VOYAGE VENTURES

Voyage Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of Voyage Group specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the internet and mobile internet industry. It invests from JPY1 million ($.01million) to JPY to 10 million ($.12 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests in Japan, China and other growing Asian markets. Voyage Ventures, Inc., formerly known as EC Navi Ventures Company, was founded in March 25, 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Hidenori Nagaoka

President and CEO

86 past transactions

Micoworks

Corporate Round in 2021
Micoworks is a business development and organizational management firm.

Maneo

Venture Round in 2016
maneo market Inc., through its web portal, offers crowd-funding services. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of maneo Inc. As of September 17, 2020, maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NLHD Co., Ltd.

Crevo

Venture Round in 2020
Crevo Inc. operates a Web based platform for language free open-crowd sourcing contest that enable user to find custom design from all over the world. The company was formerly known as PurpleCow Inc. and changed its name to Crevo Inc. in February 2015. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

quatre

Venture Round in 2019
Quatre Co., Ltd. engages in the planning and operation of aircatalog promotion platform. Its platform connects people with distribution facilities to sell their products. Additionally, the company offers shipping services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Ubiregi

Seed Round in 2011
Ubiregi was founded in March 2010 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa. It was, at the beginning, a company to develop a web service to look for apartments. In June 2010, iPad got available in Japan. They bought it, and found it can be more than a book reader or game console.

Syoya

Seed Round in 2011
Syoya is a Produced and Internet Services Related to Alumni Association

Ventus, inc.

Series A in 2021
Ventus, inc. develops Whooop, an electronic tracker trading software that enables the users to become members of sports teams, through collaboration with the professional sports teams and athletes. It enables sports teams and athletes to issue trading cards online, and the users to purchase and collect it. Ventus, inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Breaker

Venture Round in 2019
Breaker Inc. makes videos and movies for promotion. It also engages in film production, TV program production, CM production, influencer marketing, inbound marketing, artist management, event planning, and video analysis tool. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Cotobank

Seed Round in 2011
Cotobank provides online language learning services.

DogHuggy

Venture Round in 2018
DogHuggy Co., Ltd. is engage in dog sitter matching business. The customers can leave their dogs at DogHuggy Co., Ltd. to enjoy the hustle free trip. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Meguro, Japan.

vivid garden

Series A in 2019
vivid garden Inc. operates as an online marketplace that allows producers to sell their farm products directly to individuals and restaurants through platform. The company also operates others marketplace, such as Tabe Choku, an online C2C marketplace for farmers to sell products to individuals; Tabe Choku Pro, a solution for restaurants to order products and ingredients; and Eat Chok, a platform that helps farmers deliver products in offices. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Minato, Japan.

MiddleField

Series B in 2020
MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.

Bitkey, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Bitkey, Inc. develops a smart lock device with a digital key infrastructure using block chain technology, distributed systems, encryption technology. The company's product is used in home, office, and hotels. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Chuo-ku, Japan.

QUATRE Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
QUATRE Inc., a design advertising company, engages in advertising media planning, and production and construction of advertising materials. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

tripla

Venture Round in 2016
tripla, K.K. develops chat base software for foreign travelers visiting Japan. It provides artificial intelligence based chat bot service for business enterprises in travel industries like hotels and ryokan. The company also provides reservation service and chat communication services in Japan. tripla, K.K. was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

IT Realize

Venture Round in 2016
IT Realize Co.,Ltd. develops IT platform to provide financial solutions. The company is headquartered in Japan.

Amazia

Venture Round in 2016
Amazia,inc. plans, operates, and manages manga applications worldwide. It offers Manga BANG!, a service that accommodates new reading, masterpieces, and works of various genres for users; and Manga Epic!, a manga posting service that allows manga artists to read a work by various people. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Stayway

Private Placement in 2019
Stayway Inc. owns and operates an online platform that provides information on travel and cross-typed search and comparison services. The platform offers comparison services across websites for private residences, condominiums, hotels, inns, cottages, old residences, monthly apartments, share houses, and guest houses. Stayway Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Kawasaki, Japan.

