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WERU Investment Co., Ltd.
Venture capital · Tokyo, Japan · Asia Pacific
WERU Investment is a Japanese independent asset management firm that began as a venture capital firm rooted in Waseda University, founded in 1998. It conducts venture capital, equity and credit investment and related support activities, and is registered for Type II financial instruments business and investment management business.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsuniversity spinoutstechnologydeep techbiotechspacecybersecurity
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Or find every investor that fitsWERU Investment Co., Ltd. lists 1 checked portfolio company on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest theme is Healthcare & Biotech (100%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Ferocity Capital, Foothill Ventures and Gaingels.
Counts come from funding rounds that name WERU Investment Co., Ltd., 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Ferocity Capital | 1 |
| Foothill Ventures | 1 |
| Gaingels | 1 |
| JSL Health Capital | 1 |
| Mana Ventures | 1 |
| SRI Capital | 1 |
| Trust Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 100% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Ferocity Capital
Compare WERU Investment Co., Ltd. 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 WERU Investment Co., Ltd.| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2025 | Series A |
Round details for WERU Investment Co., Ltd.
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in WERU Investment Co., Ltd.'s rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
1 company checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synfini accelerates drug discovery by integrating AI-driven dry lab with robotic wet lab | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- weruinvest.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 1
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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