SMBC Venture Capital

SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm that operates as the venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Established in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, with an additional office in Osaka, the firm specializes in growth capital and buyout investments across various industries, including information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing. SMBC Venture Capital aims to support companies at different stages of development, fostering innovation and growth within its investment portfolio. Its strategic focus is on identifying opportunities that align with its expertise and the broader goals of its parent organization.

Akihiko Fujieda

Executive Officer

Daiji Furuta

MD

Makoto Nakamura

Executive Officer

Akira Ochiai

CEO

Hiroya Ota

Director

Ishibashi Tatsushi

President and CEO

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Executive MD

668 past transactions

Axelspace

Series A in 2015
Axelspace is a startup company developing businesses in the microsatellite field. Axelspace plans to construct a monitoring platform to cover the entire globe on a daily basis at extremely low cost.

Neural Pocket

Venture Round in 2019
Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.

TAGCyx Biotechnologies

Private Placement in 2018
TAGCyx Biotechnologies develops novel nucleic acid-based drugs for therapeutic applications. It offer Xenoligo, a platform that utilizes genetic alphabet expansion by unnatural base-pairs to generate customized nucleic acid suited for therapeutic applications. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

NIL Japan

Venture Round in 2017
NIL is a company developed innovative functional ultrafine particle technology based on many years of research experience.

Plus-D

Venture Round in 2015
Plus D Inc. provides creative design planning and production services. Its services include creative and planning, providing digital creation services and build communication between business and consumers; movie produce, engages in planning and production of video content, including movie theaters and television (TV) dramas, music videos, and commercial videos; and creative sharing, providing creative know-how to partner companies and create new business together. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

SmartNews

Series D in 2016
SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.

Ball Wave

Series A in 2016
Ball Wave Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells sensors. The company offers trance moisture sensors and mini sensors. It also provides ball surface acoustic waves gas sensors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sendai, Japan.

Veritas In Silico

Series B in 2019
Veritas In Silico is a start-up to research and sales of pharmaceuticals.Veritas In Silico, target partial structures in messenger RNA (mRNA) by exploring the true form of RNA, the origin of life, based on in silico (computer-based computational science) technology Established a drug discovery system with a completely new concept.This mRNA-targeted drug has the potential to be applied to any disease, including those for which it has been difficult to develop therapeutic drugs using conventional protein-based drug discovery. Therefore, it is expected to be a favorite for next-generation drug discovery that will cause a paradigm shift in the pharmaceutical industry.

Wefabrik

Private Placement in 2018
WEFABRIK Inc. owns and operates an online B2B (Business to Business) flea marketplace for textile and fashion industry. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

Wealthnavi

Private Placement in 2018
WealthNavi Inc. develops and delivers an online asset management and risk management platform. Its cloud-based platform provides robo advisory services that enable users to locate diversified investments internationally. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

neton, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
neton, Inc. provides cloud based hiring solutions in China. The company will provide web marketing business consulting services. Its web services will include management of cloud based hiring site, such as recruitment chief, template monster Japan, and rank tracker. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

Snaq me

Venture Round in 2019
Snaq.me Co., Ltd. offers snack subscription and delivery services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Plaid

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

Torana

Series B in 2022
Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and gets new toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.

Cozre

Venture Round in 2017
Cozre the outing and the lessons of the babies and children, to solve the problem of child-rearing.

Gracia Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Gracia Inc. owns and operates tanp, a gift platform. The platform provides gift for birthday, anniversary, father’s day, white day, valentine, job celebration, and wedding celebration. Gracia Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Shinagawa, Japan.

