SBI Investment

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan, and serves as the investment arm of SBI Holdings, Inc. Established in 1996, the firm specializes in venture and growth capital investments across a diverse array of sectors, including information technology, biotechnology, healthcare, finance technology, environmental energy, and e-commerce, among others. SBI Investment focuses on opportunities in China and Southeast Asia, aiming to support companies with significant growth potential. The firm typically seeks to exit its investments through initial public offerings or mergers and acquisitions, leveraging its expertise to enhance the value of its portfolio companies.

Takashi Goto

Executive Vice President and Director

Ahn Jae- gwang

Director

Past deals in Business Development

manebi

Venture Round in 2021
manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.

manebi

Venture Round in 2020
manebi is an Career development support platform business to support human transformation.

Bizit

Venture Round in 2019
Bizit Inc. is a technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in application software aimed at facilitating mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for middle-market businesses. The company offers a global marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, including financial advisors and investment bankers. Its platform allows users to identify companies that align with their strategic goals, maintain a watch list of potential opportunities, and receive notifications when preferred conditions are met. This approach simplifies and streamlines the often complex and lengthy negotiations involved in M&A transactions, making it easier for clients to navigate the process.

Sales Robotics

Venture Round in 2016
Sales Robotics Co., Ltd., founded in 2004 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing and providing cloud-based business support services. The company focuses on building customer databases and sales pipelines, as well as offering sales strategy consulting and inside sales support. Its platform includes services for language education, marketing, and sales, alongside system development and IT solutions. By enabling businesses to analyze data effectively, Sales Robotics assists in preparing optimized sales strategies and constructing comprehensive support systems for various operational needs.

BizReach

Series A in 2016
Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives to freely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

Sales Robotics

Corporate Round in 2014
Sales Robotics Co., Ltd., founded in 2004 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in developing and providing cloud-based business support services. The company focuses on building customer databases and sales pipelines, as well as offering sales strategy consulting and inside sales support. Its platform includes services for language education, marketing, and sales, alongside system development and IT solutions. By enabling businesses to analyze data effectively, Sales Robotics assists in preparing optimized sales strategies and constructing comprehensive support systems for various operational needs.
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