SBI Investment

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1996. The company plays a pivotal role in supporting the development and growth of private venture companies by providing funding and comprehensive services. With a focus on emerging technologies, SBI Investment targets sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, financial technology, information technology, security, e-commerce, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, and environmental energy. Over its 28-year history, SBI Investment has partnered with numerous ventures, having invested in a total of 986 companies, with a notable percentage achieving successful exits through IPOs or mergers and acquisitions. The firm strives to create and nurture core industries, positioning itself as a key player in the venture capital landscape of Korea and beyond.

Takashi Goto

Executive Vice President and Director

Ahn Jae- gwang

Director

343 past transactions

Vark

Series C in 2023
ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Ace Turtle Omni Pvt Ltd

Series B in 2023
ace turtle, new India’s leading tech-native retail company is spearheading the retail industry’s next phase of transformation. The company is vertically integrated from design, local manufacturing and marketing to reach consumers directly. ace turtle is powered by its proprietary technology which uses data science from design to fulfilment to meet ever-evolving consumer expectations. Bengaluru-based ace turtle is the exclusive licensee of iconic global brands Lee®, Wrangler®, Toys“R”Us®, Babies“R”Us® and Dockers® for India and other South Asian markets.

Doctor Cha

Series A in 2023
Doctor Cha is a car maintenance and accident repair consultation company that provides application for vehicle management services.

Helical Fusion

Seed Round in 2023
Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas. With our helical-type fusion reactors, we will create a sustainable and stable energy source that will enable the coexistence of humans and the Earth for the next million years.

Value of Space

Series A in 2022
Value of Space is a real estate auto-assessment financial service provider.

Dareesoft

Series A in 2022
Dareesoft is a company that provides road hazard information service in real time.

NO Search

Seed Round in 2022
NO Search is an online marketplace for home and kitchen appliances.

Habito

Venture Round in 2022
Habito provides Habito Plus, a homebuying service which brings a buyer’s mortgage application, conveyancing needs and surveys under one solution, and a proprietary broker portal, which gives more than 3,000 external brokers exclusive access to the company’s own buy-to-let mortgage products and Instant Decision technology capabilities. The firm is now looking to bring to market a suite of innovative residential mortgage products for all types of homeowners.

Pretia Technologies

Venture Round in 2022
Pretia Technologies is an AR startup that specializes in designing, developing, and providing internet services and applications.

Ambr

Series A in 2022
Ambr is a virtual world where users can access through a VR device an play in various virtual spaces with other users. Users can access Ambr as an avatar. There are different avatars in the Ambr world, such as warriors, wizards, animals, and monsters. New avatars can also be acquired within Ambr. Users can explore and enjoy different virtual spaces that do not exist in the real world, such as Skyland, cyberspace, and toontown. It also has mini-games that allow users to play together. Ambr was founded in August 2018 and is headquartered in Japan.

Arzooo.com

Series B in 2022
We are disrupting $80bn+ electronics retail market in India, largely dominated by fragmented physical retail (90% share), with Arzooo "Go Store" technology, removing barriers of scale and inventory, and making each retail store better than an e-commerce platform with the largest virtual selection and the best prices to in-shop consumers, higher profits to retailers, along with integrated financing and quick delivery capabilities. Arzooo has also become the gateway for fast growing emerging brands to launch into huge untapped offline channel.

Cowche

Series B in 2022
KAUCHE is a share-buying app that enables users to enjoy low-cost shopping by group-buying with share-buying companions such as friends and family. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.

Peckwater Brands

Series A in 2022
Peckwater Brands is a provider of delivery franchises to kitchen operators. The company provides existing kitchen operators with fully-serviced food concepts which include branding, platform listings, suppliers, recipes, packaging, staff training, and technology.

Rznomics

Series C in 2022
This is a biotechnology company founded by professor Lee Sung-wook's lab They are working on the development of gene therapy products for liver cancer through the development of gene therapy products. It was selected by the TIPS program and was recognized for excellence in technology.