OMEGA Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
OMEGA Inc. develops an advertisement delivery technology that analyzes big data collected in artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2015 and is based 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.

Generic Solution

Venture Round in 2017
Generic Solution Corporation provides software distribution services. The company also provides data analytics and artificial intelligence services. Generic Solution Corporation was founded in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

IROYA K.K

Venture Round in 2016
IROYA K.K. sells apparel for men and women. The company offers tops, outers, pants, skirts, underwear, shoes, accessories, hats, bags, cosmetics/perfumes, leg wears, tableware, watches, books, and more. It also offers Omni-channel and data consulting services. The company sells products through its stores, as well as online. IROYA K.K. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan

MiddleField Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
MiddleField Inc. owns and operates an e-commerce car platform. It offers Motagare, an online platform that helps in purchasing and installation of car parts; MotaGare, an online platform that delivers car parts; and Motorz that collects information about cars, motorcycle, and racing industries. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

MtGox.us

Venture Round in 2014
Logly is a demand-side platform that allows advertisers to distribute ads efficiently based on their unique technology that combines the context analysis of a website and the behavioral analysis of visitors.

Bitkey, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Bitkey, Inc. develops a smart lock device with a digital key infrastructure using block chain technology, distributed systems, encryption technology. The company's product is used in home, office, and hotels. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Chuo-ku, Japan.

Taskey

Venture Round in 2019
Taskey, Inc. develops software used by novelists and illustrators to create stories. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Mediabrst Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Mediabrst Co., Ltd. engages in movie and comedy content production activities. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Repro

Venture Round in 2016
Repro Inc. develops Repro, a mobile analytics solution for clients to convert and retain their mobile users. It offers application growth support consulting for total support from strategy planning and development to application. The company provides in-app message to improve conversion rate. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DoubleL

Corporate Round in 2015
DoubleL,Inc. develops e-book application. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Three-Is

Venture Round in 2019
Three-Is is AI-based business technology strategy consultant and AI utilization system design development support.

CAMPFIRE

Seed Round in 2012
Campfire is a Japanese crowdfunding site. They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something." The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over 700,000 people.

TORICO

Venture Round in 2016
TORICO Operates an online platform and application, which sells books, e-books, and more. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Chisoda, Timis.

Media Breast

Venture Round in 2018
Mediabrst providing comedy content realizing video and video production with overwhelming quality and low cast. Mediabrst offer a wide range of services from content provision, video production, program production to youtube production.

Accela

Venture Round in 2015
Accela, Inc. is a smartphone application developer. Accela is an Internet company providing romance-themed mobile social contents as well as web-based services.

8bank

Angel Round in 2018
8bank is a digital currency management platform.

vivid garden

Series B in 2020
vivid garden Inc. operates as an online marketplace that allows producers to sell their farm products directly to individuals and restaurants through platform. The company also operates others marketplace, such as Tabe Choku, an online C2C marketplace for farmers to sell products to individuals; Tabe Choku Pro, a solution for restaurants to order products and ingredients; and Eat Chok, a platform that helps farmers deliver products in offices. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Minato, Japan.

pickupon株式会社

Seed Round in 2022
Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call

bravesoft

Venture Round in 2021
bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.

DigitAddress

Seed Round in 2016
DigitAddress Inc. concentrates on personal information protection.

Insight Plus

Venture Round in 2012
Insight Plus specializes in mobile application development. It enables its users to check in objects found in stores in the real world and share price and other information with others. Insight Plus was launched in 2011 by Masao Yagi. It is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Shuminavi

Venture Round in 2018
We provide information to classroom members, those who are interested in opening a classroom, and those who are interested in various lessons.

