• Buyandship

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2024

  Buyandship runs a service that enables shoppers and merchants to engage in cross-border e-commerce more easily. By streamlining international purchasing and fulfillment, the company positions itself as a facilitator for global online shopping. The recent capital infusion underscores its intent to expand operational capacity and geographic reach. While specific revenue or user numbers were not disclosed, the company’s emphasis on scaling indicates a growth-oriented business model. The new funds will primarily be directed toward enhancing logistics, technology infrastructure, and market expansion. Overall, Buyandship aims to broaden its footprint and improve the customer experience in cross-border transactions.

• Infobox

  Participated · Series A · Feb 2024

  Infobox offers an end-to-end sales data platform that handles market research, company-list creation and decision-maker outreach while helping users build sales stories. The product supplies detailed data including employee size, industry, exhibition participation, new-graduate hiring status and department direct phone numbers. It seeks to resolve timing mismatches between buyers and sellers by visualizing buyer needs and purchasing timing, enabling more strategic market development. By reducing wasted sales effort, Infobox aims to let sellers focus on higher‑value proposals. Financially, the company has just completed a pre-Series A round of ¥660 million and its cumulative funding total is about ¥700 million. The company says it will use the proceeds to expand product planning and development and to strengthen marketing and sales hiring ahead of product release.

• OMTrade

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

  OMTrade operates a crypto trading platform focused on innovative copy-trading products. Its features include same-batch trading, monthly settlement, and a market-driven profit-sharing structure designed to rebalance user returns. The platform aims to adjust how users capture trading gains through those product mechanics. The article highlights these product innovations as core to OMTrade's offering. OMTrade completed a $6 million seed financing, updating its near-term financial position. No operating metrics or explicit future roadmaps were provided in the article.

• Lock On

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

  LOCKON provides a DeFi platform that uses on-chain analysis to select wallet addresses that have secured mid-to-long-term profits and constructs INDEX products based on those addresses. The protocol is non-custodial: user assets and orders are managed by smart contracts so third parties cannot move assets or place orders. LOCKON aims to deliver stable portfolios and on-chain-analysis-based long-term returns for users. The company announced a seed raise of about ¥120M and plans to deploy the funds for product development and to strengthen hiring and organizational capabilities. LOCKON was founded in April 2022 and earlier this year won the XLIMIT AWARD at Global Brain’s XLIMIT accelerator demo day.

• Orangewood Labs

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

  Orangewood Labs develops a remotely operated robotic arm initially focused on automating painting and sanding in furniture construction. The company reduces costs by using more affordable components to make robots palatable for small- and medium-sized businesses and emphasizes broad programmability via its RoboGPT platform, which accepts text or voice input and continuously adapts. Orangewood reports about 500 deployments, committed and booked revenue of $750,000, and a team of 50 contract and full-time workers with plans to grow headcount by roughly 20% by year-end. The startup plans to expand use cases beyond furniture into quality inspection, powder coating, and picking and sorting packaged goods. It is building a service and spare-parts network and intends to expand manufacturing to meet demand. The company also offers flexible financing terms to ease adoption by technical decision makers and smaller enterprises.

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