MUFG Innovation Partners

MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.

Yuki Kosaka

Vice President

Koichiro Sekimiya

Vice President

Mayank Shiromani

Vice President

Nobutake Suzuki

President and CEO

56 past transactions

LEX Markets

Series A in 2022
LEX is a commercial real estate securities marketplace. A real estate fintech company, delivering a revolutionary new solution to the illiquidity problems facing real estate owners and investors through a new real estate investment platform.

LIQUiDITY Group

Funding Round in 2022
Upfront Funding For Subscription Businesses. Converting MRR to ARR, upfront. Liquidity was founded to change the way startup companies deal with growth challenges. We believe that once your business model is proven, there is no reason to give away big chunks of it only to sustain growth.

Symphony Communication Services

Private Placement in 2019
Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo.

Tinvio

Series A in 2021
Tinvio is built around the idea that every merchant and supplier should be able to work smarter together. Through clean design, agile engineering, and genuine support, we unlock capabilities that make them more productive and profitable.

Obligo

Series B in 2021
Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits and makes the move-in process as simple as checking into a hotel. Owners and managers use Obligo to simplify their move-in process, comply with changing regulatory landscapes, and make their listings more appealing to renters. As the only non-insurance deposit alternative, Obligo’s credit-based model keeps landlords secure and renters accountable by combining Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting.

Investree

Series C in 2020
Investree is Indonesia’s leading B2B marketplace lending platform for SMEs that is fully licensed by Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK) for both conventional and Shariah businesses. Investree is based in Indonesia but has grown its regional footprint in Thailand and soon to be in the Philippines. Investree's mission as marketplace is to use technology and data to provide small businesses with access to working capital solutions from retail and institutional lenders. Established in October 2015, Investree focuses on a B2B acquisition model to drive origination of SME borrowers. These include strong partnerships with ecosystems to drive origination, enhance verification and reduce cost of acquisition. These include strategic partnerships such as e-procurement platforms, payment gateway providers to source potential SME while accessing its digital footprint through the ecosystem to enhance the business process and customer experience. Led by a solid team of seasoned professionals from the financial industry with a team of 175 employees across the region Investree, by August 2019 has facilitated over USD 230 mio since inception, providing access to more than 1000 SMEs , while maintaining a robust and healthy asset quality.

Fundbox

Series C in 2019
Fundbox is a technology platform focused on disrupting the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by building the B2B payment and credit network. With Fundbox, sellers (of all sizes) can quickly increase average order volumes (AOV) and improve close rates by offering more competitive net terms and payment plans to their SMB buyers.

Chainalysis

Series B in 2019
Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Blockchain Intelligence Platform powers our compliance and investigation software for the world’s top institutions. With offices in NY, D.C., and Copenhagen, Chainalysis is global and backed by Benchmark and other leading names in venture capital.

Securitize

Private Placement in 2018
Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-based marketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.

Carsome

Series D in 2021
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd

Private Placement in 2020
GrabTaxi (Thailand) Co., Ltd. offers smatphone based taxi booking and dispatching services. It enables the existing taxi driver to register with GrabTaxi, pass a background check, and carry a smart device/smartphone with the installed application. For passengers, they need to download GrabTaxi application, register, and create profiles and it will display all available taxis from within a specified range on the online map. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Carsome

Series C in 2019
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Figure

Private Placement in 2019
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Carsome

Series C in 2019
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Carsome

Private Placement in 2019
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo.

Moneytree

Venture Round in 2019
Moneytree is a fintech data platform, with a mission to bring people and institutions closer together, help them find balance and discover new opportunities to grow personal wealth. Moneytree's first product, a personal finance app for iOS released in 2013, won the App Store’s “Best of” award for iPhone in Japan after only 8 months in market. It went on to win Best of 2014 for iPad, was one of 10 Apple Watch apps featured pre-launch and a featured iMessage app on the launch of iOS 10. Moneytree has over 1,300,000 users on iOS, Android and web. Our proprietary data aggregation platform, Moneytree LINK, has almost twenty enterprise clients, including Japan’s two largest accounting software vendors, an industry first inbound API with Mizuho Bank, an SDK integration SMBC (Mitsui Sumitomo) and multiple regional banks in Japan.

ChargeAfter

Corporate Round in 2020
Chargeafter Ltd develops and operates a financing platform. Its platform facilitates and connects lenders with merchants, creates global financing network, and enables merchant offer real time and reachable financing options to consumers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Ramat Gan, Israel with additional offices in Sunnyvale, California; and New York, New York.

LIQUiDITY Group

Private Placement in 2019
Upfront Funding For Subscription Businesses. Converting MRR to ARR, upfront. Liquidity was founded to change the way startup companies deal with growth challenges. We believe that once your business model is proven, there is no reason to give away big chunks of it only to sustain growth.

ChargeAfter

Private Placement in 2020
Chargeafter Ltd develops and operates a financing platform. Its platform facilitates and connects lenders with merchants, creates global financing network, and enables merchant offer real time and reachable financing options to consumers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Ramat Gan, Israel with additional offices in Sunnyvale, California; and New York, New York.

Qoala

Series C in 2024
Qoala is a disruptive insure-tech company that leverages big-data, machine learning, IoT and blockchain aiming to revolutionise insurance landscape in Indonesia. We partner with big companies, including e-commerce and travel platforms, to enhance their customer experience through our unique and innovative insurance products.

AwanTunai

Series B in 2024
AwanTunai is digitizing the traditional FMCG supply chain with online inventory ordering, digital payments for micro SME merchants. AwanTunai also helps government efforts by providing technology and financing to grocery suppliers and traders in Indonesia. We believe that every Indonesian has the right to access affordable, safe, and modern financing to improve their welfare.

SellersFi

Venture Round in 2023
SellersFunding is a developer of a financial platform designed to provide fully automated funding focused solely on online marketplaces sellers. The company's platform provides working capital for online businesses as well as uses a machine-learning model to analyze data generated through business activities of online sellers, enabling sellers to gain access to growth capital.

Lendbuzz

Venture Round in 2023
Lendbuzz Funding, LLC offers car loans to expats and international students. The company does not require Social Security Number (SSN) and provides loans to all visa holders from all nationalities. Its customers include students, international professionals, and other young professionals that have an international credit file. The company provides access and manages its loans through an online platform and data-intensive scoring technology. Lendbuzz Funding, LLC was founded in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

bookee Japan

Seed Round in 2019
Bookee Co., Ltd. provides financial education services. It offers financial literacy training services to the individuals. The company offers a learning program to educate participants in trading fundamentals and asset management. It offers face-to-face training and online training. The company also engages in financial consulting, financial training curriculum construction, financial training studio operations, corporate training program construction, and Internet media business. Bookee Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ReadyFor

Venture Round in 2021
READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.

Securitize

Convertible Note in 2019
Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-based marketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.

M2P Fintech

Series C in 2022
M2P Fintech specializes in building financial infrastructure and offers a wide range of solutions across payments, lending, and banking.

Zoomo

Series B in 2022
Bolt Bikes Pty Ltd, trading as Zoomo, provides electric bike subscription rental services. The company manufactures the electric bikes and retails the bike through its website. It caters to individuals and delivery service sector. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.

Lendbuzz

Series C in 2021
Lendbuzz Funding, LLC offers car loans to expats and international students. The company does not require Social Security Number (SSN) and provides loans to all visa holders from all nationalities. Its customers include students, international professionals, and other young professionals that have an international credit file. The company provides access and manages its loans through an online platform and data-intensive scoring technology. Lendbuzz Funding, LLC was founded in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Moneytree

Series C in 2019
Moneytree is a fintech data platform, with a mission to bring people and institutions closer together, help them find balance and discover new opportunities to grow personal wealth. Moneytree's first product, a personal finance app for iOS released in 2013, won the App Store’s “Best of” award for iPhone in Japan after only 8 months in market. It went on to win Best of 2014 for iPad, was one of 10 Apple Watch apps featured pre-launch and a featured iMessage app on the launch of iOS 10. Moneytree has over 1,300,000 users on iOS, Android and web. Our proprietary data aggregation platform, Moneytree LINK, has almost twenty enterprise clients, including Japan’s two largest accounting software vendors, an industry first inbound API with Mizuho Bank, an SDK integration SMBC (Mitsui Sumitomo) and multiple regional banks in Japan.

iAPPS Pte. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
iAPPS Pte. Ltd. provides targeted communication and connection applications development services for businesses. It offers a range of services, including mobile/Web platforms, Websites, systems integration, and social media and training programs. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Singapore.