Freecracy Việt Nam

Venture Round in 2019
freeC is business web-app to select and deliver Career, Crowd job, Event and News based on your interests with real-time.

picki

Private Placement in 2019
picki Inc. manufactures and distributes apparel. Its distributes the products through its online platform.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Amazia

Venture Round in 2015
Amazia,inc. plans, operates, and manages manga applications worldwide. It offers Manga BANG!, a service that accommodates new reading, masterpieces, and works of various genres for users; and Manga Epic!, a manga posting service that allows manga artists to read a work by various people. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ChatBook

Series A in 2019
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

umami.me

Seed Round in 2016
Order Food in English at Restaurant in Japan umami will help you Find menu you can eat and order in your own language Communicate with non-English speaking staff when you order Find coupons and get discount or reward Since its launch back in April of 2015, the Umami mobile app has been adopted by about 250 restaurants in Japan. The app allows restaurants to provide their menu in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Korean as well as Japanese, attract customers through coupons, and spread words using social network services so that they can better reach out to foreign visitors. For customers, it helps them find restaurants following their dining preference using a recommendation feature, making orders at a restaurant in their mother tongue and choosing allergy-free or halal food menus.

Fuller

Series C in 2016
Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab. App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active users of the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more. App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market. Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.

M0mentum

Venture Round in 2015
Monitoring and countermeasures for fraudulent online Advertising transactions in Japan for the first time.

Flier

Venture Round in 2021
Flier inc. develops a book abstract Web application. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ukka

Venture Round in 2019
ukka inc. owns and operates a direct-to-consumer (D2C) platform that connects consumers with agricultural product manufacturers. The company's platform allows producers to list their products and enables consumers to buy those commodities online. It caters to farmers, fisheries, and processed products manufacturers. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Frich

Venture Round in 2019
Frich Inc. provides peer-to-peer insurance services. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

vivid garden

Private Placement in 2020
vivid garden Inc. operates as an online marketplace that allows producers to sell their farm products directly to individuals and restaurants through platform. The company also operates others marketplace, such as Tabe Choku, an online C2C marketplace for farmers to sell products to individuals; Tabe Choku Pro, a solution for restaurants to order products and ingredients; and Eat Chok, a platform that helps farmers deliver products in offices. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Minato, Japan.

HugCome

Venture Round in 2021
HugCome,Inc. provides online English learning services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Otobank

Venture Round in 2018
OTOBANK Inc. develops and distributes audio content over Internet media. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Hecto, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Hecto, Inc. develops a chatbot to automate the marketing, sales, and lead generation through them under the name ChatBook. The application enables visualization of sales funnel accountability and collaboration with CRM tools. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Japan.

Flare

Seed Round in 2019
Flare (Thailand) Co., Ltd. offers Flare Analytics, a cloud based platform that analyzes driving data and visualizes driver’s behavior. It provides Flare Dash, a cloud based professional driver’s management platform; and FlareAD, a car-wrap advertising matching platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

DogHuggy

Private Placement in 2018
DogHuggy Co., Ltd. is engage in dog sitter matching business. The customers can leave their dogs at DogHuggy Co., Ltd. to enjoy the hustle free trip. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Meguro, Japan.

Prosbee Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Prosbee is an information technology and services company that offers Booklap, a social network which enables its users to search, find, and read books. Prosbee was founded by Reo Kasai in May 2012. It is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Flare

Private Placement in 2019
Flare (Thailand) Co., Ltd. offers Flare Analytics, a cloud based platform that analyzes driving data and visualizes driver’s behavior. It provides Flare Dash, a cloud based professional driver’s management platform; and FlareAD, a car-wrap advertising matching platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

byus

Seed Round in 2014
byus&co.,ltd offers customized news services through its platform. The company is headquartered in Japan.

JION

Venture Round in 2016
As of December 31, 2018, operates as a subsidiary of Vector Inc. JION Inc. operates an information site. The company provides a magazine for adult men delivered by women; and a web media that offers lifestyle information. It is also engages in advertising agency and PR consulting businesses. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Flare

Private Placement in 2020
Flare (Thailand) Co., Ltd. offers Flare Analytics, a cloud based platform that analyzes driving data and visualizes driver’s behavior. It provides Flare Dash, a cloud based professional driver’s management platform; and FlareAD, a car-wrap advertising matching platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

CaSy

Venture Round in 2015
Casy Co.,Ltd. provides housekeeping service which users can order and change schedule 24 hours 7 days using web easily. The company was founded on January 30, 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Valise

Venture Round in 2015
Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.

