Monex Ventures

Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Tokyo, Japan, established in 2005. The firm specializes in financing seed and early-stage investments in startup companies, focusing on sectors such as business products and services, consumer products and services, and technology. Through its investments, Monex Ventures aims to support innovative entrepreneurs and contribute to the growth of emerging businesses in these dynamic markets.

Seiichiro Wada

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner

85 past transactions

MoneyDuck

Seed Round in 2021
MoneyDuck connects users with financial experts for free advice on loans, credit cards, and insurance that enhances financial decisions.

AGRI SMILE

Series A in 2021
AGRI SMILE employs technology to create sustainable agriculture, communities, and production areas. AGRI SMILE promotes agricultural industry development by combining software as a tool for accumulating and inheriting technology with science, which creates new technology based on accumulated data. AGRI SMILE seeks to establish a cultivation system that is in harmony with the environment and the region, allowing agricultural workers to live a rich life both financially and spiritually.

Anipos

Seed Round in 2021
Anipos is an application that allows users to easily claim donations and pet insurance. Anipos eases the burden on property owners by facilitating insurance claims and providing better veterinary care to pets.

fermata

Venture Round in 2021
We are a multi-faceted platform that provides high-quality solutions on a marketplace, product distribution & localisation support and B2B consulting. Since its founding in 2019, we have built partnerships with international femtech hubs and established a network of over 2,000 companies worldwide with an aim to improve a woman's quality of life. Our global team's expertise span across public health, community development and various industry fields which has contributed to the growth of the company and our reputation of being a femtech thought leader in Asia.

Latona

Series A in 2021
Latona is combining three major technological segments, such as onboarding AI model container runtimes, sensor-controlling software stacks, and FPGA/RTOS real-time applications and hardware. Latona creates a platform that includes all AI, IoT, edge computing, and relevant resources to innovate every type of UX, application-driven architecture, computational facet, and technological component in a business environment.

CharacterBank

Venture Round in 2020
CharacterBank is a game development company that focuses on creating innovative AR/VR/MR experiences. It has already built a development system capable of producing one title per year. The company aims to be a game development company that creates hit content for XR games in various genres such as "multiplayer" and "action".

Natee

Series A in 2020
Natee is the creator of a talent management platform for talent marketing. The company provides talent production, influencer marketing, promotion, advertising operations, and account management, allowing clients to effectively advertise their talent.

Radiotalk

Seed Round in 2020
Radiotalk is a voice distribution platform that includes daily chatting, consultations, and stand-up comedy features.

Nobollel

Venture Round in 2020
Nobollel is a planning, development and operation of game applications utilizing Unity Planning, development and operation of game applications utilizing Cocos2d-x.

Everyplus

Venture Round in 2020
Everyplus is an eldercare facility that provides recreational activities and events for senior citizens.

Recipio

Seed Round in 2020
Recipio is an receipt management platform specialized in providing digital receipt solution. Their innovative digital receipt solution and breakthrough receipt-scanning technology.

Recipio Japan

Seed Round in 2020
Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.

LINK Japan

Seed Round in 2020
Link is a healthcare platform that helps provide a service that delivers caregivers anywhere, at any time. The company is developing a new nursing care system based on IT and technology, as well as a large platform that will serve as the cornerstone. Home-visit care offices currently provide these services throughout Japan.

IB

Seed Round in 2020
IB is an insurance book app that allows users to manage insurance. Their purpose is to eliminate errors in insurance claims. IB offers a SaaS platform for insurance business owners called Hokenbo for Business, which integrates with the insurance book app. They help the Financial Services Agency's customer-oriented business activities.

Team Like

Seed Round in 2020
Team Like works with a wide range of industrial materials and materials, and we make and sell a variety of items made from materials that are suited for improving the environment and solving our customers' concerns. One company makes to order a wide range of items such as vinyl curtains, vinyl covers, partitions, tents, net nets, metal processing, and so on.

Vivid Garden

Series B in 2020
Vivid Garden is an agriculture company that offers online direct sales and purchase of ingredients and flowers.

