Fuji Startup Ventures

Fuji Startup Ventures, founded in 2013, is the venture capital arm of Fuji Media Holdings based in Tokyo, Japan. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the technology sector across the Asia-Pacific region. It primarily targets companies within a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, advertising technology, social media, music, video, gaming, publishing, education, geo-location, smart television, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. Fuji Startup Ventures aims to support innovative startups and facilitate their growth through strategic financial backing.

Osamu Kanemitsu

CEO

21 past transactions

PeaceTecLab

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

Tasogare

Series B in 2021
Tasogare is a premium coffee brand that produces and supplies a variety of coffee both online and retail.

The ROOM4D

Series A in 2020
The ROOM4D provides business data analysis and consulting services and develops image analysis systems based on artificial intelligence.

TRiCERA

Series A in 2020
TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.

Picable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Picable is a developer of a mobile application intended to help users watch videos and browse websites while chatting with people who are far away. The application offers users the ability to synchronize the scroll position and see the same screen as the other party is looking at, enabling them to do multiple functions at the same time.

CAPSULE Japan

Venture Round in 2019
Capsule is a global company that supports the next generation. Focusing on support for creators,

CAPSULE

Venture Round in 2019
CAPSULE provides digital promotion support services. They also provide human resource development, SNS marketing track record, social media marketing, website design, and digital promotion services.

JX Press

Series C in 2018
The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.” JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations. FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan. The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information. Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan. Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters

Machine Learning Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
Machine Learning Solutions is an AI platform that offers technical development and optimization of machine learning models for businesses.

Suvaco

Venture Round in 2017
Suvaco is a Tokyo based home design marketplace startup.

Spectee

Series A in 2016
Spectee is a online news agency that specializes in curating and publishing real-time social media UGC video. By using artificial intelligence patented by Spectee, It is able to reduce the time taken to analyze and sort social media news content, giving you faster access to the very latest UGC video. Expect video covering both Japanese and worldwide news from accidents and disasters to lifestyle and entertainment.​ it newsroom is verifying and acquiring licenses of those contents for broadcasters and publishers.

The Bridge

Venture Round in 2016
The Bridge is an internet and media firm that organizes meetups for connecting entrepreneurs and system engineers. It delivers news updates from the Tokyo startup scene, in an effort to help entrepreneurs connect with the global community.

DIGISURF

Venture Round in 2015
Digisurf is a service company that operates an online portal for reserving barbecue spots and ordering ingredients.

Kabuku

Venture Round in 2014
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.

Suvaco

Venture Round in 2014
Suvaco is a Tokyo based home design marketplace startup.

Material World

Venture Round in 2013
Material World (http://www.materialworld.co) is a NYC-based fashion recommerce company founded in 2012 that provides a modern and fun way to shop and refresh your closet. Material World offers Material Box, a monthly fashion subscription service to try on personally curated pre-owned fashion pieces at your home and trade in items from their own closet to reclaim their value.

Monoco

Venture Round in 2013
Monoco, Inc. (formerly FlutterScape) is a cross-border social commerce platform, giving people the power to share their product discoveries, while making it easy to sell and buy products through our safe international payment and logistic systems. Unlike traditional marketplaces, Monoco, Inc. brings sellers and buyers together in a fun, casual and collaborative way that allow sellers to share a real narrative of their product discoveries and buyers to expose to an adventure and obtain unique products from abroad, especially from Japan, Monoco, Inc.'s initial primary focus.

Pocket Concierge

Venture Round in 2013
Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.

Jimoty

Venture Round in 2013
Jimothy is a free advertisement bulletin board for 9 million people a month! You can post information such as buying and selling second-hand goods, announcement of the event, recruitment information, recruitment of members, real estate information etc.

Smart Education

Series B in 2013
Smart Education, Ltd. (located in Tokyo, Japan, President Daigo Ikeya) launched it’s kid’s music app “Rhythm Book” for smartphones and tablets. It’s in the App Store as an universal app for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. With Rhythm book, kids can learn and feel the rhythm by tapping instruments along with their favorite songs. There are more than 100 kid’s songs from TV, cartoons, to choose from and nursery rhymes in English and in Japanese. Stimulate the young mind with genuine and real studio recorded music and sounds. This app is designed to co-play between parents and child. You can purchase more songs via internet and the songs you’ve purchased can be co-owned by the same Apple ID through iCloud.

Alim

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