Taskey

Private Placement in 2019
Taskey, Inc. develops software used by novelists and illustrators to create stories. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

palsbots

Venture Round in 2018
Palsbots Inc. develops software application for robots. The company develops application for robot application content management system; robot participation type SNS that enables customers to experience how robots communicate with society; and communication engine for robot. Palsbots Inc. also provides IT consultancy services and engages in development of applications for robots, robot correspondence and cooperation of existing services and systems, and planning for introduction of robots. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Frich

Private Placement in 2019
Frich Inc. provides peer-to-peer insurance services. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

picki

Seed Round in 2019
picki Inc. manufactures and distributes apparel. Its distributes the products through its online platform.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Japan.

Coconala

Series A in 2015
Coconala operates a website to buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. It provides a broad range of services for sellers including fortune-telling, relieving mental anguish, illustration, design, consultation for hobbies, and travel destinations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Japan.

gram Japan

Venture Round in 2012
gram is a job changing agent service.

Flare

Series A in 2020
Flare (Thailand) Co., Ltd. offers Flare Analytics, a cloud based platform that analyzes driving data and visualizes driver’s behavior. It provides Flare Dash, a cloud based professional driver’s management platform; and FlareAD, a car-wrap advertising matching platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

AI CROSS

Venture Round in 2017
AI CROSS is an internet company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help enterprises communicate through mobile with their customers. AI CROSS is also a leading messaging service provider in Japan – The company has been providing 2-way SMS service since SMS interconnection between carriers has started here. It offers carrier direct connection to all major carriers in Japan. Combining its high-quality route with our expertise in messaging in Japan, they've got range of customers including SMS aggregators, app providers, finance, HR, and so on. AOS Mobile is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Creators Match

Series A in 2013
Creators Match Ltd. provides Internet advertisement services and offers seminars and provision of teaching materials for creators. The company develops banner, landing page, and leaflet; a platform for Internet advertising companies; and provides seminars and provision of teaching materials for creators. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Bridge Co

Seed Round in 2017
Bridge, Inc. offers mobile communication for international visitors to Japan through a SIM card service called Trip Free. Trip Free distributes 50MB data SIM cards for free to inbound tourists to provide them with tourist information via the company’s portal website. The SIM cards are also available for usual internet use as well. The users can obtain additional data communication capacity for free by booking a restaurant via the Trip Free website. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

freecracy co., ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
freecracy co., ltd. develops software application to find jobs. The product can be used to find jobs based on interests, participate in events to enhance skills, and learn about news. freecracy co., ltd. was founded in 2018 and is based in Ho Chí Minh, Vietnam.

palsbots

Private Placement in 2018
Palsbots Inc. develops software application for robots. The company develops application for robot application content management system; robot participation type SNS that enables customers to experience how robots communicate with society; and communication engine for robot. Palsbots Inc. also provides IT consultancy services and engages in development of applications for robots, robot correspondence and cooperation of existing services and systems, and planning for introduction of robots. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Three Eyes Co., Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Three-Is Inc. manages and operates an online advertisement distribution network. The company offers CANDY which is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) based server software for machine learning of web content that selects advertisements and articles relevant to web articles, such as news. Further, it understands the meaning of articles written in Japanese by linking with the artificial intelligence, and displays the most relevant articles and advertisements on the screen. Additionally, the company offers marketing business support, market research, and business consulting services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Yonezawa, Japan.

Stayway

Venture Round in 2019
Stayway Inc. owns and operates an online platform that provides information on travel and cross-typed search and comparison services. The platform offers comparison services across websites for private residences, condominiums, hotels, inns, cottages, old residences, monthly apartments, share houses, and guest houses. Stayway Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Kawasaki, Japan.