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Global Brain

Global Brain Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based private equity firm established in 1998 that specializes in early-stage venture capital investments, particularly targeting series A-stage technology companies across Europe, North America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. Since its inception, Global Brain has invested in approximately 30 companies, achieving seven initial public offerings and seven mergers and acquisitions. The firm not only provides capital but also offers strategic support to portfolio companies, aiding in partnership development and team building to help them reach their goals. Global Brain has a strong focus on e-commerce, operating a platform called EC-PLANET, which includes various companies in the DRTV/infomercial sector, sports goods e-commerce, logistics, and social media. This platform, along with its extensive network, facilitates market entry for U.S. and Asian companies into Japan. Recently, Global Brain has continued its investment activities by engaging with companies like zozi, aiming to identify and collaborate with exceptional venture firms and management teams across the Pacific.

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Harue Hayashi

Partner & Vice Chief Fund Management Officer

Tomoaki Ishikure

Partner

Hiroyoshi Iwata

Director

Hiroyuki Izumi

Partner

Daisuke Kashiro

Partner

Hiroyuki Kawamoto

Principal

Kenta Kitsuka Ph.D

Partner, Investment Group

Ai Minamizaki

Principal

Tasuke Nakagawa

Partner

Ayu Shinoyama

Partner & Chief Financial Officer

Hiroto Sorita

Principal

Keisuke Tatsuoka

General Partner

Hirotaka Togashi

Director, Investment Group

Noriko Usui

Partner & Chief Fund Management Officer

Isao Yasuda

General Partner

Yasuhiko Yurimoto

CEO

731 past transactions

Moi

Private Placement in 2019
Moi is a company split from Side Feed in February 2012. After releasing various services at Side Feed, Mr. Akamatsu developed TwitCasting. The company's Vision aims to connect people from all over the world directly by imagining a comfortable communication space = a healthy community. The company's main business is TwitCasting, which is a mobile live streaming service.

DAIZ

Venture Round in 2021
DAIZ Inc. engages in the production and supply of plant-based meat. It offers food soybean-derived functional substances. The company was founded in 2015 and is based Kumamoto, Japan.

Photosynth

Series D in 2020
Photosynth Inc. develops smart locks for homes. The company was founded on September 1, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Channel Talk

Series B in 2017
Channel Corporation Co., Ltd. develops and operates a platform, which offers live chat, marketing, and team chat services. It provides live chat, marketing, and team chat services. Channel Corporation Co., Ltd. is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Hunglead

Venture Round in 2011
Hunglead helps online stores to make tasks which become complicated when operating multiple stores (e.g. inventory, products and ordering management) more efficient. They do this by offering a cloud system called the [Robot Series].

Realglobe

Venture Round in 2011
realglobe, Inc. develops Platform-as-a-Service solutions. The company also provides Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service solutions that add functions to automate various operations, such as building source, system test, backup, and delivery to the PaaS. Its businesses include education related solutions; emergency medical and disaster response solutions, which include drone and other unmanned aerial vehicles and solutions; and DevOps solutions to automate various tasks in software development work. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DataX

Series B 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.

Tricol

Venture Round in 2017
Tricol Co., Ltd. develops virtual reality content. The company's products include PLANNES, a game of zero-gravity tennis; Counter Fight, a fast-paced virtual reality game where the user cooks and serves a variety of dishes to eccentric hungry customers; and Free Throw Bomber, a ball-throwing game. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Securitize

Series B in 2021
Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-based marketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.

Social Recruiting Inc.

Series A in 2014
Social Recruiting intends to offer social recruiting service. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Japan.

Schoo

Venture Round in 2019
Schoo Inc. offers schoo web campus, an online video learning service. It provides free live lessons based on concept of what people should learn now; and radio type lesson, which provides a learning experience by sound. The company also measures to use learning videos on schoo as teaching materials for university education and free information to newspaper owners and freelancers. Schoo Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Railsr

Private Placement in 2020
Railsbank Technology Ltd develops an API banking and compliance technology platform that connects together a global network of partner banks with companies. The platform provides companies with access to wholesale banking services in five lines of code. It enables users to create bank accounts, streamline technical integration with banks, and connect to payment schemes to receive and send money to/from these accounts. Railsbank Technology Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices located in Singapore, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

Toggle

Series A in 2023
How will we build the next generation of cities and infrastructure when key construction methods have remained unchanged for a generation? As the built environment grows larger and more complex Toggle is introducing industrial robotics and automation to critical construction methods and materials. Starting with rebar for reinforced concrete Toggle is reinventing the way we build our world.

