Matsumoto, Takashi

Investment Partner

Kazuhiko Ota

Investment Partner

Mutsunori Sano

President and CEO

30 past transactions

Astroscale

Series F in 2021
Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of end-of-life (EOL) and active debris removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and is working with national space agencies, international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies, and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations, and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.

Ispace Technologies

Series C in 2021
Ispace Technologies is a space resource exploration company founded in 2013 to develop micro-robots that will locate the resources necessary to extend human life into outer space. Their main focus is to locate, extract, and deliver lunar ice to customers in cis-lunar space. Ispace manages the technological and business development operations of Team HAKUTO in the Google Lunar XPRIZE Competition. Team Hakuto is a front runner in the $30M competition to land a privately funded robot on the Moon and was one of only three teams to win a $500,000 Milestone Prize in mobility. Ispace utilizes 3D printed and commercially off the shelf products (COTS) for rapid prototyping while maximizing structural mass efficiency and shortening the developmental life cycle. Their micro-robots are able to explore larger areas of the Moon faster, at a fraction of the cost of large robots.

Life is Beautiful

Venture Round in 2021
Life is Beautiful develops iOS and Android mobile apps, web apps, and Facebook apps. The company’s portfolio of services includes development and consultation with Natural Language Processing, smartphone app development, social app development, web service development, UI/UX design, character design, and consultation. Life is Beautiful was founded on September 29, 2010, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

POWERNEXT

Seed Round in 2021
POWERNEXT provides supply, demand management, power generation management, balancing group, power source procurement and interchange agency, fee calculation, sales support, legal record, non-fossil value trading, and customer management system services.

iYell

Venture Round in 2020
iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.

toridori

Series A in 2020
Toridori provides multifaceted development, such as matching businesses, influencer marketing support, and influencer management. They discover and polish individuality with hidden potential, and send it to the world. Toridori is an influencer marketing business platform connecting influencers to businesses who want to improve their marketing effectiveness.

Bonx

Series C in 2020
Bonx provides wearable outdoor sports group-talk technology. Bonx creates and develops Bonx Grip, a water and shock proof unit that enables group conversations between outdoor athletes.

Power Sharing

Venture Round in 2020
Power Sharing provides outsourcing services to new electric power companies.

GRCS

Venture Round in 2019
GRCS provides security solutions, product sales, and consulting services for businesses. Their consulting services include security product introduction, operation support, management system operation improvement, and financial technology services.

TWO CELLS

Corporate Round in 2019
TWO CELLS is engaged in the research and development of regeneration technology. The company was founded in April 2003 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Leading Mark

Series B in 2019
Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the users get the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

Tripla

Series C in 2019
Tripla provides IT services for various industries such as hotels, railways, travel-related, restaurants, real estate, and apparel. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in Japan that aims to provide a platform where any tourists can make any reservations they want to make in their language through any chat and voice platforms. It provides the service to hundreds of customers like hotels, rent- a- car companies, transportation companies that provide services to tourists. Tripla chatbot, a BPO service that solves daily inquiry cost reduction and multilingual support at once, has been well received by customers due to its learning AI and double support from operators who are familiar with the industry. Also, the new hotel reservation engine equipped with the OTA price comparison of each company and the automatic best rate adjustment function has significantly increased the ratio of in-house reservations and contributed to the improvement of profitability.

Live Smart

Venture Round in 2019
LiveSmart's service platform in living spaces is designed to address the various social concerns that the world encounters on a daily basis, such as lowering anxiety in an aging society, reducing the load of housework and childcare, and reducing stress in everyday life.

DataMix

Venture Round in 2019
DataMix provides an educational program specialized for training data scientists for working adults. It primarily offers two programs that include Data Scientist Training Program and Business Translator Training Program. The Data Scientist Training Program is a program aimed at adults who are seriously seeking to open up their careers with data science at the edge while Business Translator Training Program is a program for working people who want to make business by utilizing data science and big data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ZenmuTech

Venture Round in 2018
ZenmuTech is a provider of security solutions intended to protect important information from leakage and theft. The company's platform provides security solutions implemented with conventional encryption technology by converting information into dispersing information bits based on secret sharing technologies, thereby enabling organizations to protect themselves from security threats.

Uncover Truth

Venture Round in 2018
Uncover Truth is an analytics company that offers data visualization and content analytics services through the web and mobile.