WHITE CROSS

Private Placement in 2019
WHITE CROSS Inc. develops and operates an information and communications technology (ICT) platform with regards to dental care. It also engages in the management of community sites targeting dental health workers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

REGiMMUNE

Series C in 2012
REGiMMUNE Corporation, a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of immune-regulatory therapeutics to treat life-threatening diseases and disorders. It offers therapeutics for allergies, autoimmune diseases, and transplantation disorders. The company’s products include RGI-2001, a drug in the class of Treg-inducing agents; RGI-1000 for allergy; and RGI-3100 series for type 1 diabetes, as well as products for preventing inhibitor formation in enzyme replacement therapies and for IBD. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Wealthnavi

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

Monstar Lab

Venture Round in 2014
Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Monstar Lab, Inc. provides access to top talent and specialists around the world as the foundation for all of the group’s activities. The company consists of more than 1200 engineers and creators in offices in 26 cities and 15 countries worldwide. The core consultancy arm of the company engineers awesome solutions that perform for clients around the world. In addition, the company’s array of products and services ranging from co-working spaces, robotic process automation, game development, streaming services, HR tech and education programs empower thinkers and makers globally.

toBe Marketing

Venture Round in 2019
ToBe Marketing is an information technology company that provides services to combine marketing automation and CRM. It offers consulting services, IT, and marketing consultation. The company is driven by a mission is to realize the engagement of companies and their customers by creating marketing and sales activities using IT or digital technology. ToBe Marketing was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Snaq me

Venture Round in 2020
Snaq.me Co., Ltd. offers snack subscription and delivery services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Nanophoton

Venture Round in 2016
Nanophoton Corporation engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of laser microscopes and related products. It offers laser Raman microscopes; wide field Raman scopes; tip-enhanced Raman microscopes; closed vessels for Raman spectroscopy of lithium ion batteries; Z polarizers to measure in three dimensions x, y, and z orientation of the crystals and molecules; laser speckle reducers for microscope illumination; compact shading covers; and custom-order systems. The company’s products are used in silicon/semiconductor, secondary battery, carbon materials, inorganic compounds/minerals, polymer/resin, bio/pharmaceutical, and food applications. It sells its products to laboratories and industries through a network of distributors/representatives worldwide. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

AlphaNavi Pharma

Series A in 2019
AlphaNavi Pharma Co., Ltd., a drug discovery company, develops new pain therapeutics and engages in research and development of voltage-gated sodium channel selective inhibitors. Its products include ANP-230 and ANP-231 drugs used for peripheral neuropathic pain. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

Japan Communications Inc.

Venture Round in 2000
Japan Communications Inc., a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), provides mobile services in Japan. It develops and sells network security solutions and unauthorized access prevention technologies; and researches and develops technologies for MVNO and MVNE. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Latona

Series A in 2021
Latona, Inc. is engage in micro finance, innovating core technologies underneath front end experience. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Okan, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Okan is a food service has launched delivery service for Japanese deli foods for corporations and individual consumers .

Updater

Venture Round in 2014
Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.

Yoriso

Venture Round in 2015
Yoriso, formerly known as Minrebi, is a Japanese startup that connects families to funeral homes and other end-of-life service providers. It is a funeral / medical IT venture that aims to be a “company that creates a world where everyone can make their own choices by overcoming the limitations of ingenuity”. Yoriso was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo.

Mobilus

Private Placement in 2018
Mobilus Corporationis a Communication Tech Company that transforms communication with AI. We provide communication platforms that have been adopted by major carriers and SIer companies, and develop communication solutions that utilize mobile and artificial intelligence.

XMart

Series A in 2021
XMart, Inc. develops a platform that aims at reducing the cost of operating restaurants and improving the food industry productivity. The platform works by connecting restaurants and wholesalers. The restaurants can then register their delivery slip on the platform and receive a proposed quotation. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Logly

Venture Round in 2013
logly, Inc. operates as a technology company in Japan. The company operates logly lift, an advertising service platform that delivers corporate content to users through media and brand recognition, and product needs; Loyalfarm, an audience training tool to analyze action and engagement of readers who visited the site and to repeat them; and Zenback, a widget to collect information about articles from various parts of the net. It primarily serves advertisers and distributors. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Braizon Therapeutics, Inc. was established with the aim of applying and implementing, within the fields of medicine and life science, innovative technology for the delivery of drugs to the brain as the outcome of collaborative research by Professor Kazunori Kataoka from the Graduate School of Engineering/Medicine, the University of Tokyo and Professor Takanori Yokota from the Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

Pixie Dust Technologies

Series B in 2019
Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. develops phased array technology and digital fabrication technology. The company’s products include ultrasonic phased array system with which technology one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DLGB Inc.