Idein

Private Placement in 2019
Idein Inc. develops platform as a service for vendors users to create own internet of thing system with advance artificial intelligence analysis. Its platform offers dashboard, SDK, and marketplace. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

Seismic

Series A in 2017
Seismic Holdings, Inc. engages in production and development of apparel with built-in flexible electric motors that help the wearer with everyday tasks. It was formerly known as Superflex, Inc. and changed its name to Seismic Holdings, Inc. in August 2016. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Seismic Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SRI International, Inc.

Sonas

Series A in 2018
In Sonas, "UNISONet" is being developed from the viewpoint that "In order to truly become a cornerstone of society, IoT needs to realize high quality wireless sensing." By adopting the latest technology which is totally different from the currently popular mesh network technology called simultaneous transmission flooding, power saving, multihop, time synchronization, lossless data collection, high speed acquisition, low delay Bidirectional communication, etc., "all at the same time" are realized.

Synamon

Private Placement in 2019
Synamon Inc. engages in content planning, development, and management of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) related products. The company develops NEUTRANS, a VR space construction solution. Its services include VR/AR development, VR/AR consulting, and 3D models for VR/AR content creation. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Shinagawa, Japan.

Sumutasu

Series B in 2022
Sumutasu, Inc. develops and sells residential properties in Japan. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Synamon

Series B in 2020
Synamon Inc. engages in content planning, development, and management of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) related products. The company develops NEUTRANS, a VR space construction solution. Its services include VR/AR development, VR/AR consulting, and 3D models for VR/AR content creation. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Shinagawa, Japan.

Reiwa Travel

Seed Round in 2021
Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.

Fast Beauty

Series A in 2023
Fast Beauty is a manufacturing company that manufactures beauty products such as hair products, cosmetics, and hair colour.

Mosh

Series B in 2022
MOSH, Inc. engages in planning, development and management of internet business. The company develops and provides platform that allows to sell services online. MOSH, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Meguro, Japan.

Knowledge Merchants Works

Series C in 2022
Knowledge Merchants Works Inc. provides human resources (HR) consulting and solutions to the store service industry in Japan. It offers management training programs for managerial, leadership, and organizational change based on organization theory; and diagnoses employee's day-to-day feelings and store/workplace evaluation, and provides solutions for revitalizing stores and workplaces. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ViSenze

Private Placement in 2019
ViSenze Pte. Ltd., an artificial intelligence company, develops visual technology software for e-commerce and digital businesses. The company offers ViSearch, a cloud-based visual tool that identifies various images ranging from simple images to user-uploaded images, and performs targeted search of related images or products. It also provides software development kits (SDKs) and dashboard user interface for grouping and sorting the search results. It offers its solutions on Web, mobile, and social media platforms. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in San Francisco, London, New Delhi, Beijing, and Singapore.

Kloudless

Angel Round in 2013
Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs without compromising functionality, creating a simple, unified interface for developers to build native integrations into their applications. Code once to our Unified APIs, and reuse that code for any service in that category. We support 100+ integrations across software categories like Cloud Storage, CRM, Calendar, Email, Chat, Accounting, ERP, Messaging, ITSM, and more. Our platform technology can quickly ingest new APIs and add support for new integrations, which makes Kloudless a great long-term partner for satisfying future product requirements and customer requests.

Qlue

Series B in 2021
QLUE is a part of initial program for Smart City Jakarta to help report problems to the governor. The head of districts (lurah) will quick-follow up all reports to create a better neighborhood. Download Qlue for Android & start contributing to your community

Base Food

Seed Round in 2017
BASE FOOD Inc. manufactures food products, such as pasta and spaghetti. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Seismic

Series A in 2017
Seismic Holdings, Inc. engages in production and development of apparel with built-in flexible electric motors that help the wearer with everyday tasks. It was formerly known as Superflex, Inc. and changed its name to Seismic Holdings, Inc. in August 2016. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Seismic Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SRI International, Inc.

