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ASICS Ventures Corporation

1-2-4, Sannomiyacho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Overview

ASICS Ventures Corporation, a venture capital arm of the company that would accelerate and invest in startups.

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Sports
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • RebuilderAI

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2025

    RebuilderAI is a Seoul-based startup specializing in 3D-modeling artificial intelligence that automatically transforms 2D images into high-fidelity, parametric 3D data. Its first product, VRIN 3D, lets users create high-quality 3D content simply by scanning items with a smartphone. In 2025 the company launched VRING:ON, an integrated platform that generates everything from 3D models to manufacturing patterns and CAD files from simple sketches; the product won CES 2026 Innovation Awards in both Fashion Tech and AI. RebuilderAI has also built an agent-based AI design system for footwear that delivers material-specific parametric data and sole-structure simulations, securing both investment and a software-licensing agreement with ASICS. International expansion includes an AI partnership for furniture design and manufacturing in Saudi Arabia and a US$1 million customization and licensing deal with a Hong Kong ODM factory. The firm was named a TOP 100 Global Startup at the Entrepreneurship World Cup 2025 and collaborates with KAIST, Dankook University, and Jeonbuk National University on linking AI-generated 3D data to real-world manufacturing. Management plans to extend its automated design-to-manufacturing workflow beyond footwear and furniture into additional industries that rely on 3D design.

  • Digital Entertainment Asset

    Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

    Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) operates the PlayMining platform, which offers play-to-earn games designed to solve real-world social problems. The company also runs the PlayMining NFT marketplace and issues its own crypto-asset, DEAPcoin (DEP). Titles such as the utility-focused game PicTrée encourage players to contribute data or actions that have societal value. Led by co-CEOs Naoto Yoshida and Kozo Yamada, DEA positions itself at the intersection of gaming, blockchain and social impact. The firm has attracted attention for its vision of turning "doing good" into compelling gameplay, forming strategic partnerships across multiple industries. Looking ahead, DEA plans to convert into a Japanese entity and pursue a listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in 2028, aiming to become the first crypto-asset issuer to do so. The business is now backed by approximately ¥5.4 billion (about US$38 million) of Series A capital that will fund further product development and market expansion.

  • Ashirase

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

    Ashirase operates two businesses: Ashirase, a walking-assistance system developed for visually impaired users requiring high-precision positioning, and IndoorFlow, an indoor space data platform. IndoorFlow was developed from the positioning and guidance technologies cultivated through Ashirase and targets the digitization of indoor spaces that lack high-precision positioning and common spatial infrastructure. The company emphasizes addressing the “data gaps” in indoor environments where conventional indoor-positioning solutions have been limited by installation and maintenance costs. With the Series A financing, Ashirase plans to accelerate social implementation of IndoorFlow. The company positions IndoorFlow as advancing digitalization at the level of social infrastructure.

  • Bisu

    Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

    Bisu has developed Bisu Body Coach, a portable home health lab that uses disposable microfluidic test sticks and a reader that syncs with a smartphone app to measure multiple biomarkers in about two minutes. The device uses lab-on-a-chip spectrometry and real-time end-to-end measurement to avoid timing issues of conventional test strips and can manipulate samples such as urine and saliva. Its app delivers personalized recommendations on hydration, minerals, vitamins, pH, uric acid and ketones based on goals, activity, sleep and weight. Bisu differentiates itself by enabling simultaneous testing of multiple biomarkers for non-patient consumers to make lifestyle and nutrition changes without seeing a doctor. The company is beta testing in the U.S. and EU with plans to commercialize in those markets in 2022 and enter Japan and Korea in 2023; it also plans to add zinc and vitamin B measurements and a pet health test kit. Financially, Bisu recently raised a $3.2M seed round, bringing total funding to $4.3M.

  • Curv Health

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2019

    Curv Health offers a full‑stack digital clinic platform that connects members from employers and insurance carriers to independent providers (physiotherapists, psychotherapists, counselors, dietitians, certified diabetes educators) via a suite of digital tools and a dedicated health concierge. Its remote monitoring suite includes computer vision, surveys, photo submissions, and integrations with Apple Health Kit sleep and heart‑rate data to support at‑home treatments. Curv reports its remote monitoring drives over 50% patient compliance to at‑home treatments (about 2x the industry norm), and the platform pays providers nearly 2x higher percentage per session than traditional clinics. The company emphasizes automation and new care pathways to reduce resource needs, lower costs, and improve long‑term health outcomes across physical, nutritional, and mental health. The recent CAD$5.1M seed financing will fund continued product development and hiring as part of an aggressive growth strategy. Curv is expanding partnerships with large insurance carriers, group benefits brokers, and employers and plans to launch into key U.S. markets in 2022. Curv Health's platform extracts physical health and performance metrics and biomechanical features from two-dimensional mobile video using computer vision and machine learning. The tool is targeted at athletes, coaches, trainers and health professionals to help diagnose and predict movement pathologies and inform preventative and rehabilitative care. The company plans to expand its SaaS offering directly to health and educational institutions across North America. Curv was founded in 2017 and had been bootstrapped through licensing its technology via API prior to this raise. The company has signed a deal with ASICS (also an investor) and has reported early revenue and partnerships, with past reports noting engagements with NBA teams and more than 500 universities and colleges. Curv is an alumnus of Next AI and ASICS Tenkan Ten, has opened an office in Halifax, and won the NFL’s "1st & Future" competition.

Team

  • Kihachiro Onitsuka

    Founder

  • Hiroaki Kageyama

    President & Chief Investment Officer

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