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GMO VenturePartners

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GMO VenturePartners is a venture capital firm focused on fintech investments in Japan, the US, India, and Southeast Asia. It is a subsidiary of GMO Internet Group and manages multiple funds.

GMO VenturePartners is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in fintech. 30 billion JPY under management and 227 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“Fintechフォーカス、3つのアプローチ”

— GMO VenturePartners, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Corporate venture
Stage
Seed – Growth
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Invests in
Japan, India, SEA, US
Sectors
Fintech
Founded
2005
Assets under management
30 billion JPY
Portfolio
227 companies

Team, as GMO VenturePartners publishes it

  • Takayuki Akehi 執行役員 / 管理担当
  • Kota Uno プリンシパル
  • Satoru Ogawa シニアアソシエイト
  • Shintaro Kawano バリューアップスペシャリスト / 投資担当
  • Makie Shinoto シニアアナリスト
  • Kazuyasu Sugiyama 代表取締役社長
  • Tomoya Horita 事業開発担当
  • Ryu Muramatsu 取締役 / ファウンディングパートナー
  • Yuta Yamamoto Principal / Head of Global Investment

Names and roles exactly as listed on gmo-vp.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. 112 co-investors found.

  • Global Brain 12 shared companies: newmo.me, mercari.com, raksul.com, sharing-energy.co.jp…
  • DG Daiwa Ventures 6 shared companies: sliceit.com, jai-kisan.com, sorabito.com, soelu.com…
  • Z Venture Capital 6 shared companies: raksul.com, smartbank.co.jp, layerx.co.jp, money-design.com…
  • Coral Capital 5 shared companies: hacomono.jp, newmo.me, leaner.co.jp, canary-app.jp…
  • Spiral Capital, Inc. 5 shared companies: hacomono.jp, newmo.me, smartbank.co.jp, monochrome.so…
  • Golden Gate Ventures 5 shared companies: arkadiahrestores.earth, appota.com, fazz.com, xendit.co…
  • Better Capital 4 shared companies: sliceit.com, gullak.money, jai-kisan.com, otocapital.in
  • STRIVE 4 shared companies: earthene.com, raksul.com, molcure.com, sorabito.com
  • DBJキャピタル株式会社 4 shared companies: smartbank.co.jp, every.tv, photoruction.com, fullspeed.co.jp
  • Arbor Ventures 3 shared companies: fundbox.com, 2c2p.com, uni.cards

and 102 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page GMO VenturePartners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 1540 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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