Led · Seed · Aug 2026

NexusAdvisors operates AVACAREER, a recruitment platform that automates hiring workflows using AI agents, avatars and interviewers to assess candidates and generate compatibility scores for skills and cultural fit. The platform is designed to streamline the hiring process by handling initial interviews and generating matches before human involvement. Following the ¥50 million seed raise announced in August 2026, the company intends to accelerate product development, expand hiring, and increase brand awareness. The seed round was led by ANOBAKA and East Ventures, with participation from existing investor Skyland Ventures. No revenue, user metrics, or valuation details were disclosed in the article.

Led · Seed · Aug 2026

AVACAREER operates an AI-driven recruitment platform where an AI interviewer from the company side and an AI avatar from the job seeker side conduct preliminary AI-to-AI interviews to assess compatibility. The platform generates multifaceted scores for skill matching, cultural fit, and work-style compatibility, and advances only highly compatible candidates to human interviews. It automates creation of job postings, scheduling, and text interviews from applications to streamline recruitment operations. NexusAdvisors is the operator of the service. The company has announced plans to release the official version of the platform by the end of August. AVACAREER intends to use newly raised seed funds to accelerate product development, hire talent, and raise brand awareness.

Led · Series A · Jun 2026

JOYCLE develops the JOYCLE BOX, a vehicle-towable small distributed upcycle plant that reduces waste volume by over 95% using electric heat and converts waste into inorganic resources and char. Its systems include an IoT data-visualization platform called JOYCLE BOARD and can operate off-grid using solar support and satellite communications (Starlink Business). The company has run multiple municipal and corporate pilot projects and began a limited pre-sale of 10 JOYCLE BOX units to ‘‘co-creation partners.’’ JOYCLE plans to scale to mass production, offer rental services, and continue R&D to improve automatic control and processing efficiency while pursuing IP protection. Financially, the company reports cumulative funding including loans of about ¥350 million and recently raised ~¥150 million in a pre-Series A round to support production, R&D, and hiring. CEO Yutaro Koyanagi leads operations from offices in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Okinawa.

Led · Series A · Jun 2026

CFOne offers an annual SaaS tax service priced at ¥100,000 that automates categorization of receipts, bankbooks, and card statements and provides instant chat consultations plus tax filing, with users performing only final approval. Its core feature is an AI agent that continuously learns each customer’s business situation to make proactive suggestions and it partners with human tax advisors for decision support. The service targets small businesses, including SMEs and sole proprietors, and officially launched this month. CFOne reported demonstrations with over 50 companies at its in-house accounting firm and claims a 90% order rate from those demos. Financially, the company has raised ¥1.7 billion in the recent Pre-Series A and has ¥2.0 billion in total funding. Planned uses of capital include accelerating product development, marketing for user acquisition, and hiring engineering and customer service staff to expand the product and organization.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

AVIATE builds TASKBASE, a back-office workflow automation platform that generates executable workflows from natural-language descriptions and handles approval, notifications, and record updates end-to-end. The platform targets back-office BPO providers and corporate accounting, HR, and labor departments, with workspace-level separation of permissions and credentials. TASKBASE integrates with major SaaS including Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Notion, マネーフォワード, and freee, and uses prebuilt handlers that AI can call to ensure reproducible execution. AVIATE is conducting paid proofs of concept with back-office BPOs and is offering invite-only early access and demos. The company intends to use the new seed funding to accelerate product development and business development.