Space Oddity

Series A in 2022
Space Oddity is a music company.

UPPTHERA

Series B in 2022
Operator of a pharmaceutical venture company aiming to develop new drugs based on protac technology. The company provides a protein degradation platform employing a ubiquitin-proteasome system in the body, enabling patients to recover from metabolic disease and several cancers including hematologic malignancy and others.

Token.io

Series C in 2022
Token.io’s A2A payment infrastructure is powered by open banking and built for the payments industry. With the simplest and fastest way to launch Pay by Bank as a core payment method globally, Token.io helps payment providers grow their market share in the face of the continued shift from cards to APMs. Token.io's complete payments infrastructure offers the deepest and highest performing connectivity, reaching over 567 million bank accounts (80%+ of accounts per market) in 21 countries. With fast and flexible deployment options, including the option to use Token.io's license and conversion boosting payment authentication flows, payment providers can quickly and easily launch and manage Pay By Bank capabilities. Token.io's solution is proven by a blue chip base of partners, which collectively process payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas, ACI Worldwide, Computop, Nuvei and Paysafe.

OnePort 365

Seed Round in 2022
Oneport 365 is a B2B digital freight forwarding platform offering simplified, all-inclusive, and transparent freight forwarding services driven by technology.

Y&Archer

Series A in 2022
Y&Archer is an accelerator and incubator firm based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2015. The company specializes in assisting startups in entering the global market, particularly by introducing Asian companies to international opportunities. Y&Archer leverages a network of venture capitalists, consultants, and industry experts to provide tailored support through its Market-Driven Program. This program evaluates business items and systems to identify customizable solutions that align with market demands. The firm focuses on startups in the B2B, B2C, and technology sectors, aiming to create lasting impressions and successful pathways for emerging businesses.

Terra Drone

Series B in 2022
Terra Drone is a drone and software manufacturer, based in Tokyo. By using drone, Terra Drone also delivers civil engineering surveying services for construction companies and analyzes data. With a wide range of usecase of drone, Terra Drone also helps companies to carry out inspection of complex job sites, such as those in construction, oil and gas extraction, agriculture.

Apollo Agriculture

Series B in 2022
Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models.

BIORCHESTRA

Series C in 2022
BIORCHESTRA is a biotech company that develops RNA-based therapeutics for treating neuroinflammatory diseases. They focus on changing the therapeutic paradigm from treating the symptoms to providing a fundamental cure for diseases. BIORCHESTRA develops neuroinflammatory disease therapeutics, with a particular emphasis on comprehensive patient care. BIORCHESTRA's complementary discovery platforms range from diagnosis to treatment monitoring.

Inibio

Series B in 2022
Inibio is a biomedical firm that specializes in medical aesthetics and develops botox from organic components.

Biofidelity

Series A in 2022
Biofidelity developed a revolutionary molecular diagnostic assay that enables the rapid detection of target DNA sequences. Biofidelity’s mission is to improve and extend patients’ lives by enabling early detection of disease and better targeting of treatments with applications spanning oncology, prenatal testing, infectious disease, and organ transplant monitoring. Biofidelity was founded in 2019 and is headquartered of Cambridge, England.

Veneno Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Veneno Technologies develops drug candidates for pharmaceutical companies. The company provides services that include the treatment of neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases, cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, and immune cell regulation.

FOODPANG

Series B in 2022
Food Pang is a food ordering app.

Nodit

Series B in 2021
# Nodit Nodit is a Web3 development platform specialized in blockchain data. Nodit aims to provide enterprise-grade multi-chain Web3 infrastructure accessible to everyone. By offering reliable node infrastructure with 99.9% uptime and consistent ready-to-query blockchain data at an affordable price, we are facilitating developers’ entry into the Web3 world. # Lambda256 Lambda256, the blockchain tech arm of Dunamu, developed and operates Nodit, which enhances efficiency in managing tasks like blockchain network setup, node operation, and data processing for Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Aptos and Luniverse, a cloud-based blockchain infrastructure platform. Lambda256 also offers a travel rule solution to meet FATF guidelines, improving security and compliance for virtual asset transactions. The company secured Series A funding, followed by Series B funding in December 2021, achieving a total accumulated investment of approximately +80 million USD.

