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Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app SmartNews announced on Wednesday that it has raised US$230 million new funding in a Series F round. This takes the total fundraise to date to over US$400 …
SmartNews Bags $230M in series F round at $2B valuation Read More
Tokyo-based Earth observation company Axelspace completed a successful Series C fundraising campaign that netted 2.58 billion Japanese Yen ($23.8 million) from investors including The Space Frontier Fund, Japan Co-Invest III Limited Partnership, 31Ventures, …
Axelspace completed another funding round successfully Read More
In the context of startups, ‘seed funding’, ‘seed money’ or ‘seed capital’ are terms that are getting more and more familiar to the casual audience. The concept of seed funding …
Seed Funding for Startups Read More
Japan is home to a large information technology (IT) industry. The software sector alone accounted for sales of more than 15 trillion Japanese yen as of 2018. During the same year, the data …
Investment in Japanese Software Organisations Read More
Japanese sake brewing startup Wakaze announced on Wednesday that it has secured 330 million yen (about $3 million US) in a series A round. Participating investors in this round are Jafco Group …
Wakaze, bringing Japanese sake from Paris brewery, nabs $3M for Europe, US expansion Read More
Tokyo-based Hacobu, a business-to-business logistics optimization startup, has announced that it has secured 940 million yen (about $8.7 million US) in its latest round of funding. Participating investors are JIC Venture Growth Investments (JIC VGI), NN Corporate Capital (Investment arm of Nomura Real Estate Holdings), Toyota Tsusho (TSE:8015), Logistics Innovation Fund (Spiral (TSE:8015), Logistics Innovation […]
Japan’s Hacobu secures $8.7M to use big data for optimizing B2B logistics Read More
Kumamoto-based Daiz, the Japanese startup developing plant-based substitutes for meat products, announced on Monday that it has secured about 1.85 billion yen (about $17.1 million) in a series B round. Participating investors are Ajinomoto (TSE:2802), Marubeni (TSE:8002), Nippon Steel Trading (TSE:9810), Kanematsu (TSE:8020), Kanematsu Foods, ENEOS Innovation Partners, Kichiri Holdings (TSE:3082), Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital, […]
Daiz, Japan’s answer to Impossible Foods, secures $17M series B round Read More