Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

Oyraa provides the Oyraa interpretation app, launched in 2017, which offers on‑demand access to more than 2,000 interpreters covering 153 languages, 24/7 and billed by the minute. The service is used by people living outside their home countries for everyday needs such as government procedures, medical visits, and phone inquiries, and is also offered to corporate customers for on‑site and online meeting interpretation. Oyraa emphasizes speed, cost, and quality by leveraging a large interpreter network to serve a range of use cases from everyday life support to business situations. The company positions itself to enable a multicultural society by removing language barriers and supporting foreign residents. Recent fundraising will be used to accelerate user acquisition through marketing, develop new features for enterprise customers, strengthen cybersecurity, and hire additional staff. The company is led by CEO Kochu Oya and is headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Participated · Series B · Jan 2024

Biofilia develops and sells CoCo Gourmet, a domestically produced, veterinarian‑supervised fresh dog food made with fresh Japanese meat, fish, and vegetables using low‑temperature cooking to preserve flavor and nutrients. CoCo Gourmet is formulated to meet complete nutrition standards and aims to replicate the benefits of handmade meals. The company began selling a cat complete‑nutrition product, Miao Gourmet, in 2022. CoCo Gourmet has recorded cumulative sales of 120 million meals and has 200,000 registered member dogs. Biofilia is targeting growth amid an expanding premium pet‑food market (reported at ¥140 billion year‑over‑year growth) and plans to use new funds for channel development, hiring, new product development, marketing/customer acquisition, and overseas expansion starting in Taiwan. Financially, the company has raised approximately ¥1.2 billion in total funding to date.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

BitStar operates a suite of creator-economy services including influencer agency, a content production studio, and D2C brand production. Key products and assets named in the release include BitStar Agent, BitStar Match, BitStar Production, BitStar Studio, and a 1.6M-account social media database. The company supports over 6,000 creators and more than 1,800 client companies, positioning itself as one of Japan's largest creator-economy platforms. BitStar says it will invest in product development (notably BitStar Database and BitStar Match), marketing for its social media and D2C businesses, and talent acquisition. It also plans to pursue strategic collaborations and continued M&A activity to expand its services and market share. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.