Yoshikazu Tanaka

Founder and CEO

53 past transactions

Bankers Holding

Venture Round in 2021
Bankers Holding owns the banker group's internet-based financial services firms. They provide fixed-rate investment products that lend funds raised through loan-type funds from general investors to companies.

AppBrew

Series B in 2018
AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Jido Maps

Seed Round in 2018
Jido is bringing in the next wave of AR where digital content can have a shared and persistent life in the real world. Our API uses intimate understanding of a users spatial context to preserve AR experiences across users and devices. Our research team came out of the Stanford Artifical Intelligence Labs and the Cornell Robot Learning Lab.

funplex

Corporate Round in 2018
Funplex utilizes game management know-how by GREE to transfer the game management carried out by client companies and increase its value. The company was founded in October 2015 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

VooST

Corporate Round in 2018
VooST is a video production company that handles famous vtubers, a music office, and major distribution companies. They offer services for events and media appearances to music production.

Newestage

Corporate Round in 2018
Newestage is the developer of Stager Live, a live-streaming mobile app in Japan.

Quant Japan

Acquisition in 2018
They are an Internet advertisement company that grows with its customers, providing opportunity and value to the world.

Alter

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Alter is a platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse. Developers can pipe avatars into their apps, games, and websites. They offer computer vision, 3d technology, web3, machine learning, avatars, rendering engines, blockchain, and NFTs.

FOWD

Pre Seed Round in 2018
FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.

AppBrew

Series A in 2018
AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

One Media

Seed Round in 2018
One media provides YouTube channel production, SNS video creation and marketing, and live stream creation and planning. ONE MEDIA's unique visual storytelling, the message you want to convey is turned into video content. Everyday video distribution, viewing data analysis, creative planning, and production are all done in-house to deliver video content with unique value.

Cyber Security Cloud

Venture Round in 2017
Cyber security cloud is a web security service that visualizes and blocks cyber attacks on websites and web servers.

Candee

Series B in 2017
Candee is a production company that provides advertising, video editing, branding, content, PR, and digital marketing services.

Jiraffe

Venture Round in 2017
Jiraffe is a media business company that provides internet service planning, development, and management solutions.

Popshoot

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

Immersv

Series A in 2017
Immersv is a virtual reality discovery and advertising platform, founded by the team that created the largest app distribution platform on facebook and then again on ios and android.

Node

Series A in 2017
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Medley

Venture Round in 2017
MEDLEY, the online encyclopedia disease that doctors make along with the people of cooperation doctor hundreds of people, we have put together in an easy-to-understand gently variety of information about the disease. Connect the people of doctors and medical institutions that provide people and their families and medical services to receive medical care, we aim to become as to realize the "convincing medical" information infrastructure must-have in society .

3 Minute

Acquisition in 2017
3MINUTE inc. Is the world "s best YouTuber management production specializing in girls. We provide attractive contents to the world via YouTube whithin 3minutes.

bushiroad

Corporate Round in 2016
Bushiroad Inc. plans, develops, produces, and sells various trading card games in Japan. It also offers online mobile games; plans, produces, and manages music and video content, as well as merchandise. In addition, the company creates and distributes character goods to toy stores, general retailers, and hobby shops; manufactures and sells items for capsule toy vending machines; produces arcade prizes; and operates an e-commerce shop. Further, it edits and publishes Gekkan Bushiroad, a monthly magazine full of comics and TCG information; produces television programs; operates an Internet radio platform; and provides product planning and media agency services. Additionally, the company offers voice actor management services; pro-wrestling entertainment services, as well as management of fan club; and advertisement agency services. Bushiroad Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

PerBlue - DragonSoul

Acquisition in 2016
PerBlue - DragonSoul is a mobile role playing game developed by PerBlue.