SCADAfence

Series B in 2021
SCADAfence Ltd. develops cyber security solutions to protect the industrial Internet of Things in manufacturing industries and critical infrastructure. It serves industrial facilities, such as power, oil and gas, water, chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Ginco

Seed Round in 2018
Ginco's goal is to Change the relationship between individuals and assets by making full use of block chain technology. The primary focus of Ginco, its cryptocurrency wallet app, is centered around dApp and the On-Chain function, and the company plans to expand its business in a multifaceted manner while watching trends in the ecosystem development. In the future, they were told that they have the possibility of developing with DEXs (decentralized exchanges).

exiii

Seed Round in 2018
exiii Inc. develops functional prosthetic hands. The company was founded on October 29, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Upsider

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

BitStar

Series B in 2017
BitStar is an influencer platform for individuals, including YouTuber, to demonstrate their creativity and work in sustainable under the vision of "individuals shine like stars and create places where they can express their likeness"

FidoCure

Venture Round in 2022
The One Health Company is a social impact company that brings precision medicine, used in humans, to dogs with cancer. It started by offering dogs with cancer access to cutting edge human clinical trials at no cost. Then, they created FidoCure directly for veterinarians and pet parents to offer treatment options to more dogs across the country. The company built partnerships with the world's top cancer researchers and a network of 111 of the best veterinary hospitals.

Idecca

Seed Round in 2015
Idecca Inc. develops indoor positioning solutions for iOS and Android platforms. Its indoor positioning solutions allow users to find their exact indoor location and customers' actual moving patterns. The company also develops an automatic multimedia guide application, which enables museum visitors to use their own smartphones as a guide without any additional equipment. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Flamingo

Venture Round in 2017
Flamingo Inc. develops an application through which one can take lessons for 2,000 yen per hour by calling native speaker to a cafe. The company is based in Kusatsu City, Japan.

Chefaa

Venture Round in 2022
Chefaa develops a smart medicine system application. It allows users to order medicine from pharmacies online and set reminders for their medications. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Swift Navigation

Series B in 2021
Swift Navigation, Inc. develops hardware and software in the area of global positioning system (GPS). It offers Piksi Multi GNSS Module, a multi-band, multi-constellation RTK GNSS receiver that provides centimeter-level accuracy; Duro Ruggedized Receiver, a ruggedized version of the Piksi Multi RTK GNSS receiver for agricultural, robotics, maritime, and outdoor industrial applications; Skylark cloud corrections service; Starling, a GNSS positioning engine designed for automotive and autonomous vehicle applications; and accessories, such as GNSS modules, radios, antennas, and cables. It offers its products online. Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Melbourne, Australia.

justInCase

Series A in 2019
justInCase, Inc. provides smartphone repair cost, accident, and credit card insurance services. The company also offers a mobile application which enables users to buy insurance coverage from insurance providers, for repair cost insurance; upload photos and details of a smart-phone or wearable device; and use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the premium. Additionally, it allows users to pool to pay insurance premiums. justInCase, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

EneCoat Technologies

Series B in 2022
EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.

Smart Bank

Seed Round in 2021
Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

VCNC

Series C in 2014
VCNC Inc., doing business as Value Creators & Company, provides mobile applications for social relationships. It offers Between, a mobile application for couples in love that enables users to chat, track anniversaries, share photos and video, and plan programs together in one private space. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with additional locations in Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Bangkok, Thailand; and Singapore.

Moxo

Series A in 2013
Moxtra is a platform that powers private digital channels with continuous collaboration experiences. It helps users to retain and grow customers, manage their distributed organization, and lower costs for doing business. Its Customer Collaboration Platform can power the customer portal as a fluid extension of an existing website, web or mobile app, or as a standalone web and mobile app. Founded in 2012, the company is based in Cupertino, California.

Humanising Autonomy

Series A in 2021
We are a predictive AI company creating a global standard that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment.

Psychic VR Lab

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Plum Fintech

Venture Round in 2020
Plum Fintech is a developer of personal savings assistant solutions for customers. It offers Plum that monitors the daily spending and automatically sets money aside that the user won't need; analyzes the account to learn about the income, expenses, and spending patterns, monitors the current account and every few days transfers some money from it to the user’s Plum savings, and notifies the users about their balance. Alex Michael and Victor Trokoudes founded Plum Fintech on February 1, 2016. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Ac-Planta

Venture Round in 2022
Ac-Planta Inc. researches, manufactures, and sells acetic acid-based biostimulants and agrochemicals that protect plants from heat, drying, and salt damage. The company's product includes Skeepon for turf, agriculture, and home garden plant. Ac-Planta Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Bunkyo, Japan.