Series A in 2023
We are creating a marketplace nemed by "SmartRyde" to connect local transportation operators and online travel agencies (OTAs) with the mission of "contributing to the sustainable development of local communities through transportation," . As of August 2021, we have collaborated with more than 650 transportation operators and more than 25 OTAs, including top global players such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trip.com, Traveloka, and Despegar.

LegalForce

Series B in 2020
LegalForce, Inc. develops, operates, and maintains software related to legal services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Accounting SaaS Japan

Venture Round in 2014
Accouting SaaS Japan Co.,LTD. develops cloud-based accounting and tax applications software. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Timetree

Venture Round in 2018
TimeTree, Inc. develops an application to manage calendar schedules. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Shinjuku, Japan.

BearTail

Series B in 2016
BearTail Inc. offers travel and expense management services to businesses. The company develops 'Dr Wallet', a cloud based bookkeeping service. BearTail Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Wefabrik

Venture Round in 2018
WEFABRIK Inc. owns and operates an online B2B (Business to Business) flea marketplace for textile and fashion industry. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

Miraisens

Venture Round in 2017
Miraisens, Inc. researches, develops, and commercializes 3D gesture feedback technological devices. The company offers two?hand sensory feedback game controllers; 3DHaptics Navigator, a hardware solution for enhancing real-time 3D digital contents with realistic touch feeling effect for automotive, robotics, and remote surgery applications; and 4Driving Bar, a hardware solution for enhancing car race game with realistic car driving feeling effect. Its products are used in entertainment/VR/wearable applications. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tsukuba, Japan.

Xtra Japan

Venture Round in 2013
Xtra creates various encounters through services.

InterTrade

Venture Round in 2000
InterTrade offers securities dealing, foreign exchange margin trading, and exchange trading systems; and integrated management control platform, virtual engineering, and system integration/system engineering services. It also plans and sells health food and cosmetic products; and produces functional mushroom.

Megakaryon Corporation

Series A in 2013
Megakaryon Corporation develops platelets and red blood cells from human iPS cell lines. Its portfolio includes blood products that do not depend on blood donations. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Kyoto, Japan with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.

Meijo Nano Carbon

Private Placement in 2018
MEIJO NANO CARBON Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture of carbon nanotube chemicals. Its products include single-walled carbon nanotube, such as meijo edips; metallic/semiconducting carbon nanotube, including bluemetal and redsemicon; carbon nanotube dispersion, which includes edips ink, bluemetal ink, and redsemicon ink; and cnt coated dish. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.

AccuRna

Series B in 2018
AccRna, Inc.'s aim is to promote therapeutic innovation in the form of nucleic acid medicine utilizing our robust DDS platform, providing effective treatment for refractory diseases for which there is currently no cure. Our dream is to deliver a “radical cure” to patients suffering from refractory diseases all over the world by safely and efficiently achieving the ultimate in the therapy utilizing nucleic acid.

iCARE

Private Placement in 2018
iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .

YeLL inc.

Private Placement in 2019
YeLL inc. offers organizational development and human resources development consulting services. The company offers planning, development, and management of cloud 1 on 1 service. YeLL inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

CREWT Medical Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
CREWT Medical Systems, Inc. developed world first head-mounted perimeter, compatible standard automated perimeter, based on our cutting edge lens designing techniques and software engineering that meets the needs of the clinical site. The company name “CREWT” is an acronym for “CREation” “Weave” “Technologies“. We aims to create “new value” by weaving up the existing excellent technology in the world. We will continue to make effort to create and provide human-centric medical devices for a better Quality Of Vision. Our mission is to ‘CRE’ate new values by ‘W’eaving up existing ‘T’echnologies, acronymized as “CREWT”.