Theta EdgeCloud

Seed Round in 2016
Theta EdgeCloud is the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment. The platform empowers AI teams with unrivaled GPU price-to-performance as the first hybrid cloud-edge computing architecture. Strategic corporate investors include Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund, media investors BDMI Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, CAA Creative Artists Agency, and traditional Silicon Valley VCs including DCM and Sierra Ventures.

HotelQuickly

Venture Round in 2016
1.5 million users. More than 200,000 hotels. Destinations in every corner of the globe. Since its founding, HotelQuickly has made traveler’s lives easier by providing a simple, stress-free way to book cheap hotel rooms last minute. In December 2012, five visionaries joined forces to give birth to a new idea that would change the way you travel. Out of the minds of Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng and Raphael Cohen came mobile booking website and app HotelQuickly. The following March, they launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, they had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents. In the years since, they have expanded throughout Asia and then all across the globe, with headquarters in Hong Kong and Bangkok and offices throughout the region. In 2016, HotelQuickly acquired and fully integrated Japanese app Tonight. And that’s just the start of what’s to come. Since their founding, they have raised a total of $US 5.6 million in investor funding, which they have used to make hotel bookers’ experiences as fantastic as possible. Their innovation and rapid growth has been featured by media outlets such as TechCrunch, Forbes, CBS, NBC, TechInAsia, TheNextWeb, Yahoo, and Tnooz.

Spaces

Seed Round in 2016
Spaces, officially formed in January 2016, says it’s already working on a range of VR and mixed-reality projects with companies including NBCUniversal, Microsoft, Big Blue Bubble and the Hettema Group. Platforms it’s developing for include Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR, PlayStation VR and Google Cardboard. “Spaces has a compelling and clear vision to be the catalyst for companies looking to create VR and MxR (mixed reality) experiences,” Comcast Ventures managing director Michael Yang said in a statement. “Spaces is combining remarkable capabilities, tools and creativity to push the boundaries of the VR frontier.”

BizReach

Series A in 2016
Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives to freely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

Experiment 7

Seed Round in 2016
Experiment 7 is a game studio that is focused on the development of strategy games. They create VR strategy games that provide a "better than life" experience, allowing players to reunite with friends for a good old fashioned game night or meet new players online to form new friendships.

Wiselike

Seed Round in 2015
Wiselike is a knowledge-sharing platform that allows you to create your own professional Q&A page where people can ask you questions. In essence, Wiselike is a website that enables people from all walks of life, to share their knowledge, and become a unique kind of expert by leveraging their personal experiences to advance the learning and knowledge of others. On Wiselike, people can share knowledge with one another, hone their own expertise and expand their understanding by asking and answering questions about various topics. Wiselike enables professionals, experts and individuals seeking to expand their social influence in all areas to develop their presence and social engagement with audiences online in a simple Q&A format.

Farmnote

Seed Round in 2015
Farm Notebook is an IT venture for the development of Farmnote, a specialized herd management system for the dairy and livestock industries. To the vision, through the development of IT systems that can take advantage of the information in the easy as handwritten notes to help the appropriate management decision-making by aggregating all data ranch. It will promote the management efficiency of the dairy and livestock industries in IT with state-of-the-art technology.

Medley

Venture Round in 2015
MEDLEY, the online encyclopedia disease that doctors make along with the people of cooperation doctor hundreds of people, we have put together in an easy-to-understand gently variety of information about the disease. Connect the people of doctors and medical institutions that provide people and their families and medical services to receive medical care, we aim to become as to realize the "convincing medical" information infrastructure must-have in society .

Mynet

Venture Round in 2015
Mynet offers community games to the Japanese and Asian markets. It offers role-playing games such as Emblem of Falkyrie and Angel Master. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

AnyTimes

Series B in 2015
Any+Times allows users to crowdsource solutions to everyday problems from their neighbors. If you need someone to keep your goldfish alive while you sip bubbly in Rome or simply cannot figure out how to assemble the latest Snarfujor from Ikea, then you send out a request, name your price, and wait for one of your more enterprising neighbors to swing by to deliver a good deed.

