Mizuho Bank

Mizuho Bank, established on July 1, 2013, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operates as a commercial bank offering a wide range of corporate and investment banking services. The bank serves major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities, providing various deposit options including current, time, and foreign currency deposits. It also offers lending services, such as loans by bill and overdrafts, as well as discounts for bank acceptances and commercial papers. In addition, Mizuho Bank provides investment banking services, custodial services, and various financing solutions, including real estate finance and project finance. As a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, the bank aims to leverage its Japanese heritage and global expertise to deliver tailored financial solutions that meet the needs of its clients.

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RABO

Series A in 2021
RABO, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes Internet of Things-based collar-type wearable devices for cats’ behavioral measurement. It also develops mobile application to support its devices. The company’s products include Catlog pendant and belt, which measures activity data of cats for 24 hours and supports cat health management; Catlog home; and Catlog app, a mobile application that enables cat owners to review their cat’s activity. It distributes its products through online retail store. RABO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Shibuya, Japan.

Wealthnavi

Series D in 2019
WealthNavi Inc. develops and delivers an online asset management and risk management platform. Its cloud-based platform provides robo advisory services that enable users to locate diversified investments internationally. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Newestage, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Newestage, Inc. develops a live streaming mobile application. The company's product, Stager Live, a video content aggregation application offers content, such as karaoke, dance, cooking, makeup, and instrument performance videos. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Beijing, China with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, and Jakarta Utara, Indonesia.

COVER Corporation

Venture Round in 2020
COVER Corporation engages in AR compatible virtual live distribution service that allows enterprises developing animation and games to develop interactive programs using 3D characters. The company also license to other companies. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mathews International Capital Management

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Since 1991, Matthews International Capital Management has focused its efforts and expertise on investing in Asia. Matthews employs a bottom-up, fundamental investment philosophy, with a focus on long-term investment performance. Matthews manages assets for individuals and institutions and our investment offerings provide a broad range of choices for building a global portfolio that includes exposure to Asia.

Plaid

Venture Round in 2018
Plaid the service provider does not have to analyze it using the service, such as data analysis, review the improvement plan, the only step on a separate step to reflect site. It is because the output for analysis and improvement of these services are divided. Therefore, you would have meant turning the PDCA high cost of resources and time-consuming large.

Kyushu Electric Power

Private Placement in 2019
Kyushu Electric Power Company, Incorporated is a Japan-based company mainly involved in the electric power business. It has four business segments. The Electric Power segment offers electric power that the Company generated and purchased from other energy supplier. The Energy-related segment is engaged in the wholesale of thermal electric power, the research, design, construction and supervision of electric- and civil engineering-related construction work, as well as the environment protection for power plants. This segment is also involved in the sale of electric machine tools, natural uranium, gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), and the new energy generation and heat supply businesses. The Information Communications segment offers data communication, broadband, fixed phone and information technology (IT)-related services.

Paidy

Venture Round in 2020
Paidy is a platform for consumers to pay at online stores using only their name and email address. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration. Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them each month in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.

LOB

Corporate Round in 2016
LOB Inc., an ad technology company, develops and provides advertising platforms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Stockmark

Series A in 2019
StockMark is an AI venture from the University of Tokyo that provides business decision support with text mining and AI. We are developing businesses such as the web news distribution service "Anews", sales "Asales", and AI-related business consulting business "AI Alchemist".

China Bank

Debt Financing in 2015
At China Bank, we are committed to making your success our business. We offer a complete range of deposit, investment, financing, remittance, and insurance products and services, accessible through our vast network of branches nationwide and secure and reliable electronic banking channels: China Bank TellerCard (ATM), China Bank Online (internet & mobile banking) and China Bank Tellerphone (phone banking)

Egenera

Series C in 2002
Egenera designs, develops and delivers cloud management and infrastructure virtualization software

UUUM

Post in 2020
UUUM is a YouTuber-focused management production services company. UUUM is Japan's largest influencer network co-founded by Japan's No.1 YouTuber HIKAKIN. It is targeting clients both inbound and outbound, with this partnership UUUM is expanding influencer marketing from Japan to the world and from the world to Japan.

