SMBC Venture Capital

SMBC Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, established in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm focuses on investing in companies across various sectors, including information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing. SMBC Venture Capital leverages its parent company's extensive financial services experience to identify and support innovative startups and growth-stage companies, aiming to foster advancements in these key industries. By providing not only capital but also strategic guidance and resources, SMBC Venture Capital seeks to drive growth and create long-term value for its portfolio companies.

Furuta Daiji

Managing Director

Akira Ochiai

President and CEO

Yamaguchi Masahiro

Managing Director

Past deals in Recruiting

Good News

Venture Round in 2024
Good News is a staffing agency that offers recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services. The company focuses on providing comprehensive support for recruitment processes, which includes media selection, advertisement production, and effectiveness verification after job postings. Additionally, Good News specializes in developing recruitment public relations strategies, aimed at helping organizations attract and hire quality personnel. Their services also extend to training new employees, ensuring that businesses can effectively integrate new talent into their workforce.

Ababa

Series A in 2024
Ababa is a recruitment solutions provider that connects job seekers with potential employers through an innovative platform. The company facilitates the job search by allowing firms to recommend graduate students who may have been overlooked due to issues such as cultural fit or personnel reductions during the hiring process. This approach enables companies to share candidates with others, thereby increasing employment opportunities for students. By leveraging insights from competing firms, Ababa aims to enhance the recruitment experience for both job seekers and employers, ultimately supporting successful career placements.

X Mile

Series B in 2024
X Mile is a human resources platform focused on connecting logistics companies with drivers. It develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution aimed at addressing workforce challenges, such as labor shortages and low productivity. The platform operates by providing recruitment services across various sectors, including logistics, automobile maintenance, and construction. By supporting agents in these fields, X Mile enhances operational efficiency and helps increase sales for non-desk businesses, facilitating better management and workforce solutions.

Findy

Series B in 2020
Findy Inc is a job change service company based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2016. It connects companies with IT engineers, freelancers, and sideline engineers while offering valuable insights into hiring and personnel management, including tips for recruitment, public relations, and marketing. The company leverages machine learning and natural language processing to enhance human resources services, focusing particularly on engineering recruitment. Findy provides a platform that features assessment technology and skill evaluation algorithms to match candidates with available job positions effectively. Additionally, the company operates Findy Engineer Lab, which offers interviews with active engineers and shares the latest technical information, aiming to improve individual opportunities and organizational productivity within the engineering sector.

NetOn

Venture Round in 2019
neton is a Consulting,recruitment homepage creation and job seeker web marketing to succeed in recruiting on your own homepage without relying on job advertisements.

Roxx

Venture Round in 2019
ROXX Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in job placement services for musicians. Founded in 2013 and formerly known as Scouter Inc. until a name change in July 2019, ROXX provides a platform designed to help recruit inexperienced full-time employees in the music industry. The company offers various products, including Back Check, a reference check service, and SARDINE, a cloud-based job database. Through its innovative features focused on reference compliance and research tools, ROXX seeks to streamline the hiring process for musicians and related talent.

Talent and Assessment

Venture Round in 2019
Talent and Assessment, founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in AI-driven recruitment solutions through its application software, SHaiN. This platform facilitates remote interviews, allowing candidates to participate anytime and anywhere using their smartphones. By employing a proprietary strategic hiring methodology, the software analyzes applicants' qualifications and performance during the interview process, generating comprehensive diagnostic reports. The company's focus on integrating advanced technology into talent acquisition aims to enhance recruitment efficiency for clients, positioning it as a notable player in the HR technology sector.

Caster

Venture Round in 2019
Caster is a staffing agency that focuses on human resource operations, with a particular emphasis on remote assistance. The company is dedicated to promoting remote work as a standard practice, providing businesses with the necessary support to adapt to this evolving work environment. By offering specialized services in staffing and human resources, Caster aims to facilitate seamless remote operations for organizations seeking to enhance their workforce flexibility and efficiency.