Compass

Seed Round in 2020
Compass Japan is the operator of an online consultation platform that provides career advice. The company's platform includes features that allow users to speak with a qualified career consultant about professional development, trajectory, household circumstances, and changes in life stages, allowing them to identify problems and find solutions to improve their living conditions.

Qubena

Venture Round in 2020
Qubena is an AI platform that analyzes each child's strengths and weaknesses.

Zaiko

Series A in 2020
Zaiko is an event technology platform empowering creators with flexible solutions for ticketing, streaming, and engaging audiences both during and between events. By offering a seamless blend of tools, Zaiko enables creators to maximize their reach and revenue while maintaining full control over their content and experiences.

Japan Legal Network

Venture Round in 2020
Japan Legal Network is an application that records the attendance status based on the user's location. They educate people who are illiterate about the law and provide legal answers. Japan Legal Network provides legal fee provision services and medical appraisal services. They offer legal services related to insurance to their clients.

SHAREDINE

Seed Round in 2020
SHAREDINE is a subscription service for traveling chefs for pregnancy, before and after childbirth, baby food, lifestyle-related diseases, muscle training, and diabetes. They offer corporate benefits and wellness services, such as organizing meal seminars and dispatching cooking services for people. The on-site chefs at ShareDine are food experts with credentials such as registered dietitians and cooks. There are approximately 1,600 registered visiting chefs with various specialties, including those who have experience with nutritional guidance and cooking in nursery school cafeterias and hospitals, as well as those who have experience cooking in hotel and restaurant kitchens. A traveling chef will also carefully advise them on cooking points such as recipes, preparation, and setup for them to replicate at home.

Sportip

Seed Round in 2020
Sportip provides motion analysis and posture analysis applications for trainers and therapists. Sportip harnesses the power of information technology to provide coaches for each individual who can analyze individual movement data and provide appropriate guidance based on it.

FRAME00

Seed Round in 2020
FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform. Our product "Dev Protocol" is an open source middleware that fairly evaluates any activity and support sustainability with staking. More innovative way than donating your money.

PR Table

Series C in 2020
PR Table is a provider of a public relation platform designed to offer corporate storytelling. The company's platform creates, accumulate and utilizes story for marketing and advertisement, enabling corporate clients to transmit information on story publication, recruitment and information focused on founding episodes.

Airporter

Series B in 2020
Airporter is a tourism agency that offers luggage and baggage delivery services for customers and travelers. The service allows you to complete all transactions from order to settlement on your smartphone. The company plans to strengthen business partnerships with hotels and delivery systems in the future. In June 2019, the company announced the launch of tens of millions of fundraising, including BASE Partners, Monex Ventures and Mizuho Capital. The company was founded on November 1, 2017, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Lebo Robotics

Venture Round in 2020
Lebo Robotics is an inspection robot that performs maintenance on wind turbine blades. They provide an AI analysis service for images taken by ground cameras and sell repair materials related to wind power generation, such as paint and putty.

KYC Consulting

Seed Round in 2020
KYC Consulting Corporation provides risk management and KYC internal system construction services. They also offer a range of services, including the creation and maintenance of KYC manuals, employee training on KYC compliance, and practical assistance with KYC operations.

Legal Technology

Seed Round in 2020
Legal Technology develops a legal library, various legal books, various materials, creates government agencies, and more. They transform the future of legal research by integrating and liberating reliable information. Although it can be challenging to discover information in legal books, which are quite accurate, on the other hand, it is not always feasible to get reliable information from search engines on the Internet.

Yell Lpi

Venture Round in 2020
Yell Lpi is a developer of a legal insurance platform.

Rehab

Venture Round in 2020
Rehab is a technology firm that offers information communication technology, and digital transformation services for the medical care field.

AGRI SMILE

Seed Round in 2020
AGRI SMILE employs technology to create sustainable agriculture, communities, and production areas. AGRI SMILE promotes agricultural industry development by combining software as a tool for accumulating and inheriting technology with science, which creates new technology based on accumulated data. AGRI SMILE seeks to establish a cultivation system that is in harmony with the environment and the region, allowing agricultural workers to live a rich life both financially and spiritually.

