Participated · Series C · Aug 2026

KnowledgeWork is a Japanese sales enablement company that has moved from a SaaS knowledge-sharing platform for sales teams into a provider of sales-specific AI agents for large enterprises. It sells three lines: Sales AX Consulting, in which consultants and forward-deployed engineers build and operate AI agents fitted to a customer's own sales process; Sales AI Products, including a tool that automates meeting minutes and CRM/SFA entry and a roleplay tool that runs practice sales conversations against AI avatars; and Sales AI Agent OS, launched in August 2026 as the underlying platform, composed of ontology, strategy, AI agent, and interface layers. Its software is deployed at major Japanese enterprises at thousands-of-seats scale, including NTT Docomo Business, Mizuho Bank, and Nissin Foods. The company is pursuing capital and business alliances with large corporates and their venture arms to widen distribution of its sales AI agents. KnowledgeWork was incorporated in March 2020 under CEO Koji Asano and is headquartered in the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Financially, the company had raised ¥6.12 billion cumulatively through its Series B in November 2023 and added ¥3.5 billion (~$22.1M) in the first close of its Series C in August 2026.

Participated · Series D · Jul 2026

Asuene is a Tokyo-based sustainability AI company founded by CEO Kohei Nishiwada that serves over 50,000 clients worldwide. Its flagship ASUENE platform supports greenhouse gas measurement, reduction, and reporting, and the company also offers NZero, an AI Energy Optimization Platform, and Carbon EX, an Integrated Carbon Credit AI Platform. The company raised $87M in Series D financing in 2026, bringing its total funding to $161M. Asuene plans to use the new capital to pursue M&A to accelerate business expansion in Japan and internationally, to advance AI and product development, and to launch new businesses. Corporate investors in the round included firms such as DAIKIN and RICOH alongside other domestic and international backers.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

OpenHeart operates the 3D platform TAVIO and runs a related offering called TAVIO STUDIO. The company is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and is led by president and CEO Koji Watanabe. Following the May 2026 pre-Series A financing, OpenHeart plans to use the proceeds to strengthen TAVIO's platform foundation and to accelerate TAVIO STUDIO's operations. The article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or prior funding rounds. The financing was structured as a third-party allotment to multiple venture capital firms and corporate investors, totaling about ¥220 million.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2025

Nexta offers SmartF, a cloud-based core business system that standardizes common manufacturing processes and can be introduced without any customization, targeting the large population of small- and medium-sized manufacturers in Japan. The platform covers all industries and combines deployment support to encourage on-site adoption, avoiding costly scratch builds or heavy customization. The company plans to evolve SmartF into an all-in-one system by adding sales management and SFA functions and will roll out three AI agents this year and a total of twenty manufacturing-specific AI agents within two years. Through a new capital and business alliance, Ricoh Japan will handle nationwide sales, implementation, and post-deployment support using its 341 locations and customer base of more than one million companies. Over roughly the past 2.5 years, Nexta has grown its headcount from 20 to 120 and increased average monthly revenue more than sevenfold. The firm estimates its total addressable market for manufacturing DX at about ¥1.8 trillion. Proceeds from the latest financing will strengthen product development and expand hiring and organizational capabilities.