Identity Japan

Venture Round in 2018
Identity has set a mission of "Reduce mismatches in the world with IT!" And provides services as a comprehensive IT support company specializing in IT human resources (engineers and creators). We provide recruitment support for both agent services and media services, and offer a wide range of recruitment, mid-career, freelance, and overseas human resources in recruitment advertising media. From employment to retirement, we work closely with users to support career design.

Caster

Venture Round in 2017
Caster is a staffing agency that focuses on human resource operations, with a particular emphasis on remote assistance. The company is dedicated to promoting remote work as a standard practice, providing businesses with the necessary support to adapt to this evolving work environment. By offering specialized services in staffing and human resources, Caster aims to facilitate seamless remote operations for organizations seeking to enhance their workforce flexibility and efficiency.

Caster

Series B in 2017
Caster is a staffing agency that focuses on human resource operations, with a particular emphasis on remote assistance. The company is dedicated to promoting remote work as a standard practice, providing businesses with the necessary support to adapt to this evolving work environment. By offering specialized services in staffing and human resources, Caster aims to facilitate seamless remote operations for organizations seeking to enhance their workforce flexibility and efficiency.

Roxx

Series A in 2017
ROXX Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in job placement services for musicians. Founded in 2013 and formerly known as Scouter Inc. until a name change in July 2019, ROXX provides a platform designed to help recruit inexperienced full-time employees in the music industry. The company offers various products, including Back Check, a reference check service, and SARDINE, a cloud-based job database. Through its innovative features focused on reference compliance and research tools, ROXX seeks to streamline the hiring process for musicians and related talent.

SCOUTER

Series A in 2017
SCOUTER is a social headhunting platform that compensates users, called Scouters, who passed the examination is a next generation career support service that can receive compensation by introducing friends acquaintance to companies.

Caster

Venture Round in 2017
Caster is a staffing agency that focuses on human resource operations, with a particular emphasis on remote assistance. The company is dedicated to promoting remote work as a standard practice, providing businesses with the necessary support to adapt to this evolving work environment. By offering specialized services in staffing and human resources, Caster aims to facilitate seamless remote operations for organizations seeking to enhance their workforce flexibility and efficiency.

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.

Howtelevision

Venture Round in 2015
Howtelevision, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company that operates a career platform aimed at supporting students in their job search and professional development. Founded in 2010, the company provides a range of resources, including company recruitment information, internship opportunities, and skill development support. Its platform facilitates job hunting activities and fosters a growth environment for students, offering community functions for communication and unique content such as job hunting columns. Additionally, Howtelevision offers Liiga, a service designed to assist working individuals in their career advancement. The company's mission is to unlock human potential and contribute positively to societal progress.

Leading Mark

Series A in 2015
Leading Mark Inc. is an employment agency based in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on enhancing the recruitment process through its online platform. The company aims to streamline job searches by aggregating listings tailored to users' interests, thereby improving the match between job seekers and employers. Recognizing the needs of the average job seeker, Leading Mark prioritizes providing essential information and support to applicants, differentiating itself from larger, traditional agencies that may favor the interests of hiring companies. Additionally, Leading Mark is expanding its services to include mid-career and international hiring, with a dedicated team in China to connect top Japanese-speaking Chinese students with opportunities in Japan. This approach seeks to alleviate common frustrations in the job market and foster more fulfilling career paths for candidates.

Neo Career

Venture Round in 2014
Neo Career Co., LTD. is a human resources and technology company based in Shinjuku, Japan, with additional offices in several Asian countries including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China. Founded in 2000, the company operates an online recruitment platform catering to both mid-career professionals and new graduates. Its services encompass a range of staffing solutions, including recruitment for healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses, as well as temporary placement for office workers, sales personnel, call center staff, caregivers, and childcare workers. Furthermore, Neo Career provides recruitment consultancy, management outsourcing, and education and training services to enhance talent management for businesses, helping them to efficiently recruit qualified candidates and improve operational productivity.

DIP

Venture Round in 2002
DIP Corporation (ディップ) (TYO: 2379) is a Japan-based employment agency that links people with the jobs they want. DIP Corporation (ディップ) (TYO: 2379) is a Japan-based employment agency that links people with the jobs they want.
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