Skyland Ventures
skyland.vc Direct investor
Skyland Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage startups in Japan and globally, focusing on generative AI, entertainment, and inbound sectors.
Skyland Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in generative AI, entertainment and inbound. 200 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“SVは“The Seed Maker.”をミッションに、生成AI・エンターテイメント・インバウンドなどを注力テーマとしてスタートアップへシードマネーを提供しています。”
— Skyland Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Japan, global
- Sectors
- generative AI, entertainment, inbound
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 200 companies
Team, as Skyland Ventures publishes it
- Yoshihiko Kinoshita General Partner
- Hiroaki Miyoshi General Partner
- Yuzuha Imamura Associate
- Takane Konagaya Associate
- Masaru Sasaki Corporate Manager
- Satoko Ishihara Corporate & Creative
- Yuan Xiaohang Venture Partner
- Shun Sakurai DX Partner
- Hiroki Yamada Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on skyland.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Global Brain 9 shared companies: gitai.tech, note.com, aidemy.co.jp, pictoria.co.jp…
- Z Venture Capital 5 shared companies: pictoria.co.jp, yoani.group, polipoli.work, drtc.co.jp…
- ANOBAKA 3 shared companies: notion.site, paradigmai.co.jp, wander-lust.io
- DBJキャピタル株式会社 3 shared companies: gitai.tech, ageless.co.jp, lean-body.co.jp
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures 3 shared companies: note.com, polipoli.work, paradigmai.co.jp
- Abies Ventures 2 shared companies: note.com, prtimes.jp
- i-nest capital,inc. 2 shared companies: lean-body.co.jp, prtimes.jp
- 7wireVentures 1 shared company: notion.site
- Auxxo Beteiligungen GmbH 1 shared company: notion.site
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: notion.site
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Skyland Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.skyland.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.skyland.vc/teampeople
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Record 870 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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