Global Brain
globalbrains.com Direct + LP
Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm that invests in startups from seed to later stage, with a focus on deep tech and other sectors. It manages flagship funds and corporate venture capital funds for large corporations.
Global Brain is a venture capital firm headquartered in Japan. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in AI, climate Tech, healthcare and enterprise. Its stated cheque size is JPY 30M – 5B. $2.7B+ under management and 450 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in startups, ranging from seed to later stage, in various fields.”
— Global Brain, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Japan
- Invests in
- Japan, USA, Europe, Asia, Others
- Sectors
- AI, Climate Tech, Healthcare, Enterprise, Commerce, FinTech, IoT, Space
- Cheque size
- JPY 30M – 5B
- Assets under management
- $2.7B+
- Portfolio
- 450 companies
Team, as Global Brain publishes it
- Hajime Hasegawa Partner
- Sayuri Yamagishi Director
- Komugi Matsui Director
- Takemasa Matsuo Partner
- Kazuki Sakuragawa Director
- Takayoshi Hirai Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on globalbrains.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 279 co-investors found.
- Z Venture Capital 22 shared companies: mov.am, mirrativ.co.jp, justincase.jp, photosynth.co.jp…
- Sony Innovation Fund 21 shared companies: divido.com, getlokalapp.com, connected-robotics.com, gastrograph.com…
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures 21 shared companies: cfs.energy, mov.am, note.com, pixiedusttech.com…
- DBJキャピタル株式会社 14 shared companies: kyotofusioneering.com, gitai.tech, contrea.jp, wealthnavi.com…
- Coral Capital 12 shared companies: kyotofusioneering.com, sumutasu.co.jp, gitai.tech, tokenz.one…
- GMO VenturePartners 12 shared companies: newmo.me, mercari.com, raksul.com, sharing-energy.co.jp…
- Spiral Capital, Inc. 10 shared companies: newmo.me, sakana-dream.com, otetsutabi.com, muse-gr.com…
- Skyland Ventures 9 shared companies: gitai.tech, note.com, aidemy.co.jp, pictoria.co.jp…
- i-nest capital,inc. 9 shared companies: mov.am, origress.com, aba-lab.com, sunmetalon.com…
- STRIVE 9 shared companies: talentx.co.jp, wealthnavi.com, smartcamp.asia, raksul.com…
and 269 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Global Brain publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://globalbrains.com/enname, is_investor, type, hq_country, description, aum, portfolio_count, people
- https://globalbrains.com/en/fundslayer
- https://globalbrains.com/en/investmentinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
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Record 698 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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