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DG Daiwa Ventures
Venture capital · Tokyo, Japan · Asia Pacific
DG Daiwa Ventures invests in and supports the business development of startup companies that possess next-generation technologies. The firm is based in Tokyo and was established on July 1, 2016.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsnext-generation technologyfintechclimate techgenerative aimetaversehealthtech
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Or find every investor that fitsDG Daiwa Ventures lists 132 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Fintech (18%) and Healthcare & Biotech (12%). 42% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, DG Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name DG Daiwa Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not DG Daiwa Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 132. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 97th | 132 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 62th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 11th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 98th | 15 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 29 |
| DG Ventures | 10 |
| Sony Innovation Fund | 8 |
| ANOBAKA | 7 |
| Soma Capital | 7 |
| Coral Capital | 6 |
| GMO VenturePartners | 6 |
| Spiral Capital | 6 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers12998%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company32%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare DG Daiwa Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with DG Daiwa Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 28 May 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 17 Sept 2025 | Series A Led |
Round details for DG Daiwa Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in DG Daiwa Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
132 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides logistics technology services, including delivery efficiency apps and last-mile delivery services. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates and manages interactive anime-style characters and storylines on social media platforms. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Acompany provides security technology and expertise in privacy and AI governance to support data and AI utilization worldwide. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and applies bio-intelligence technology for the physical world, particularly in the bio-manufacturing industry. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aitria is a digital engineering company that implements customers' modernization and AI shift using a development style that fully utilizes AI agents, modern stacks, CI/CD, DevOps, and UX/UI. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Akili creates digital medicines for people living with cognitive impairments, delivered through video game experiences. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Allara Health provides virtual women's health services, including personalized treatment plans and ongoing support, covered by insurance or available through self-pay options. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company transforms manufacturing industry with AI and automation, including automatic calculation and NC programming for cutting processing. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Autosana provides AI testing for iOS, Android, and web apps to help companies ship faster | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| BEAM Technologies manufactures high-quality compound semiconductor crystals in space using microgravity environments | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BeeSafe AI stops scams at the source by engaging with scammers to identify the fraudulent accounts they use for their operations. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Blockstream develops and provides Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure products and services | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a creator marketing platform for brands. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company trains AI models for organisations that need frontier capability inside secure environments. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Bunzz provides a smart ecosystem for finding, deploying, and managing smart contracts, including AI-based audits and contract documentation generation. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a health management app called Calomeal. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cambrium develops materials that did not exist until they made them, partnering with companies to solve their hardest performance challenges. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and operates an AI-based recruitment support solution called OpenSeek | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for creating and automating workflows using chat | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- dg-daiwa-v.com
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 132
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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