GMO VenturePartners

GMO Venture Partners is an early and growth stage investment subsidiary of GMO Internet Group, one of the most comprehensive providers of industry-leading Internet services in Japan. The firm has a strong presence in supporting startups from EC, payment, ad-tech and enterprise SAAS sectors in regions such as Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the US. GMO VenturePartners Inc has invested in over 50 startups in over the past years and eight companies went public.

Ryu Muramatsu

Founding Partner

Kazuyasu Sugiyama

Representative Director

157 past transactions

Indotrading

Series A in 2015
IndoTrading.com is a company and business directory website, not a buy-and-sell website. This site is established to help marketization of SME’s products and services online locally, as well as internationally. We provide some sophisticated marketing services to help business owners to compete digitally, such as Search Engine Optimization, Google AdWords, etc. Beside promoting, we also provide Web Design and Hosting service, all to enhance your business growth. We have more than 52.000 companies registered and more than 355.000 products being advertised online. IndoTrading.com won Best Graduates in Founder Institute Third Batch in Jakarta.

Finantier

Seed Round in 2021
Finantier develops and operates an open finance platform that offers infrastructure and data products. It offers accounts integration, income and identity verification, and recurring repayments and subscriptions. The company’s platform collects datasets from banks and financial companies, enrich the data, and pass them to other companies through an application-programming interface (API). The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.

ChatBook

Seed Round in 2015
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Ardent Capital

Series A in 2013
Ardent Capital is a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits throughout Southeast Asia and globally. We bring together all the key elements required to create great companies: Team, Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Technology, Capital, and Passion. We are thrilled and privileged to be participating in a technology revolution sweeping the region.

Moneytree

Series C in 2021
Moneytree is a fintech data platform, with a mission to bring people and institutions closer together, help them find balance and discover new opportunities to grow personal wealth. Moneytree's first product, a personal finance app for iOS released in 2013, won the App Store’s “Best of” award for iPhone in Japan after only 8 months in market. It went on to win Best of 2014 for iPad, was one of 10 Apple Watch apps featured pre-launch and a featured iMessage app on the launch of iOS 10. Moneytree has over 1,300,000 users on iOS, Android and web. Our proprietary data aggregation platform, Moneytree LINK, has almost twenty enterprise clients, including Japan’s two largest accounting software vendors, an industry first inbound API with Mizuho Bank, an SDK integration SMBC (Mitsui Sumitomo) and multiple regional banks in Japan.

SenSprout

Private Placement in 2020
SenSprout Inc. develops and sells agricultural sensors. Its products are used to measure soil moisture; optimize irrigation in large farms or cash crops; and predict natural disasters, such as landslides and cliff collapses. The company also engages in the development and operation of an internet service related to agriculture. SenSprout Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TradFit

Seed Round in 2018
TradFit Co., Ltd. develops and operates voice data platform utilizing cloud artificial intelligence (AI). The company offers Software as a service (SaaS) based voice data platform for hotels and restaurants. The company was founded in August 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Molcure

Series C in 2021
MOLCURE, Inc. develops systems and technologies that enable pharmaceutical companies (developing antibody drugs) to identify antibody candidates. It offers Abtracer, an antibody sequence screening system to detect antibodies; and SmartLabModule, an IoT platform for science. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Crowd Credit

Venture Round in 2021
Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator. We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries. Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend to individuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy. In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.

Every

Series C in 2017
Movie Media Business ,Talent Management Business ,Advertisement Business.

Renoveru

Venture Round in 2014
Renoveru is a Japanese real estate startup that helps consumers to choose and buy existing homes or a second-hand flats while proposing renovation plans both online and offline. In addition to these services, Renoveru also offers an online tool that allows homebuilders to easily share renovation plans and pictures with carpenters, construction supervisors, and architects. The company also offers a distribution service of construction materials and equipment through its subsidiary. The company was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo.

Knowledge Merchants Works

Series A in 2018
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.

chikaku

Venture Round in 2021
Chikaku Inc. manufactures setup boxes for grandparents to watch their grandkids. Its solution allows watching videos and photos on screen by plugging the device. Chikaku Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

VASILY, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
VASILY, Inc. operates an online fashion coordination community, iQON. The company's platform enables visitors to create collages of clothes and accessories to coordinate entire looks online. VASILY, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Uzabase

Venture Round in 2015
UZABASE is home to Japan's largest industry and corporate database, backed by an in-house team of specialised analysts. Their flagship service, SPEEDA organizes company and industry information and intelligence allowing for more efficient management in the workplace. NewsPicks is a product that uses content provides insight into the discussions and decisions vital to business in Asia.

