Investors / Japan / GMO VenturePartners
GMO VenturePartners
Venture capital · Tokyo, Japan · Asia Pacific
GMO VenturePartners is a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies across Japan, the United States, India and Southeast Asia. It works with GMO Payment Gateway as a strategic LP and provides post-investment support including loans from within the same corporate group.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsfintechpaymentslendinginsurtechsoftwaresoutheast asia
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Or find every investor that fitsGMO VenturePartners lists 111 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (38%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (10%) and AI & Machine Learning (10%). 52% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Global Brain and JAFCO.
Counts come from funding rounds that name GMO VenturePartners, 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 GMO VenturePartners' whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 111. 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 roundGMO VenturePartners does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 50% |
| 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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 96th | 111 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 62th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 97th | 12 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 38% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 10% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 10 |
| Global Brain | 9 |
| JAFCO | 9 |
| Globis Capital Partners | 8 |
| Spiral Capital | 8 |
| Peak XV Partners | 7 |
| DG Daiwa Ventures | 6 |
| Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital | 6 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10897%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company33%
- 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 GMO VenturePartners 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 GMO VenturePartners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 17 Apr 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Series B | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Series B |
Round details for GMO VenturePartners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in GMO VenturePartners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
111 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Money provides a platform for receiving, buying, selling, converting, sending, and storing stablecoins and fiat currencies | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides payment solutions for businesses of all sizes across Southeast Asia | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides various security software and services, including antivirus programs, browsers, and data protection tools. | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Nangoku Soft develops and proposes UX and UI, and develops tools for business improvement in various industries. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides services to maximize sales and efficiency in e-commerce and D2C businesses | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Aperza supports the digital transformation of sales and marketing for manufacturing industries | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Appota Group is the pioneering company in providing technology solutions and digital entertainment content in Vietnam. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Arkadiah transforms degraded land into nature-positive assets using an AI-driven nature technology platform | Climate & EnergyAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Atlasfin is a financial technology company that provides banking services and credit cards | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Atmeto is building a frontier world model for the power grid. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a website and provides services, currently with its corporate site temporarily closed due to a vulnerability in the PHP programming language | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Axellmark engages in advertising, blockchain-related, and IoT healthcare businesses. | Healthcare & BiotechMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
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| Boku processes 200+ local payment methods through a single API and drives subscriber growth through a distribution partner network | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Bukuwarung provides digital payment and financial management solutions for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Indonesia. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides real-time fraud prevention and identity decisioning services using AI-powered unified risk decisioning for the entire customer life cycle. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a rental apartment search application | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- gmo-vp.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 27 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 111
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