TFJ Global

Series B in 2021
TFJ Global is a chemical company that develops water-repellent fiber for leather and wallpaper.

manebi

Venture Round in 2021
manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.

Cowche

Seed Round in 2021
KAUCHE is a share-buying app that enables users to enjoy low-cost shopping by group-buying with share-buying companions such as friends and family. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.

Exosystems

Series A in 2021
Exosystems provides an IoT rehabilitation solution for rehabilitation patients. Exosystems' rehabilitation solution provides optimized exercise program (contents) to patients through analyzing user rehabilitation activity data. It also provides entertaining rehabilitation exercise to encourage the patient's in their quick recovery. Previously, rehabilitation costs were high and rehabilitation programs were available only in limited locations such as hospitals. However, using Exosystems enables rehabilitation to be available at lower cost, while also providing rehabilitation more efficiently by using robotics and data analysis technology.

Mono

Series A in 2021
Mono is a financial data infrastructure company based in Nigeria, founded in 2020. It develops an application programming interface (API) platform that enables digital businesses in Africa to access customers' financial and identity data. Mono's services include generating bank statements, verifying account details, initiating payments, and conducting credit checks. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including fintech firms such as Carbon, Flutterwave, Indicina, and Renmoney, as well as various developers. Through its innovative platform, Mono aims to enhance financial accessibility and streamline transactions for businesses across the continent.

GAIA BioMedicine

Series B in 2021
GAIA BioMedicine, Inc., a technology-driven biopharmaceutical firm specialized in cell treatments and immunotherapies for intractable malignancies, was created in 2015 as a spin-off venture of Kyushu University. The firm name, GAIA, reflects the company's aim and vision as we fight intractable diseases with the strength of genes and the immune system as the rod of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine.

Bankware Global

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2010, Bankware Global is a provider of banking and financial software systems to retail, corporate, private, treasury, fund administration, microfinance and community banks. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, and with 4 offices in 3 countries, Bankware Global serves over 100 financial institutions in 7 countries across Asia Pacific.5 of digital banks used Bankware Global's core banking software in Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan. Bankware is known as only one company can build core banking solution software in Korea.
Open is Asia’s first neobanking platform for SMEs that is fast changing the way businesses bank & manage their finances. At Open, we help SMEs run everything right from their banking, payments to accounting, & expense management — together. This way they can focus on doing things that matter the most — grow their business. We’re home to some of the smartest & brightest 250+ minds in the fintech space. We’re a tight-knit tribe of creators and makers who are shaking up the way business banking rolls for over 10,00,000 businesses. We’re backed by some of the leading global VC firms like Tiger Global, Speedinvest, Beenext, AngelList, Recruit, Tanglin Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital, Unicorn India Ventures to name a few.

Atney

Series A in 2021
Atney is a retailer of bags, shoes, and clothes.

mfine

Series C in 2021
Mfine is an health-tech startup that offers an AI-powered online doctor consultation app. Their doctors have access to a proprietary Assistive Intelligence platform that can analyze the symptoms and deliver accurate prognosis for the specialist to assess patients. This means, the doctor knows about patients' condition even before they’ve seen them, making the diagnosis quicker and sharper. Mfine aims to make access to trusted healthcare simple, fast and proactive. With a combination of new-age technology and partnerships with best in class hospitals/clinics, they designed mfine keeping consumer experience at its core. Mfine brings in instant and continuous connectivity with top doctors of the best hospitals. It uses cutting edge technology to keep track of your health parameters and keep all your health data in your control and easily accessible. Digital wearable devices, mobile app, and at-home services bring in the much-needed convenience and speed in getting you the right care when you need it. Mfine was founded in 2017 and is based in Bengaluru.

