Global Brain

Founded in Tokyo in 1998, Global Brain is a venture capital firm focusing on seed to late-stage investments across various sectors globally. They have invested in over 300 startups, facilitating 25 IPOs and 61 M&As through hands-on support services.

Kaori Akiba

Director

Hidetaka Aoki

Investment Group Partner and Fellow Chief of Space Lab

Tatsunori Arai

Director, Investment Group

Megumi Asatsuma

Director

Anjani Bansal

Partner, India Office Representative

Brooke Beers

Partner

Takuji Chida

Director, Investment Groups

Thomas Duong

Director

Brian Flucht

Partner and Head, US Division

Hajime Furuya

Venture Partner

Shohei Hayashi

Partner, Investment Group

Harue Hayashi

Partner / Vice Chief Fund Management Officer

Kenji Hayashi

Director

Jie He

Director China office Representative

Yosuke Hirai

Director

Joopyo Hong

Partner Investment Group

Naoki Horie

Investor

Takuya Hosomura

Partner

Jang Hyeokjin

Principal, Investment Group

Shohei Ichimiya

Partner, US Office

Sho Ikeda

Partner, Indonesia Office Representative

Nozomu Ikuta

Principal

Kotona Inaida

Director

Tomoaki Ishikure

Investment Group Partner

Yoshinari Ito

Venture Partner

Yuki Ito

Director

Hiroyuki Izumi

Partner

Ken Kajii

General Partner, Investment Group

Daisuke Kashiro

Partner, Investment Group

Kirin Kato

Principal

Takashi Kato

Partner, San Francisco Office Representative

Masaya Kawakami

Principal, Investment Group

Hiroyuki Kawamoto

Principal

Ko Kawaragi

Director

Maiko Kayata

Director

ByeongJin Kim

Principal

Riichiro Kimura Ph.D

Director, Investment Group

Issei Kokubu

Principal, Investment Group

Yoshiomi Kubota

Principal

Jinya Kurita

Director, Investment Group

KyungHun Lee

Partner, South Korea Office Representative

YingQi Liang(Joy)

Principal

Chukaku Lin

Director

Atsushi Matsuda

Venture Partner

Akira Matsumoto

Principal

Yuki Matsuo

Director

Natsumi Matsuoka

Principal

Tomoko Minagawa

Director, Investment Group

Ai Minamizaki

Principal, Investment Group

Shigeru Mitarai

Director

Miyazawa Yusuke

Venture Partner

Shuhei Mori

Director

Seiichiro Mukai

Director

Satoko Murata

Director

Kohtaro Nagawa

Director, Investment Group

Tasuke Nakagawa

Partner, M&A

Mitsutaka Nakao

Director

Shien Nakayama

Director

Yuya Namiki

Director

Ying Jian Ng

Director, Investment Group

Daisuke Nishida

General Partner

Yukari Nishiyama

Director, Investment Group

Akiko Noguchi

Director

Rina Obi

Investment Group Director, Berlin Office

Sho Ohtani

Principal, Investment Group

Tetsui Okada

Director, Investments Group

Mayu Okamoto

Director

Akane Okuyama

Director

Shingo Otaki

Partner, Investment Group

Naoki Sadakuni

Venture Partner

Enen Sai

Principal

Youichi Sakagawa

Director, Investment Group

Kazuki Sakuragawa

Partner / Editor in Chief

Naoki Sato

Director

Masumi Sato

Principal

Tomoki Sekiguchi

Director

Rie Shibata

Director

Takeru Shigemura

Director

Miku Shimamura

Principal

Hiroshi Shimazu

Managing Director

Masamune Shin

General Partner

Ayu Shinoyama

CFO

Chisa Shinsakaue

Director

Divyansh Singh

Principal

Hiroto Sorita

Director, Investment Group

Sachiko Sugiura

Director

Yusuke Suzuki

Partner

Kazumo Tachibana

Director

Mana Takabayashi

Director, Investment Group

Hiroki Takai

Director, Investment Group London Office

Toko Takao

Director

Hideyuki Tanaka

Director

Marika Tazaki

Partner

Hirotaka Togashi

Director

Haruka Tsujii

Director

Atsushi Ueda

Director

Takuya Ukai

Principal

Tetsuya Urimoto

Director

Noriko Usui

Partner / Chief Fund Management Officer

Keita Washizu

Principal

Masao Yamada

Senior Partner, Investment Groups

Kazunor Yamaguchi

Partner

Kazunori Yamaguchi

Partner, Investment Group

Ryozo Yamamoto

Partner, Investment Group

Michiko Yamazaki

Principal

Isao Yasuda

Senior Partner

Takuro Yoda

Principal

Sayaka Yoshino

Director

Miku Yoshio

Partner, Investment Group

Yasuhiko Yurimoto

Founder, Owner, CEO and General Partner

Lusheng Zou

Director, Investment Group

Past deals in Business Intelligence

RightTouch

Series A in 2025
RightTouch is a media company specializing in customer support solutions. It offers KARTE RightSupport, a web support platform that detects customer issues, connects web and call channels, and assigns suitable operators based on pre-inquiry data, empowering customers to resolve problems independently. Additionally, the company provides CS Mag, a tailored resource offering insights and solutions for media customer support.

