Participated · Equity · May 2026

Flora offers three main products: Wellflow, a corporate service to support female employee health and corporate decision-making; Flora Expert, a business support service that extracts insights for new business and product planning with a track record across more than 30 companies and over 50 implementations; and Moonly, a self-care app covering menstruation to menopause with over 200,000 downloads. The company leverages proprietary AI algorithms and accumulated women's health data to provide personalized support and extract insights for corporate clients. Flora plans to expand Wellflow's functionality, scale Flora Expert including overseas deployment, and enhance Moonly's AI healthcare functions and data infrastructure. To support these plans it intends to hire additional engineers and data scientists. Financially, the company has raised approximately ¥230 million in the latest round, bringing total funding to about ¥500 million, and the financing includes loans from financial institutions. Flora aims to accelerate expansion into Asian markets such as South Korea and Taiwan.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

MEME operates a parent-child money app called manimo and has developed Sukupay, a digital school collection and payment service launched in beta in 2023 with a formal release planned for April 2024. The company’s mission is to become a digital financial platform that simplifies household money flows and spreads financial education for child-rearing households. MEME plans to use the new capital to accelerate hiring, expand partnerships with financial institutions and corporates, and scale product development and organizational capacity. It targets reducing administrative burden in schools by digitizing billing and instant bank payments; the company plans to connect to about 100 banks in fiscal 2024. Market research cited in the company release found roughly 40% of schools still use envelope-based collections, 60% use designated bank accounts, and 80% of school staff find collection work burdensome—underscoring demand for Sukupay. MEME is headquartered in Chuo‑ku, Tokyo, and is led by CEO Mai Saito.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

VIE (formerly VIE STYLE) builds earbud-type EEG devices that use the eartip as an electrode to collect brainwaves with the simplicity of standard earphones. Its flagship hardware includes VIE ZONE, an earphone-form wearable EEG, and VIE CHILL, a high-performance wireless earphone that analyzes users' brainwaves and generates music to guide ideal brain states. The company also offers a brainwave-music app, VIE Tunes, which reached 40,000 downloads within three months of launch. VIE is pursuing both consumer expansion and applied use in medical, healthcare, and sensing contexts, and is developing industry-specific products through partnerships. The firm says it will continue investing in research and business development to accelerate technology and hardware work and to address social challenges. Current product strategy blends hardware, neurofeedback software, and generated "neuromusic" to create measurable wellbeing experiences.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

60% operates a cross-border fashion e-commerce platform that aggregates brands from over 10 Asian countries, offering more than 1,500 brands and over 110,000 items (as of Feb 2024). The site is skewed to Gen Z: roughly 90% of users are in their teens and twenties. The company runs its own cross-border EC solution covering logistics, language, payments and customer service, enabling brands to begin selling globally within three days of contracting. Since its prior funding round in April 2021, monthly GMV has grown more than fivefold and the number of listed brands has tripled. 60% is rebranding as it begins a “second chapter,” planning accelerated domestic expansion, global rollout and broader hiring across executive, product, engineering and marketing roles. It plans to launch global versions of its product (web and app) in early 2024 to evolve into a global marketplace.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2023

ASTRA FOOD PLAN develops and sells a proprietary overheated‑steam drying/sterilization machine (『過熱蒸煎機』) and upcycles food residues into high‑value powders branded as “ぐるりこⓒ”. Founded in 2020 and based in Fujimi, Saitama, the company has patented its machine and trademarked the powder. The device performs combined drying and sterilization in 5–10 seconds using boiler‑less superheated steam, claiming reduced flavor and nutrient loss and high energy efficiency. ASTRA has completed over 100 ingredient tests, run PoCs with Yoshinoya and Pompadour, opened an AFP lab, and installed machines at three producers as of September 2023. The company plans to expand sales and rental of the machine, develop and brand more “ぐるりこⓒ” products with food manufacturers, build business models with JA and other partners, and scale hiring and organization. Financially, the company completed a Series A that brought cumulative funding to ¥220 million and will use proceeds to accelerate machine distribution, product development/branding, and team growth.