Gojo & Company

Private Placement in 2020
Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in 50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since our establishment, we work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.

Rad AI

Seed Round in 2019
Rad AI empowers radiologists for the future.

bitFlyer

Series B in 2015
bitFlyer, Inc. operates as a virtual currency exchange and provide block chain development services. It specializes in bit coin marketplace and settlement. The company offers wide range of services including bit coin market, altcoin market, ethereum market, ethereum classic market, litecoin market, bitcoin cash market, monacoin market, lisk market, easy exchange, pro exchange, block chain, block chain explorer, block chain LAB, crowd funding, fees and taxes, account class, and application programming interface. bitFlyer, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Minato-ku, Japan.

lancers

Venture Round in 2014
LANCERS Inc. provides crowdsourcing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Kamakura, Japan.

Defy

Seed Round in 2021
Defy is Indian-based cryptocurrency exchange platform.

Kaizen Ad

Seed Round in 2013
Kaizen is the full-service platform that enables marketing professionals to optimize digital customer experiences at scale without utilizing expensive internal resources. With a curated network of professionals and a technology-managed approach, Kaizen connects fragmented marketing tools and talent into one optimization ecosystem.

Skymind

Series A in 2019
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

ROH

Series A in 2022
Launched in 2013, the platform is an edit of the best of weddings across the country to allow couples to find top vendors and venues in their location of interest. Carats & Cake believes in empowering wedding businesses by bringing their brands to life through real content and helping them run more efficiently through smart, elegant tools.

Habitto

Seed Round in 2023
SJ Mobile Labs designs, develops and launches innovative, mobile-first business models in Singapore and Japan.

Knowledge Merchants Works

Private Placement in 2020
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.

Mosaix

Seed Round in 2016
Mosaix develops a branded voice assistant for the localized services, languages, and needs of global footprint. Mosaix's dynamic language AI platform enables enterprise customers to create intelligent voice assistants for quick and accurate answers to queries from a plethora of languages. The company is replacing cumbersome text-based search with quality voice search interface.

Oceans

Series A in 2011
Oceans Inc., an Internet service company, provides local graph implementation services. It offers Eyeland, a location-based mobile communication platform/application with a map-based interface that enables users to access and interact with other users’ activities associated with various geographic locations worldwide. The company provides its services in the fields of user interface, user experience, creative, programming, and monetization. Oceans Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Co-nect

Seed Round in 2020
Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.

Co-nect

Seed Round in 2019
Co-nect is a Body maintenance is a Body maintenance service platform.

FreakOut Holdings

Series A in 2014
FreakOut is marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms. Its products include DMP that is used to analyze data; and demand side platform (DSP), a platform for real-time ad inventory transactions in internet advertising. The company also offers RTB (real-time biting) to analyze the web browsing information of a user; FreakOut DSP which is used to collect marketing information; and FreakOut DMP, a DMP corresponding to the smart phone and PC to optimize digital marketing. FreakOut, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Axel Mark

Venture Round in 2006
Axel Mark Inc. engages in the planning and development of games in Japan. It develops console games and related content; and provides advertising services. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

popIn

Venture Round in 2011
popIn Inc. provides online advertising services. It also provides tools to measure the estimated time to read an online advertisement and compare it with the time user remained on the website to evaluate the effectiveness of the advertisement. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. As of May 2015, popIn Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Baidu Japan, Inc.

Coda Payments

Series A in 2016
Coda Payments Pte Ltd. offers mobile payment solutions that enable customers to make payments for online digital content and services from their mobile phones. The company offers PulsaQ, a prepaid mobile credit payment solution. It serves mobile-owners in Indonesia. Coda Payments Pte Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Singapore.

MobiKwik

Private Placement in 2018
MobiKwik is India’s leading fintech platform, operating businesses in consumer payments, payment gateway, and financial services. MobiKwik’s payments network is one of the largest in India with 120 million users, 3 million merchants, and 300+ billers. The vision of the company is to build accessible, and affordable digital financial services for a Billion Indians. Founded in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the company has raised over $100M in funding from marquee investors. With 60% Indian ownership, MobiKwik is the Truly Indian Payments App. Having grown from its strength in payments, the company has transformed into a full-stack fintech platform offering financial products. Since 2018, MobiKwik has disbursed 19 lakh loans via its Digital Credit Line, which disburses money instantly to the user’s wallet. The company ventured into the mutual fund space with the acquisition of Mumbai-based Clearfunds.

