Spiral Capital, Inc.
spiral-cap.com Direct + LP
Spiral Capital is a Japanese venture capital firm managing general funds and CVC funds. It invests in early-stage startups in Japan, focusing on sectors like Smart Infrastructure, FinTech, Healthcare, and AI.
Spiral Capital, Inc. is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2016. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in smart Infrastructure, ClimateTech, FinTech and healthcare. Its stated cheque size is JPY 50~500 million initial, up to JPY 1~2 billion per startup including additional investment. 159 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We focus our investments on startups that meet these two essential criteria.”
— Spiral Capital, Inc., own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Japan
- Sectors
- Smart Infrastructure, ClimateTech, FinTech, Healthcare, AI, DeepTech
- Cheque size
- JPY 50~500 million initial, up to JPY 1~2 billion per startup including additional investment
- Founded
- 2016
- Portfolio
- 159 companies
Team, as Spiral Capital, Inc. publishes it
- Tomokazu Okuno General Partner, CEO
- Takashi Chiba General Partner
- Akitomo Naoi Principal
- Keigo Agata Principal
- Hiroki Yamamoto Principal
- Hiroshi Oka General Partner
- Kazuhiro Kamada General Partner
- Yasukuni Ichikawa Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on spiral-cap.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. 17 co-investors found.
- Global Brain 10 shared companies: newmo.me, sakana-dream.com, otetsutabi.com, muse-gr.com…
- GMO VenturePartners 5 shared companies: hacomono.jp, newmo.me, smartbank.co.jp, monochrome.so…
- Coral Capital 4 shared companies: hacomono.jp, newmo.me, ookuma-dd.com, dioseve.com
- Sony Innovation Fund 3 shared companies: ellethermo.com, fivot.co.jp, koalatech.co.jp
- DG Daiwa Ventures 2 shared companies: dioseve.com, soelu.com
- Beyond Next Ventures 2 shared companies: sakana-dream.com, koalatech.co.jp
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures 2 shared companies: miresso.co.jp, tur.ing
- DBJキャピタル株式会社 2 shared companies: smartbank.co.jp, restore-vis.com
- Z Venture Capital 2 shared companies: smartbank.co.jp, tur.ing
- Pangaea Ventures 1 shared company: dioseve.com
and 7 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Spiral Capital, Inc. publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://spiral-cap.com/en/name, is_investor, type, description
- https://spiral-cap.com/en/about/layer, hq_country, hq_city, founded
- https://spiral-cap.com/en/fund/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://spiral-cap.com/en/portfolio/portfolio_count
- https://spiral-cap.com/en/team/people
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