THE SEED

THE SEED is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and located in Tokyo, Japan. The firm focuses on investments across various sectors, including B2B, B2C, transportation, media, retail, non-financial services, agriculture, and e-commerce. To date, THE SEED has successfully raised 500 million yen for its first fund and 1 billion yen for its second fund, demonstrating its commitment to supporting innovative companies within its target industries.

Daiki Hirozawa

General Partner

9 past transactions

AGRI SMILE

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

Archi Tech

Seed Round in 2021
Archi Tech is a web services platform for architecture students. They offer services like Ikonas and Beaver. Ikonas is a play-matching software that makes it simple for anyone to find and join a variety of play by renting out different locations throughout the city. Beaver is a community platform service for architecture students.

Onzo

Seed Round in 2021
Onzo is a company that provides a subscription service for audio equipment by borrowing, trying & buying and also sells used audio.

CharacterBank

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

alma

Seed Round in 2020
alma is an experimentation company that makes design accessible to everyone. The company also conducts a range of experiments in the design field, such as cocoda and centou, which are design reference services created by everyone.

New Innovations

Seed Round in 2020
New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack of talent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin.

Cloud Franchise

Seed Round in 2020
Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.

AGRI SMILE

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

New Innovations

Seed Round in 2019
New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack of talent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin.
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