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Top 24 Early stage venture capital companies based in Japan

RevenueBase identified 48 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Japan as of September 2026 and tracks 620 professional contacts across them, including 173 with verified work emails. Tokyo is the largest hub.

This list covers early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Japan, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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48Companies
620Contacts tracked
173Verified emails
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The 24 largest early stage venture capital companies based in Japan

Ranked by team size
Top 24 of 48 early stage venture capital companies based in Japan, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage venture capital companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5058 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“1,250400 2010Incubate Camp We have built a portfolio of over 400 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2Indirect evidenceChuo City, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Antler is where outlier founders come to go further, faster.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3Indirect evidenceShibuya, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“About TECHFUND Company vision is "Make entrepreneurs become a major profession".”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“https://coralcap.co/press/?lang=en”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5Indirect evidenceShibuya, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6Strong evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5018 contacts →

Strong evidence

“CyberAgent Capital is an early-stage focused corporate venture capital arm of CyberAgent, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our goal is to connect startups with the right people, insights, and opportunities to help them scale beyond expectations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8Strong evidence港区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5016 contacts →

Strong evidence

“DNX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo and Silicon Valley investing in B2B Startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9Indirect evidence千代田区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10Strong evidenceMinato-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are specializing in Seed/Early stage B2B tech startup.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11Strong evidenceKyoto, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12Strong evidenceMinato, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“D4V (Design for Ventures) is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13Strong evidence港区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 202611-5011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are the most largest early stage investors and most committed incubator in Japan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14Strong evidenceMinato-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-109 contacts →

Strong evidence

“FIRSTLIGHT Capital (ex UB Ventures) is a VC firm committed to driving innovation in a depopulating society, with focus on seed to series-A stage startups in the fields of SaaS…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15Strong evidenceShibuya-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-106 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a venture capital firm that invests in seed, early, pre-series A, and series A startups in the lifestyle, entertainment, and sports fields from the early stages.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16Strong evidenceCyuo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-106 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 2022, HAKOBUNE is a venture capital firm specializing in Pre-Seed and Seed stage investments in Japanese startups.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17Strong evidenceChuo-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Biotech Venture Capital

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18Strong evidence中央区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“KUSABI is a Japan-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups with the potential to redefine industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“VC == VC SEED VC FOCUSED ON ENGINEER-FOUNDERS We are engineers investing in engineers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20Indirect evidenceShibuya-ku, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We support promising entrepreneurs who challenge to develop business globally in the IT-related field by providing them seed money and vital know-how which we cultivated in…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21Indirect evidence文京区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22Partial evidenceYokohama, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Silicon Planet is a venture development firm founded in February 2001 to work with technology innovators and built a sustainable and high-value business around their technologies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23Indirect evidence福岡市中央区, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fukuoka City, Japan.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24Indirect evidenceTokyo, JapanHQ checked Sep 14, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Shifting Ordinary (so) inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

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Early stage venture capital companies based in Japan at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026
27.9%Verified-email coverage
12.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
37.5%Largest-city concentration · Tokyo
Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
31
11-50
16
51-200
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Japan, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Japan, over 48 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among early stage venture capital companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Japan whose own description of what they do matches “early stage venture capital companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names early stage venture capital companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among early stage venture capital companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Japan are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 173 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names early stage venture capital companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many early stage venture capital companies are there based in Japan?

RevenueBase identified 48 early stage venture capital companies headquartered in Japan as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Incubate Fund, headquartered in Tokyo, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early stage venture capital companies?

Tokyo leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Jing (4) and Chiyoda-Ku (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 173 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 48 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.