Fundbox

Series C in 2020
Fundbox is a technology platform focused on disrupting the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by building the B2B payment and credit network. With Fundbox, sellers (of all sizes) can quickly increase average order volumes (AOV) and improve close rates by offering more competitive net terms and payment plans to their SMB buyers.

Grab

Series H in 2019
Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.

Moneytree KK

Private Placement in 2019
Moneytree KK develops and offers personal finances management applications on iPhone, iPad, and Apple watch. It provides Moneytree PLUS, a mobile expenses management solution; and Moneytree PRO, a mobile corporate account aggregation solution. The company has a strategic partnership with IBM. Moneytree KK was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Robot Fund

Private Placement in 2018
Robot Fund Co., Ltd. design and develops automated software providing investment data analysis and customer support to the clients. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Veem

Private Placement in 2020
Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds. It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. It converts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient. Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LIQUiDITY Group

Private Placement in 2020
Upfront Funding For Subscription Businesses. Converting MRR to ARR, upfront. Liquidity was founded to change the way startup companies deal with growth challenges. We believe that once your business model is proven, there is no reason to give away big chunks of it only to sustain growth.

Figure

Series C in 2019
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

LIQUiDITY Group

Series A in 2020
Upfront Funding For Subscription Businesses. Converting MRR to ARR, upfront. Liquidity was founded to change the way startup companies deal with growth challenges. We believe that once your business model is proven, there is no reason to give away big chunks of it only to sustain growth.

Investree

Series C in 2020
Investree is Indonesia’s leading B2B marketplace lending platform for SMEs that is fully licensed by Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK) for both conventional and Shariah businesses. Investree is based in Indonesia but has grown its regional footprint in Thailand and soon to be in the Philippines. Investree's mission as marketplace is to use technology and data to provide small businesses with access to working capital solutions from retail and institutional lenders. Established in October 2015, Investree focuses on a B2B acquisition model to drive origination of SME borrowers. These include strong partnerships with ecosystems to drive origination, enhance verification and reduce cost of acquisition. These include strategic partnerships such as e-procurement platforms, payment gateway providers to source potential SME while accessing its digital footprint through the ecosystem to enhance the business process and customer experience. Led by a solid team of seasoned professionals from the financial industry with a team of 175 employees across the region Investree, by August 2019 has facilitated over USD 230 mio since inception, providing access to more than 1000 SMEs , while maintaining a robust and healthy asset quality.

Fundbox

Private Placement in 2019
Fundbox is a technology platform focused on disrupting the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by building the B2B payment and credit network. With Fundbox, sellers (of all sizes) can quickly increase average order volumes (AOV) and improve close rates by offering more competitive net terms and payment plans to their SMB buyers.

bookee Japan

Private Placement in 2019
Bookee Co., Ltd. provides financial education services. It offers financial literacy training services to the individuals. The company offers a learning program to educate participants in trading fundamentals and asset management. It offers face-to-face training and online training. The company also engages in financial consulting, financial training curriculum construction, financial training studio operations, corporate training program construction, and Internet media business. Bookee Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Veem

Venture Round in 2020
Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds. It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. It converts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient. Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ripcord

Venture Round in 2024
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

LayerX

Series A in 2023
LayerX Inc. provides blockchain consulting and planning services. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. LayerX Inc operates as a subsidiary of AnyPay Inc. and Gunosy Inc.

Broom

Series A in 2022
Broom provides access for dealers in automotives to get short-term loans by putting their car inventories up as collateral.

LIQUiDITY Group

Seed Round in 2019
Upfront Funding For Subscription Businesses. Converting MRR to ARR, upfront. Liquidity was founded to change the way startup companies deal with growth challenges. We believe that once your business model is proven, there is no reason to give away big chunks of it only to sustain growth.

MNTSQ

Venture Round in 2024
MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.