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Global Hands-On VC
Venture capital · Tokyo, Japan · Asia Pacific
Global Hands-On VC is a venture capital firm founded by two Japanese and three American members with startup operating experience. It invests in Japanese technology startups and supports their growth, including global expansion, in a hands-on manner.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware
In its own wordstechnologyglobal expansionjapanstartupshands-on
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Or find every investor that fitsGlobal Hands-On VC lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (40%), Robotics & Hardware (30%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 60% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Cycle and Grit Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Global Hands-On VC, 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 roundGlobal Hands-On VC does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 33% |
| 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 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 40% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Cycle | 1 |
| Grit Ventures | 1 |
| IQT | 1 |
| JAFCO | 1 |
| Japan Post Capital | 1 |
| Keio Innovation Initiative | 1 |
| MPower Partners | 1 |
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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 40% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 30% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 10% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Global Hands-On VC 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 Global Hands-On VC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Series B | |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Global Hands-On VC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Global Hands-On VC'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braid develops a system that automates engineering design through automated reasoning, replacing the manual draw-and-simulate loop. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| EdgeCortix designs and develops energy-efficient AI processors and acceleration systems | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Aug 2025Series B · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| The company develops artificial general intelligence models and platforms for various applications, including robotics and interactive world models. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds infrastructure for networked quantum computing through cavity-QED based, fiber-native interconnects. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| TYLsemi is a chiplet-first silicon company focused on AI infrastructure solutions. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- ghovc.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Aug 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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