Appier

Venture Round in 2020
Appier Inc., a technology company that provides artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to help enterprises. Its products include Aideal, which helps businesses to trigger purchase decisions and shortens sales cycles; AIQUA, a proactive customer engagement platform that enables users to engage audience based on their behavior inside and outside application or web environment; AIXON, a data science platform that unifies and enriches existing customer data to help understand audience and run AI models easily to predict future actions; and CrossX advertising, an AI powered advertising solutions that brings optimal campaign performance at scale. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It has additional offices in Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Seoul, and Bangkok.

One Act, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
One Act is a global AI technology startup. Based in Japan, France and India. The main business is the development and operation of the world's first AI-powered source code marketplace, "PieceX".

Vook

Debt Financing in 2017
The Japanese startup running online platforms for videographers.

Momo

Series E in 2021
Momo is a FinTech startup that offers a mobile, electronic wallet, and payment application for iOS and Android devices. Its products help customers in Vietnam make nationwide cash transfers, pay more than 100 types of bills, recharge mobile phone accounts, settle personal loans, and purchase services such as software license and online game cards, airline and movie tickets, etc. The company’s payment system partners with 24 domestic banks and foreign payment networks, including JCB, MasterCard, and Visa.

Repro

Debt Financing in 2019
Repro Inc. develops Repro, a mobile analytics solution for clients to convert and retain their mobile users. It offers application growth support consulting for total support from strategy planning and development to application. The company provides in-app message to improve conversion rate. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

CAMPFIRE

Series E in 2020
Campfire is a Japanese crowdfunding site. They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something." The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over 700,000 people.

AVA Intelligence

Seed Round in 2019
AVA Intelligence Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence based software solution that proposes travel destination based on user's personality. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in Shibuya, Japan.

Horizonte Minerals

Post in 2020
Horizonte Minerals operates as a nickel development company focussed in Brazil, which wholly owns the advanced Araguaia nickel laterite project (“Araguaia” or “the Project”) located to the south of the Carajas mineral district of northern Brazil.

Jio

Debt Financing in 2018
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a company providing wireless telecom products and services. The Company offers voice, data, and messaging services, as well as distributes smartphones and hotspot devices. Its areas of research, development and new service deployment include blockchain, artificial intelligence, open source platforms, IOT, data analytics, and next-gen cloud services.

Gizumo

Corporate Round in 2018
Gizumo inc. offers system engineering service for Information technology industry. It offers training business and contract development services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

GRCS

Venture Round in 2017
GRCS provide GRC solutions that visualize the risks surrounding a company and use it for management while optimizing company rules and social rules using IT.

aiQ

Private Placement in 2020
aiQ Co., Ltd. provides big data and artificial intelligence based new investment information service. It offers aiQ Geolocation, that provide analysis results of listed companies; aiQ POS, collect and analyze sales data of retailers; and aiQ Sentiment, artificial intelligence analyzes writing on SNS, bulletin board, and sentiment of the company's reputation and stock price. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mentalhealth Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
Mental Health Technologies is a company that provides standard measures to maintain the mental health of employees, which is one of the foundations of health management.

SanBio

Post in 2017
SanBio is a regenerative medicine company with cell-based products in various stages of research, development, and clinical trials. Its proprietary cell-based product, SB623, is currently in a Phase 2b clinical trial for treatment of chronic motor impairments resulting from stroke with its joint development partner, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., in the United States and Canada. SanBio is also implementing a global Phase 2 clinical trial in the United States and Japan using SB623 for treatment of motor impairment resulting from traumatic brain injury.

Cogent Labs

Series B in 2019
Cogent Labs, a Tokyo based AI company, bridges the gap between state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and real-world solutions with a mission to improve people’s quality of life. The company conducts advanced fundamental and applied AI research to create business solutions leveraging expertise across many fields, including time-series forecasting, information extraction, natural language and voice processing, and reinforcement learning.

ReadyFor

Series A in 2019
READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.

Pring

Corporate Round in 2017
pring Inc. is engage in developing and providing the app for smart phone called pring.

