Investors / Japan / Chiba-Dojo
Chiba-Dojo
Venture capital · Japan · Asia Pacific
Chiba-Dojo is an entrepreneur community that also operates a venture capital fund, Chiba-Dojo Fund, established in 2019. The community is open only to entrepreneurs who have received investment from the fund, and the fund invests mainly in seed/early-stage or later-stage startups.
Invests inEnterprise SoftwareIndustrial & ManufacturingEducation
In its own wordsentrepreneur communityseedearly stagelater stagetechnology
Your fit with Chiba-Dojo
Four questions about your startup
See how your round matches what it backs, point by point.
Or find every investor that fitsChiba-Dojo lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Enterprise Software (33%), Industrial & Manufacturing (22%) and Education (22%). 80% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Globis Capital Partners, ABC Dream Ventures, Inc. and Coral Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Chiba-Dojo, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 17% |
| Growth | 17% |
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 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Globis Capital Partners | 2 |
| ABC Dream Ventures, Inc. | 1 |
| Coral Capital | 1 |
| Do Ventures | 1 |
| Genesia Ventures | 1 |
| Hulic Startup | 1 |
| JIC Venture Growth Investments | 1 |
| Mizuho Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Software | 33% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 22% | 7% |
| Education | 22% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Globis Capital Partners
Compare Chiba-Dojo 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 Chiba-Dojo| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 21 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Chiba-Dojo
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Chiba-Dojo's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solafune integrates multi-domain intelligence across space, cyber, and physical layers to create actionable, sovereign decision systems. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company engages in business succession and M&A, particularly for manufacturing factories in local areas of Japan. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a field operation hub for managing and improving field operations | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Oct 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Manabie provides educational solutions using the latest technology, including AI-powered tutoring and educational programs for schools and learning centers. | EducationEducation | Apr 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Sally, Inc. produces and provides mystery game experiences and related tools and platforms. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | May 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- chiba-dojo.jp
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 30 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
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.
Get Chiba-Dojo's profile as data
Pull Chiba-Dojo's portfolio, co-investors and changes through one API key or MCP, open every portfolio row, compare it with other firms, and get an email when it adds a company or files a fund.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/chiba-dojo.jp
# also
GET /v1/firms/chiba-dojo.jp/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/chiba-dojo.jp/coinvestors
GET /v1/firms/chiba-dojo.jp/news