Led · Seed · Aug 2023

Robomart builds "store-hailing" self-driving vehicles that act as mobile, stocked retail stores for groceries, restaurants and convenience items. Its product lineup includes the Oasis, aimed primarily at restaurants (Ben & Jerry’s is a customer), and the newly revealed Haven, which offers retailer branding and capacity for about 300 SKUs. The Oasis launched in beta at the end of 2020 and roughly 100 of the vehicles have been contracted out. Haven is slated to start delivering in 2025 and is pitched to supermarkets and convenience stores. The company provides a white-label software suite that lets retailers enable store-hailing under their own banner, according to co-founder and CEO Ali Ahmed. Financially, Robomart announced a $2 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to $3.4 million.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2022

FiT operates LifeFit, a 24-hour unmanned fitness gym service whose app handles enrollment, usage, points and crowd-checking; membership starts at ¥3,058 per month (tax incl.) with no admission fee. The company collects in-gym behavior data and runs a proprietary "Kenko Point" rewards program to encourage habit formation and improve retention. As of August 2025 FiT runs 161 stores nationwide while offering low-cost facilities and app-linked crowd-visibility to raise continued usage. FiT has secured a ¥1.5 billion debt financing package (including lending lines) from Kyoto Bank and other Kansai regional banks and megabanks to fund expansion. The capital will be used for a mix of company-owned dominant-area openings and franchise rollouts, and FiT plans to grow LifeFit to 250 stores by the end of 2025. The company has previously raised seed and Series A financing from XTech Ventures, THE SEED, W ventures and individual investor Fumiaki Koizumi.

Led · Series A · Aug 2021

Paytner offers an automated invoice receipt service (Paytner Invoice) and an online invoice prepayment/factoring service (Paytner Factoring) aimed at improving cash flow for freelancers and SMBs. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Paytner positions itself to remove "money stress" for growing businesses and says it is expanding its platform to support broader cash-management and financing needs. The business reports strong traction—Incubate Fund noted cumulative application volumes have surpassed 200,000—and other investors describe the company as a rapidly growing industry leader. Paytner is using the new funding to strengthen hiring and organizational capabilities, accelerate product feature development, and prepare for a potential IPO. The company is pursuing growth toward becoming the domestic No.1 provider in freelance-focused factoring services. Peitner (formerly yup) offers invoice automation via its "Peitner Invoice" service and an invoice prepayment service called "Peitner Factoring." The company targets individual proprietors and small legal entities. Peitner launched Peitner Factoring in September 2019 and Peitner Invoice in September 2022. Since launch, Peitner Factoring has surpassed 55,000 cumulative applications. The company says it will use the newly raised capital to expand hiring, strengthen organizational structure, and enhance product functionality. Cumulatively the company has raised about ¥2.5 billion to date. yup offers a factoring-based advance-payment service that buys invoice receivables to deliver same-day payouts primarily to sole proprietors and small corporations. The company began its service in September 2019 and spent two years improving a proprietary credit-scoring algorithm to minimize default risk. yup differentiates by focusing on smaller-scale users underserved by traditional factoring, and by strengthening bank-system integrations. It is developing a SaaS to digitize invoices, selected for MUFG Digital Accelerator, with planned integrations to banking systems and accounting SaaS to enable end-to-end invoice processing. Financially, yup announced a Series A round that included debt financing totaling about ¥450 million. The company sees competition from domestic payroll-advance and cloud-factoring players but believes there is no equivalent full-service domestic offering today.