Logikura

Venture Round in 2020
Logikura is inventory management software that is available for free. Its software is aimed primarily at e-commerce businesses, and it can streamline warehouse picking and inspection with a single smartphone.

New Revo

Series A in 2020
New Revo is a logistics start-up company that provides "strategic logistics".

Rehasaku

Series A in 2019
Rehasaku is a service that uses technology to support both medical professionals, such as physiotherapists and judo rehabilitation practitioners, and patients.

Japan Legal System Institute

Seed Round in 2019
Japan Legal System Institute (JLSI), our primary value is to provide products that exceed user expectations.

Crafter

Series A in 2019
Crafter is now a member of Monex Group! Crafter provides Crew, a team collaboration tool powered by GPT-3 and CraftChat. CraftChat is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in enterprises to automate acquiring leads and providing best customer experience in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using CraftChat, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. CraftChat delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Secai Marche

Seed Round in 2019
Secai Marche is a platform for restaurants to purchase high-quality products directly from farmers. Its mission is to help build more economically-viable and sustainable small-scale farms around the world through an improved access to quality and delicious food.

OneMile Partners

Venture Round in 2019
OneMile Partners is an asset management consulting firm,Life insurance agency and Financial products intermediary.

Vivid Garden

Series A in 2019
Vivid Garden is an agriculture company that offers online direct sales and purchase of ingredients and flowers.

Tanp

Series B in 2019
TANP is an e-commerce platform that offers a wide range of gift-giving products and options to enhance customers' precious moments and make their gift-giving experiences more enjoyable.

TRiCERA

Seed Round in 2019
TRiCERA provides a platform for artists to advance their careers. It breaks down the barriers of language and distance that artists from all over the world face. It fosters an environment in which participating artists can freely sell their works to collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide.

AirX

Venture Round in 2019
AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. It will create the movement of the future society, sightseeing, and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic. AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

STUDIO Japan

Series A in 2019
STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.

STUDIO

Seed Round in 2019
STUDIO is a web design & development platform that enables users to build websites from scratch without coding. Studio's AI-augmented design app helps users in highlighting an area where they are stuck, allows multi-step tasks to auto-populate, and helps to resize layouts automatically thanks to algorithms reflowing objects without disrupting the overall layout.

Airporter

Series A in 2019
Airporter is a tourism agency that offers luggage and baggage delivery services for customers and travelers. The service allows you to complete all transactions from order to settlement on your smartphone. The company plans to strengthen business partnerships with hotels and delivery systems in the future. In June 2019, the company announced the launch of tens of millions of fundraising, including BASE Partners, Monex Ventures and Mizuho Capital. The company was founded on November 1, 2017, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

AlterBooth

Series A in 2019
AlterBooth develops software centered on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It began operation on March 19, 2015, with its headquarters in Fukuoka in Japan.

Cocktail Make

Series A in 2019
Cocktail Make is a development and operation of video generation tool "RICHKA"

Azoop

Series A in 2019
Azoop operates a trucking platform for the transportation industry.

Richka

Series A in 2019
Richka is a technology company that specializes in creative technologies. With its strong software development capabilities, they are working on company digital advertising and marketing issues such as automatic advertisement generation and video mass production using AI. Simple access to expert operational knowledge. It is a cloud service that allows them to mass-produce and improve marketing videos and still images based on their own problems. The company provides comprehensive services with a specialized team and software to provide optimal communication tailored to each "viewer and viewing place" by listening closely to its customers' issues from a medium- to long-term perspective.

O:

Venture Round in 2019
O: is Information technology company attempting to visualize the human circadian clock through an original IoT device.

iRobotics

Venture Round in 2019
iRobotics builds an industrial robot and IoT platform. It also offers robot and drone solutions for industry, construction, and infrastructure. They provide services for maintenance, surveillance, security, and physical operation of drones such as painting, washing, and material handling, enabling businesses to access industry-grade drone services and operations.

Crowd Credit

Series D in 2018
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.

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.

