service that uses technology to support both medical professionals, such as physiotherapists and judo rehabilitation practitioners, and patients.

CAST AI Group, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
CAST AI Group, Inc. develops a multi-cloud management platform. It offers CAST AI, a platform that enables users to shrink and expand compute capacity as demand fluctuates across various clouds; and automatically deploy applications across two/more different cloud providers ensuring uptime in all cases. The company’s platform also provides balance between cost, computing power, and latency across various cloud providers; and automatically locates compute resources across various cloud providers to meet CAST AI Group, Inc. was formerly known as CAST AI Temp, Inc. and changed its name to CAST AI Group, Inc. in October 2019. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
Banzai is a cloud Software-as-a-Service company that provides, discovers, and markets professional events for enterprise marketers. It has an event marketing platform that automates and simplifies event outreach while driving more registrations and more engaged attendees. The company's mission is to connect business professionals to events and ideas to help get qualified registrants and attendees to in-person events. Banzai was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

BeaTrust

Seed Round in 2020
BeaTrust Inc. develops a collaboration application for the employees that provides information about colleagues. Its platform allows the employees to search for employees' skills, experience, work content, and hobbies. It allows the users to find out the coworkers' skills and learn about their skills. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mitiga

Series A in 2021
Mitiga, Ltd designs, develops, and offers hybrid managed security services for hybrid cloud environments. The company's solution includes managed services for email, endpoints, network, cloud attacks, database info, and website. The company's services includes incident response, breach readiness, and emergency assitance. The company is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

SafeGraph Inc.

Series B in 2021
SafeGraph Inc. collects, stores, and processes information on servers for machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

SafeGraph Inc.

Series B in 2021
SafeGraph Inc. collects, stores, and processes information on servers for machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LENDY Japan

Seed Round in 2017
Lendy is an Operation of online lending service

QBotix

Series A in 2012
A solar panel that tracks the sun throughout the day produces up to 30% more electricity than one that does not. Solar project developers install single-axis tracking for most utility-scale sites, balancing upfront costs versus electricity revenues to maximize rates of return. QBotix disrupts today's cost curve of fixed-tilt, single-axis tracking, and dual-axis tracking with an innovative tracking solution that offers dual-axis tracking at single-axis price. This reduces the levelized cost of energy by 10-20% while providing the added benefit of higher reliability and system intelligence.

Connected Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Koganei-shi, Japan.

Upsider

Series B in 2021
We enable people to trust upsiders by organizing the world's B2B transactions.

Magic Moment

Seed Round in 2019
Magic Moment Inc. provides consulting services centered on Revenue Ops, and insight board and knowledge solutions for sales solutions. The company provides consulting services ranging from customer acquisition to customer success, and unify business processes with data and technology. It also provides insight board data processing and integration services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Fieldguide

Seed Round in 2020
Fieldguide, Inc. provides automation and collaboration platform for audit programs. It offers workflow software for accounting and advisory firms, which include secure data requests, work plan manager, reporting automation, work papers and documents, audit programs, and resource planning. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Studist Corporation

Venture Round in 2019
Studist develops and provides a manual creation and sharing platform "Teachme Biz". Teachme Biz is a platform that allows instant delivery and browsing management. It produces a standard work procedure manual based on images and videos. The company is a startup with the vision of eliminating a loss of information transmission in a company and realizing a “society where all of the intellectual vitality can be seen”.

TableCheck Inc

Venture Round in 2019
TableCheck empowers restaurant operators worldwide to maximize guest engagement, reservations, and table utilization. We analyze and evaluate data from restaurants and use this information to create a more vibrant dining experience for their customers. Our team of creative minds is continuously seeking to drive innovative solutions to support our restaurant partners. TableCheck’s restaurant management tools give restaurants the power and flexibility to provide seamless customer experiences for every guest from the moment they make reservations. "

MedUp, Inc.

Series A in 2021
MedUp, Inc. designs and develops a platform which connects patients and doctors. The platform offers booking of appointment and provides health information through the integration of physicians and trusted health facilities. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Resilire

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

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.

vArmour Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2014
vArmour is a leader in data defined perimeter security. Where the world of mobile, virtualization and cloud has moved beyond the traditional perimeter, threats are more sophisticated and CIO’s require greater visibility and control of their data. Based in Mountain View, California, vArmour is founded by security and technology experts from Juniper, Netscreen, RSA and Silvertail. Find out more at www.varmour.com

Credit Engine

Seed Round in 2016
Spinned out from LENDY, the balance-sheet online lending service for SMBs, Credit Engine is the only player that provides online lending platform for financial institutions in Japan. The company is founded in Nov 2018. Its online lending platform enables financial institutions to launch their lending service of their own brand with sophisticated user interface and streamlined operation processes. The platform is selected by Japanese top-tier banks including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group.

Kakehashi

Seed Round in 2016
KAKEHASHI is the opportunity of Their foundation to want to become "Kakehashi connecting medical treatment and patients" "Kakehashi connecting medical care with a bright future". Japan is a country possessing world-class medical technology and medical system, it is a country with prominent longevity to be proud of in the world. In 2060, one in 2.5 people will enter an unprecedented super aging society of 65 years old and over, one in four will be over 75 years old. To think about the way of medical care that supports the healthy life expectancy in Japan is nothing but creation of the future image of Japanese society.

O: Co.,Ltd.

Venture Round in 2017
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.

Mobingi

Series B in 2018
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.

Vitriflex

Series A in 2011
Vitriflex, Inc. develops and manufactures transparent ultra-barrier films. Its products are used for various applications, such as moisture and oxygen protection, OLED displays, solar PVs, OLED lighting, flexible electronics, and quantum dot enhanced LCDs. Vitriflex, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. On November 8, 2019, Vitriflex, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

SImount

Seed Round in 2017
SImount is a database management system platform that connects all data such as Excel, CSV, PDF. Moreover, It can utilize all the data related to business, leading to higher business efficiency and higher sales.

toBe Marketing Co., Ltd.

Venture Round in 2019
ToBe Marketing is an information technology company that provides services to combine marketing automation and CRM. It offers consulting services, IT, and marketing consultation. The company is driven by a mission is to realize the engagement of companies and their customers by creating marketing and sales activities using IT or digital technology. ToBe Marketing was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

Pocket Change Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Pocket Change Inc. converts leftover coins and bills to electronic money, gift codes, and coupons. It provides its services through kiosks at airports and train stations. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Overflow, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Overflow, Inc. develops a platform that offers job matching service for engineers and designers. The platform also provides information service about credit card, insurance, investment, loan, saving of household, hometown tax payment, and various taxes. Additionally, the company also provides media, web consulting, and content production consulting services. The company was founded in 2017 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.

SHIFT, Inc.

Series A in 2013
SHIFT is an online platform that offers social advertising services to its clients. It was founded in 2010 by James Borow and Clark Landry and is based in California. It was acquired by Brand Networks in 2015.

TrendExpress

Series A in 2017
TrendExpress Inc. provides social data and social media analytics. The company was formerly known as Hotto Link Consulting Inc. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company operates as a subsidiary of Hottolink, Inc.

Andpad

Series B in 2019
Andpad provides a construction management application for users throughout Japan. It began operation on September 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.