Cinnamon AI

Debt Financing in 2018
Cinnamon, Inc. provides products and consulting development services for artificial intelligence. The company develops an auto documentation tool that enables users to extract information from application forms, documents, and email, and create formatted documents, a highly accurate recommendation/matching engine, and a Chatbot that understands natural languages. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Style Port

Venture Round in 2018
Style Port Inc. develops and provides the VR preview systems using AI technology. The company's product is Roov, a VR preview system that can generate 3D modeling data from CAD data even for newly built properties that have not been completed yet. Even with occupied secondhand properties, users can delete personal items and furniture by scanning survey, and can be used only with general terminals and web browsers, with its own development engine. Style Port Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.

Space BD

Debt Financing in 2019
Space BD aims to become a one-stop shop to respond to all issues related to industrialization of space, and alleviate the work of businesses that are developing new technologies.

Zig Zag Japan

Series A in 2020
zig-zag supports both buyers and sellers so that they can shop and sell safely, safely, easily and freely without worrying about borders.

Baseconnect Inc.

Series A in 2020
Baseconnect Inc. develops and operates BaseconnectList, a corporate sales support database. The company offers Musubu , a cloud-based database for targeting corporate sales and creating a company list for prospective customers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kyoto, Japan.

SkyDisc

Private Placement in 2019
SkyDisk provides one-stop services that are necessary to make it easier to use the IoT service. Their mission is to solve business problems by visualizing data through sensors and analysis.
Consolidated Communications, Inc. (CCI) offers residential digital TV, high-speed Internet and voice service in the greater Sacramento, California and Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri areas. Bundled residential/home offers provide additional savings for the most competitive rates. Our fiber-optic networks allow us to deliver extremely fast Internet access, crystal clear high definition cable television (HDTV), digital telephone and long distance services. All SureWest services include local, best-in-class customer service and 24/7 technical support.

FiNC

Debt Financing in 2015
FiNC Technologies is a health tech venture specializing in preventive health care x AI (artificial intelligence).There are many gaps between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, physical complexities, body problems such as low back pain, knee pain, stiff shoulders, and many other health issues and concerns. Looking at the world, the inequality of starvation and lack of medical care in developing countries and the obesity and increase in medical expenses in developed countries are regarded as problematic. And at the root of these health problems are bad habits of exercise, nutrition and rest. Under the mission of "Personalized AI for everyone's wellness

Sun Asterisk

Debt Financing in 2020
Sun Asterisk is a software company provides software services.

bellFace

Venture Round in 2020
bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meeting systems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.

TVISION INSIGHTS

Venture Round in 2020
TVISION INSIGHTS is a company that measures the "viewing quality" of television. Utilizing state-of-the-art human body recognition technology developed by TVISION, it is rare in the world to acquire TV viewing status in the living room and convert it into data, and a very unique data set that does not exist is founded It has been acquired and accumulated since then. Currently, we have expanded our bases globally and have expanded to Tokyo, Boston and New York. While challenging challenges in different markets,we are continuing to grow rapidly to realize the original potential of TV.

GIFMAGAZINE

Debt Financing in 2019
GIFMAGAZINE is Japan's largest community for posting GIF animation works, with 150,000 works posted monthly. Among them, those who have a unique view of the world and produce highly artistic works are introduced as "GIFMAGAZINE Official GIFer".

Shiba Park Building

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Shiba Park Building comprises a real estate property. The asset is located in Japan.

HoloEyes

Series B in 2019
HoloEyes plans to use the funds raised this round to build the system and business base for HoloEyes VR and expand its staff.Collecting the data from CT scans, forming 3D human body models, and accumulating it creates a so-called medical VR database.

NeuroSpace

Debt Financing in 2019
Neurospace Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells brain waves related equipment for analyzing sleep patterns. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

HC Holdings K.K.

Private Placement in 2020
HC Holdings K.K. operates as a holding company. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. HC Holdings K.K. operates as a subsidiary of Showa Denko K.K.

Paidy

Debt Financing in 2019
Paidy is a platform for consumers to pay at online stores using only their name and email address. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration. Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them each month in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.