Thinca

Private Placement in 2018
Thinca co.,Ltd. provides information technology system planning, development, and operation services for cloud based products. The company offers computer technology integration and consulting services. It also provides hospitality telephone service development which Integrates telephone and fax partially with the computer system. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Robot Fund

Series A 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.

Linkwiz

Series B in 2019
LinkWiz offers software that solves something about robots that is a bit difficult to use. It also develops and sells control system software with proprietary algorithms for industrial robots. Linkwiz's main products, L-ROBOT, control software for robots that perform operations such as welding and coating, and L-QUALIFY, a production-line inspection software, have already been adopted by major companies such as auto manufacturers. The company also provides technical consulting services. LinkWiz was founded in March 2015 and is based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

GHELIA

Venture Round in 2020
GHELIA aims to target this new era of AI with the latest deep learning technology. Through the development of a comprehensive AI platform ranging from OS to hardware, they aim to bring deep learning into easy use for everyone. It is their dream to bring the benefits of AI to as many people in as many walks of life as possible.

nCino K.K.

Venture Round in 2020
Developer of a cloud-based integrated lending platform intended to let users realize a comprehensive banking experience. The company's integrated banking platform provides efficiency, visualization, profitability, and regulatory compliance for all of the bank's business units, from customer communication to banking, and key operations such as lending and account opening, enabling clients to improve profitability, efficiency, transparency, and compliance with regulations.

COVER Corporation

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

FOWD

Seed Round in 2018
FOWD is a comprehensive entertainment company in Japan.

JTOWER

Venture Round in 2014
JTOWER Inc. provides infrastructure sharing services in Japan. The company engages in the design and construction of information communication infrastructure services; design and development of communications-related solutions; and provision of information communications services. It offers in-building infrastructure sharing and cloud-managed Wi-Fi services to landlords and mobile network operators; site locator systems; and outdoor tower sharing and local 5G services. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. JTOWER Inc. is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.

Neworld

Venture Round in 2018
Neworld is a web-based application that enables TV audiences to buy clothes actors wear on film.

Gracia Inc.

Series A in 2018
Gracia Inc. owns and operates tanp, a gift platform. The platform provides gift for birthday, anniversary, father’s day, white day, valentine, job celebration, and wedding celebration. Gracia Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Shinagawa, Japan.

Aipore

Private Placement in 2020
Aipore is a technology company specializing in the area of nanopore sensor using semiconductor Si microfabrication technology. The airpore technology is a collection of technological innovations such as Si MEMS, flow path surface control, multiphysics analysis, low noise amplification circuits, and sam concentration. It also uses AI to analyze this transient change in ion current to identify particles passing through the pore with high accuracy. Aipore was established in 2018 and is based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Green Earth Institute

Venture Round in 2014
Green Earth Institute Co.,Ltd. produces carbon-neutral biofuels and green chemicals. Its biofuels include vehicle and jet fuel; and green chemicals comprise resins, carbon fibers, and feed additives, and other chemicals derived from non-food biomass, such as leaves and stems of plants. Green Earth Institute Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It has a research center in Kisarazu, Japan.

NORMEE

Venture Round in 2016
Normee Limited develops a palm recognition technology to identify users. It uses the built-in camera of a smartphone to detect an individual’s unique palm patterns of lines, ridges, veins, and capillaries to allow the user to unlock the device. It was formerly known as Universal Robot co.ltd. The company was founded in February 1, 2005 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

MIL

Private Placement in 2019
MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.