C Channel

Seed Round in 2015
C Channel is an online video-based media targeting women aged 20 to 34, focusing on offering lifestyle-related information ranging from hairstyling, food, to travel tips.

SmartNews

Series C in 2015
SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.

Fringe81

Seed Round in 2015
Fringe81 is a Tokyo-based company engaged in internet-related business. Fringe81 operates in internet advertisement and human resources technology. Fringe's advertisement business comprise three services. The advertising agency service is involved in the sale of internet advertisements. The media growth service provides support for smartphone media to monetize via advertisement. The solution service provides software to help advertisers efficiently plan and execute advertisements. Fringe also operates in the human resources technology space with a product named Unipos to help build a culture of recognition and reward employees through peer bonus.

StarMaker Interactive

Series B in 2015
StarMaker is an online video network whose mission is to move content creation and talent discovery from traditional media to the mobile and social space. Combining the power of content creation apps, recording studio technology, crowd-sourced talent discovery, and a huge network of user channels on YouTube, StarMaker's platform enables artists to manage their career without the antiquated Entertainment Industry waste. StarMaker also integrates major media brands and recording artists, helping their talent create, share, discover, and promote each other's user-generated media.

Sekaie

Acquisition in 2014
Sekale is a technology firm that offers e-commerce software, internet media planning and development services to clients.

SmartNews

Series B in 2014
SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.

HotelQuickly

Series A in 2014
1.5 million users. More than 200,000 hotels. Destinations in every corner of the globe. Since its founding, HotelQuickly has made traveler’s lives easier by providing a simple, stress-free way to book cheap hotel rooms last minute. In December 2012, five visionaries joined forces to give birth to a new idea that would change the way you travel. Out of the minds of Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng and Raphael Cohen came mobile booking website and app HotelQuickly. The following March, they launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, they had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents. In the years since, they have expanded throughout Asia and then all across the globe, with headquarters in Hong Kong and Bangkok and offices throughout the region. In 2016, HotelQuickly acquired and fully integrated Japanese app Tonight. And that’s just the start of what’s to come. Since their founding, they have raised a total of $US 5.6 million in investor funding, which they have used to make hotel bookers’ experiences as fantastic as possible. Their innovation and rapid growth has been featured by media outlets such as TechCrunch, Forbes, CBS, NBC, TechInAsia, TheNextWeb, Yahoo, and Tnooz.

Gumi

Series H in 2014
gumi Inc. is a mobile entertainment content publisher and developer based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2007 by Hironao Kunimitsu. The company specializes in developing, operating, and distributing online games for smartphones and tablets, achieving notable success both domestically and internationally. Its flagship title, Brave Frontier, gained widespread acclaim and popularity across the globe. gumi also engages in blockchain technology and extended reality (XR) services, which encompass virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). With multiple subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North America, gumi collaborates with renowned partners such as SEGA and LINE to enhance its offerings and provide high-quality entertainment applications to users worldwide. Moreover, the company supports various game services, including native applications, browser-based games, and localization services for third-party content.

StarMaker Interactive

Series A in 2013
StarMaker is an online video network whose mission is to move content creation and talent discovery from traditional media to the mobile and social space. Combining the power of content creation apps, recording studio technology, crowd-sourced talent discovery, and a huge network of user channels on YouTube, StarMaker's platform enables artists to manage their career without the antiquated Entertainment Industry waste. StarMaker also integrates major media brands and recording artists, helping their talent create, share, discover, and promote each other's user-generated media.

DabKick

Convertible Note in 2013
DabKick is a real-time social entertainment platform that combines live video experiences with patented media sharing technologies. Through DabKick’s iOS app, people can live stream with friends while enjoying videos, music, photos and memes together all on the same screen. Advised by Apple pioneer Andy Grignon (QuickTime, FaceTime) and funded by a team of international investors including GREE, PlugAndPlay, and Digital Garage, DabKick is pioneering the future of media sharing and consumption for this generation of viewers and creators. DabKick is based in Cupertino. Visit us online at www.DabKick.com, on Medium (https://medium.com/@dabkick), and on Twitter @DabKick.