HACARUS

Series A in 2018
HACARUS is a provider of Explainable Lightweight AI Tools, backed by Miyako Capital (Kyoto University) among others. Its solutions are used in the Medical and Manufacturing fields to enable humans to make better, faster and more reliable decisions, based on AI driven insights. Hacarus' proprietary AI engine is built using Sparse Modeling, an AI method that understands data like a human would - by its unique key features and is far more resource, time and energy efficient when compared to Deep Learning.

Tripla

Venture Round in 2018
Tripla provides IT services for various industries such as hotels, railways, travel-related, restaurants, real estate, and apparel. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in Japan that aims to provide a platform where any tourists can make any reservations they want to make in their language through any chat and voice platforms. It provides the service to hundreds of customers like hotels, rent- a- car companies, transportation companies that provide services to tourists. Tripla chatbot, a BPO service that solves daily inquiry cost reduction and multilingual support at once, has been well received by customers due to its learning AI and double support from operators who are familiar with the industry. Also, the new hotel reservation engine equipped with the OTA price comparison of each company and the automatic best rate adjustment function has significantly increased the ratio of in-house reservations and contributed to the improvement of profitability.

KIYO Learning

Venture Round in 2018
KIYO Learning is a tech company that plans, produces, sales, and operates educational content and services for business people.

PicoCELA

Series B in 2018
PicoCELA has strived to develop and implement world best wireless backhaul technology. Our backhaul technology is realized in a unique protocol suite which utilized a dynamic tree routing algorithm and a wireless frame transfer technology to suppress radio wave interference. The technology is protected by more than 20 registered patents worldwide. For 10 or more multi-hop wireless relay set ups, our backhaul delivers stable broadband transmission with low latency. PicoCELA systems have been installed in over 100 sites in Japan and more than 3,000 units are operating every day. We have reduced the LAN cabling by more than 70% at most installation sites resulting in massive installation cost savings. We recently released PCWL-0400, an edge computer with backhaul WLAN and enterprise wireless access points to reduce not only cabling but amount of Big Data to be uploaded.

Brain Magic

Venture Round in 2018
Brain Magic is technology startup with a mission to accelerate creative work all around the world through the power of technology. It offers solutions that optimize the way you work, removing the little stresses and inefficiencies hiding in all kinds of business and everyday situations. Its main product is the Orbital2, an input device for creators developed for the purpose of keyboard operation in the creator's creative scene. Founded in 2016, Brain Magic is based out of Japan.

Perseus Proteomics

Venture Round in 2018
PePerseus Proteomics is a drug discovery biotechnology venture that uses advanced antibody technology to pursue superior antibody production technology and create new medicines powerfully for people around the world who are waiting for better medical care .

Bonx

Series A in 2018
Bonx provides wearable outdoor sports group-talk technology. Bonx creates and develops Bonx Grip, a water and shock proof unit that enables group conversations between outdoor athletes.

Mama Square

Venture Round in 2017
mama square operates a chain of working spaces in Tokyo and other areas of Japan. Each of the mama square facilities has an office area attached to a daycare and cafeteria so women can leave their children while working.

Tranzax

Corporate Round in 2017
Tranzax is a Financial Services to provide primary manufacturers with new cash management solutions for their supply chains.This is a solution where the primary manufacturer seeks to reduce the financial costs of the entire supply chain,we have named Transaction Finance.

Y's

Venture Round in 2016
Y’s offers unique rehab services for cerebrovascular disease aftereffects, unavailable at regular hospitals or day care centers.

tmsuk

Corporate Round in 2016
TMSUK is a robotic company aiming to create safe and comfortable society in which people and robots can coexist via robotic products.

Delta-Fly Pharma

Venture Round in 2015
Their company name "Delta-Fly" is derived from "Dragonfly (Tonbo)". Tonbo symbolizes the spirit of "regression" from where it only retreats forward, and is also called "the winning insect."

BrightPath Biotherapeutics

Venture Round in 2014
BrightPath Biotherapeutics is a stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel cancer immunotherapies. The company develops products based on peptide vaccine technology that stimulates a potent immune response to tumor-associated antigens.

ZMP

Seed Round in 2003
ZMP is an international company in the field of robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive technology, sensing technology and related areas. Currently we employ half of engineers from overseas, Australia, China, Egypt, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, India, Taiwan and UK. We will keep employing new members from all over the world in the future. *Japanese language is not required.
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