Identity Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Identity has set a mission of "Reduce mismatches in the world with IT!" And provides services as a comprehensive IT support company specializing in IT human resources (engineers and creators). We provide recruitment support for both agent services and media services, and offer a wide range of recruitment, mid-career, freelance, and overseas human resources in recruitment advertising media. From employment to retirement, we work closely with users to support career design.

NearMe

Private Placement in 2019
NearMe Inc. develops a mobile application for providing taxi ride-sharing service. The company’s application enables instant matching of people who want to go in the same direction by taxi. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. NearMe Co., Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

KPI Management Solutions

Venture Round in 2011
Corporate Performance Management and Business Intelligence KPI helps their customers to implement strategies through identifying and aligning the organization around critical KPI’s.

Timers

Venture Round in 2017
Timers offers a range of mobile applications based on match-making for singles. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

PeaceTecLab

Venture Round in 2021
PeaceTecLab Co., Ltd. develops and operates a platform that lends and borrows home appliances and daily necessities. It rents home appliances, baby goods, and fitness goods to individuals and manufacturers. The company also provides consulting services. It serves entertainment, distribution, and advertising industries. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Kyash

Private Placement in 2019
Kyash Inc. develops a wallet application and payment platform that allows consumers to make payments at Visa merchants and peer to peer transfers. Its proprietary Visa card issuing and payment processing technology platform for businesses allows them to instantly issue their own Visa cards to their customers through Kyash’s APIs. The company offers its services through a mobile application. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

chikaku

Venture Round in 2021
Chikaku Inc. manufactures setup boxes for grandparents to watch their grandkids. Its solution allows watching videos and photos on screen by plugging the device. Chikaku Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Neworld

Venture Round in 2018
Neworld is a web-based application that enables TV audiences to buy clothes actors wear on film.

Koala Tech

Venture Round in 2021
Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.

HRBrain

Funding Round in 2020
HRBrain, INC. owns and operates an online platform that provides cloud-based human resource evaluation services. It offers centralized management of human resource data, personal evaluation, organizational structure, and tissue analysis. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Holmes

Series A in 2018
Holmes Inc. develops a digital platform specialized in contracts. Its platform is used to create, approve, conclude, and manage contracts. The company serves customers worldwide. Holmes Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Adways

Venture Round in 2005
Founded in 2001, Adways is engaged in the provision of advertising services. The firm also deals with mobile applications and contents development for media advertising.

GEXVal

Private Placement in 2018
GEXVal Inc. engages in research and development of drugs targeting intractable/rare diseases and related operations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Fujisawa, Japan.

nCino

Post in 2020
NCino offers a cloud-based bank operating system created by bankers for bankers. The system helps increase profitability, productivity gains, regulatory compliance, and operational transparency at all organizational levels as well as across all lines of business. Following a process structure similar to a bank’s loan accounting system, the bank operating system offers combined services through its business process management, loan lifecycle, business intelligence, and document management solutions.

SATORI

Venture Round in 2019
SATORI Inc. develops and offers a marketing automation tool. The company's tool offers lead management, lead generation, lead nurturing, lead qualification, and reports. SATORI Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TL Genomics

Private Placement in 2018
TL Genomics is a developer of a prenatal diagnosis technology created to isolate fetal nucleated red blood cells in maternal blood.The company isolates fetal cells in maternal blood using a uniquely developed technology and examines the genome of the fetal cells, enabling noninvasive and definitive diagnosis of fetal chromosomal disease early in pregnancy.

Kuraseru

Private Placement in 2019
Kuraseru, Inc. develops hospital discharge facility entry support solution for medical care workers. The company's solution offers nursing facility matching service suitable for each patient's needs, details of the availability of facilities, and visit reservations, nursing, and medical systems. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.

Ball Wave

Private Placement in 2018
Ball Wave Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells sensors. The company offers trance moisture sensors and mini sensors. It also provides ball surface acoustic waves gas sensors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sendai, Japan.