Snackfor

Series A in 2021
Snackfor is a B2B company that curates and delivers snacks to offices.

CADDi

Series B in 2021
CADDi is an online ordering platform that tracks industrial products for the manufacturing business. They provide Realize DX throughout the supply chain by offering both goods and software. It enables businesses to reduce procurement expenses, improve QCD, and expand capacity. CADDi is an AI Data platform that offers supply chain data with a specialization in procurement intelligence.

XREX

Seed Round in 2021
XREX is a blockchain-based financial institution offering secure crypto exchange, escrow services, and fiat-crypto transactions. The company offers crypto exchange, escrow services for global transactions, and fiat-to-crypto transactions.

AEye

Post in 2021
AEye’s unique software-defined lidar solution enables advanced driver-assistance, vehicle autonomy, smart infrastructure and logistics applications that save lives and propel the future of transportation and mobility. AEye’s 4Sight™ Intelligent Sensing Platform, with its adaptive sensor-based operating system, focuses on what matters most: delivering faster, more accurate, and reliable information. AEye’s 4Sight™ products, built on this platform, are ideal for dynamic applications which require precise measurement imaging to ensure safety and performance. AEye has a global presence through its offices in Germany, Korea, and the United States.

Molcure

Series C in 2021
Molcure is antibody and Peptide drug-focused biopharmaceutical company whose passionate associates are dedicated to improving the lives of patients by developing and providing more effective therapeutics and supportive care products. Molcure represents high quality antibody and target discovery. With cutting edge technology in-house, Molcure is the partner of choice for therapeutic antibody discovery. At Molcure they combine a deep knowledge of NGS, bioinformatics and antibody biology with automated discovery system. The antibody discovery platform Abtracer delivers superior functional antibodies. Their technology is validated through a number of partnerships. They are seeking new partnership opportunities.

FlowAccount

Series A in 2021
FlowAccount.com accounting software is easy to use online form For business startups. Easy to use even with no background in accounting to help - the Bills - Save costs - issuance of withholding

Ispace Technologies

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

Kuda

Series B in 2021
Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

CMES Robotics

Series B in 2021
CMES Robotics is an AI-powered robotics company that enables 3D vision for factory robots. CMES AI vision software includes high-precision vision sensors, robot calibration, a processing core, a simulator, and robot control. It enables robots to pick up objects that are unstructured, flexible, or deformed, as well as load and unload them. CMES Vision software has been used in void-filling and random depalletization applications all over the world.

BabyQuip

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in May 2016, BabyQuip is the world's leading baby gear rental service, delivering clean, quality baby gear items—from car seats to strollers and more—to families who don't want to haul bulky gear while traveling. BabyQuip Cleaning, offers exceptional cleaning services for baby gear for local families and businesses, particularly for car seats, strollers, and high chairs. BabyQuip has served over 125,000 families in the US, Canada and beyond As a managed marketplace, the BabyQuip platform enables its community of over 1500 independent contractors, called Quality Providers, the opportunity to build a business renting and cleaning baby gear on the BabyQuip platform. Mostly moms, the Quality Providers benefit from an active and supportive community, ongoing training, and leads generated from both online advertising and through strategic partnerships.

CodeBrick

Series B in 2021
Codebrick is a technical co-founder for local SEA entrepreneurs. Codebrick is a technical co-founder for local SEA entrepreneurs. Codebrick operates as an equity partner -this aligns the interests of the technical co-founder with those of the entrepreneur.

Qwist

Series A in 2021
Qwist is an independent Open Banking platform provider in Europe. It enables companies across a multitude of industries to provide the next generation of financial services by understanding how customers transact and interact.

AIBIOS

Seed Round in 2021
AIBIOS has designed and developed a series of novel small molecules which modulate both the innate (macrophages) and adaptive immune system to treat therapeutic indications of Gastroenterology, Respiratory, and Neurological diseases.

WhereIsMyTransport

Series A in 2021
WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as these dynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.

