SMBC Venture Capital

SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is the private equity and venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, established in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in Osaka. The firm specializes in growth capital and buyout investments, focusing on a diverse range of industries, including information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing. By leveraging its extensive financial services background, SMBC Venture Capital aims to support the growth and development of innovative companies in these sectors.

Takashi Arai

Managing Director and Board Member

Daiji Furuta

Managing Director

Hironori Shimizu

Managing Director and Board Member

Past deals in Business Development

Space BD

Venture Round in 2021
Space BD is a company focused on addressing the challenges associated with the industrialization of space. It aims to serve as a comprehensive solution for businesses developing new technologies by offering a range of space-related services. By adopting a business-driven approach, Space BD seeks to facilitate the commercialization of low Earth orbit, ensuring that scientists and companies can access space without complications. The company's mission is to streamline processes and support innovation within the burgeoning space industry.

Super Studio

Funding Round in 2021
Provider of D2C consulting services specializing in product planning and development. The company provides consulting services concentrating on product manufacturing, sales promotion activities, supply chain optimization, and CRM after-sales as well as offering an enterprise collaboration platform for sales and marketing, enabling businesses to maximize their revenue and customer experience.

Brandit

Series A in 2021
Brandit Co., Ltd. engages in D2C brand and D2C solution business. The company offers in-house production/D2C brand deployment services; and develops and provides B2B solutions that provide one-stop services from production to logistics. Its activities include EC operation, product production, logistics business, advertising agency, and PR business. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

nCino K.K.

Venture Round in 2020
Developer of a cloud-based integrated lending platform designed to let users realize a comprehensive banking experience. The company's integrated banking platform provides efficiency, visualization, profitability, and regulatory compliance for all of the bank's business units, from customer communication to banking, and key operations such as lending and account opening, enabling clients to improve profitability, efficiency, transparency, and compliance with regulations.

ClipLine

Series D in 2020
Developer of a video-based management platform designed to enhance the organizational execution system. The company's platform helps to promote digital transformation in terms of organizational structure, scale, and physical distance, enabling clients to seamlessly monitor quality and thereby improve sales.

Div

Debt Financing in 2020
DIV operates TECH::CAMP, a programming school, a short-term intensive training course designed to turn students into engineers.

Space BD

Venture Round in 2019
Space BD is a company focused on addressing the challenges associated with the industrialization of space. It aims to serve as a comprehensive solution for businesses developing new technologies by offering a range of space-related services. By adopting a business-driven approach, Space BD seeks to facilitate the commercialization of low Earth orbit, ensuring that scientists and companies can access space without complications. The company's mission is to streamline processes and support innovation within the burgeoning space industry.

Space BD

Venture Round in 2019
Space BD is a company focused on addressing the challenges associated with the industrialization of space. It aims to serve as a comprehensive solution for businesses developing new technologies by offering a range of space-related services. By adopting a business-driven approach, Space BD seeks to facilitate the commercialization of low Earth orbit, ensuring that scientists and companies can access space without complications. The company's mission is to streamline processes and support innovation within the burgeoning space industry.

Div

Venture Round in 2019
DIV operates TECH::CAMP, a programming school, a short-term intensive training course designed to turn students into engineers.

Yell

Venture Round in 2018
YeLL inc. offers organizational development and human resources development consulting services. The company offers planning, development, and management of cloud 1 on 1 service. YeLL inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Local Works

Venture Round in 2018
LOCALWORKS Create a world where SMEs can grow easily by creating trust through visualization of reliability and changing the mechanism.

SMARTCAMP

Series B in 2017
Smart camp is a company that manages Internet services and this company is good at B2B marketing.

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.

ClipLine

Seed Round in 2016
Developer of a video-based management platform designed to enhance the organizational execution system. The company's platform helps to promote digital transformation in terms of organizational structure, scale, and physical distance, enabling clients to seamlessly monitor quality and thereby improve sales.

Crafter

Venture Round in 2016
ChatBook is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in B2B area to automate acquiring leads and evaluate leads in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using ChatBook, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. ChatBook delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Plus-D

Venture Round in 2015
Plus D Inc. provides creative design planning and production services. Its services include creative and planning, providing digital creation services and build communication between business and consumers; movie produce, engages in planning and production of video content, including movie theaters and television (TV) dramas, music videos, and commercial videos; and creative sharing, providing creative know-how to partner companies and create new business together. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Plus-D

Venture Round in 2015
Plus D Inc. provides creative design planning and production services. Its services include creative and planning, providing digital creation services and build communication between business and consumers; movie produce, engages in planning and production of video content, including movie theaters and television (TV) dramas, music videos, and commercial videos; and creative sharing, providing creative know-how to partner companies and create new business together. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

KnowledgeSuite

Venture Round in 2008
KnowledgeSuite engages in developing SaaS business applications in Japan.
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