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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.
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The 24 largest early stage venture capital companies based in Japan
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antler is where outlier founders come to go further, faster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About TECHFUND Company vision is "Make entrepreneurs become a major profession".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “https://coralcap.co/press/?lang=en” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CyberAgent Capital is an early-stage focused corporate venture capital arm of CyberAgent, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 17 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 16 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are specializing in Seed/Early stage B2B tech startup.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are the most largest early stage investors and most committed incubator in Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Biotech Venture Capital” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VC == VC SEED VC FOCUSED ON ENGINEER-FOUNDERS We are engineers investing in engineers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fukuoka City, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shifting Ordinary (so) inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: early stage venture capital companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names early stage venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage venture capital companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Early stage venture capital companies based in Japan at a glance
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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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