Divido

Series B in 2021
Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers. Rapidly build new revenue streams, improve the customer experience and increase conversion by offering finance at the point-of-purchase with Divido. The platform is omnichannel, available online, in-store and via mobile, and works across multiple countries through one integration. Over 1000 partners work with Divido including Nordea Finance, BNP Paribas, BMW, Lenovo and last minute. Divido offers financial services for merchants, lenders, and intermediaries that want to offer instant new credit as a payment option to their end-consumers and corporate clients. Backed by the investors behind Skype, WorldPay, and TransferWise the company launched late 2015 and currently has 300+ partners using its platform including some of the world's well-known brands. By the end of 2017. Divido will operate in 9 countries. Divido was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom

Sauce

Series B in 2021
Sauce sends data over sound that cannot be heard by humans, enabling connection among devices without additional hardware.

Mediwhale

Series A in 2021
Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea, Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines. RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis. RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state. Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.

On The Slope

Series G in 2021
On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

OpenStreet

Venture Round in 2021
OpenStreet is a service that allows to use shared cycling nationwide.

Cenyx Biotech

Series A in 2021
Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.

Allm

Series A in 2021
Allm is a medical ICT company dedicated to shaping healthcare. The company seeks to benefit society by launching next-generation technologies and medical communications platforms for the healthcare industry. The solutions are installed more than 18 countries across US, South America, EU, Japan, Middle East and Africa.

Pipe

Venture Round in 2021
Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies

Hirotsu Bio Science

Venture Round in 2021
Founded in 2016 by Takaaki Hirotsu, Hirotsu Bio Science leads the Multi-Cancer Early Detection market in Japan, serving 600,000 customers at a highly accessible $150 retail price point. Recognized globally for commercializing the world's first bio-diagnostic, Hirotsu leverages the natural capabilities of selected microorganisms while also enhancing them with genetic engineering and modern bioinformatics. The technology is backed by clinical research conducted with top hospitals in Japan and published in prominent peer-reviewed journals. The result is a urine-based, highly sensitive, and ultra-affordable cancer risk assessment with extremely compelling health economics. Currently operational at scale, we serve 20,000 customers per month and are uniquely capable of detecting the elusive early Stages 0 and I Cancers. Our mission is to make early cancer detection the standard, not the exception, in patient care.

Episode Six

Series B in 2021
Episode Six is a cloud-based financial platform that creates differentiated financial and payment products for consumers and businesses. The company's payment technology provides globally distributed ledgers and processing, allowing FIs and brands to digitize their payment systems in order to meet the demands of their customers. Its software sits within existing or new payments infrastructure to enable effortless development and customization of new, advanced, consumer-centric payments products. Built on an open-source code framework, its platform allows for simple, on-demand product management and offers a comprehensive set of APIs, facilitating easy development, connection, and integration.

Xmart

Series A in 2021
Xmart is an online shopping company that lets wholesalers and restaurants place order using its platform.

Mirai Savings

Venture Round in 2021
The Company's main business is providing information to defined contribution pension (DC) members. Mirai Chokin provide meticulous operation support tailored to each customer for asset formation after retirement.

Token.io

Series B in 2021
Token.io’s A2A payment infrastructure is powered by open banking and built for the payments industry. With the simplest and fastest way to launch Pay by Bank as a core payment method globally, Token.io helps payment providers grow their market share in the face of the continued shift from cards to APMs. Token.io's complete payments infrastructure offers the deepest and highest performing connectivity, reaching over 567 million bank accounts (80%+ of accounts per market) in 21 countries. With fast and flexible deployment options, including the option to use Token.io's license and conversion boosting payment authentication flows, payment providers can quickly and easily launch and manage Pay By Bank capabilities. Token.io's solution is proven by a blue chip base of partners, which collectively process payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas, ACI Worldwide, Computop, Nuvei and Paysafe.