Kakehashi

Private Placement in 2018
KAKEHASHI is the opportunity of Their foundation to want to become "Kakehashi connecting medical treatment and patients" "Kakehashi connecting medical care with a bright future". Japan is a country possessing world-class medical technology and medical system, it is a country with prominent longevity to be proud of in the world. In 2060, one in 2.5 people will enter an unprecedented super aging society of 65 years old and over, one in four will be over 75 years old. To think about the way of medical care that supports the healthy life expectancy in Japan is nothing but creation of the future image of Japanese society.

Fuskushima SiC Applied Engineering Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Fuskushima SiC Applied Engineering Inc. designs and manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor based electric devices. The company provides high voltage pulse generators that offers superiority in voltage and current rating and response character; silicon carbide semiconductor breaker, which protect electric circuits from rapid changes of voltage and current; alternating current switching devices; and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) cancer treatment apparatus that realizes multi-gate neutron generation and delivers neutron radiation to the affected area deep in human body. It serves healthcare and power electronics industries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Futaba-gun, Japan with additional office in Kyoto, Japan.

al+

Series A in 2016
al+ is a Personal Artificial Intelligence which reconstructs individual personalities on the cloud by analyzing life log data of individuals and their groups. Based on the analysis of individual personalities, unproductive parts of labour will be automated and alt’s operating efficiency will be maximized. al+ users can focus on more productive, creative and sophisticated work. Using this methodology, we sincerely hope to contribute to the solution of different kinds of social problems.

Neuroceuticals

Venture Round in 2016
Neuroceuticals Inc. manufactures medical devices. The company offers products, such as a video endoscope system, vagal nerve stimulation catheter system, temperature monitoring monitor catheter, and medical pen blade. Neuroceuticals Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TAGCyx Biotechnologies

Venture Round in 2016
TAGCyx Biotechnologies develops novel nucleic acid-based drugs for therapeutic applications. It offer Xenoligo, a platform that utilizes genetic alphabet expansion by unnatural base-pairs to generate customized nucleic acid suited for therapeutic applications. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

UniZeo

Venture Round in 2013
UniZeo Co., Ltd. specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of zeolite silica related products. The company was founded on May 9, 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Nosh

Series B in 2019
Nosh is a delivery food service platform based in Osaka.

NeuroSpace

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

Local Works

Venture Round in 2018
LOCALWORKS Create a world where SMEs can grow easily by creating trust through visualization of reliability and changing the mechanism.

BizReach

Series A in 2016
Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives to freely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

StemRIM

Venture Round in 2017
Stem Rim is a biotechnology company aiming to develop “regenerative medicine”.We are developing drugs based on a new mechanism of action that mobilizes stem cells present in the living body to the injured or diseased tissue without removing them out of the body and induces functional tissue regeneration.

Remohab

Venture Round in 2020
Remohab Corporation designs remote telemedicine for patients with rehabilitation. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Suita City, Japan.

Innophys

Series B in 2019
INNOPHYS is developing, designing, manufacturing, consulting and distributing robotics equipment for various industries. Their flagship product, Muscle Suit® is a wearable robot supported by artificial muscle technology, well known for its high quality and reasonable price compared with the same kind of support exoskeletons. The company is planning to expand its business to Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.

AIQ

Private Placement in 2020
AIQ corporation develops an online platform through which it offers planning, development, and sales of technology related to artificial intelligence and software. Its platform visualizes and analyzes market insights with profiling AI and achieves potential customers. The company offers customer satisfaction survey, investigate customer attributes in the fields of research and development and marketing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Caster Biz

Private Placement in 2019
Caster Biz is a company that provides online assistant / online secretary. Accounting / HR / Secretarial business, etc., etc., the daily fine your hassles work, doing online assistant caster biz. Caster Biz Assistant (below, caster assistant) were all Word, Excel, such as basic business such as Powerpoint of course, has the knowledge to do business online. Telephone and e-mail, it is possible to issue a request easily with Facebook, etc., Can you have a feeling like your mate has increased.