• Toypo

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

  Toypo operates a B2B2C digital solution that lets physical stores capture, visualize, and analyze customer visit data through QR code scans and LINE integration. Merchants can quickly launch mini-apps—publishable in about ten minutes on a smartphone—to create loyalty programs, distribute special content, and run targeted promotions, all priced on a per-store subscription model. The platform’s viral distribution, where stores themselves promote the app, has attracted a user base exceeding 1.9 million people. With the fresh capital, Toypo plans to evolve from a “store tool” into a broader “daily outing infrastructure,” developing an AI-powered destination recommendation feature and boosting user engagement. Management also intends to monetize its behavior data via advertising, non-registered store referrals, buy-now-pay-later services, and other fintech extensions. Since its April 2019 founding by CEO Takuya Muraoka and CPO Mr. Ogami, the company has secured roughly ¥1.2 billion in total funding—about ¥900 million in equity and ¥300 million in debt.

• Mirai no Genba

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

  Mirai no Genba provides 'ミライのゲンバ帳票', an AI-powered electronic form system focused on manufacturing sites. The system learns paper form formats and automatically converts PDFs into electronic forms, while offering handwriting recognition and an assisted input method suited for standing work. It includes real-time dashboards and AI-driven automatic aggregation and analysis, enabling digitization without changing on-site operations. The company was founded in September 2023 and cites a 2023 survey finding that 70.1% of factories still use paper forms. Mirai no Genba raised ¥174 million in a seed round and plans to use the funds for product development and organizational strengthening. Planned product enhancements include digitizing more complex manufacturing sites, adding generative-AI automated analysis features, and API integrations with other services.

• REVORN

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2024

  REVORN integrates odor sensing, AI formulation and diffusion hardware to digitize smell so it can be recorded, transmitted and replayed like other media. Its platform combines the Obre sensor (detects airborne odor molecules), the Hearom diffuser and fragrances (blends multiple aroma materials in space) and the iinioi® cloud (stores detection data and generates fragrance recipes via machine learning). In 2024 the company’s proprietary sensory-evaluation AI received patent recognition and its efficacy has been validated in multiple use cases. CEO Hiroaki Matsuoka founded the company while at Nagasaki University after noting disaster-response robots lacked a "nose." With fresh capital the team plans to build higher-precision, portable sensors and automatic fragrance reproduction devices and to broaden adoption across food & beverage, cosmetics, healthcare, automotive and general-purpose applications. To date the firm has raised ¥1.35 billion in total funding.

• TheStory

  Participated · Series A · May 2024

  /thestory develops the "/thestory" series, a platform that visualizes skills and learning histories and includes a scout-based nursing job-matching app called N/thestory. N/thestory launched in July 2022 and reached 10,000 downloads within 1 year 9 months, with over 2,600 registered nurses. The app enables direct recruiting from medical institutions and includes resume-creation support and skill/career-focused fields to improve matches for nurses unfamiliar with skills-based job changes. The company plans to invest in employer-side hiring systems and build a nurse-focused learning platform to support lifelong learning for medical professionals. Funds will also be used to enhance existing products (including the recently released web version) and to hire engineers to accelerate development. /thestory currently operates in Kanto, Fukuoka, Keihanshin, and Aichi areas and is headquartered in Itoshima, Fukuoka. thestory operates N/thestory, a direct recruiting app launched in July 2022 as the first product of the /thestory skills-and-learning-visibility platform for nurses. The app enables skill- and learning-based matching between nurses and medical institutions and is free for nurses to use. About eight months after launch the app had roughly 1,900 installs and more than 700 registered nurses. thestory's current geographic focus is on visiting care and nursing in the Kanto, Fukuoka, and Keihanshin areas, with plans to expand both regions and partnering medical institutions. The company plans to broaden the N/thestory offering and develop job-matching services for other healthcare professionals, such as doctors. In the mid-to-long term it intends to build systems to support healthcare workers' career development.

• Payn

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

  Founded in March 2022, Tokyo-based Payn offers “Payn,” a SaaS platform that automates the invoicing and recovery of cancellation fees for operators in hospitality, dining, golf, beauty, leisure and other reservation-heavy sectors. The service addresses chronic issues of no-shows, manual billing burdens and unpaid fees by streamlining the entire request-to-payment workflow. Payn released its product in October 2022 and has since been adopted by a variety of merchants, though specific customer or revenue figures were not disclosed. The company recently underwent a rebrand, unveiling the mission “Payments without Pain.” and a new corporate logo. Proceeds from the latest raise will fund new feature development, enhancements to existing functions, expansion of the sales organization, stronger customer support and broader corporate hiring. Management aims to make paying cancellation fees a social norm by 2030, positioning Payn as the global leader in cancellation-related payment solutions. CEO Kyohei Yamashita, formerly founder of Cansell, leads the team.

No current team members are available.