FinAccel

Pre Seed Round in 2016
FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lending space.

TradFit

Venture Round in 2018
TradFit Co., Ltd. develops and operates voice data platform utilizing cloud artificial intelligence (AI). The company offers Software as a service (SaaS) based voice data platform for hotels and restaurants. The company was founded in August 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Red Dot Payment

Venture Round in 2016
Red Dot Payment is an online payment company that provides payment solutions for banks, acquirers, and merchants across the Asia Pacific. It enables merchants and financial institutions to provide complete end-to-end payment options for their customers worldwide to pay seamlessly, swiftly, and securely. Integrate easily via APIs, plug into most major shopping carts and take the business to customers' mobile devices with its Android and IOS SDKs. Red Dot Payment's payment gateway is PCI DSS Level 1 certified to handle payment data, and all transactions are overseen by fraud monitoring systems. Red Dot Payment was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Singapore. It also has offices in Bangkok and Jakarta.

Raksul

Series B in 2014
Raksul Inc. provides printing services in Japan. It prints newspaper folding products, station stage posters, business cards, cards, business materials, greeting cards, signs/displays, designing on PC online, posts, flyers, posters, tickets, fans, slips, eating/store tools, direct mails, print brochures/catalogs, postcards, files and folders, flags, desktop POPs, novelties/goods, TV commercials, fold brochures, envelopes, seals and stickers, curtains/goodwill products, calendars, and new year's cards. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

CO-NECT

Private Placement in 2019
CO-NECT Co., Ltd. develops and markets alcoholic drinks ordering application. It also offers order management platform for food and beverage stores. It was previously known as HIDEOUT CLUB, Inc. The company was founded in June 12, 2015 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Kaizen Ad

Series A in 2015
Kaizen is the full-service platform that enables marketing professionals to optimize digital customer experiences at scale without utilizing expensive internal resources. With a curated network of professionals and a technology-managed approach, Kaizen connects fragmented marketing tools and talent into one optimization ecosystem.

SenSprout

Venture Round in 2018
SenSprout Inc. develops and sells agricultural sensors. Its products are used to measure soil moisture; optimize irrigation in large farms or cash crops; and predict natural disasters, such as landslides and cliff collapses. The company also engages in the development and operation of an internet service related to agriculture. SenSprout Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TradFit

Private Placement in 2018
TradFit Co., Ltd. develops and operates voice data platform utilizing cloud artificial intelligence (AI). The company offers Software as a service (SaaS) based voice data platform for hotels and restaurants. The company was founded in August 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Aratana

Venture Round in 2013
Aratana is an e-commerce specialized services provider in Japan. Founded in 2007, it has provided services to more than 4,000 partners. By further expanding its e-commerce know-how, technology, and support capabilities, the company aims to make shopping in the world more convenient and fun.

Weblio

Series A in 2007
Weblio, Inc. operates as an online dictionary and encyclopedia that allows users to search from multiple sources. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Maneo

Venture Round in 2008
maneo market Inc., through its web portal, offers crowd-funding services. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of maneo Inc. As of September 17, 2020, maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NLHD Co., Ltd.

Aperza

Series A in 2017
Aperza Inc. develops and operates price search, information distribution, and catalog download sites and portals for the manufacturing industry. It offers online media and marketplace, such as Aperza, industrial portal; Aperza Catalog, industrial catalog portal; Aperza e-commerce, industrial EC marketplace; Monozukuri News, curation media; Automation News Web, factory automation newspaper; IoT Navi, IoT Navi; sales and marketing consulting; marketing cloud service; and marketing support business in china. Aperza Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.

Lifull

Venture Round in 2006
LIFULL Co., Ltd. is the most extensive housing and real estate information listing service. LIFULL Co., Ltd. provides LIFULL Move that provides reviews and rankings of the moving companies; LIFULL Storage, a storage space searching Web service; LIFULL Interior, a furniture and interior decoration EC site; and LIFULL Nursing Care, a special care facility searching Web service.

