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Aozora Corporate Investment
Corporate VC · Chiyoda, Japan · Asia Pacific
Aozora Corporate Investment is a wholly owned investment subsidiary of Aozora Bank that conducts venture capital business. It provides various financial services to startups and to small and mid-sized companies seeking growth, including equity and venture debt investments through its funds.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces
In its own wordsventure debtstartupssmebusiness successionjapanfund of funds
Your fit with Aozora Corporate Investment
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Or find every investor that fitsAozora Corporate Investment lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (42%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (17%) and Cybersecurity (8%). 100% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Spiral Capital, Incubate Fund and JAFCO.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Aozora Corporate Investment, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundAozora Corporate Investment does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 40% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 60% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 66th | 40% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 18th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 42% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 17% | 5% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Legal & Compliance | 8% | 2% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Spiral Capital | 3 |
| Incubate Fund | 2 |
| JAFCO | 2 |
| JIC Venture Growth Investments | 2 |
| Angel Bridge | 1 |
| B Dash Ventures | 1 |
| Coral Capital | 1 |
| DBJ Capital | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Aozora Corporate Investment head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Aozora Corporate Investment| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Debt | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Aozora Corporate Investment
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Aozora Corporate Investment's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acompany leverages security technologies to support data and AI utilization for enterprises and governments with sensitive data. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2026Debt | Funding round | |
| Letara develops propulsion systems for spacecraft using plastic as rocket fuel. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Paytner provides a service that allows individuals and sole proprietors to receive payment for their invoices on the same day they are submitted | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Sept 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Shippio provides a cloud service for the visualization and efficiency of trade operations | Legal & ComplianceE-commerce & Marketplaces | Oct 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Space BD develops and manufactures satellites, provides launch and operation services, and supports microgravity utilization and education and human resource development | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| The company provides consulting, training, and development services for AI agents and AI modernization | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 14 Nov 2026- Site
- aozora-ci.co.jp
- Last read
- 14 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 30 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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