MICIN

Venture Round in 2021
MICIN is a medical IT company that offers a free app for patient charts, billing, and video chatting between doctors and patients.

mfine

Venture Round in 2021
Mfine is an health-tech startup that offers an AI-powered online doctor consultation app. Their doctors have access to a proprietary Assistive Intelligence platform that can analyze the symptoms and deliver accurate prognosis for the specialist to assess patients. This means, the doctor knows about patients' condition even before they’ve seen them, making the diagnosis quicker and sharper. Mfine aims to make access to trusted healthcare simple, fast and proactive. With a combination of new-age technology and partnerships with best in class hospitals/clinics, they designed mfine keeping consumer experience at its core. Mfine brings in instant and continuous connectivity with top doctors of the best hospitals. It uses cutting edge technology to keep track of your health parameters and keep all your health data in your control and easily accessible. Digital wearable devices, mobile app, and at-home services bring in the much-needed convenience and speed in getting you the right care when you need it. Mfine was founded in 2017 and is based in Bengaluru.

Waqoo

Venture Round in 2020
Waqoo is a producer and supplier of cosmetics products. They provide products that include health food, skin care products, and supplements. They offer products that are available for shopping online.

Watcha

Venture Round in 2020
WATCHA - Launched in AUG 2012, it quickly became Korea’s favorite movie review app - Its core competency lies in personalized recommendation technology - once users rate movie, WATCHA predicts how they will like movies they haven’t yet seen - Now provides the widest and most accurate movie, TV show and book reviews - Launched in Japan in 2015 WATCHA PLAY - Launched in JAN 2016 - Subscription VOD service for movie and TV series available on multiple devices including Web, iOS/Android mobile and tablet, Samsung/LG Smart TV, Google Chromecast, Android TV - Provides extremely accurate personalized content recommendation, powered by WATCHA - 75% of content consumed based on recommendations Comment by Apple, App Store Editor Team “Thanks to its large volume of reliable review data collected from users, WATCHA PLAY can recommend contents that perfectly satisfy my taste. Please don’t waste your time in choosing what to watch. Trust WATCHA PLAY and Enjoy tonight”

BIORCHESTRA

Seed Round in 2020
BIORCHESTRA is a biotech company that develops RNA-based therapeutics for treating neuroinflammatory diseases. They focus on changing the therapeutic paradigm from treating the symptoms to providing a fundamental cure for diseases. BIORCHESTRA develops neuroinflammatory disease therapeutics, with a particular emphasis on comprehensive patient care. BIORCHESTRA's complementary discovery platforms range from diagnosis to treatment monitoring.

iGinet

Series B in 2020
iGinet is an AI-based insuretech company that creates a virtuous cycle structure of an advanced insurance ecosystem.

unilabo

Series B in 2020
Unilabo offers a supplier search service that includes the characteristics, achievements, and service information of suppliers, subcontractors, and outsourcing companies that cannot be found by searching. Aimitsu summarizes the characteristics, accomplishments, and service information of suppliers, subcontractors, and outsourcing companies across the country that cannot be found through traditional search methods. Aimitsu also compiles a list that allows users to easily compare service information and pricing in a variety of fields, including IT/information systems, sales/marketing, back office/general affairs, specialists, and overseas expansion.

Kuda

Seed Round in 2020
Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

Perseus Proteomics

Venture Round in 2020
PePerseus Proteomics is a drug discovery biotechnology venture that uses advanced antibody technology to pursue superior antibody production technology and create new medicines powerfully for people around the world who are waiting for better medical care .

Engate

Seed Round in 2020
Engate is the operator of a sports empowerment platform designed to give athletes financial support. The platform provided by their business makes it possible for athletes to continue competing in the face of financial and economic obstacles.

iMed Technologies

Venture Round in 2020
iMed Technologies is developing AI technology based assisting tool for surgical operations of treatment of brain infarction and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Utilizing the state-of-the art AI learning technology and plenty of medical data, iMed Technology develops a real-time assisting product for physicians who engage in surgical operations for brain infarction and/or subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with the mission of providing safer medical services.

iYell

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

AKIII Classic

Series A in 2020
AKIII Classic manufactures and sells shoes, clothes, tops, pants, bags, hats, and accessories.