Skymind

Seed Round in 2016
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

NOT A HOTEL

Venture Round in 2020
Not A Hotel Inc. is engage in development and operation of own hotel brand, it also support for direct to consumer conversion of hotels and inns. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Spready

Venture Round in 2018
Spready Inc. specializes in the planning, development, and operation of internet services. It was founded on May 2018 and is based in Japan.

Sorabito

Seed Round in 2015
SORABITO Co., Ltd. operates ALLSTOCKER, an online marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery. It sells excavators, wheel loaders, dozers, rollers, graders, finishers, cranes, forklifts, generators, welders, compressors, attachments, parts, trucks, tractors, other farm machinery, and others. The company also provides IT solutions for construction equipment rental companies. SORABITO Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

VASILY, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
VASILY, Inc. operates an online fashion coordination community, iQON. The company's platform enables visitors to create collages of clothes and accessories to coordinate entire looks online. VASILY, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Kauli

Seed Round in 2011
Kauli is an Online Ad Network Management System pioneered in Japan. Kauli supports Real Time Bidding. This service allows advertisers to place bids for their ads in real time and according to users' characteristics. Kauli frequently reviews Ad Networks so that the Ad Network with the best expected ad revenue will be selected. As a result, every ad frame always has the best expected ad revenue.

Indotrading

Series B in 2015
IndoTrading.com is a company and business directory website, not a buy-and-sell website. This site is established to help marketization of SME’s products and services online locally, as well as internationally. We provide some sophisticated marketing services to help business owners to compete digitally, such as Search Engine Optimization, Google AdWords, etc. Beside promoting, we also provide Web Design and Hosting service, all to enhance your business growth. We have more than 52.000 companies registered and more than 355.000 products being advertised online. IndoTrading.com won Best Graduates in Founder Institute Third Batch in Jakarta.

Set Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

lancers

Seed Round in 2013
LANCERS Inc. provides crowdsourcing services. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Kamakura, Japan.

FinAccel Pte. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
FinAccel Pte. Ltd. operates as an instant-credit startup that provides products in retail credit for users in Southeast Asia. It helps people to get short term financing for their e-commerce purchases by allowing users to apply and qualify for instant-credit before paying for the goods over time. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Singapore.

LeapMind

Series B in 2017
LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deep learning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory.

MobiKwik

Series E in 2018
MobiKwik is India’s leading fintech platform, operating businesses in consumer payments, payment gateway, and financial services. MobiKwik’s payments network is one of the largest in India with 120 million users, 3 million merchants, and 300+ billers. The vision of the company is to build accessible, and affordable digital financial services for a Billion Indians. Founded in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the company has raised over $100M in funding from marquee investors. With 60% Indian ownership, MobiKwik is the Truly Indian Payments App. Having grown from its strength in payments, the company has transformed into a full-stack fintech platform offering financial products. Since 2018, MobiKwik has disbursed 19 lakh loans via its Digital Credit Line, which disburses money instantly to the user’s wallet. The company ventured into the mutual fund space with the acquisition of Mumbai-based Clearfunds.

Raksul

Series D in 2016
Raksul Inc. provides printing services in Japan. It prints newspaper folding products, station stage posters, business cards, cards, business materials, greeting cards, signs/displays, designing on PC online, posts, flyers, posters, tickets, fans, slips, eating/store tools, direct mails, print brochures/catalogs, postcards, files and folders, flags, desktop POPs, novelties/goods, TV commercials, fold brochures, envelopes, seals and stickers, curtains/goodwill products, calendars, and new year's cards. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

RentoMojo

Series C in 2019
RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida. RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments, working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.

LetsTransport

Series A in 2017
Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. Their solutions are reliable, professional, economical and structured to serve businesses as well as consumers. They currently provide Tata Ace on demand as well as on attachment basis.

Aperza

Private Placement in 2019
Aperza Inc. develops and operates price search, information distribution, and catalog download sites and portals for the manufacturing industry. It offers online media and marketplace, such as Aperza, industrial portal; Aperza Catalog, industrial catalog portal; Aperza e-commerce, industrial EC marketplace; Monozukuri News, curation media; Automation News Web, factory automation newspaper; IoT Navi, IoT Navi; sales and marketing consulting; marketing cloud service; and marketing support business in china. Aperza Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.

Agatha

Private Placement in 2019
Agatha is a provider of strategic software solutions to the health care and life sciences industry. It is dedicated to helping hospitals, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and medical device firms optimize the management of their quality and clinical documentation and processes.

