VCs and Startup Programs in Japan (2025)

Anthemis Group

Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses.

Omnes Capital

Omnes Venture Capital provides financial assistance to startups in the ICT and life sciences sectors.

SuperCharger Ventures

SuperCharger Ventures is a leading EdTech ecosystem located in London Singapore and Malta. We are the biggest EdTech-only accelerator globally supported by our EdTech Fund. We support educational institutions worldwide and collaborate with top universities to promote innovation in education through our Sandbox. Build the future of learning and work with us.

MVM Life Science Partners

MVM Life Science Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up, early stage, mid venture, late venture.

Panache Ventures

Panache Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed stage startup investments.

HBM Partners

HBM Partners was founded in 2001 with the goal to invest in private and public emerging biopharma and other healthcare-related companies.

Rockaway Blockchain Fund

Traditional VC investor into digital assets. We invest globally into outstanding founders building next generation of financial services.

Goldman Sachs

Dawn Capital

We are a family of investors entrepreneurs strategists and operational specialists drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

F-Prime Capital

F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.

Scrum Ventures

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 120 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

Hardware Club

We are a venture capital firm that helps fearless founders tackle hard problems with capital resources and collaboration.

500 Emerging Europe

500 is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs for founders, mentors, and investors.

DNX Ventures

DNX Ventures is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

Incuba Venture

Incuba Venture makes early-stage investments in companies based in Denmark.

Greyhound Capital

Global growth equity investor in technology enabled companies improving daily lives.

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

Kreos Capital

Kreos Capital is a growth debt firm that provides financing solutions for high-growth companies across Europe and Israel.

Redpoint

Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.

Caffeinated Capital

We are an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco California. We partner with unbreakable founders who are radically transforming the way the world works.

Upfront Ventures

Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.

TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Helping leading corporations & ambitious entrepreneurs work together to create new business models, revenue streams, products, and markets.

Atomico

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.

Boost VC

The #1 Virtual Reality and #1 Blockchain accelerator

RA Capital Management

RA Capital Management is an investment advisor specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors.

TEV Ventures

Venture Capital for Europe's Most Ambitious.

Google for Startups Accelerator Japan

Google Startup Accelerator for top seed to growth stage Japanese startups

Scottish Equity Partners

SEP is a leading growth equity investor in enterprise software and technology scaleup companies in the UK and Europe.

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

Draper Nexus

DNX Ventures is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

Antler Japan

We identify and invest in exceptional people

Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.

Ysios Capital

Ysios Capital is a leading life sciences investor financing highly innovative companies worldwide

Celesta Capital

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies.

Digital Currency Group

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Vertex Ventures Israel

Vertex Ventures Israel invests in companies with proven leadership ability to deliver success.

500 Global

500 Global is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs for founders, mentors, and investors.

Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments.

Eight Roads

Eight Roads has a 50+ year history of investing and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies supporting them as they scale to become global leaders.

Eight Roads Ventures

Eight Roads Ventures is a global investment firm backed by Fidelity with a presence in China, India, London, Hong Kong, Israel and Japan.

Seraphim Space

We support space entrepreneurship from inception to exit. We are the global industry leader.

Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the consumer, commerce, fintech, software, frontier, and media sectors.

Accel

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

5AM Ventures

5AM Ventures is a venture capital firm that aims to finance seed and early-stage life sciences companies.

2080 Venture

We invest in emerging markets and turn ideas into legendary companies

HBM Healthcare Investments AG

HBM Healthcare Investments finances companies related to human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology, and diagnostics sectors.

Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.

NGP Capital

NGP Capital is a growth-stage investment firm that invests in the cybersecurity, edge cloud, digital industries and digital transformation.

Novartis Venture Fund

Novartis Venture Fund is a venture capital firm focused on companies that develop novel therapeutics and platforms.

Shima Capital

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups.

Greenspring Associates

Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.

General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments.

DCM Ventures

DCM Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the mobile, consumer internet, communications, and service sectors.

Oak Investment Partners

Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm.

Blockchain Capital

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm investing in Blockchain-enabled technology companies.

IRIS

IRIS is a tech VC and growth firm

Plug and Play

Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.

SOSV

SOSV is a multi-stage VC firm with $1.3B AUM focused on human and planetary health and operating HAX, IndieBio, Orbit Startups and dlab.

Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency.

btov Partners

Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies.

August Capital

August Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments growth capital and startup investments.

Kapor Capital

We invest in early stage startups that close gaps of access for all.

Icon Ventures

Icon Ventures is a specialty venture capital firm focused on leading Series B or C financings.

Pegasus Tech Ventures

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.

FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Keiretsu Forum

Keiretsu Forum is a California-based angel group that offers early, seed, and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

UBS

UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.

Haatch

Award-Winning Investors from Pre-Seed to Exit. Investments via Haatch Angel and our SEIS, EIS & Follow On funds from Haatch Ventures.

Polychain

Polychain Capital invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain assets.

PlugAndPlay - FinTech Accelerator

We connect the best tech startups and world’s largest corporations

Point Nine

Point Nine Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments related to SaaS and digital marketplaces.

Magma Venture Partners

Magma Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments.