• 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.

• Wamazing

  Participated · Series C · Dec 2023

  WAmazing operates a tourism platform (OTA) that centralizes online reservations across five major inbound consumption categories: accommodation, sightseeing, shopping, transportation, and food & beverage. Its product suite includes WAmazing Discover, WAmazing Stay, WAmazing Shopping, WAmazing Transport, WAmazing Play, and WAmazing Snow, and it distributes free SIM cards via machines at 25 Japanese airports to grow membership. The company has three business lines: the OTA business, Regional Tourism DX (launched April 2020) and Inbound Marketing Consulting (launched November 2022). Main service markets are Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Southeast Asia, and Australia. WAmazing reported that overall sales in FY2023 were 5.5 times and OTA transaction volume (GMV) 3.8 times those in FY2020, and registered members exceeded 520,000 at the end of October 2023. Regional Tourism DX saw orders in FY2023 rise 1.5 times year-over-year and cumulative sales across the past four fiscal years reached approximately JPY 1.8 billion. The company says growth is accelerating post-pandemic and is recruiting urgently (more than 50 open positions) while seeking capital and strategic partnerships to support further expansion. WAmazing provides a tourism platform service for overseas visitors to Japan, offering OTA reservation services across accommodation, sightseeing, shopping, transportation, and food & beverage via web, app, and WeChat. The company operates three business lines: OTA, Regional Tourism DX (launched April 2020), and Inbound Marketing Consulting (launched November 2022), and offers services such as WAmazing Discover, Stay, Shopping, Transport, Play, Snow, and Insurance. WAmazing reported that OTA GMV in January 2023 was 2.2× January 2020 levels, owned-media monthly users were 3.5× January 2020, and registered members exceeded 400,000 at the end of January 2023. Orders in the Regional Tourism DX business in FY2022 increased 2.3× year-over-year, and cumulative sales for that business over the past three fiscal years reached approximately JPY 1 billion. The company uses free SIM distribution machines at 23 international airports to drive membership growth and has achieved seven consecutive fiscal years of sales and growth since establishment. WAmazing plans to use new capital to recruit talent, secure growth funding, and form capital and business alliances with strategic investors and regional banks to expand inbound business and revitalize local communities.

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