LOOV

Seed Round in 2025
LOOV is a video platform focused on enhancing the sales and marketing efforts of professionals through the creation of tailored, data-driven videos. The platform connects buyers and sellers by producing videos that adapt based on viewer attributes, thereby collecting valuable viewing and customer data. This approach allows sales and marketing teams to deliver relevant information to each customer, ultimately aiming to improve conversion metrics and customer engagement. By leveraging technology to optimize video content, LOOV supports professionals in their efforts to increase sales effectiveness and foster deeper connections with their audience.

Amptalk

Series A in 2024
Amptalk is a software development firm that specializes in automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations. It has developed an online platform that provides one-stop sales training and offers a negotiation automation tool that transcribes online negotiations, analyzes conversation data, inputs data automatically, and supports coaching of sales teams to improve business performance.

Best Beer Japan

Seed Round in 2024
Best Beer Japan develops a platform for the craft beer sector that combines barrel tracking and sharing with a brewery-focused distribution and inventory workflow. The platform includes a barrel management system for breweries, barrel-sharing services, and a commercial ordering system designed to streamline brewery sales in one place, helping bars, restaurants, and retailers save time, reduce orders, and manage inventory more efficiently. Founded in 2018, the company aims to improve beer distribution and operational efficiency for craft breweries and their customers.

Kasanare

Seed Round in 2024
Kasanare is a technology company specializing in AI-based cloud services tailored for businesses. It offers customizable generative AI chat systems that automate business processes, enhance customer support, analyze customer experience data, and optimize sales while reducing costs.

Poetics

Seed Round in 2024
Poetics is an AI startup that develops communication related products concerning language and voice to provide business solutions.

Rutilea

Series D in 2024
Rutilea is an IT company that uses open-source approaches to address social issues and advances automation and data-driven decision-making through AI, including a concept described as 'AI teaching AI'. The company develops a zero-code task recognition system that uses multimodal AI to accurately recognize tasks across varied environments, supporting data-driven decisions and operational efficiency, and enabling factories and stores to automate operations, improving productivity, efficiency, quality, and safety.

PartnerSuccess

Series A in 2024
Founded in 2019, PartnerSuccess operates from Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in automating collaboration between manufacturers and distributors through its cloud-based platform.

MOV

Series B in 2024
Mov is a web design company that operates a store support business focused on helping companies manage their store information centrally. The company's platform offers market data related to stores and expertise in digital marketing, allowing clients to efficiently manage their store data. Mov's services include bulk management of store information and tools for visualizing and analyzing customer feedback, enabling businesses to enhance their customer outreach and improve overall store performance.

Lisse

Series C in 2024
Lisse, established in 2018 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing and providing automatic contract review solutions. The company offers a 24-hour contract checking service, LeCHECK, which employs AI to support contract checking and creation. Additionally, Lisse provides LeTRANSLATE, a real-time, high-quality machine translation tool for English contracts. By combining legal expertise with technology, Lisse aims to enhance corporate legal affairs, mitigate transaction risks, and foster a dispute-free society.

Rutilea

Series C in 2023
Rutilea is an IT company that uses open-source approaches to address social issues and advances automation and data-driven decision-making through AI, including a concept described as 'AI teaching AI'. The company develops a zero-code task recognition system that uses multimodal AI to accurately recognize tasks across varied environments, supporting data-driven decisions and operational efficiency, and enabling factories and stores to automate operations, improving productivity, efficiency, quality, and safety.

Allganize

Series B in 2023
Allganize, Inc. is an enterprise workplace automation company that specializes in AI-driven knowledge management software. Founded in July 2017 and based in Pleasanton, California, Allganize provides a natural language understanding API and conversational AI solutions designed to enhance workflow automation for businesses. The company's platform employs advanced deep learning technology to facilitate cognitive search, sentiment analysis, and keyword extraction, allowing organizations to gain insights into team activities and overarching work patterns. By enabling medium and large enterprises to harness AI capabilities, Allganize helps optimize customer engagement and extract value from unstructured data, ultimately enhancing business operations and customer experiences.

