Led · Seed · Dec 2025

Founded in August 2018 and headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Tokuty Co., Ltd. provides the BtoBtoC matching platform “tokuty,” launched in 2021 to address Japan’s severe labor shortages. The service links companies seeking Specified Skilled Workers with more than 360 overseas staffing agencies, enabling employers to hire qualified foreign workers quickly and efficiently. Its product suite also digitalizes visa-application workflows and is evolving to include education and retention programs that reduce mismatches and early turnover. The company holds a patent on its matching technology, underscoring a defensible product advantage. Future plans include enhancing matching accuracy, expanding DX features, and rolling out comprehensive onboarding and upskilling services. Management ultimately envisions expanding beyond human-capital solutions to become a broader Japan-Asia mobility hub. Prior investment came from Monex Ventures in 2022 after participation in Open Network Lab’s accelerator, and the firm has now closed its Series A round to fuel accelerated growth.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Founded in 2020, Tokyo-based CoA Nexus focuses on increasing labor mobility in deep-tech R&D by leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze publications and patents and build a proprietary database of more than 300,000 researchers. Its core product, CoA Researcher, is an AI matching platform dedicated to experienced R&D professionals seeking full-time or side-gig opportunities with corporations, university spin-outs, and other research-intensive organizations. The service covers domestic and overseas researchers, positioning itself as a unique global solution for hard-to-fill deep-tech roles. CoA Nexus is also expanding customer acquisition efforts in the United States and aims to accelerate worldwide rollout. With the fresh capital, the company plans to strengthen hiring across sales and marketing, invest in branding through events and online initiatives, and enhance its researcher database to support global expansion. Management sees the current shift in demand from software engineers to deep-tech researchers as a major tailwind. Financial details beyond the recent funding were not disclosed in the article.

Led · Series A · Jun 2024

Ranimal operates Sewakl, a home-visit pet-sitting and care service that sends professional sitters to customers' homes to feed, walk, and care for pets during owners' absences. The company reports more than 6,000 members and a 97% customer satisfaction rate (2021, internal survey). It plans to use recent funding to strengthen marketing, expand its IT infrastructure, prepare for an IPO, and launch a new pet daycare business. Ranimal emphasizes improving sitter training and systemization to raise service convenience and market reach. The company is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo and is led by CEO Jun Crane. Cumulatively it has raised ¥432M to date.

Participated · Series C · Jan 2024

Ajira develops behavior-recognition AI and commercializes it as the AI security product 'AI Security asilla'. Headquartered in Machida, Tokyo, the company has been selling asilla for about a year with deployments in large commercial and complex facilities, hospitals, educational institutions, railways, airports and other public and private infrastructure. Asilla operates on existing cameras, can process up to 50 camera feeds per server in its enterprise plan, and uses a patented "anomaly detection" approach to identify precursors to incidents. The product provides local, secure 24/7 monitoring and instant notifications (within one second) when abnormal behavior is detected. Planned feature updates include fire/flame detection and unattended-object detection to broaden use cases in facility and transportation security. Financially, Ajira has completed a Series C extension bringing the round to ¥760M to date and has raised ¥1.7B in total funding. Asilla has developed proprietary behavior-recognition AI and sells an AI security system called AI Security asilla that analyzes existing camera feeds to detect abnormal or suspicious behavior. The product can run locally, process up to 50 cameras per server, and uses a patented “discomfort detection” method for early warning; it is deployed in complex facilities, commercial sites, hospitals, educational institutions and transportation infrastructure across Japan. The company emphasizes low initial cost by leveraging existing cameras and a secure, local network architecture to avoid external video leakage. Asilla is expanding its product lineup and sales network to grow revenue by entering markets beyond its traditional customers. Management plans to strengthen the asilla sales organization, continue evolving the core AI technology, and enhance corporate governance to build a scalable business foundation. The company is headquartered in Machida, Tokyo, and is led by CEO Daisuke Kimura. Asilla develops proprietary behavioral-recognition AI for video analytics and has released a facility-targeted AI security system called “Asilla.” The company reports growing deployments in large commercial facilities and office buildings since the product launch this year. It positions the system to address security industry labor shortages and improve safety, and it says it intends to pursue global expansion in the future. Asilla plans to use new capital and partnerships to strengthen its sales channels, advance its behavior-recognition models, and enhance corporate governance. The company was founded on June 1, 2015, and is headquartered in Machida, Tokyo. Reported corporate details include paid-in capital of ¥56,125 thousand.

Participated · Series C · Aug 2021

iSpace builds and operates robotic lunar landers aimed at transporting scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon. Although it has flown two missions, the company has yet to achieve a successful soft landing. Management is now focused on Mission 3 (target launch 2027) and Mission 4 (target launch 2028), which incorporate hardware upgrades intended to improve landing reliability. The firm recently secured new contracts, including a ¥6.4 B deal with JAXA for a lunar water-sensing satellite, a $22 M payload agreement with Magna Petra for Mission 3, and an $8 M delivery contract with the Taiwan Space Agency for Mission 4. Financially, iSpace reported first-quarter FY2025 net losses of ¥2.88 B ($19.2 M), nearly double the prior-year period, and ended the quarter with ¥26.4 B ($175.6 M) in cash—of which ¥15 B ($99.8 M) came from short-term loans. To fund upcoming missions and offset widening losses, the company is turning to the equity markets for additional capital. Proceeds are earmarked for ¥4.8 B to Mission 3 development, ¥9.5 B to Mission 4 work, and ¥4 B for general working capital.