Medrhythms

Series B in 2021
MedRhythms Inc. operates as a neuro-rehab company that uses sensors, music, and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide neurologic music therapy services. The company offers Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) for those affected by traumatic brain injury, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease. It focuses on intersection between music, neuroscience, and technology, providing interventions to achieve optimum outcomes in sensorimotor, speech, and language, and cognitive goals in patients. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Portland, Maine.

Ossia

Venture Round in 2015
Ossia Inc. develops and licenses a wireless power transmission system. It offers Cota Real Wireless Power, an RF smart antenna technology that automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention and wires. The company’s technology is used in wearables, IoT, mobile, medical, industrial, automotive, and battery applications. It has a strategic partnership with FIH Mobile Limited. Ossia Inc. was formerly known as OmniLectric, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

IzumoBase

Venture Round in 2014
IzumoBASE, INC. develops and licenses software-defined storage solutions. It offers IzumoFS, a distributed storage software that can be used as shared storage for virtualization infrastructure, backend for Web services, and file servers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

AwanTunai

Series A in 2022
AwanTunai is digitizing the traditional FMCG supply chain with online inventory ordering, digital payments for micro SME merchants. AwanTunai also helps government efforts by providing technology and financing to grocery suppliers and traders in Indonesia. We believe that every Indonesian has the right to access affordable, safe, and modern financing to improve their welfare.

MyRefer

Series B in 2021
MyRefer, Inc. is designs and develops a platform which helps in planning, development, management, and operation of referral adoption service using HR Technology. The company provides the platform under the brand name MyRefer. The company also provides consultation and support services related to hiring . The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Cognigy

Venture Round in 2021
Cognigy GmbH is an enterprise software provider for conversational AI automation. It offers Cognigy.AI, an enterprise conversational automation platform for customer and employee services; and Cognigy.VG, an AI-based voice gateway solution to deploy virtual voice agents for automated phone conversations. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Düsseldorf, Germany with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Sydney, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo, Japan.

Schoo

Private Placement in 2019
Schoo Inc. offers schoo web campus, an online video learning service. It provides free live lessons based on concept of what people should learn now; and radio type lesson, which provides a learning experience by sound. The company also measures to use learning videos on schoo as teaching materials for university education and free information to newspaper owners and freelancers. Schoo Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

eSPORTS Japan

Seed Round in 2008
ESPORTS is a comprehensive shopping site for sports, outdoor, health products and health foods.

Source Defense

Series A in 2018
In an industry focused on detection, Source Defense provides websites with the first ever prevention technology for attacks of third-party origin. We are the first ever SAAS platform that allows a site owner to set and enforce permissions, receive real-time alerts and monitor third-party vendors' behavior on their site. By removing the security considerations from third-party integrations, we can save countless man-hours spent on tests and integrations, allowing sites to focus on generating revenues and new opportunities while keeping the site visitors safe and the site in high performance.

Antway

Series B in 2021
Antway operate a food delivery service called Tsukurioki.jp for busy dual-working households.

DoctorMate

Series B in 2022
DoctorMate is a service that allows you to consult with your doctor about problems at your nursing home.They will reduce the risks and burdens related to medical care from the field of nursing care, and support the creation of a system that allows nursing care providers to concentrate on daily care with peace of mind.

AWAIR

Venture Round in 2015
Awair helps people to stay healthy and safe in all indoor environments. They design products that complement you and your home or office while equipping you with insights and personalized solutions. Though they build technology, their products shouldn’t feel like technology. Their products enable you to have pride in all aspects of your environment. Their suite of connected products provides a full-stack solution to know, conquer, and breathe easy in your environments. The goal is to completely change how we design and build their homes and offices, empowering all of us to make healthier and smarter decisions every day. Awair was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Trust Us

Series B in 2018
Trust Us is a Korean IT venture company that offers reliable online content. Its services include Poing, an app that provides restaurant booking services, and My Booking, a social food magazine app.

Kringle Pharma

Series C in 2020
Kringle Pharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical biotechnology venture company, engages in the research and development of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) protein medicines. The company develops HGF products for the treatment of acute spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ALS acute kidney injury, and vocal fold scar. Kringle Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Ibaraki, Japan.