Super Studio

Series C in 2023
Super Studio specializes in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that enhance the efficiency of eco-friendly operations, sales processes, and customer experiences. They offer consulting services focused on product planning, development, manufacturing, sales promotion, supply chain optimization, customer relationship management, and enterprise collaboration platforms.

Rutilea

Series C in 2023
Rutilea is an IT company that uses open-source approaches to address social issues and advances automation and data-driven decision-making through AI, including a concept described as 'AI teaching AI'. The company develops a zero-code task recognition system that uses multimodal AI to accurately recognize tasks across varied environments, supporting data-driven decisions and operational efficiency, and enabling factories and stores to automate operations, improving productivity, efficiency, quality, and safety.

Cierpa & Company

Venture Round in 2023
Cierpa & Company develops environmental, social, and governance ESG management software. The cloud-based platform centralizes ESG information, enables cross-department information sharing, and optimizes workflows. It analyzes data to improve ESG scores and supports the collection, analysis, and disclosure of sustainability information for transparent management.

Sibros

Venture Round in 2022
Sibros is a technology company that specializes in software-defined vehicle management through its Deep Connected Platform™. This platform integrates real-time data collection, software configuration management, remote updates, and diagnostic commands, all while adhering to stringent automotive safety, security, and data privacy standards. Sibros's solutions are versatile and can be implemented across various vehicle architectures, including legacy gas and diesel engines, next-generation battery electric vehicles, fuel cells, motorcycles, buses, commercial trucks, and heavy machinery. By leveraging advanced technology developed in Silicon Valley, Sibros empowers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to enhance customer experiences, reduce costs, and explore new revenue opportunities throughout the entire mobility product life cycle. The company's software manages a vehicle's complete software inventory and configurations, facilitating the delivery of connected vehicle services and personalized mobility solutions at scale.

PartnerSuccess

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, PartnerSuccess operates from Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in automating collaboration between manufacturers and distributors through its cloud-based platform.

HataLuck and Person

Series C in 2022
HataLuck is a consulting firm that specializes in HR technology deployment and fintech development services. The company has developed a store management platform aimed at addressing challenges within the service industries. By leveraging machine learning technology, HataLuck's platform enhances productivity for managers, employees, and part-time workers in sectors such as restaurants and retail. It achieves this by seamlessly connecting and analyzing data, which allows retail establishments to improve both customer experience and employee satisfaction. Through its innovative solutions, HataLuck seeks to optimize operational efficiency and elevate service quality in the retail landscape.

Super Studio

Series C in 2022
Super Studio specializes in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that enhance the efficiency of eco-friendly operations, sales processes, and customer experiences. They offer consulting services focused on product planning, development, manufacturing, sales promotion, supply chain optimization, customer relationship management, and enterprise collaboration platforms.

MOV

Series C in 2022
Mov is a web design company that operates a store support business focused on helping companies manage their store information centrally. The company's platform offers market data related to stores and expertise in digital marketing, allowing clients to efficiently manage their store data. Mov's services include bulk management of store information and tools for visualizing and analyzing customer feedback, enabling businesses to enhance their customer outreach and improve overall store performance.

Lisse

Venture Round in 2021
Lisse, established in 2018 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing and providing automatic contract review solutions. The company offers a 24-hour contract checking service, LeCHECK, which employs AI to support contract checking and creation. Additionally, Lisse provides LeTRANSLATE, a real-time, high-quality machine translation tool for English contracts. By combining legal expertise with technology, Lisse aims to enhance corporate legal affairs, mitigate transaction risks, and foster a dispute-free society.

Manebi

Venture Round in 2021
Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2013, Manebi is a career development support platform that empowers individuals' transformation. It offers services such as web interviews, e-learning, online tests, and video learning to facilitate recruitment and training processes for companies.

ViSenze

Venture Round in 2021
ViSenze is a leading product discovery platform that enhances the way consumers search for and discover products online. It is relied upon by major retailers such as ASOS, H&M, Rakuten, and Zalora, processing over a billion queries monthly across various channels, including in-store and e-commerce platforms. The company's automated AI technology provides a range of services, including enhanced search capabilities, product tagging, smart recommendations, and merchandising analytics. By streamlining the consumer journey, ViSenze enables retail merchants to boost revenue and improve customer experiences, making it easier for shoppers to find the products they want.

Studist

Seed Round in 2021
Studist develops the Teachme Biz platform, enabling businesses to create and share standard operating procedure manuals using images and videos. Its mission is to minimize information loss during transmission within companies.

