Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Shinsekai Technologies develops and operates the community service suite “MURA,” originally designed for influencers’ fan communities and now expanding to enterprise use. MURA lets users join branded communities directly inside LINE, eliminating separate app downloads and boosting participation and retention. The platform doubles as a customer-data foundation, surfacing behavioral insights to improve CX, raise LTV and connect community activity to broader marketing and business objectives. Having refined its know-how in B2C settings, the company is rolling the product out to corporations and IP holders as an operating system for marketing DX and community-driven commerce. Future product work will emphasize AI-powered analytics, richer UX and integrations that turn communities into long-term corporate assets. Management also plans to extend MURA into social commerce, digital content and real-world experiences to build new economic ecosystems around fan “cliques.” The company has not yet disclosed specific revenue or user figures, noting that metrics will be released in stages.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

Yooldo is a blockchain game platform that completed a $1.5M financing at a $13M valuation. Participating investors included Bedrock Ventures, Double jump.tokyo, Edimus, Hyperithm, Klaytn Foundation, Manta Network, Neopin, Planetarium, Presto Labs and Vista Labs. In addition, grant sponsors listed were Aptos Foundation, BNB Chain, Immutable X and Oasys. The company said the proceeds will be used to refine its technology, bring more games onto the platform, and grow its community. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2022

YGG Japan operates GabeeTown, a web3 game-specific platform that curates domestic and foreign blockchain games to help even beginners start playing. The company positions itself to move Japanese users from “Play to Earn” toward a broader “Play and Earn” market and to support Japanese game publishers in global launches. YGG Japan is building onboarding tools, media functions (GabeeTown is in alpha), wallets and other infrastructure to lower entry barriers and reduce scam risk for web3 novices. Its future plans emphasize product development, marketing/promotion, and recruitment of specialists (engineers, token economists, product marketers, BizDev, PR) to scale operations and communities. Financially, the platform has raised a cumulative total of approximately $5.75 million, including a recent private placement of about $2.95 million. ForN Inc., established in November 2021 and headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, is the operating partner of YGG Japan and provides marketing, tool development, and infrastructure support. YGG Japan is a subDAO of Yield Guild Games formed to promote blockchain gaming across Japan and to curate and create localized content for Japanese players. It partners with ForN, a DAO-structured game guild service optimized for Japanese gaming culture, and has an exclusive partner relationship with ForN. The subDAO plans to scale the blockchain game market in Japan by developing guild participation services, strengthening partnerships with existing guilds, offering scholarship programs for locally developed games, and providing smoother onboarding to Web3. YGG Japan will also provide development and marketing support for blockchain games using Japanese IP and work with local companies to build a pipeline of games to global users. The team includes Japan-based gaming and tech leaders such as CEO Tetsuya Fujiwara and other industry veterans. The company cites Japan’s market of 52.7 million gamers and a US$22.1 billion gaming market as the opportunity it aims to convert to blockchain gaming, and it recently secured funding to build entry-point products for mass gamers.