Aozora Corporate Investment

Aozora Corporate Investment is an investment firm established in 2018 as the corporate venture capital arm of Aozora Bank, located in Tokyo, Japan. The firm focuses on making investments primarily in the alcoholic beverages and food sectors, aiming to support innovative companies within these industries. By leveraging its affiliation with Aozora Bank, the firm seeks to identify and nurture growth opportunities that align with its strategic interests.

Akifumi Kubo

President and CEO

35 past transactions

Craif

Debt Financing in 2025
Craif Inc., formerly known as Icaria Inc., is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing innovative devices for the early detection of cancer through non-invasive urine tests. The company focuses on utilizing MicroRNA, an early cancer biomarker, which facilitates the identification of cancer at its initial stages, thereby significantly increasing survival rates and improving patient prognosis. Craif aims to address the challenges of traditional cancer diagnosis methods, which can be painful and often lack the necessary accuracy for early detection. By leveraging exosome-based liquid biopsy tests and ribonucleic acid technology, Craif provides research institutions with high sensitivity and specificity in distinguishing between cancerous and non-cancerous samples, positioning itself as a pioneer in the field of early cancer diagnosis.

Siiibo

Venture Round in 2025
Siiibo is a developer of an information platform designed to facilitate the issuance and purchase of private bonds for both private investors and companies. The platform aims to create a free, transparent, and equitable direct finance environment. It offers advisory services to companies, assisting them in diversifying their funding through small private placement bonds. Additionally, Siiibo helps build relationships between companies and investors, enabling private investors to gain familiarity with the corporate bond issuance process. Through its innovative approach, Siiibo seeks to streamline access to private bond markets and enhance investment opportunities.

SmartRound

Debt Financing in 2025
Smartround Inc. is a financial management platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors to facilitate fundraising activities. Founded in 2018 and based in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers a user-friendly platform that allows startups to create comprehensive funding plans, invite investors to participate, and manage communication with shareholders throughout the fundraising process. The platform provides tools for information sharing, progress tracking, and contract negotiation, making it easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the complexities of capital raising. Investors benefit from a streamlined interface to view startup information, manage their interactions, and handle due diligence and information requests efficiently. Smartround aims to simplify the financing process for both startups and investors, enabling them to execute all necessary activities within a single platform.

SmartRound

Venture Round in 2025
Smartround Inc. is a financial management platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors to facilitate fundraising activities. Founded in 2018 and based in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers a user-friendly platform that allows startups to create comprehensive funding plans, invite investors to participate, and manage communication with shareholders throughout the fundraising process. The platform provides tools for information sharing, progress tracking, and contract negotiation, making it easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the complexities of capital raising. Investors benefit from a streamlined interface to view startup information, manage their interactions, and handle due diligence and information requests efficiently. Smartround aims to simplify the financing process for both startups and investors, enabling them to execute all necessary activities within a single platform.

BALLAS

Debt Financing in 2025
BALLAS is a company that specializes in the procurement and provision of custom-made construction materials for the construction industry. It offers a platform that facilitates the procurement process by allowing customers to upload construction drawings, which are then disassembled into parts for efficient sourcing of raw materials. This service enhances productivity by ensuring timely access to the necessary materials for construction projects. In addition to procurement, BALLAS engages in the design, development, manufacturing, and sales of various construction materials, catering to the specific needs of construction sites.

Emole

Series A in 2025
Emole is a platform designed to connect content creators with viewers through short drama content. The company operates a community platform that nurtures and supports talent, offering a short-form video distribution app. This app allows users to watch minute-long drama episodes, making it convenient for individuals to enjoy entertainment during brief moments of downtime in their day. By focusing on engaging and easily consumable content, Emole aims to enhance the viewing experience for its audience while providing a space for creators to showcase their work.

Emium

Seed Round in 2025
Emium is a company that develops a dental cloud platform designed to enhance the digital experience within the dental industry. By utilizing advanced dental medical technology and digital manufacturing techniques, Emium provides computer-aided design (CAD) services and digital manufacturing solutions for dental laboratory products. The company's infrastructure aims to support and advance dental care and technology, enabling dental businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively. Through its innovative approach, Emium positions itself as a key player in transforming the landscape of dental services and products.