Adish

Private Placement in 2018
Adish is an IT company that solves customer issues and problems that cause dissatisfaction. The company aims for a society where everyone can feel at ease and have the wanted information without being influenced by the overflowing information. The company offers services like risk management for smooth communication, a net patrol-bullying anonymous contact site, and a smoother and more efficient customer support. Adish was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sensyn Robotics

Venture Round in 2020
Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helping tackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.

Photosynth

Private Placement in 2020
Photosynth Inc. develops smart locks for homes. The company was founded on September 1, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Verkor

Venture Round in 2024
Verkor is a French industrial company set to amplify battery cell production.

Andpad

Debt Financing in 2024
Andpad provides a construction management application for users throughout Japan. It began operation on September 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Sharing Energy

Debt Financing 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.

Ubie

Debt Financing in 2024
Ubie, a Tokyo based health-tech startup, provides AI-based healthcare products. Hospital SaaS product “Ubie for Hospital”, also knows as AI Monshin (Monshin means interview with a doctor/record taking in Japanese) is an AI-driven medical questionnaire software targeting users at medical institutions, in order to support document creation of clinical records under supervision from specialists. Consumer application, AI symptom checker “Ubie” is a physician supervised symptom checking app. Users can understand their symptoms by answering questions prompted by the AI and learn how to cope with the symptoms based on the disease information.

Oishii Farm

Series B in 2024
Oishii Farm provides an indoor vertical farming technology.

1SEC

Debt Financing in 2024
1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan in the field of enter teignment.

Photo electron Soul

Venture Round in 2023
Photo electron Soul mission is to innovate the world of "seeing (fine observation)" and "creating (fine processing)" through the development of photocathode electron beam technology. The photocathode electron beam technology developed by our company will produce next generation electron beams with high performance and versatility (pulse structure, low dispersion, large current). By renewing the electron beam, which is a key device for industrial equipment such as electron microscopes, semiconductor device manufacturing / inspection equipment, and metal 3D printers, it is possible to realize fine observation, fine processing, high throughput, etc. Breakthroughs in a wide range of fields such as science, materials, and electronics.

Rakuten Medical

Series E in 2024
Rakuten Medical is a privately funded clinical-stage biotechnology company with offices in the USA, Japan, and Germany. Rakuten Medical has been developing new anticancer therapies based on the Photoimmunotherapy platform. Rakuten Medical plans to become a fully integrated biopharma with research, development, and worldwide commercialization of therapies based on the Photoimmunotherapy platform. Rakuten Medical was established in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Polestar

Post in 2024
Polestar is an electric performance brand, focused on uncompromised car design and technology. A Volvo subsidiary, Polestar is at the center of Electromobility, introducing world-class electrified cars and innovative, customer- focused services and offers. Polestar is set to launch a range of electric vehicles. Polestar 1 will begin production in 2019 whilst Polestar 2 and 3 are already at advanced stages of development.

DirectBooks

Venture Round in 2024
Addressing inefficiencies in the marketplace across multiple communication channels, DirectBooks will simplify the primary issuance process through the use of structured data and streamlined communications. The new service will increase the efficiency and accuracy of deal workflow information among market participants by disseminating it through a robust communication platform that can be integrated into underwriter and investor systems to better connect underwriters and their clients.

Forest

Series A in 2023
Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.

Frontier Field

Debt Financing in 2023
Frontier Field Co., Ltd. develops solutions using big data and AI in the medical and healthcare fields. The company accumulates real-world data, such as treatment data, medication data, and test values of a number of patients to provide evidence useful for drug discovery. It offers contract services, including system engineer, network engineer, programmer, and contract operation, such as system operation management; mobile extension services; antenna sharing services; DPC hospital analysis services; and Cancer Record, a medical information recording/sharing app that supports the fight against illness of cancer patients. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

Spectee

Debt Financing in 2023
Spectee is a online news agency that specializes in curating and publishing real-time social media UGC video. By using artificial intelligence patented by Spectee, It is able to reduce the time taken to analyze and sort social media news content, giving you faster access to the very latest UGC video. Expect video covering both Japanese and worldwide news from accidents and disasters to lifestyle and entertainment.​ it newsroom is verifying and acquiring licenses of those contents for broadcasters and publishers.
Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor that invests on behalf of over 450 institutional investors. Established in 1982, Pantheon has developed a strong reputation and track record in primary, secondary and co-investments. Pantheon has a particular appetite for buyout, venture and growth, and special situations funds from a multitude of geographical regions and vintages (see separate entry).

