MIXI

Mixi is a Japanese company that operates a social networking service, enabling users to connect with friends conveniently. The platform allows users to send and receive messages, write and read diaries, comment on posts, and engage in community activities. Mixi also focuses on the entertainment sector, providing native smartphone games through its Entertainment Business segment. Additionally, it operates in the Media Platform Business segment, which includes business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer services on the Internet. The company aims to enhance user interaction and entertainment through its diverse offerings in social networking and gaming.

Kenji Kasahara

Board Member and Founder

Tomoharu Urabe

Principal Partner

Past deals in Entertainment

Volve Creative

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Volve Creative is a media company specializing in virtual artist management, events, advertising videos, and music production. It operates a music IP production company, leveraging technology to create innovative entertainment and cultural experiences. Volve Creative focuses on transforming Japanese culture into virtual intellectual properties, helping artists reach a global audience.

Plott

Series B in 2024
Plott Inc. is an entertainment company based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in the production and distribution of original animated content on YouTube. Founded in 2017, the company initially operated under the name Fabo before rebranding in 2019 to Plott, reflecting its commitment to storytelling and content creation. Plott focuses on developing data-driven animations by leveraging viewer behavior data to enhance content appeal and engagement. The company aims to grow its subscriber base through strategic collaborations with existing channels, facilitating cross-promotion and audience sharing. By prioritizing innovative storytelling and viewer interaction, Plott seeks to establish itself as a significant player in the anime and manga digital landscape.

LightFury Games

Seed Round in 2024
LightFury Games is a global gaming studio dedicated to crafting immersive and engaging experiences for players worldwide. The company specializes in creating unique narratives and gameplay, offering diverse and captivating worlds. LightFury Games provides a studio environment that fosters teamwork, enabling developers to produce high-quality games that inspire and connect players on a global scale.

Utaite

Series A in 2024
Utaite is a company that operates an entertainment platform. Its core business involves planning, producing, and developing entertainment content to support and promote content creators. The platform aims to enhance creators' self-actualization, improve fan experiences, and facilitate growth on social media. Utaite provides constant support to creators, maximizing opportunities to engage and satisfy their fan base.

Tyffon

Venture Round in 2023
Tyffon Inc. is a developer of entertainment applications and immersive mixed reality experiences, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company initially gained recognition for its mobile applications, such as ZombieBooth, which transforms images into 3D animations, and other innovative apps that apply effects like gender morphing and zombification to photographs. Tyffon has evolved to focus on location-based virtual reality experiences, launching its first venue, TYFFONIUM, in Tokyo in 2017. This venue offers free-roam virtual reality experiences that integrate multi-sensory effects, allowing users to engage in hyper-realistic environments together. The company has also established partnerships with notable organizations, including participation in Disney’s Accelerator program, which has furthered its development of collaborative entertainment content. Tyffon is expanding its presence internationally with plans to open additional locations outside of Japan.

FAVER

Corporate Round in 2021
FAVER is a video distribution platform specializing in live performances that utilize digital technology to create unique online experiences distinctly different from traditional venues. The company offers a concert distribution platform that allows viewers to engage with performances through features such as real-time chat, multi-angle viewing, and virtual production elements. This environment fosters communication between artists and audiences, enhancing the overall experience. Additionally, FAVER provides event organizers with a user-friendly system that streamlines processes from electronic ticket sales to the distribution of virtual art performances, thereby enabling artists and content producers to effectively reach their audience through innovative online live events.

Studio Enter

Seed Round in 2020
Studio ENTRE is a startup studio specializing in music, other entertainment, and Web 3 fields. They are involved in creating creators, value to be delivered directly in every field, driving industry innovation, creating cyberspace that brings out the potential of creators, making digital content the center of value, and implementing technology in entertainment.

Hunza

Acquisition in 2015
Hunza, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that operates a peer-to-peer ticket marketplace known as Ticket Camp. This platform facilitates connections between buyers seeking tickets for live performances and other entertainment events and users who have surplus tickets to sell. As of March 31, 2015, Hunza operates as a subsidiary of Mixi, Inc. The company aims to streamline the ticket resale process, providing a user-friendly experience for both buyers and sellers in the entertainment market.

Confianza

Acquisition in 2013
Confianza is developing events nationwide to support the search for friends and life partners, centering on marriage support.
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