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DNX Ventures

55 E 3rd Ave, San Mateo, California, 94401, United States

Overview

The hardest thing for early stage B2B Startups is to find the first customer who can validate your Product Market Fit and grow your business together. Since 2011, they have created more than 100 partnerships between startups and Fortune 500 companies by leveraging their CXO network with Global Conglomerates.

Total investments
111
Lead investments
38
Investments · 12mo
19
Active investors
15

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Resilire

    Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

    Led by CEO Yudai Tsuda and based in Tokyo, Resilire develops and operates a cloud platform that collects and updates data from direct and multi-tier suppliers to visualize and manage supply chain risks. Its product detects risks such as natural disasters and geopolitical issues in real time to enable faster decision-making and improved resilience. The company emphasizes building reliable data infrastructure and applying artificial intelligence to create decision-making value. Resilire is focused on serving manufacturing supply chains and plans to expand its platform adoption overseas. Financially, the company raised 1.73 billion JPY in the first close of its Series B in August 2026, bringing total funding to roughly 3.03 billion JPY.

  • KnowledgeWork

    Participated · Series C · Aug 2026

    KnowledgeWork is a Japanese sales enablement company that has moved from a SaaS knowledge-sharing platform for sales teams into a provider of sales-specific AI agents for large enterprises. It sells three lines: Sales AX Consulting, in which consultants and forward-deployed engineers build and operate AI agents fitted to a customer's own sales process; Sales AI Products, including a tool that automates meeting minutes and CRM/SFA entry and a roleplay tool that runs practice sales conversations against AI avatars; and Sales AI Agent OS, launched in August 2026 as the underlying platform, composed of ontology, strategy, AI agent, and interface layers. Its software is deployed at major Japanese enterprises at thousands-of-seats scale, including NTT Docomo Business, Mizuho Bank, and Nissin Foods. The company is pursuing capital and business alliances with large corporates and their venture arms to widen distribution of its sales AI agents. KnowledgeWork was incorporated in March 2020 under CEO Koji Asano and is headquartered in the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Financially, the company had raised ¥6.12 billion cumulatively through its Series B in November 2023 and added ¥3.5 billion (~$22.1M) in the first close of its Series C in August 2026.

  • ESGAgent.ai

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    ESGAgent.ai sells an AI-driven platform that automates compliance and reporting workflows for heavy industries, aiming to compress tasks that traditionally took months down to hours. Its customers include organizations in mining, food manufacturing and engineering consulting using the platform for carbon reporting, climate risk management and safety compliance. The company has reported a seed raise of $1.1M led by DNX Ventures and total funding to date of AUD $1.7M. Following the round it appointed Mike Duggan as Executive General Manager and brought on Greg Steele as an investor and director. The company targets sectors facing increasing climate, safety and governance obligations and is focused on commercial deployment within those markets. No revenue figures or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

  • WeDraft

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    WeDraft’s core product, Flows, is positioned as an all-in-one platform for personal information and information-asset management that emphasizes no-code implementation, centralized ledger management, automated risk assessment, and an intuitive UI/UX. The platform aims to replace spreadsheet- and silo-driven methods by standardizing registration and auditing and by automating extraction of compliance tasks and vulnerability evaluations. Despite formal incorporation in January 2026, WeDraft ran a beta of Flows in 2024 and has already seen adoption by major domestic enterprises including Aisin, Kyodo Printing (Tomowel), Pia, and Rizap. The company is led by CEO Hiroki Hashimura and plans to use newly raised seed capital to bolster infrastructure, support early clients, and grow its team. Management has stated the goal of establishing Flows as a market standard for corporate information-asset management in Japan.

  • Hiway

    Led · Series A · Jun 2026

    Hiway offers an autonomous CRM/PRM platform designed to support B2B channel and dealership sales, including inquiry handling, quotation processing, deal management, partner collaboration, and Salesforce/CRM integration. The company emphasizes automation via AI agents to streamline sales activities conducted through agents, distributors, and partner companies. Hiway plans to use its Series A proceeds to build AI agents for inquiry and quotation automation, improve external-system integrations, and bolster implementation support. It also intends to grow its engineering and business teams to scale product development and operations. The company is based in Tokyo and announced the ¥300 million Series A funding in June 2026 led by DNX Ventures.

Team

  • Mitch Kitamura

    Founder, Managing Partner, and COO

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  • Q Motiwala

    Founder and Managing Director

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  • Tetsujiro Nakagaki

    Founder, Partnership Advisor, and Chief Partnership Officer

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  • Yurika Imuta

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