Participated · Series B · Feb 2026

Anique operates services that breathe life into popular Japanese IP through digital art collection platforms, curated merchandise, and experiential events. The company has recently expanded into physical experiences, including its immersive “洒落CAFE,” a matcha-focused café concept that blends pop culture with dining. Leveraging technologies such as AI, VR, and other immersive tools, Anique enables fans worldwide to interact with characters and purchase goods even when they cannot visit in person. Its products already have sales traction in China, the United States, and South Korea, and management plans to accelerate localization, logistics, and marketing in each region. The firm is entering a “second founding” phase, recruiting key talent across CFO/COO roles, creative, merchandise development, and global business. Capital from the latest round will fund global expansion, further build out dining and spatial design projects, and deepen co-creative planning with rights holders. Headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Anique positions itself as a bridge delivering Japanese pop-culture experiences to a global audience.

Participated · Series B · May 2024

Niro provides fixed lending solutions that enable consumer internet platforms to embed customised credit offerings to drive revenue growth. It has partnerships with Aditya Birla Capital, IDFC First Bank, Muthoot Finance, and PayU Finance to offer loans ranging from INR 50,000 to INR 7 lakh with disbursals within 24 hours. The startup says it has disbursed over INR 900 crore and maintains an outstanding loan book of INR 600 crore. In FY23 Niro recorded operating revenue of INR 9.5 crore and a net loss of INR 23.8 crore. Founded in 2021 and based in Bengaluru, Niro operates in a competitive market that includes KrediBee, MoneyTap, and BankBazaar. The company is considering increasing its current pre-Series B raise if it attracts additional investors. Niro is an embedded consumer-lending platform that enables consumer internet platforms to become providers of competitive, frictionless credit and other financial products. Founded in 2021 and based in Bangalore, it integrates with consumer internet companies such as Snapdeal, Quikr, and Housing.com. Since launching less than 16 months ago the company says it has seen rapid validation and partner-driven growth. Niro plans to use its Series A proceeds to expand its partner footprint, broaden product offerings, enhance risk analytics capabilities, and bolster its technology layer. The company closed a Series A totalling ₹90 crore ($11M) comprising $8.5M in equity and $2.5M in venture debt. Earlier, Niro raised a $3.5M seed round in October 2021 led by Elevar Equity.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

Gaxi provides a digital platform that centralizes scholarship program setup, application intake, review workflows, and fund disbursement to link donors, corporate sponsors, schools, and students. Its roadmap emphasizes self-serve setup for individuals and corporate sponsors, stronger identity and eligibility checks, and data-driven matching to improve targeting and outcomes. The company aims to integrate with schools and employers and to expand customer success capabilities to reduce administrative burden for sponsors and improve completion rates for recipients. Gaxi positions itself as infrastructure for CSR and recruiting pipelines, and participation from a trust bank suggests potential financial-administration partnerships. The business faces risks tied to data privacy, fraud prevention, and cyclical CSR/recruiting budgets, and investors are advised to track active programs, application volume, sponsor conversion, renewal rates, and disbursement throughput.

Participated · Series D · Aug 2023

Giraff operates collector-focused services including the buy-comparison site Hikakaku, the trading-card and sneaker marketplace app magi, and the magi e-commerce site launched in September 2023. The company also runs multiple physical collector shops under magi, magipoke, and Magi Kicks, and opened its first overseas store (magi Taipei Ximen) in November 2023. Giraff aims to grow recognition and sales among overseas collectors and accelerate online and offline global expansion. The company completed additional fundraising in late 2023 to support these expansion plans. As of this financing, Giraff has raised approximately ¥3.3 billion in total since founding. Giraff was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Nakano, Tokyo. 株式会社ジラフ operates a suite of collector-focused services including the buy-comparison site Hikakaku! and the collector marketplace app magi, plus multiple specialty retail stores such as magi, magipoke (Pokémon card stores) and Magi Kicks. The company runs several brick-and-mortar locations (e.g., Nakano, Akihabara, Shibuya, Osaka Namba Marui) and plans further store openings including a magi shop at Nagoya PARCO. Its product set targets trading-card and sneaker collectors through both mobile marketplace experiences and physical retail. Financially, the company reported single-month sales exceeding ¥600 million in May 2023. Management says proceeds from the recent raise will be used to further accelerate growth across its services and stores. Overall the business combines online marketplace, comparison services and specialty retail to capture collector demand. Giraff runs the buyback comparison site Hikakaku and a suite of collector-focused services including the magi flea-market app (trading cards and sneakers) and physical collector stores such as Card Shop magi and magipoke. Hikakaku has been offered since September 2014 and provides a platform to compare buyback prices across many product categories. The magi app launched in April 2019, has surpassed 550,000 cumulative downloads and reports monthly GMV exceeding ¥300 million. The company opened new physical stores (including an Akihabara shop that generated about ¥100 million in its first month) and plans additional store openings such as magipoke at Marui Group’s Shibuya Modi. Giraff reports that the whole company achieved sustained profitability for several months starting December 2021. Proceeds from the recent raise are intended to accelerate growth toward a future IPO and to enhance payment and installment offerings for collectors.