Letara

Seed Round in 2025
Letara is a company focused on developing a space technology platform aimed at establishing a logistics network throughout the solar system. It specializes in the production of hybrid propulsion engines designed for small spacecraft. By utilizing innovative materials such as plastic, Letara's propulsion systems offer high thrust while prioritizing safety and cost-effectiveness. The company's technology is tailored for small satellites engaged in research and development, enabling more affordable propulsion solutions that enhance both Earth orbital operations and deep space exploration.

Aeterlink

Debt Financing in 2025
Aeterlink is a developer of innovative wireless power transfer technology aimed at creating a digital landscape devoid of wires. The company specializes in applying its advanced technology across various sectors, including factory automation, robotics, smart homes, and healthcare. By enabling wireless power transmission over distances, Aeterlink's solutions enhance efficiency and sustainability while improving safety by eliminating the hazards associated with traditional wiring. Their practical level technologies facilitate greater flexibility in device placement and operation, contributing to a more connected and streamlined environment across multiple industries.

Tacoms

Debt Financing in 2024
CAMEL is a restaurant management software firm that operates in managing orders from numerous ordering sources. This service allows you to handle several delivery and takeout services on a single terminal, from ordering to totalling.

ShareDine

Debt Financing in 2024
ShareDine is a Japan-based company founded in 2017 that operates an online platform offering nutritional guidance and cooking experiences. The company provides a subscription service that connects clients with traveling chefs who specialize in creating healthy, customized meals tailored to various lifestyles and life stages, including pregnancy, postpartum care, and dietary management for conditions like diabetes. ShareDine employs approximately 1,600 registered chefs, including registered dietitians and culinary professionals with diverse backgrounds, such as cooking in nursery schools and hospitals. The chefs offer on-site guidance on meal preparation, recipes, and set-up, ensuring clients can replicate the cooking experience at home. Additionally, ShareDine offers corporate wellness services, including meal seminars and cooking services, aimed at enhancing the nutritional well-being of individuals and organizations.

ShareDine

Series B in 2024
ShareDine is a Japan-based company founded in 2017 that operates an online platform offering nutritional guidance and cooking experiences. The company provides a subscription service that connects clients with traveling chefs who specialize in creating healthy, customized meals tailored to various lifestyles and life stages, including pregnancy, postpartum care, and dietary management for conditions like diabetes. ShareDine employs approximately 1,600 registered chefs, including registered dietitians and culinary professionals with diverse backgrounds, such as cooking in nursery schools and hospitals. The chefs offer on-site guidance on meal preparation, recipes, and set-up, ensuring clients can replicate the cooking experience at home. Additionally, ShareDine offers corporate wellness services, including meal seminars and cooking services, aimed at enhancing the nutritional well-being of individuals and organizations.

Siiibo

Venture Round in 2024
Siiibo is a developer of an information platform designed to facilitate the issuance and purchase of private bonds for both private investors and companies. The platform aims to create a free, transparent, and equitable direct finance environment. It offers advisory services to companies, assisting them in diversifying their funding through small private placement bonds. Additionally, Siiibo helps build relationships between companies and investors, enabling private investors to gain familiarity with the corporate bond issuance process. Through its innovative approach, Siiibo seeks to streamline access to private bond markets and enhance investment opportunities.

Okuma Diamond Device

Debt Financing in 2024
Okuma Diamond Device is an advanced materials technology company specializing in the research and development of diamond semiconductors. The company's products are designed to meet the demands of various high-tech applications, including communication satellites, radar systems, post-5G mobile phone base stations, oil exploration, and power plant decommissioning. Okuma's diamond semiconductors boast superior thermal conductivity, dielectric breakdown, relative permittivity, and mobility, making them ideal for high-power utilization in compact and lightweight designs. These innovations address the challenges posed by next-generation technologies such as autonomous driving, drones, the Internet of Things, blockchain, and the metaverse.

Tanp

Venture Round in 2024
Tanp is an e-commerce platform operated by Gracia Inc., which specializes in providing a diverse selection of gift options for various occasions, including birthdays, anniversaries, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, job celebrations, and weddings. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Shinagawa, Japan, Tanp aims to enhance the gift-giving experience by offering products that help customers celebrate and cherish important moments in their lives. The platform is designed to make the process of selecting and purchasing gifts more enjoyable and accessible for its users.