Sensyn Robotics

Venture Round in 2023
Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helping tackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.

Acall

Debt Financing in 2023
SaaS (Visitor Management , Facility Management , Business Meeting)

LocationMind

Debt Financing in 2024
LocationMind Co., Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based software solutions for flow pre-measurement. The company solutions include LocationMind xPop, which is a SaaS dashboard that meets a wide range of people flow analysis needs and MobMap, which is a tool that enables its users to analyze human flow data in a time series. It offers front-line research on spatial information engineering. The company serves various industries and institutions. LocationMind Co., Ltd. was founded in 2019 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

ExaWizards

Post in 2023
ExaWizards Inc. engages in development of an artificial intelligence (AI) based platform, Coaching AI. It helps users to learn skills and support care giving training for people with dementia. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Varo Energy

Debt Financing in 2023
VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in North West Europe.

One Act, Inc.

Debt Financing in 2019
One Act is a global AI technology startup. Based in Japan, France and India. The main business is the development and operation of the world's first AI-powered source code marketplace, "PieceX".

FinAccel

Series D in 2023
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.

Amazon

Post in 2023
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical and online stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Rings, and Echo and other devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content. In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as its stores; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as fulfillment, advertising, publishing, and digital content subscriptions. Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. The company also operates in the food delivery business in Bengaluru, India. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. The company also has utility-scale solar projects in China, Australia, and the United States. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic relationship with NXP Semiconductors N.V. to deliver a cloud compute solution for vehicles that enable cloud-powered services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Ubie

Debt Financing in 2022
Ubie, a Tokyo based health-tech startup, provides AI-based healthcare products. Hospital SaaS product “Ubie for Hospital”, also knows as AI Monshin (Monshin means interview with a doctor/record taking in Japanese) is an AI-driven medical questionnaire software targeting users at medical institutions, in order to support document creation of clinical records under supervision from specialists. Consumer application, AI symptom checker “Ubie” is a physician supervised symptom checking app. Users can understand their symptoms by answering questions prompted by the AI and learn how to cope with the symptoms based on the disease information.

Aeon Credit Service

Debt Financing in 2022
AEON Credit Service (M) Berhad engages in the consumer finance business in Malaysia. It provides easy payment (EP) schemes and personal financing schemes based on Islamic principles; and issues payment cards under the Visa and MasterCard brand names. The company also offers AEON credit cards, including AEON BiG Visa Classic, AEON BiG Visa Gold, AEON Gold Visa/MasterCard, AEON Classic Visa/MasterCard, AEON Platinum Visa, AEON Gold Visa/MasterCard, AEON Classic Visa/MasterCard, AEON Credit Executive Business, Motorcycle Association Affinity Gold Visa, Japan Club of Kuala Lumpur Credit, and Supplementary cards. In addition, it provides prepaid cards, such as AEON Member Plus Visa Card (XPRESS+); and AEON Prepaid MasterCard; as well as AEON Express and Touch 'n Go Zing cards. Further, the company offers personal financing products; Auto Financing HP-I, Motorcycle Financing HP-I, and objective financing services; small and medium enterprises equipment financing services; and motor, personal accident, and health and wellness insurance products. It has five regional offices, and 71 branches and service centers located in various retail malls and towns, as well as a network of approximately 12,000 participating merchant outlets. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. AEON Credit Service (M) Berhad is a subsidiary of AEON Financial Service Co., Ltd.

Credit Saison

Post in 2024
Credit Saison Co., Ltd. provides leasing, finance, real estate, and entertainment services in Japan and internationally. The company offers credit, prepaid and debit cards, and loan collection agency services; and payment solutions and business support services for corporate activities, as well as marketing solutions. It also provides finance lease, business-use installment sales, and rental services for office automation equipment, LED lighting products, and others; credit guarantees for unsecured personal loans; mortgage, asset formation, and real estate investment loans; and digital payment and asset management services. The company was formerly known as Seibu Credit Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Credit Saison Co., Ltd. in October 1989. Credit Saison Co., Ltd. was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

avatarin

Series B in 2024
avatarin Inc. engages in research, development, and deployment of avatar services in Japan. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. avatarin Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ANA Holdings Inc.

