Fumio Hamano

Representative Director, CEO and President

20 past transactions

Toggle Holdings

Series B in 2025
Toggle Holdings is a company focused on enhancing the integration of technology within the real estate sector. It has developed a comprehensive platform aimed at improving operational efficiency and boosting sales in real estate, construction, and finance. By leveraging big data and artificial intelligence, Toggle Holdings facilitates a real estate information market that allows real estate brokers and developers to communicate in real time and share information seamlessly. This innovative approach combines elements of real estate, architecture, and finance, positioning the company as a significant player in the modernization of the real estate industry.

Spine Chronicle Japan

Series A in 2025
Spine Chronicle Japan is a medical device manufacturing company that focuses on developing innovative orthopedic equipment. The firm creates prototype treatment devices aimed at addressing challenges in current surgical practices, particularly in the fields of spinal surgery, osteoporotic vertebral fractures, and lumbar spinal canal stenosis. By prioritizing advancements in technology and design, Spine Chronicle Japan intends to enhance patient care and outcomes in orthopedic treatment.

Upsider

Series D in 2024
Upsider is a provider of corporate cards and payment tools designed for fast-growing companies, particularly startups preparing for public offerings. The company focuses on facilitating B2B transactions by offering high card spending limits and intuitive spending management solutions. Its platform integrates with external services, including accounting software, to enhance governance and administration. Upsider aims to streamline financial and operational processes for its clients, enabling them to manage their expenses more effectively while fostering trust in business transactions.

Gojo & Company

Series F in 2024
Founded in 2014, Gojo & Company is a Tokyo-based holding company that enables financial inclusion for underserved communities worldwide. It invests in and partners with microfinance institutions across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Africa, aiming to provide access to financial services regardless of one's background.

Crowd Chem

Seed Round in 2024
Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.

Drone Show Japan

Series A in 2024
Drone Show Japan specializes in creating innovative drone shows for various events, including outdoor and indoor exhibitions, as well as aerial photography services. The company aims to promote a drone-based society by leveraging advanced drone technologies. In addition to its show offerings, Drone Show Japan provides educational workshops focused on drone operation and technology, catering to event organizers, educators, and innovators. By combining entertainment with education, the company seeks to transform the experiences of its clients and leave a significant impact on their respective markets.

Oryzae

Venture Round in 2024
Oryzae is a company dedicated to addressing social challenges through the application of traditional Japanese fermentation techniques. It specializes in the production of fermented foods that promote health and beauty, particularly focusing on gut health. Oryzae offers a range of products, including rice bran sauce and various other sauces, all designed to be gluten-free and sugar-free. By emphasizing the benefits of fermentation, Oryzae aims to provide consumers with nutritious options that support overall well-being.

RECOTECH

Seed Round in 2024
RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.

Satoyume

Series B in 2024
Satoyume is a consulting firm specializing in regional revitalization. It offers comprehensive support for businesses aiming to contribute to community development, including marketing strategy, product development, sales channel management, facility management, organizational management, and utilization of local resources like forest therapy and historic buildings.

Dioseve

Series A in 2024
Dioseve is a biotechnology company specializing in the production of egg cells using DIOLs (Differentiation-Inducing Oocyte-like Cells). Its technology aims to create more fertilizable eggs, facilitating infertility treatment and genetic disease research.

ByWill

Series A in 2024
ByWill specializes in brand consulting and green transformation services, aiming to foster sustainability and enhance corporate value. Its offerings include market research, execution support, organizational strengthening consulting, cultural surveys, and environmental value creation assistance, empowering clients to strive towards carbon neutrality.

Industrial-X

Series B in 2024
Industrial-X offers business consulting services focused on digital transformation. They assist clients in transforming their business structures, developing human resources for digital environments, procuring solutions, and providing BPO services. Their customer inquiries are primarily handled through online applications.

Infcurion

Debt Financing in 2024
Infcurion is a fintech company that focuses on enhancing financial digitalization and promoting cashless payment solutions. The firm develops a Banking-as-a-Service platform that supports businesses in their transition to digital finance and fosters a digital index within society. Infcurion specializes in consulting services related to payment technologies, providing clients with expertise in smartphone payment terminals and processing services. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to leverage finance and payment technologies to drive social digital transformation.

Talent and Assessment

Series A in 2024
Talent and Assessment Inc. is a Tokyo-based company, founded in 2014, that specializes in developing an AI-driven recruitment platform known as SHaiN. This innovative application provides artificial intelligence-based interviewing services that allow candidates to participate in interviews anytime and anywhere using their smartphones. The platform utilizes unique strategic hiring methods to analyze candidates’ qualifications and offers diagnostic reports on their performance. By engaging applicants interactively, the AI assesses their responses and provides clients with detailed evaluations, which enhance recruitment efficiency and streamline the hiring process. Talent and Assessment’s focus on cutting-edge HR technology positions it as a leader in the talent acquisition sector.

Petokoto

Series B in 2023
Petokoto is a pet wellness company that develops and sells fresh pet food, operates pet media, and provides a comprehensive pet information platform and services. The platform combines expertise from internal and external contributors to create a trusted information source on nutrition, health, and care. It also offers a safe matching service to connect prospective adopters with dogs and cats and provides pet-related services and information about dog cafés and inns, aiming to reduce abandonment and help owners maximize their pets’ happiness.

Melody International

Venture Round in 2023
Melody International specializes in developing medical equipment for remote healthcare services. Its flagship product is a fetal monitoring device designed to assist doctors during challenging deliveries, featuring a fetal heart monitor, uterine contraction monitor, and a tablet with internet connectivity.

HAKKI AFRICA

Series B in 2023
Founded in 2018, HAKKI AFRICA specializes in providing microfinance solutions for small businesses and gig workers across Africa. The company offers short-term loans and credit-scoring technology, empowering local financial institutions to assess creditworthiness and provide funding.

Luca Japan

Seed Round in 2023
Luca Japan specializes in providing digital access to alternative investments, including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit. The company has developed a platform aimed at simplifying the investment process, making it faster and more accessible for a broader range of qualified investors. Through this platform, users can compare, invest in, and manage various alternative investment products, such as private equity funds, hedge funds, venture capital opportunities, and pre-IPO companies. This approach enhances the efficiency of alternative investments, catering to the needs of a diverse investor base.

Vivid Garden

Series C in 2023
Vivid Garden Inc. is an agriculture company based in Minato, Japan, founded in 2016. It operates as an online marketplace that connects producers with consumers and restaurants, enabling direct sales of farm products, ingredients, and flowers. The company manages several platforms, including Tabe Choku, which facilitates consumer-to-consumer sales of agricultural products, and Tabe Choku Pro, a specialized service for restaurants to order ingredients. Additionally, Vivid Garden offers Eat Chok, a platform designed to support farmers in delivering their products to office locations. Through these initiatives, Vivid Garden aims to streamline the distribution of fresh produce while enhancing access for both consumers and businesses.

Gojo & Company

Series E in 2022
Founded in 2014, Gojo & Company is a Tokyo-based holding company that enables financial inclusion for underserved communities worldwide. It invests in and partners with microfinance institutions across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Africa, aiming to provide access to financial services regardless of one's background.
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