Tanp

Debt Financing in 2024
Tanp is an e-commerce platform operated by Gracia Inc., which specializes in providing a diverse selection of gift options for various occasions, including birthdays, anniversaries, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, job celebrations, and weddings. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Shinagawa, Japan, Tanp aims to enhance the gift-giving experience by offering products that help customers celebrate and cherish important moments in their lives. The platform is designed to make the process of selecting and purchasing gifts more enjoyable and accessible for its users.

PartnerSuccess

Series A in 2024
PartnerSuccess, Inc. is a cloud service provider established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company specializes in automating collaboration between manufacturers and distributors, offering tools that enhance agency management and sales strategies. Its platform facilitates the development and implementation of strategic partner programs by visualizing project progress and behaviors of sales agents, which allows clients to efficiently manage their agency operations. Additionally, PartnerSuccess provides consulting services tailored to address specific partner business challenges, aiming to improve information sharing and data utilization among its users.

Ascend

Debt Financing in 2024
Ascend provides a system for managing transportation, including project management, vehicle dispatch, invoice generation, and management visualization. It facilitates on-site work while enabling management decisions. Their management supports transportation companies from strategy through execution while using digital technology. To maximize the value of the logistics sector, they will also offer advisory services in collaboration with government and business groups.

Yuimedi

Debt Financing in 2024
Yuimedi is a company focused on acquiring, investigating, and analyzing medical data to enhance healthcare delivery. It has developed a medical data analysis platform designed to improve the healthcare system by offering tools that support analytical research using real-world medical data. The platform aids healthcare professionals in making informed prescription decisions and provides consulting services related to medical data. Yuimedi's commitment to developing and operating advanced analytical tools enables users to access improved medical care services, ultimately fostering better patient outcomes and more effective healthcare practices.

Mntsq

Debt Financing in 2024
MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.

KiteRa

Debt Financing in 2024
KiteRa Co., Ltd. is a technology company based in Minato, Japan, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) solution designed for regulation management. The KiteRa platform allows organizations to diagnose, create, and publish employment and internal rules online, facilitating compliance with evolving legal standards. It also helps companies navigate revisions that occur due to changes in legislation. By streamlining the process of creating and managing work regulations, KiteRa enhances operational efficiency and supports companies in implementing work style reforms effectively.

United Immunity

Debt Financing in 2024
United Immunity, Co., Ltd. is a research and development company based in Tsu, Japan, specializing in the manufacture and sales of pharmaceuticals with a primary focus on cancer immunotherapy. Founded in November 2017, the company develops innovative nanoparticles and lipid nanoparticles aimed at targeting myeloid cells to treat cancer and infectious diseases. United Immunity's technology enables the delivery of various therapeutic agents directly to macrophages and dendritic cells, facilitating the development of treatments for a range of conditions, including cancer, autoimmune diseases, fibrosis, and infectious diseases.

OpenLogi

Series D in 2024
OpenLogi Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing an outsourced logistics platform tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and freelancers. Founded in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito, the company aims to address logistics challenges faced by small e-commerce businesses. OpenLogi's platform offers a comprehensive dashboard that includes features for warehouse inspection, storage management, shipping, and handling of returns. By leveraging unused warehouse capacity and optimizing logistics operations through advanced technology, OpenLogi enables clients to streamline their logistics processes and reduce costs. The company's focus on affordability and efficiency positions it as a vital partner for SMEs seeking effective logistics solutions.

FLUX

Series B in 2023
FLUX Inc. is a company based in Shibuya-ku, Japan, that specializes in developing digital marketing solutions to enhance online business performance. Founded in 2018, FLUX offers a range of products, including the FLUX Header Bidding Solution, which fosters fair competition among advertisers and boosts advertising revenue. Additionally, the company provides FLUX LTV Analytics, a tool that utilizes customer data and advanced statistical methods to predict customer lifetime value. FLUX also features a Digital Experience Platform (DXP) that personalizes and optimizes the digital customer experience through its proprietary digital identification technology, enabling businesses to engage effectively across various digital touchpoints.

Connected Robotics

Series B in 2023
Connected Robotics Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Koganei-shi, Japan, specializes in designing and manufacturing robotic arms for enterprises. Their flagship product, OctoChef, is a cooking robot designed to address labor shortages in the restaurant industry. Utilizing artificial intelligence, image processing, and robot control technologies, OctoChef aims to enhance efficiency and worker satisfaction by automating kitchen tasks. The company serves a variety of clients, including individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events, providing fun and healthy meal options while contributing to societal improvements.