Allganize

Series A in 2021
Allganize, Inc. is an enterprise workplace automation company that specializes in AI-driven knowledge management software. Founded in July 2017 and based in Pleasanton, California, Allganize provides a natural language understanding API and conversational AI solutions designed to enhance workflow automation for businesses. The company's platform employs advanced deep learning technology to facilitate cognitive search, sentiment analysis, and keyword extraction, allowing organizations to gain insights into team activities and overarching work patterns. By enabling medium and large enterprises to harness AI capabilities, Allganize helps optimize customer engagement and extract value from unstructured data, ultimately enhancing business operations and customer experiences.

Fuller

Venture Round in 2021
Fuller is a Japan-based software development company that builds mobile applications and provides data analytics and internet media services. Its offerings include App Ape Analytics, a mobile app analytics and market research platform, and App Ape Lab, which provides real-time market trends and insights for app developers. The company supports clients with planning mobile-focused business models, conducting competitor research, developing and operating apps, analyzing usage data, and delivering tailored reports. Founded in 2011, Fuller operates in the Japanese market.

GeoSpock

Venture Round in 2020
GeoSpock Limited, established in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Tokyo and Singapore, specializes in developing a unique, cloud-native database platform, GeoSpock DB. This platform is optimized for querying and analyzing large-scale, location-tagged data, enabling efficient data fusion and rapid, complex queries using SQL. It integrates seamlessly with popular business intelligence tools and data science environments, empowering users to unlock insights from diverse IoT data sources, from real-time fleet tracking to local service applications.

Manebi

Venture Round in 2020
Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2013, Manebi is a career development support platform that empowers individuals' transformation. It offers services such as web interviews, e-learning, online tests, and video learning to facilitate recruitment and training processes for companies.

Repro

Series C in 2020
Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2014, Repro develops a mobile analytics solution that provides insights into app users' behavior through play-by-play videos. It offers application growth support consulting and in-app messaging services to improve conversion rates and enhance user engagement.

Deeping Source

Series A in 2020
Deeping Source Inc. is a South Korea-based company that specializes in data anonymization technology, focusing on the secure handling of data for artificial intelligence applications. The company develops an open data platform that removes personally identifiable information from various data types, including images and videos, while maintaining their usability for AI inference and training. Deeping Source holds worldwide patents for its core technology, which underpins two primary AI products: an AI video analytics solution that leverages existing CCTV footage to provide insights into customer behavior in retail and public spaces, and a data anonymization solution designed for autonomous driving applications. This technology allows companies to gather extensive datasets from real-world environments without breaching privacy laws, facilitating the development of accurate autonomous driving systems. Through its innovative approach, Deeping Source aims to enhance data collection and sharing practices while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.

DataX

Venture Round in 2019
DataX is a business that specializes in providing an integrated digital marketing platform known as B-dash, developed by from scratch Co., Ltd. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers a range of services including support for business strategy planning, new business development, analytical services, and business process construction. B-dash is notable for its ability to accumulate and utilize vast amounts of data, featuring 32 million unique customer IDs and a significant financial data component amounting to 92 billion yen. The platform's capabilities are enhanced through strategic partnerships, including a notable contract with KKR and Goldman Sachs in 2019, which underscores its importance in the IT and marketing sectors.

Allganize

Series A in 2019
Allganize, Inc. is an enterprise workplace automation company that specializes in AI-driven knowledge management software. Founded in July 2017 and based in Pleasanton, California, Allganize provides a natural language understanding API and conversational AI solutions designed to enhance workflow automation for businesses. The company's platform employs advanced deep learning technology to facilitate cognitive search, sentiment analysis, and keyword extraction, allowing organizations to gain insights into team activities and overarching work patterns. By enabling medium and large enterprises to harness AI capabilities, Allganize helps optimize customer engagement and extract value from unstructured data, ultimately enhancing business operations and customer experiences.

ViSenze

Series C in 2019
ViSenze is a leading product discovery platform that enhances the way consumers search for and discover products online. It is relied upon by major retailers such as ASOS, H&M, Rakuten, and Zalora, processing over a billion queries monthly across various channels, including in-store and e-commerce platforms. The company's automated AI technology provides a range of services, including enhanced search capabilities, product tagging, smart recommendations, and merchandising analytics. By streamlining the consumer journey, ViSenze enables retail merchants to boost revenue and improve customer experiences, making it easier for shoppers to find the products they want.