PasarPolis

Series B in 2020
PasarPolis is an insurtech startup that provides an online insurance comparison platform for individuals. The company offers quotes for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, personal insurance, property insurance, and claims processing services. The company was founded by Cleosent Randing in 2015 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Manebi

Venture Round in 2020
Manebi is a lifestyle brand offering vacation apparel with a focus on high-quality, slow production, and ethical craftsmanship. Manebi's collection is made from upcycled fibers, natural materials, organic cotton, and recycled EVA, demonstrating her dedication to eco-friendly day-to-night vacation wear.

manebi

Venture Round in 2020
manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.

ExoCoBio

Series C in 2020
ExoCoBio has been developing innovative therapeutics as well as cosmetic products based on stem cell-derived exosomes.

BioSquare

Series A in 2020
BioSquare is a biotechnology company that provides point of care testing devices.

ELEMENT Insurance

Series A in 2020
ELEMENT Insurance is a white-label product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalization. It is licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht) as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables ELEMENT to act as a risk carrier, including claims settlement, in 28 countries across Europe. Founded in March 2017, ELEMENT offers a unique technology platform (‘Insurance as a Platform’) with a focus on the B2B2X value chain: ELEMENT develops for its partners from various industries – from e-commerce to established insurers – custom-made, innovative white-label insurance products at record speed. These products are then marketed by the partners under their own brand. ELEMENT has its headquarters in Berlin and operates across Europe.

FunPep

Venture Round in 2020
FunPep engages in the research and development of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and medical devices based on functional peptides. They produces intractable ulcer treatment drugs, antibody drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, and other products. The goal of FunPep is to replace antibody medicines with next-generation pharmaceutical products, specifically antibody-inducing peptide.

Puma Browser

Seed Round in 2020
Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable native IPFS, HNS & ENS support and seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP. Long Term, our goal is to give 1b people access to the peer-to-peer and ownership based economy.

WealthPark

Series B in 2020
WealthPark is a digital asset management platform that connects investors and managers of real estate.

DeepX

Venture Round in 2020
DeepX is an AI startup company based in Tokyo that was founded in 2016 by graduates from the University of Tokyo, Japan’s leading institution of higher education. After three strong years of establishing ourselves, we continue to grow and are ready to make an impact on society through our work. Our core mission is to ‘automate any machinery’ and supported by our successful projects, we believe that Deep Learning and its real-world implementations will bring an unprecedented breakthrough to solve current and future societal problems. A key challenge that Japan is currently facing is a super-aging society and a shrinking labor population leading to shortages. We develop software to automate machines ranging from small industrial robots to big heavy equipment. Our control models can achieve flexible operation for various environments and conditions using cutting-edge technology such as Deep Reinforcement Learning.

UPPTHERA

Series A in 2020
Operator of a pharmaceutical venture company aiming to develop new drugs based on protac technology. The company provides a protein degradation platform employing a ubiquitin-proteasome system in the body, enabling patients to recover from metabolic disease and several cancers including hematologic malignancy and others.

Agri Info Design

Venture Round in 2020
Agri Info Design provides technologies related to sophistication and computerization of agricultural production technology. Its products include the smartphone applications “AgriBus-NAVI (Agribus Navi)”, AgriBus-G +, and AgriBus-GMini. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Obihiro City, Hokkaido, Japan.

Episode Six

Series A in 2020
Episode Six is a cloud-based financial platform that creates differentiated financial and payment products for consumers and businesses. The company's payment technology provides globally distributed ledgers and processing, allowing FIs and brands to digitize their payment systems in order to meet the demands of their customers. Its software sits within existing or new payments infrastructure to enable effortless development and customization of new, advanced, consumer-centric payments products. Built on an open-source code framework, its platform allows for simple, on-demand product management and offers a comprehensive set of APIs, facilitating easy development, connection, and integration.

