Septeni Holdings
Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Grand Tower 30F, 8-17-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-6130, Japan
Overview
Septeni Holdings started as a recruitment consulting company and become an internet advertising company in the year 2000. The company was established in October 1990 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Advertising
- CMS
- Marketing
Investment portfolio
- Brave group
Participated · Series D · Dec 2023
Brave group is an IP production company centered on VTuber talent and related businesses, operating projects including ぶいすぽっ!, HIMEHINA, and Neo-Porte. The company has pursued international expansion into English-speaking markets, Korea, and China. Founded in October 2017, Brave group has raised cumulative funding of about ¥14 billion to date. Its business spans talent management, streaming activities, music production, live events, and merchandise production as part of broader IP commercialization. Following the Series E financing, GREE Holdings (via REALITY) became the company's largest shareholder, strengthening a strategic partnership. Brave group plans to use new proceeds to accelerate global expansion, diversify IP businesses, invest in technology, and pursue strategic M&A.
- Gokko Club
Participated · Series A · Nov 2022
GOKKO operates the creator collective Gokko Club, which produces vertical short dramas (branded as WEBREEN) using an end-to-end in-house production style that covers script, shooting, editing, posting and marketing. The group—formed in May 2021—says it has produced about 1,200 videos with a cumulative 4 billion views as of June 2024 and ranks No.1 in Japan for short-drama plays, followers and likes. GOKKO emphasizes data-driven iteration and a Studio-Dragon–style team production model to continuously improve creative output. The company plans to further ramp content investment, recruit passionate creators, and develop IP for global expansion. Management has set an ambition to scale aggressively—stating a goal to become a ¥1 trillion company by 2030—and is positioning the business as a Japan-origin global entertainment company. To support those plans it recently completed new funding to boost creative capacity and international rollout. GOKKO operates the short-drama creator collective "Gokko Club," which produces vertical short dramas with a one-team production style covering script, shooting, editing, posting and marketing. The collective was formed in May 2021 and handles viewing-data analysis and iterative improvement in-house. In about one year it produced over 200 videos and surpassed 500 million cumulative views, with a single-month peak of 100 million plays in September 2022; it reports top rankings in views, followers, and likes in Japan (internal survey, Nov 2022). The company emphasizes strengthening content quality, expanding the team, and accelerating overseas distribution as its next priorities. GOKKO aims to become a Japan-origin global entertainment company and is headquartered in Tokyo.
Team
Yanagi Katsuhisa
External Audit & Supervisory
Mamoru Nanamura
Co-Founder
Kimura Tatsuya
Outside Director
Daisuke Jay Suefuji
Executive Officer
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