Hacomono

Series C in 2023
Machiiro Inc., a Software-as-a-Service company, develops and sells software to manages members, reserves, and payments for stores. It offers hacomono, a cloud-based member management/reservation/settlement system for subscribing stores, such as fitness clubs; and marchily, a cloud service that visualizes the daily work of individuals and the flow of work of the entire team through daily reports and task management. The company provides its solutions for fitness clubs, gyms, yoga studios, studios, indoor golf facilities, and self-esthetics operations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Sharing Energy

Series B in 2024
Provider of self-consumption type power supply service intended to transform the energy system through the creation of distributed power sources. The company's services contain energy resources providing services for storing and utilizing energy, energy supply services, and energy management services, enabling users to create a sustainable society.

OTO Capital

Venture Round in 2024
OTO Capital is a platform that allows you to own a car faster than ever.

Procol

Series A in 2022
Procol Tech Private Limited develops and offers a procurement software for commodity industry. Its software enables companies to procure goods by creating live auctions, manages supply chains by tracking goods, and pays suppliers. The company also provides market rates and commodity insights. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Delhi, India.

Rad AI, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Rad AI, Inc. develops an automated report impression solution for radiologists. It offers Rad AI that uses artificial intelligence to automatically generate report impressions; dictate findings using VR; and review and sign off on reports. The company’s Rad AI enables radiologists to identify voice recognition errors and pertinent negatives/positives; automatically inserts customizable recommendation macros; and answers the ordering clinician's primary question and includes all significant findings. Rad AI, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

ChatBook

Venture Round in 2016
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

CO-NECT

Venture Round in 2020
CO-NECT Co., Ltd. develops and markets alcoholic drinks ordering application. It also offers order management platform for food and beverage stores. It was previously known as HIDEOUT CLUB, Inc. The company was founded in June 12, 2015 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Sorabito

Venture Round in 2021
SORABITO Co., Ltd. operates ALLSTOCKER, an online marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery. It sells excavators, wheel loaders, dozers, rollers, graders, finishers, cranes, forklifts, generators, welders, compressors, attachments, parts, trucks, tractors, other farm machinery, and others. The company also provides IT solutions for construction equipment rental companies. SORABITO Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Best Teacher

Venture Round in 2013
Best Teacher, Inc. provides english conversation lesson service on the Web. It offers a stage for Japanese students to create their unique online text books with the help of teachers; and students can improve their pronunciation using voice recorders online. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Skymind

Series A in 2019
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

Sansan

Series A in 2013
Since its founding in 2007, Sansan has focused on delivering its cloud based contact management service to customers in Japan and beyond. Sansan is setting the standard in Japan for cloud-based contact management, with annually doubling numbers of users from over 7,000 premium corporate users including the Japanese Government (METI). Sansan Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and has its subsidiary Sansan global Pte. Ltd. in Singapore since October 2015. The company began offering its business card app Eight in 2012. It has over 1.5 million registered users as a new business network that incorporates a social media framework to transform business cards into business connections. Founded: June 11, 2007 URL: https://www.corp-sansan.com/ Address: Aoyama Oval Building, 13F, 5-52-2, Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Business scope: Planning, development, and sales of cloud-based business card management services Sansan for business users: https://www.sansan.com Eight for individual users: https://8card.net

8vdX

Seed Round in 2022
Venture Debt Market Place

Balus

Series A in 2019
Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues. The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-time motion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.

Real World

Venture Round in 2007
REAL WORLD provides crowd-sourced services and solutions.

SenSprout

Seed Round in 2017
SenSprout Inc. develops and sells agricultural sensors. Its products are used to measure soil moisture; optimize irrigation in large farms or cash crops; and predict natural disasters, such as landslides and cliff collapses. The company also engages in the development and operation of an internet service related to agriculture. SenSprout Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Klub

Seed Round in 2021
Klub is a fintech play providing growth financing to high-affinity brands. Klub’s investment platform, which utilizes financial innovation, community engagement and deep data-driven analytics, provides skin-in-the-game growth capital to entrepreneurs of much-loved brands across sectors.

Hitokuse

Venture Round in 2015
Hitokuse Inc. is a technology driven company who challenges various business fields. They command HTML5 or big data analytics to provide forefront products. Their members have the impressive skills and overwhelming abilities necessary for the development into new fields.