Pixie Dust Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. develops phased array technology and digital fabrication technology. The company’s products include ultrasonic phased array system with which technology one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Idein

Venture Round in 2019
Idein Inc. develops platform as a service for vendors users to create own internet of thing system with advance artificial intelligence analysis. Its platform offers dashboard, SDK, and marketplace. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

Source Defense

Series B in 2022
In an industry focused on detection, Source Defense provides websites with the first ever prevention technology for attacks of third-party origin. We are the first ever SAAS platform that allows a site owner to set and enforce permissions, receive real-time alerts and monitor third-party vendors' behavior on their site. By removing the security considerations from third-party integrations, we can save countless man-hours spent on tests and integrations, allowing sites to focus on generating revenues and new opportunities while keeping the site visitors safe and the site in high performance.

Halo Neuro Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Halo Neuro Inc. develops a system that uses light electric stimulation to induce a state of hyperplasticity in the brain utilizing a specially designed device. It offers its product for athletes, elite teams, and organizations. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Deciduous Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2022
Deciduous Therapeutics is an aging therapeutics company developing a novel class of immune-modulatory therapies that clear senescent cells and promote a healthy lifespan. Deciduous is led by Anil Bhushan, a professor at UCSF, and Robin Mansukhani, a five-time biotech founder.

RareJob

Seed Round in 2008
Rarejob is an online platform that offers English learning services for individual and corporate needs. Its operations are based in Shibuya, Japan.

Sense360

Series A in 2018
Sense360 develops mobile applications that enable developers to create relevant, personalized, and situationally-aware notifications using location, place, activity, context, and other phone sensory data. The company’s products enable applications to unlock this situational awareness. Sense360 is based in Culver City, California.

Embrace Japan

Series C in 2018
Embrace Corporation is looking for new friends. Whether you want to solve a major problem of medical care through your own work, or you want to take on a higher goal with Embracing, the company you are going to work on. Employees with various experiences, such as foreign-affiliated IT vendors, consulting firms, pharmaceutical companies, and web production companies, are active.

WRAY

Series A in 2022
WRAY inc., a women's healthcare D2C company, develops and manufactures PMS countermeasure products, such as PMS countermeasure supplements. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Minato, Japan.

Airmeet

Series B in 2022
Airmeet serves as an all-in-one virtual events platform for event organizers, marketers, community builders, and enterprises. With a core focus on creating the interactive and immersive virtual events platform for knowledge professionals, Airmeet’s scalable platform supports a variety of event formats including fairs, expos, meetups, workshops, summits, town halls, and more, virtually. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Findy Inc

Series C in 2022
Findy Inc, a job change service company, connects companies with IT engineers, freelancers, and sideline engineers. It also provides information related to hiring and personnel affairs, including tips for hiring, public relations, and marketing. The company also offers Findy Engineer Lab, a medium that delivers interviews with active engineers and the latest technical information. Findy Inc was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

iCARE

Series E in 2022
iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .

Pan For You

Series B in 2022
Pan For You is a Food & Beverage Company. We deliver delicious bread from all over the world with our unique freezing technology and propose a lifestyle where you can enjoy freshly baked bread anytime.

CAMPFIRE

Series E in 2020
Campfire is a Japanese crowdfunding site. They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something." The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over 700,000 people.

Bluzelle

Series A in 2017
Bluzelle Networks Pte Ltd. develops a decentralized, blockchain-based database platform that distributes data across many nodes, instead of storing all information in a centralized cloud system. It enables renting individuals' computer storage space to earn tokens while dApp developers use tokens to have their dApp's data stored and managed. It caters to software developers and enterprise software architects. Bluzelle Networks Pte Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Singapore with additional office in Vancouver, Canada.

One Media

Venture Round in 2019
ONE MEDIA's unique visual storytelling, the message you want to convey is turned into video content.Every day video distribution, viewing data analysis, creative planning and production are all done in-house to deliver video content with unique value.

Alpaca

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

Source Defense

Series A in 2020
In an industry focused on detection, Source Defense provides websites with the first ever prevention technology for attacks of third-party origin. We are the first ever SAAS platform that allows a site owner to set and enforce permissions, receive real-time alerts and monitor third-party vendors' behavior on their site. By removing the security considerations from third-party integrations, we can save countless man-hours spent on tests and integrations, allowing sites to focus on generating revenues and new opportunities while keeping the site visitors safe and the site in high performance.