Asobica

Venture Round in 2022
Asobica, Inc. is a Japanese company based in Shinagawa that focuses on the planning, development, and management of Internet-based businesses. The company aims to revitalize traditional industries through innovative technology and community engagement. Its flagship product, fever, serves as a platform for issuing community coins, fostering active participation within user communities. Asobica's software suite includes tools for customer relationship management, customer analysis, and community coin issuance, all designed to enhance user engagement and loyalty. By leveraging these technologies, Asobica seeks to support sustainable corporate growth and improve customer retention for its clients.

IoTBASE

Seed Round in 2021
IoTBASE Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) integration platform. The company offers IoTBASE Cloud, which facilitates connections between sensors and various applications. Its product suite includes Planner, designed for managing devices and applications; Manager, which serves as a console for integrated device management; and Canvas, a tool for visualizing data collected from sensors. By providing these IoT cloud services, IoTBASE supports companies in their digital transformation efforts and aims to enhance its offerings by leveraging expertise gained from past IoT developments.

MFS

Venture Round in 2021
MFS, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in consumer lending services, primarily focusing on online mortgage offerings. Established in 2009, MFS simplifies the mortgage process by eliminating the need for customers to search for, apply for, or negotiate with traditional financial institutions. The company has garnered significant media attention and has been featured in prominent outlets such as NHK, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun, highlighting its innovative approach to the mortgage industry in Japan.

ReadyFor

Venture Round in 2021
ReadyFor Inc. is a Tokyo-based company established in 2014 that operates a cloud funding platform specializing in crowdfunding for the service sector. The platform connects investors with various projects, facilitating short-term fundraising campaigns aimed at generating pre-sales and gathering feedback from early adopters. ReadyFor enables clients, including charities and startups, to solicit and raise funds efficiently, streamlining the process of collecting support for their initiatives.

Clue

Debt Financing in 2020
CLUE, Inc. is a technology startup based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in drone automation software. Founded in 2014, the company provides various solutions that leverage drone technology for different applications. Its product lineup includes DroneRoofer, designed for exterior roof inspection, construction surveying, and roof area calculations; Drone Construction Management, which facilitates remote construction inspections and cloud collaboration on images captured by drones; and Drone View-kun, aimed at photographing condominiums and properties. Through these offerings, CLUE, Inc. enhances operational efficiency and accuracy in construction and property management.

OpenLogi

Debt Financing in 2020
OpenLogi Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing an outsourced logistics platform tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and freelancers. Founded in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito, the company aims to address logistics challenges faced by small e-commerce businesses. OpenLogi's platform offers a comprehensive dashboard that includes features for warehouse inspection, storage management, shipping, and handling of returns. By leveraging unused warehouse capacity and optimizing logistics operations through advanced technology, OpenLogi enables clients to streamline their logistics processes and reduce costs. The company's focus on affordability and efficiency positions it as a vital partner for SMEs seeking effective logistics solutions.

Techtouch

Corporate Round in 2020
Techtouch, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing an intuitive website user manual called TechTouch. The company's software enhances system education for employees, supports burden reduction, and promotes system utilization by overlaying explanation guidance on existing web systems. This is achieved through a plug-in introduced on the web browser side and JavaScript on the server-side. Techtouch's platform minimizes operational stress by displaying real-time navigation directly on the screen of running web systems, enabling businesses to handle complex operations accurately and efficiently.

Insight Core

Venture Round in 2019
Insight Core Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded on September 18, 2003, that specializes in the development and operation of a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The platform is designed to enhance customer management through tailored applications for various business sectors, including apparel, restaurants, and retail. Insight Core offers a store promotion specialized application platform service that allows businesses to create customer-attracting apps with no upfront costs. The company focuses on efficient application development and flexible customization, providing the necessary functions for store applications while minimizing the effort required for implementation.

Golf Digest Online

Venture Round in 2003
Golf Digest Online, established in Japan, is a multifaceted business specializing in golf-related services and products. It operates an online retail platform, offering a wide range of golf gear, apparel, and accessories to customers within Japan. Additionally, the company engages in golf course services and manages golf media, indicating a comprehensive approach to the golf industry.

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