Lifull

Post in 2006
LIFULL Co., Ltd. is the most extensive housing and real estate information listing service. LIFULL Co., Ltd. provides LIFULL Move that provides reviews and rankings of the moving companies; LIFULL Storage, a storage space searching Web service; LIFULL Interior, a furniture and interior decoration EC site; and LIFULL Nursing Care, a special care facility searching Web service.

StealthWorker

Venture Round in 2016
Stealth Worker specializes in Cyber Security. Rather than hiring for full-time employment roles, their Stealth Workers are contractors. You can hire them for projects or long term roles, from as little as 5 hours to as many as 40 hours per week.

Roomstorm

Seed Round in 2014
Roomstorm (Formerly WalkSource) is a next generation Business-to-Business network for hoteliers looking to run operations more efficiently and generate more revenue. Roomstorm empowers revenue teams to have more sellout nights by taking in last minute guest relocations from other nearby hotels as well as airlines in need of housing guests overnight. Roomstorm proudly services over 400 Bay Area hotels and continues to grow with the recent edition of our first airline partner, San Francisco based Virgin America. Our hotel partners confidently overbook their properties, exchange lower priced guests for higher priced ones, find good deals for a relocated guest end-to-end within 5 minutes. By eliminating the pain of dealing with a relocations, we make the market much more efficient.

Skymind

Private Placement in 2018
Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allows simulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.

slice

Series C in 2022
slice (prev SlicePay) is a Fintech startup focused on Young India. They are building a transparent and less time-consuming financial platform to enhance the life experience for young Indians. Their first product is slice card that provides seamless credit payments, high-quality mobile experience & customer service

Istpika

Seed Round in 2010
Istpika produces social games for Facebook and the iPhone, but is also working on something a little bigger. Istpika spun off from another company and began operations in Jan 2009. Istpika is a global venture company with offices in Tokyo, Osaka and overseas. By focussing on R&D and viral technology. Istpika aims to develop social applications that catalyse communication between people.

CO-NECT

Venture Round in 2019
CO-NECT Co., Ltd. develops and markets alcoholic drinks ordering application. It also offers order management platform for food and beverage stores. It was previously known as HIDEOUT CLUB, Inc. The company was founded in June 12, 2015 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Jai Kisan

Series B in 2022
Jai Kisan is a fintech platform that provides sustainable financing for rural emerging markets. They helping farmers understand their financial status through a next-generation/hyper-localized agriculture credit score digitizing their finances and farm capabilities for financial institutions. The platform also offers securitization solutions and a tech-led value proposition for the sellers of products and services it finances. It also uses a network of tech-enabled channel partner stores, while leveraging the existing vendor network to help source more customers. Jai Kisan was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Sansan

Series B in 2014
Since its founding in 2007, Sansan has focused on delivering its cloud based contact management service to customers in Japan and beyond. Sansan is setting the standard in Japan for cloud-based contact management, with annually doubling numbers of users from over 7,000 premium corporate users including the Japanese Government (METI). Sansan Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and has its subsidiary Sansan global Pte. Ltd. in Singapore since October 2015. The company began offering its business card app Eight in 2012. It has over 1.5 million registered users as a new business network that incorporates a social media framework to transform business cards into business connections. Founded: June 11, 2007 URL: https://www.corp-sansan.com/ Address: Aoyama Oval Building, 13F, 5-52-2, Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Business scope: Planning, development, and sales of cloud-based business card management services Sansan for business users: https://www.sansan.com Eight for individual users: https://8card.net

Money Design

Seed Round in 2015
Money Design provides Financial planning business Real estate leasing, brokerage of real estate, management business Life insurance and fire insurance soliciting agency business Financial product sales agency business Other related business related to the above

Agatha

Series B in 2019
Agatha is a provider of strategic software solutions to the health care and life sciences industry. It is dedicated to helping hospitals, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and medical device firms optimize the management of their quality and clinical documentation and processes.

Gojo & Company

Series D in 2020
Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in 50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since our establishment, we work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.

Weblio

Venture Round in 2007
Weblio, Inc. operates as an online dictionary and encyclopedia that allows users to search from multiple sources. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Chatwork

Series B in 2016
Chatwork is a group chat app designed to help global teams communicate, collaborate and increase productivity. The platform includes secure messaging, video chat, task management and file sharing functionality. Chatwork, available in five languages, is used by more than 200,000 companies from a diverse range of industries. Founded in 2011, Chatwork is Asia’s No. 1 business chat app with headquarters in Osaka, Japan and has 89 employees based in Tokyo, Osaka and Taipei.