SHOWROOM

Venture Round in 2020
SHOWROOM Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that operates a live video streaming platform, primarily focused on Japanese idols and voice actors. Founded in 2015, it functions as a subsidiary of DeNA Co., Ltd. The platform allows users to watch live shows, engage in real-time communication through features like gifting and comments, and offers a diverse range of video content across various genres. SHOWROOM aims to create an environment where users' efforts are recognized and rewarded, enhancing the entertainment experience through professional-quality streaming and innovative features like virtual and augmented reality.

Crediation

Venture Round in 2020
Crediation is a digital finance provider that provides small and medium-sized businesses with complete access to financial services to build their enterprises by providing seamless mobile lending experiences. is a stock finance facility focused on helping business owners receive the capital they need to refill their enterprises through convenient, inexpensive, and sustainable loans.

Theoria Science

Venture Round in 2020
Theoria Science is an exosome research company. Theoria Science develops cancer diagnostic and therapeutic methods using exosomes. Their business categories include inspections, reagents, and health checkup services.

Setsuro Tech

Series A in 2020
Seturotech is a biotechnology venture company established on February 22, 2017 by Tatsuya Takemoto (PI: Principal Investigator) of the University of Tokushima as a venture from Tokushima University. In 2015, Takemoto and Masakazu Hashimoto (Osaka University) developed a simple and highly efficient method for producing genetically modified (genome-edited) mice using CRISPR / Cas9, and filed a patent application for the technology. The technology is called fertilized egg electroporation (GEEP method), a technology that introduces molecules required for genome editing by CRISPR into fertilized eggs at high throughput by the power of electricity (electroporation). Using this technology, Seturotech will start from the production and sale of genetically modified mice, and will become a fundamental company providing all genetically modified animals, anticipating the future use of genetically modified animals in industry.

Brandi

Series C in 2020
Brandi is a vertical commerce company that creates B2C and B2B platforms for fashion and beauty shopping. The company specializes in the fields of apps, app marketing, and online shopping platform. Brandi was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea.

QUADRAC

Venture Round in 2020
QUADRAC is a develop, manufacture, and sell telecommunication devices as well as payment servers for public transportation systems. The company aims to improve user convenience through a variety of payment methods, and to contribute to the realization of a cashless society. QUADRAC's thin-client type high-speed server "Q-CORE" is able to consolidate all of the fare calculation, payment, and security functions carried out by train station ticket gates and payment.

Alivexis

Series B in 2020
Modulus Discovery is a private Tokyo-based preclinical stage drug discovery company focused on rapid design and generation of small molecule clinical candidates for a range of high-value disease targets through the use of its cutting-edge computational drug discovery expertise and unique biology insights. The international team at Modulus is comprised of drug design and disease biology experts with previous R&D experience at global pharmaceutical, biotechnology , and computational technology firms.

Izumi

Venture Round in 2020
Izumi Holdings create an OS for food distribution and deliver richness to the world with new infrastructure.In other words, Izumi having a trading account for each fishery company, livestock company, and agriculture company for one sales destination can easily lead to business expansion,to rationalization of sales and distribution, reduction of SG & A expenses, etc. Creating a competitive advantage

CARVI

Series B in 2020
- CARVI is the only company that offers "Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) + Contextual Data Platform based on Driver Behaviors and 3D road data“ - CARVI helps safe driving by eliminating the risk of accidents while driving and analyzing/managing the driver's habits. - CARVI also supports Smoke detection, Drunk Driving detection, Parking Violation detection and Keyless lock/unlock solution for Insurance, Fleets and Car-sharing services. - CARVI has experienced vision-based ADAS as an OEM to the car manufacturer, and now focuses on Telematics which has a market share of 100B dollars on 2025. - The "Camera-based driving, driver's habits, road conditions and environment" data acquired by CARVI has core values such as 3D road Map for self-driving cars.
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