Tanp

Series A in 2018
TANP is an e-commerce platform that offers a wide range of gift-giving products and options to enhance customers' precious moments and make their gift-giving experiences more enjoyable.

zens Japan

Venture Round in 2018
Zens is a Tokyo-based property management service. Via its platform ZensHome, the company enables property owners to become Airbnb hosts and helps guests to find medium- or long-term rentals in Japan.

keychain

Series A in 2018
Keychain is the decentralized authentication blockchain platform for finance, IoT, and enterprise. Keychain provides a Decentralized Authentication Platform (tm) that allows clients to solve concrete business problems related to authentication and access control in a way that enhances and integrates cleanly into existing systems and processes. Seamless integration, instead of replacement, is a key advantage to achieving wide adoption of this powerful innovation. They are a technology company that believes in fortifying operational integrity in finance, IoT, and enterprise through well-engineered, business solutions. They do that by applying the blockchain concept in a new way to concrete business problems that they understand through long experience in financial technology infrastructure.

Africa Incubator

Series A in 2018
Africa Incubator (Afri-inc) is an IT company that specializes in developing mobile applications for sales management. It has developed and operated SENRI, a sales management system for manufacturing and distribution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. As of 2018, SENRI is being used by about 50 manufacturing and logistics companies focusing on consumer goods. With the introduction of SENRI, more than 50 Africa-based companies have succeeded in increasing sales productivity. Afri-inc was established in 2015 by Kentaro Nagai.

Requpo

Venture Round in 2018
Requpo is a brand-new salon reservation app that allows you to book a beauty salon without having to search.

Cansell

Series A in 2018
Cansell is a web service that allows you to easily sell and buy accommodation reservations that incur cancellation fees.

Latona

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Latona is combining three major technological segments, such as onboarding AI model container runtimes, sensor-controlling software stacks, and FPGA/RTOS real-time applications and hardware. Latona creates a platform that includes all AI, IoT, edge computing, and relevant resources to innovate every type of UX, application-driven architecture, computational facet, and technological component in a business environment.

SORA

Series A in 2018
SORA is an online service that compares prices of various hotels and inns.

GlobaliD

Series A in 2018
We believe that owning your own identity is a basic human right. Your digital identity isn’t just your key for logging into websites and making social connections online, it’s your economic passport for an increasingly global market. And as a manifestation of who you are, you should own it—along with all the corresponding data that makes up your digital ID. Privacy, agency, and security are your rights. At globaliD, we’ve developed a privacy-first, highly secure and encrypted platform—one that allows individuals full control over their unique digital identities.

10up Japan

Seed Round in 2018
10UP connects the physical and virtual worlds by offering futuristic dx services, as well as planning, development, and operation of near-future services and other related businesses such as xr, 3D printers, robots, and more.It is an education facility management company.

Coinboard

Venture Round in 2018
Coinboard is a service that allows centralized management of virtual currency ownership and transaction history.If you are using multiple exchanges, you can check transaction history and total assets at once by using Coinboard for complex tasks that need to check asset status for each exchange.It is possible to significantly reduce the effort.

AMI

Venture Round in 2018
AMI Corp is engaged in medical consulting, medical device development and writing.

AMI

Venture Round in 2018
AMI operates as a photographer database, reservations, and photographic services.

Cinnamon AI

Funding Round in 2018
Cinnamon AI develops AI-based business platforms to extend human potential by eliminating repetitive tasks. Cinnamon AI offers a computer system that has human intelligence such as academic, recognition, and judgment that helps to select appropriate and flexible correspondence according to the partner and circumstances, based on patterns accumulated as data, allowing users to focus on creative work.

Sasuke Financial Lab

Venture Round in 2018
Sasuke Financial Lab is a provider of construction and operation of financial planning platform utilizing the Internet. .

Anecle

Seed Round in 2018
Anecle provides various types of Management Consulting services.

Strainer

Seed Round in 2018
Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.

Emerada

Seed Round in 2017
Emerada is an investment firm and technology platform focused on enhancing lending activities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and banks in Japan. It specializes in bank account aggregation and cash flow analytics, providing users with real-time insights into daily money flow and financial indicators through a unified interface. By facilitating faster loan screening processes, Emerada enables financial institutions to make informed lending decisions more efficiently. The company was recognized in 2018 as one of the top 50 startups by Forbes Japan, underscoring its innovative approach and significant impact within the financial sector.