Play Life

Venture Round in 2021
PlayLife is an experience sharing site where you can search, share, and post play information, where users can actually experience and plan a fun experience as know-how of play. It is a service that provides highly reliable information under the real name system, provides know-how that only experienced users can know, and information that coordinates the way of spending a day, making play more fun and convenient.

Corekara

Debt Financing in 2019
COREKARA Inc provides web designing services. It also offers content marketing, information technology (IT), and application development and consulting services. COREKARA Inc was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It has additional offices in Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan.

Crunch Style, inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Crunch Style, inc. owns and operates a flower shipping portal, Bloomee. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Musashino, Japan.

Clean Energy Connect

Venture Round in 2021
Clean Energy Connect Co., Ltd. owns, generates and delivers renewable energy for corporate customers. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

VPP Japan

Venture Round in 2020
VPP Japan, Inc. engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity using solar energy. The company uses solar power plants to generate and distribute electricity for service shop centers to charge electric vehicles, storage batteries, and homes. It serves both residential and commercial customers. The company was founded in June 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Appier

Venture Round in 2020
Appier Inc., a technology company that provides artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to help enterprises. Its products include Aideal, which helps businesses to trigger purchase decisions and shortens sales cycles; AIQUA, a proactive customer engagement platform that enables users to engage audience based on their behavior inside and outside application or web environment; AIXON, a data science platform that unifies and enriches existing customer data to help understand audience and run AI models easily to predict future actions; and CrossX advertising, an AI powered advertising solutions that brings optimal campaign performance at scale. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It has additional offices in Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Seoul, and Bangkok.

DIV

Venture Round in 2019
DIV operates TECH::CAMP, a programming school, a short-term intensive training course designed to turn students into engineers.

Jiraffe

Debt Financing in 2020
Jiraffe Inc. engages in the planning, development, and management of Internet services. It operates sites that enable customers to compare the price of iPhone repair and parts replacement, as well as purchase price; and buy and sell smartphones individually. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Adoir

Seed Round in 2017
adoir Co., Ltd. is a online video communication company focused on a for Japan's company export , adoir was established in Tokyo in 2012 as a small startup.Our vision is "Japan worth spreading" .Japan has many worth something(technology and culture etc...) We discover Japan's worth,and export by online video for global market.If you want know Japan's worth technology and culture,please contact as.

Eichiii

Venture Round in 2020
Operation of a space search reservation site that utilizes available space

OpenLogi

Debt Financing in 2020
OpenLogi is a Tokyo based logistics platform focused on SMEs and freelancers. OpenLogi was founded back in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito who was previously involved in launching Japanese magazine subscription service Fujisan.co.jp. Based on his experience in discussing and negotiating with logistics companies, he founded OpenLogi to address logistics solutions for small e-commerce players.

TONIK

Series B in 2022
TONIK provides retail financial products, including deposits, loans, current accounts, payments, and cards on a highly secure digital banking platform.

Lestas

Series A in 2020
LESTAS Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of custom mad products. The company offers custom personalized calendar, towel, paper fan, and stickers. It also provides New Year’s card for business and personal use. The company sells its products through a website. LESTAS Inc. was formerly known as Naire Seisakusho Inc. and changed its name to LESTAS Inc. in August 2019. Lestas Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Kita, Japan.

AnyMind Group

Debt Financing in 2022
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

Gaia Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Gaia Inc. provides crypto currency trading platform, that enables the same order as an trader in virtual currency investment such as bitcoin. It offers a follow-trade platform which allows users to easily carry out the same trade simply by following popular traders. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chuo, Japan.

Clue

Debt Financing in 2020
CLUE, Inc. develops drone automation software. The company’s offerings include DroneRoofer, a software for exterior roof inspection, construction surveying, and roof area calculation through drones; Drone Construction Management, a software that enables remote construction inspection and offers cloud collaboration on the images captured through drone; and Drone View-kun, a software for photography of condominiums and properties through drones. CLUE, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.