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

148 past transactions

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.

Every

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rad AI

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Co-nect

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

Molcure

Venture Round in 2018
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.

lancers

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

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.

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.

Habitto

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

Spready

Private Placement 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.

Qihoo 360 Technology

Series A in 2006
Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd (Qihoo 360), formerly Qihoo Technology Company Limited, is engaged in the operations of Internet services and sales of third party anti-virus software in the People's Republic of China. It provides Internet and mobile security products in China. In January 2011, the Company had 328 million monthly active Internet security product users, representing a user penetration rate of 83.9% in China. Its Internet and mobile security products include 360 Safe Guard and 360 Anti-virus, the Internet security products in China, with 301 million and 248 million monthly active users in January 2011, and 360 Mobile Safe, the mobile security product in China. The Company generates revenues primarily through offering the services, such as online advertising and Internet value-added services. Online advertising offers advertising services by providing marketing opportunities on its Websites and secure platform products to its advertising customers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Co-nect

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

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.

lancers

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

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.

Co-nect

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Defy

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

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.

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.

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.

CO-NECT

Private Placement 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.

Red Dot Payment

Series B in 2017
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.

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.

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

PT Buku Usaha Digital

Private Placement in 2020
PT Buku Usaha Digital develops and operates bookkeeping application. Its platform provides function to record daily financial transactions such as sales, income, and customer debt. PT Buku Usaha Digital was founded in 2019 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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.

Plato

Seed Round in 2016
Plato is on a mission to help engineering + product leaders develop soft skills and build better teams. Plato does this through a powerful mentoring platform, where new leaders connect with seasoned professionals for 1-1 sessions, AMAs, and a comprehensive knowledge base. Plato Mentors have extensive experience in management, and come from top tech companies like Google, Facebook, Lyft, Slack, Netflix, and Spotify - among others. Founded in 2017 by two French entrepreneurs, Quang Hoang, and Jean-Baptiste Coger who met while attending the prestigious ISAE-Supaero school of engineering, Plato is one of the fastest growing engineering + product mentoring platforms in the world. Plato has offices in both San Francisco + Paris, and was accelerated through YCombinator. Learn more at: www.platohq.com

Dragonpay

Series A in 2014
Dragonpay Corporation provides an online payment solution that allows buyers and sellers to conduct e-commerce without the use of traditional credit cards in the Philippines. It offers recurring payments; and Mass Payout, an online facility that allows businesses to make payments to multiple individuals or entities simultaneously instead of doing it individually. The company focuses on alternative payment channels, such as banks, mobile payments, ATM's, and brick-and-mortar payment centers. It serves merchants and developers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Makati City, the Philippines.

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.

Sansan

Angel Round in 2009
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

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.

Mercari

Series C in 2014
Mercari, Inc. engages in the planning, development, and operation of the Mercari marketplace applications in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Its marketplace applications allow individuals to buy and sell new and used items, such as electronics, jewelries, clothes, and shoes; and books, CDs, and DVDs. The company is also involved in the planning, development, and management of internet services. Mercari, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Diptab Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Diptab Ventures Private Limited operates as an intra-regional logistics provider connecting individual truckers with brands in India. The company engages in the inter-city aggregation of mini trucks and a large vehicles for sectors, such as retail, FMCG, ecommerce, individual customers, enterprises, retail clients, small and medium enterprises, and others. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India with branches in Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Lucknow, India.

Knowledge Merchants Works

Private Placement 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.

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.

SenSprout

Venture Round 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.

Molcure

Venture Round in 2018
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.

8vdX

Seed Round in 2022
Venture Debt Market Place

The Sails Company

Seed Round in 2015
The Sails Company is the primary sponsor of the Sails framework and related open-source projects, such as Waterline, Skipper, and the Node Machine specification. They are also the team behind Treeline, an automation platform that makes it easy to build custom, high-performance apps for Node.js. The Sails Company develops frameworks and tools that empower JavaScript developers to reach new levels of productivity, and they provide professional services and solutions to make the process of modern development dramatically faster and easier for organizations.

Real World

Venture Round in 2007
REAL WORLD provides crowd-sourced services and solutions. It was established on July 29, 2005.

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.

FinAccel

Series B in 2018
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.

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.

BrainCat

Seed Round in 2017
BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.

YRGLM

Venture Round in 2008
YRGLM Inc. provides marketing platform. The Company offers advertising platform "AD EBiS", automated advertising report creation tool "AdRepo", commercial distribution platform "EC-CUBE", and more. YRGLM serves clients in Asia and America.

Mercari

Series B in 2014
Mercari, Inc. engages in the planning, development, and operation of the Mercari marketplace applications in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Its marketplace applications allow individuals to buy and sell new and used items, such as electronics, jewelries, clothes, and shoes; and books, CDs, and DVDs. The company is also involved in the planning, development, and management of internet services. Mercari, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

Coda Payments

Series A in 2013
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.

slice

Series C in 2022
slice (prev SlicePay) is a Fintech startup focused on Young India. They are building a smart, simple, and transparent financial platform to redesign the life experience for youngsters. Their first product is slice card that provides seamless credit payments, high-quality mobile experience & customized offers through brand partnerships