GeoSpock

Series B in 2019
GeoSpock Limited, established in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Tokyo and Singapore, specializes in developing a unique, cloud-native database platform, GeoSpock DB. This platform is optimized for querying and analyzing large-scale, location-tagged data, enabling efficient data fusion and rapid, complex queries using SQL. It integrates seamlessly with popular business intelligence tools and data science environments, empowering users to unlock insights from diverse IoT data sources, from real-time fleet tracking to local service applications.

Flights

Series A in 2018
FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary provider of drone services that focuses on enhancing data collection and analysis across various industries. The company offers a range of services, including pilot training, insurance, aerial photography, and consulting. By leveraging drone technology, FLIGHTS enables clients to access critical information efficiently. Additionally, the company specializes in the localization of foreign software, further broadening its service offerings. Through its comprehensive approach, FLIGHTS aims to support businesses in optimizing their operations and decision-making processes using advanced drone capabilities.

GeoSpock

Series A in 2018
GeoSpock Limited, established in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Tokyo and Singapore, specializes in developing a unique, cloud-native database platform, GeoSpock DB. This platform is optimized for querying and analyzing large-scale, location-tagged data, enabling efficient data fusion and rapid, complex queries using SQL. It integrates seamlessly with popular business intelligence tools and data science environments, empowering users to unlock insights from diverse IoT data sources, from real-time fleet tracking to local service applications.

Allganize

Seed Round in 2017
Allganize, Inc. is an enterprise workplace automation company that specializes in AI-driven knowledge management software. Founded in July 2017 and based in Pleasanton, California, Allganize provides a natural language understanding API and conversational AI solutions designed to enhance workflow automation for businesses. The company's platform employs advanced deep learning technology to facilitate cognitive search, sentiment analysis, and keyword extraction, allowing organizations to gain insights into team activities and overarching work patterns. By enabling medium and large enterprises to harness AI capabilities, Allganize helps optimize customer engagement and extract value from unstructured data, ultimately enhancing business operations and customer experiences.

Eyeota

Series A in 2016
Eyeota is an audience technology company that enables the intelligent use of data for digital marketing. The platform aggregates data from marketers, data owners, and research organizations to deliver distinct, comprehensive, and qualified audience segments. Eyeota's technology transforms audience data to help organizations understand customers, personalize campaigns, and optimize marketing strategies across channels. It provides a global data marketplace with privacy-compliant segments and cookieless identity resolution, featuring integrations with more than 50 platforms to activate audiences across digital, mobile, connected TV, and social media environments. Founded in 2010, Eyeota serves markets in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, helping clients make smarter business decisions through data-driven insights.

DataX

Series B in 2015
DataX is a business that specializes in providing an integrated digital marketing platform known as B-dash, developed by from scratch Co., Ltd. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers a range of services including support for business strategy planning, new business development, analytical services, and business process construction. B-dash is notable for its ability to accumulate and utilize vast amounts of data, featuring 32 million unique customer IDs and a significant financial data component amounting to 92 billion yen. The platform's capabilities are enhanced through strategic partnerships, including a notable contract with KKR and Goldman Sachs in 2019, which underscores its importance in the IT and marketing sectors.

Blind

Venture Round in 2015
Blind is an anonymous professional network designed to facilitate open communication among verified professionals across various industries. With over 4.1 million users worldwide, the platform enables individuals to engage in private company channels with colleagues and participate in open forums for broader discussions. Users can share valuable insights, such as job offer details and honest feedback about company culture, without fear of judgment or retribution. Blind aims to promote transparency in the workplace, empowering professionals to make informed decisions and encouraging meaningful change within their organizations.

Chikyu

Venture Round in 2015
Chikyu Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based marketing support software. It provides a range of functionalities including customer management, sales negotiation management, and data analysis. The company's software is designed to enhance productivity in job tasks and improve customer management by enabling users to accumulate information on business discussions and make informed sales forecasts. Through its innovative solutions, Chikyu aims to streamline business processes and support effective decision-making for its clients.

Eyeota

Venture Round in 2015
Eyeota is an audience technology company that enables the intelligent use of data for digital marketing. The platform aggregates data from marketers, data owners, and research organizations to deliver distinct, comprehensive, and qualified audience segments. Eyeota's technology transforms audience data to help organizations understand customers, personalize campaigns, and optimize marketing strategies across channels. It provides a global data marketplace with privacy-compliant segments and cookieless identity resolution, featuring integrations with more than 50 platforms to activate audiences across digital, mobile, connected TV, and social media environments. Founded in 2010, Eyeota serves markets in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, helping clients make smarter business decisions through data-driven insights.

VentureBeat

Venture Round in 2014
Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is a leading online technology news platform that delivers news, analysis, and events. It covers a wide range of technology trends, providing context to help executives, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts make informed decisions.
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