FOLIO

Series A in 2017
Folio offers AI-driven and automated investment services and a platform for financial institutions to manage discretionary investments.

AlpacaJapan

Venture Round in 2017
We are a team of professionals from high-tech and financial industries including Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Lehman, Barclays, et al. We built our own proprietary AI technology for capital markets, and are currently working with number of top financial institutions globally.

Alpaca

Venture Round in 2017
Alpaca is a developer-first embedded financial technologies platform that’s raised over $100m in funding. Alpaca offers crypto and stock investing, real-time market data, and end-to-end brokerage infrastructure through modern APIs. Alpaca supports hundreds of apps and businesses across the globe and is actively used by tens of thousands of enthusiastic developers. Alpaca is backed by top investors in the industry globally, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Social Leverage, Tribe Capital, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

ZAISAN Net

Venture Round in 2016
ZAISAN Net is the well-known leading AI-Fintech startup in Japan, specializing in handling time-series of data like stock price movements. Institutional investors benefit from ZAISAN Net’s AI forecast signals and alerts while consumers have access to Kabuto-yohou, the stock forecast from wall-street in Japan, which is already popular and has been introduced on World Business Satellite, TV program similar to CNN.

Pocket Concierge

Series A in 2016
Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.

Orb

Seed Round in 2015
Orb is an enterprise software startup.Orb's proprietary solution, SmartCoin, is an innovative solution that can be used by businesses to define and configure their own coin economy. Its robust, distributed, and highly secure ledger is leveraged by SmartCoin to provide provably fast transact.To date, Orb has raised approximately $5M USD for the purposes of conducting research and development of next generation distributed ledger technology, establishing new markets, and securing its first major enterprise customer. Orb is proud to be a Japanese technology company with an international team and global aspirations.

MFS

Venture Round in 2015
MFS is an online mortgage service. No need to search for, apply for, or negotiate with a financial institution. The media has also attracted much attention and has been featured in major media such as the NHK, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Uzabase

Venture Round in 2015
Uzabase operates as a provider of information infrastructure and databases, focusing on delivering comprehensive industrial and corporate information. The company is known for its flagship service, SPEEDA, which organizes and presents company and industry data, enhancing workplace management efficiency. Additionally, Uzabase offers NewsPicks, a platform that curates content to facilitate insightful discussions and decision-making in the Asian business landscape. With a dedicated team of specialized analysts, Uzabase aims to support professionals by offering tools that enable effective analysis and informed decision-making in various business activities.

Uzabase

Series C in 2014
Uzabase operates as a provider of information infrastructure and databases, focusing on delivering comprehensive industrial and corporate information. The company is known for its flagship service, SPEEDA, which organizes and presents company and industry data, enhancing workplace management efficiency. Additionally, Uzabase offers NewsPicks, a platform that curates content to facilitate insightful discussions and decision-making in the Asian business landscape. With a dedicated team of specialized analysts, Uzabase aims to support professionals by offering tools that enable effective analysis and informed decision-making in various business activities.

Hachimenroppi

Venture Round in 2014
Hachimenroppi provides a fish delivery service for restaurants. It buys fish from markets and brokers and delivers it to Japanese restaurants or diners.

Crowd Credit

Seed Round in 2014
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.

Uzabase

Venture Round in 2014
Uzabase operates as a provider of information infrastructure and databases, focusing on delivering comprehensive industrial and corporate information. The company is known for its flagship service, SPEEDA, which organizes and presents company and industry data, enhancing workplace management efficiency. Additionally, Uzabase offers NewsPicks, a platform that curates content to facilitate insightful discussions and decision-making in the Asian business landscape. With a dedicated team of specialized analysts, Uzabase aims to support professionals by offering tools that enable effective analysis and informed decision-making in various business activities.

Money Forward

Venture Round in 2012
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The company also announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
Toletta Cats is a healthcare approved by cat lovers company they aim to create a world in which we all live longer and happier with our beloved cats around us. Simple, safe and easy to use at home,in a Japanese cat-friendly way.
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