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for Startups, Inc.

Venture capital · Japan · Asia Pacific

forstartups.com

for Startups is a Japanese growth-industry support company that provides human capital services, startup M&A brokerage, and capital investment. Its hybrid capital arm invests from its own balance sheet while combining funding with recruitment support for portfolio companies.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing

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for Startups, Inc. lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Enterprise Software (33%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (33%). 100% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Angel Bridge, DBJ Capital and DNX Ventures.

Counts come from funding rounds that name for Startups, Inc., complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

Angel Bridge 1DBJ Capital 1DNX Ventures 1Dentsu Ventures 1Globis Capital Partners 1Hakuhodo DY Ventures 1Incubate Fund 1Japan Post Capital 1

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Co-investors

	Share
Angel Bridge	1
DBJ Capital	1
DNX Ventures	1
Dentsu Ventures	1
Globis Capital Partners	1
Hakuhodo DY Ventures	1
Incubate Fund	1
Japan Post Capital	1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

• Japan100%

Site status

• Site answers2100%
• 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.

Compare for Startups, Inc. head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Angel Bridge1 shared company→vs DBJ Capital1 shared company→vs DNX Ventures1 shared company→vs Dentsu Ventures1 shared company→vs Globis Capital Partners1 shared company→vs Hakuhodo DY Ventures1 shared company→

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Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with for Startups, Inc.

Date	Company	Stage
4 Aug 2026	knowledgework.cloudknowledgework.cloud	Series C+

Round details for for Startups, Inc.

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in for Startups, Inc.'s rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

2 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
knowledgework.cloudknowledgework.cloud · Japan	The company provides sales AI agents to improve sales productivity for businesses.	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software	Aug 2026Series C+	Funding round
Powerlaserpowerlaser.co.jp · Japan	Powerlaser develops and applies cutting-edge technology	Industrial & Manufacturing		Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026

Site

forstartups.com

Last read

5 Nov 2026

Watching since

5 Nov 2026

Rounds since

4 Aug 2026

Companies checked

2

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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$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/forstartups.com

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