Led · Series E · Apr 2026

Brave group is an IP production company centered on VTuber talent and related businesses, operating projects including ぶいすぽっ！, HIMEHINA, and Neo-Porte. The company has pursued international expansion into English-speaking markets, Korea, and China. Founded in October 2017, Brave group has raised cumulative funding of about ¥14 billion to date. Its business spans talent management, streaming activities, music production, live events, and merchandise production as part of broader IP commercialization. Following the Series E financing, GREE Holdings (via REALITY) became the company's largest shareholder, strengthening a strategic partnership. Brave group plans to use new proceeds to accelerate global expansion, diversify IP businesses, invest in technology, and pursue strategic M&A.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2023

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.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2017

Immersv operates a mobile 360 VR ad network that currently focuses on pre-roll and interstitial video ads while exploring ways to embed immersive experiences into regular web pages. The company reports early campaign performance with click-through rates around 5% and view-throughs near 85% across its first several 360 campaigns. CEO Mihir Shah, who previously led Flyby Media (acquired by Apple), says Immersv plans to extend immersive advertising to VR, AR, and existing mobile platforms. The startup plans a mobile AR-optimized product coming in Q4 to take advantage of platforms like Apple’s ARKit. Immersv intends to use the new funding to expand into markets like Asia and to double its team from 15 to scale product offerings. The company positions immersive formats as an alternative to commoditized mobile video advertising.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2017

Node offers a horizontal prediction platform-as-a-service built on a patented deep learning technology the company calls "Artificial Intuition." The platform delivers predictions via a simple REST API and can be used standalone or integrated with third-party applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Zendesk, and Workday. Node positions its product to help companies gain advantages in market intelligence, resource planning, customer and talent retention, customer acquisition, and contact center automation, and it also helps users interpret the predictions so they can act on them. The company says its platform enables adoption of AI for businesses that lack data science expertise or large-data infrastructure and targets a market of over 100 million companies and the Fortune 2000. Since unveiling Artificial Intuition in July 2019, usage of the Node platform has increased over fourfold. Financially, the company announced a $6 million funding raise to help expand deployment of its AI capabilities. Node is a San Francisco, CA-based artificial intuition platform provider. The company has launched a SaaS-based automated machine learning platform that uses AI to help businesses deploy and scale both customer-facing and internal applications. Applications powered by Node deliver predictions to help users make smarter connections and decisions about engaging with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node has been working with companies including Information Builders, Yesware, Nimble CRM, ConnectAndSell and Aventri. Led by CEO Falon Fatemi, CTO Louis Monier and new CPO Michael Radovancevich, the company will use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. Node has raised $16M in the current financing and $36M in total to date. Node builds an AI-powered discovery engine that surfaces the people and information most relevant to a user. Its primary use case connects users to people they should be partnering with, which the company says has generated $200 million in revenue. Node plans to expand beyond people search to surface other relevant data inside organizations and across the web via a forthcoming next-generation release. To advance that roadmap it hired Louis Monier as Chief Scientist and Jeffrey Johnson as Chief Technology Officer. The company was founded in 2014 and has raised more than $21 million to date. Node builds a patent-pending AI discovery engine that automatically delivers actionable insights about people and companies to help customers identify who to engage and why. The company’s relationship graph contains over half a billion rich profiles, and it offers a native Salesforce integration so teams can discover prospects without changing workflows. Node spent 18 months in stealth working with select enterprise customers and is now making its discovery platform broadly available. It is currently focused on improving customer discovery for sales and marketing but says the technology can extend to recruiting and consumer use cases in the future. While in stealth Node doubled revenue in the prior six months and reports customers have generated nearly $103 million in total revenue from Node recommendations and optimized more than $4 billion in revenue. Customers recoup the cost of Node in as little as eight weeks, and the company cites examples of uncovering over $1 billion in new market opportunity for individual customers. Node builds a data intelligence layer that reorganizes information on the web to surface proactive, personalized recommendations tailored to individual users and businesses. The platform distills and filters massive amounts of web data to recommend relevant people and companies without requiring a search box, with an initial focus on B2B sales and marketing. Node is in stealth mode and is working with select enterprise customers as it scales its offering. The company announced an investment totaling $7.5 million to accelerate its go-to-market timeline. Future plans include expanding beyond B2B to B2C recommendations and recommending hires and company partners. The team includes former Google, Facebook and Wildfire engineers and NLP experts and is led by founder and CEO Falon Fatemi.

Participated · Series A · May 2017

Upload operates in virtual reality with three core domains: co-working, education and media, having shifted the UploadVR brand to its media arm earlier this year. The company opened a 20,000 square-foot office in Los Angeles and emphasizes education initiatives developed with Google, HTC and Udacity, while its San Francisco site houses more than 35 companies in co-working. Upload has 17 full-time employees and uses a large number of contractors to scale operations. Funds raised have been earmarked to expand Upload LA and to support the official launch of Upload EDU. The company also maintains its media arm and continues to develop its co-working and education offerings across its locations.