Altplus

Funding Round in 2013
Altplus primarily engages in the social game business. It operates as a social game planning, development, and management company.

Pokelabo

Acquisition in 2012
Pokelabo, Inc. is a mobile contents operating company which evolves business around the Internet media. Pokelabo, Inc. exploits characteristics of mobile which can be used any time and any location unlike personal computers. For example, the company operates a search site for mobile phone—Pocket Bookmark—that is based on Social Bookmark as its core business. The company chooses not to customise development in order to avoid scattering development resources.

App Ant Studios

Acquisition in 2012
The App Ant founding team are veterans of Mobile Social Gaming all hailing from leading companies like Electronic Arts (EA), Sony Ericsson, and Yahoo! They're a group of friends that decided, one day working together, that they wanted to lead in social gaming rather than follow trends.

Paprika Lab

Acquisition in 2012
Paprika Lab is a technology driven gaming company. Paprika Lab's headquarter is located in Seoul, South Korea, and the company has 30 full-time employees. Most of the members are from the major IT companies in Korea such as NCsoft, Nexon, GameHi, etc. Paprika Lab has launched numerous web services and iPhone games. Their recent endeavor is in social gaming and raised $3M before its acquisition by GREE, Inc. in 2012.

Funzio

Acquisition in 2012
We have developed top social games on Facebook and Mobile before with companies like Zynga and Storm8. This time we are going cross-platform with a vision of bringing the best games on the planet that players can play anywhere and anytime.

IUGO Mobile Entertainment

Series A in 2012
IUGO Mobile Entertainment is a mobile-first-and-mobile-only studio that creates game experiences on mobile devices. It has also invested efforts into developing a suite of mobile-specific technologies. IUGO Mobile Entertainment delivers chart-topping titles for global publishing partners as well as its own self-published original games. It was founded in 2003 and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

OpenFeint

Acquisition in 2011
OpenFeint is a social platform for mobile games that allows social networking features to be integrated into the game's functionality.

migme

Series C in 2010
Migme Limited is a global digital media company focused on emerging markets offers migme, a fan-based social entertainment platform that offers chat, content, and microblogging services. It enables users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts with each other. The site’s revenue is generated via gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Migme Limited was founded in 2005 and is listed and registered in Australia, with headquarters in Singapore.

Gumi

Corporate Round in 2010
gumi Inc. is a mobile entertainment content publisher and developer based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2007 by Hironao Kunimitsu. The company specializes in developing, operating, and distributing online games for smartphones and tablets, achieving notable success both domestically and internationally. Its flagship title, Brave Frontier, gained widespread acclaim and popularity across the globe. gumi also engages in blockchain technology and extended reality (XR) services, which encompass virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). With multiple subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North America, gumi collaborates with renowned partners such as SEGA and LINE to enhance its offerings and provide high-quality entertainment applications to users worldwide. Moreover, the company supports various game services, including native applications, browser-based games, and localization services for third-party content.

Enish

Corporate Round in 2010
Enish Inc is primarily engaged in planning, developing and providing social apps. The social apps developed by the Company are provided through social game platforms such as GREE, and it pays system usage fees while outsourcing fee collection to these social game platform operators.

Istyle

Series B in 2003
istyle, Inc. engages in the management of beauty-related online platforms as well as the provision of advertising, marketing, and research services. It operates through the following segments: On Platform, Beauty Service, Global, and Others. The On Platform segment deals with domestic and overseas marketing, as well as premium membership services. The Beauty Service segment manages domestic cosmetics electronic commerce sites in addition to its specialty shop @cosme store. The Global segment includes services developed overseas. The Others segment covers beauty staff dispatching and investment training services. It has overseas subsidiaries including in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and The United States.
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