Ridge-i

Venture Round in 2019
Ridge-i is proposing and developing an appropriate combination of technologies including AI in various phases of the company.We provide AI technology optimized for business needs. Ridge-i features Ridge-i's comprehensive ability to realize impact at business sites, from AI consulting focusing on machine learning and deep learning, to solution development.

GeoSpock

Series A in 2018
GeoSpock Limited develops data indexing platform, which provides analytics, builds insight, and enables predictions across space and time. The company's products include GeoSpock DB Discovery and GeoSpock DB Enterprise that offers cloud-based database service for all location tagged information and enables the user to carry out dynamic data fusion and query complex data for performance analytics. It powers any location based service from real time tracking of entire logistics fleets to local taxi finding application. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore.

Kabuku

Seed Round in 2015
kabuku Inc. provides 3D printing solutions to enterprises, 3D printing operation services for factory users, and a 3D printing marketplace for creators. It provides its solutions and services through its three service platforms: Rinkak Business, Rinkak Factory, and Rinkak Marketplace. The company has worked with various brands and agencies, including Dentsu, Toyota, Loft, the Conran Shop, Calpis, Fuji TV, TBS, and Hakuhodo. kabuku Inc. was co-founded by Masahiko Inada and Masahiko Adachi in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with global 3D printing networks in 30 countries.

Hosty Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Hosty Inc. owns, operates, and manages a chain of unmanned hotel under the brand name Mizuka. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Fukuoka, Japan.

Popshoot

Venture Round in 2017
Popshoot is a development and operation of Pota coin."Peta Coin" is an app that predicts the price of bitcoin the next day. Anyone, from beginners to experienced cryptocurrencies, can easily learn about Bitcoin while playing.

Craftie

Private Placement in 2019
Craftie, Inc. operates an online workshop platform that matches users and teachers. Its platform provides services, such as workshop reservation platform; workshop B2B service for enterprises; and handmade crafts web magazine; etc. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Railsr

Private Placement in 2020
Railsbank Technology Ltd develops an API banking and compliance technology platform that connects together a global network of partner banks with companies. The platform provides companies with access to wholesale banking services in five lines of code. It enables users to create bank accounts, streamline technical integration with banks, and connect to payment schemes to receive and send money to/from these accounts. Railsbank Technology Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices located in Singapore, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

Ginco

Private Placement in 2018
Ginco's goal is to Change the relationship between individuals and assets by making full use of block chain technology. The primary focus of Ginco, its cryptocurrency wallet app, is centered around dApp and the On-Chain function, and the company plans to expand its business in a multifaceted manner while watching trends in the ecosystem development. In the future, they were told that they have the possibility of developing with DEXs (decentralized exchanges).

Cluster

Private Placement in 2020
Cluster has developed and operated a VR application “cluster” that allows anyone to hold events such as live music and conferences in a virtual environment. At the same time, thousands of people can be connected, which enables large-scale virtual music live events to be held, providing an enthusiastic experience in the virtual space. With this funding, Cluster, Inc. aims to further expand their business by strengthening product development and marketing.

Tri-Stage

Angel Round in 2006
Tri-stage was founded as the first company in Japan to specialize in direct marketing support, and has cultivated experience and achievements with clients. As a direct marketing professional, we provide high-quality solutions in total and contribute to maximizing client mail-order sales.

VALU

Venture Round in 2019
VALU Inc. provides micro-trading services. The company offers access to timelines and incentives created for each VALU account. It uses bitcoin and open assets protocol for safe and secure online trading. Additionally, the company provides online recruitment and human resources support services. Furthermore it plans, designs, and produces business and service that uses virtual currency. The company functions as purchasing agent for virtual currency. VALU Inc. plans, produces, and operates system for online and mobile communications. The company plans and executes events. It offers management consulting services. The company license, maintains, manages, and consult intellectual property rights (copyrights and patent rights etc.). The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mad Street Den

Private Placement in 2019
Mad Street Den Inc. operates as a computer vision and artificial intelligence company. It focuses on building models of generalizable intelligence that can be deployed through meaningful applications across industries and people worldwide. The company serves the retail industry. Mad Street Den Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Fremont, California. It has additional offices in Chennai and Bengaluru, India; and Tokyo, Japan.

Mind Palette

Series C in 2014
Mind Palette focusing on "mobile * social media" as their main business, they aim to further the realization of a society in which each individual transmits informationin real time and new values are generated by connecting other people. To this end, they conduct the provision of exciting Internet services for both users and creators.