Incubate Fund
Tokyo, Japan · Invests in Asia · Website
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Incubate Fund provides unwavering hands-on support to visionary entrepreneurs from the earliest stages. As Japan's leading seed-stage VC, they go beyond capital to provide operational support, founder counseling, talent recruitment, and business introductions. Core question: 'Does this action lead to impact?'
Likely not a fit for
Later-stage-only companies; companies with no Japan relevance (primarily); non-impact-driven business models
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~1 month
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $1B
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
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Recent activity
- Sep 2025
SYNTHESIS
Seed · Lead
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Seed · Lead
- Sep 2025
DeepC Store
Unknown · Unknown
- Sep 2025
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Seed · Lead
- Jul 2025
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Series A · Participated
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Seed · Lead
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Series A · Participated
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Incubate Fund in the news
BRIDGE（ブリッジ）
Odorless and Tasteless Nutritional Powder “Ayo” Receives Investment from Incubate Fund
1 month ago
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ROBOTS Inc. announced that it has received funding from Incubate Fund, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
1 month ago
What a decade in India taught a Japanese seed investor
3 months ago
Incubate Fund Asia clocks 23.5x return with partial exit from Plum
4 months ago
ReFiBuy Raises $13.6M for AI Commerce Platform
4 months ago
Top 50 VC Leaders Powering Singapore’s Startup Revolution
4 months ago
Tancee Completes Seed Funding for Foreign Talent Platform
5 months ago
LENZO, a Semiconductor Developer, Conducts ¥500 Million Seed Round with Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Among Others, for First Proprietary Silicon Manufacturing
5 months ago
Omnichannel grocery startup Elixiir Foods raises $9 million from 3one4 Capital, Incubate Fund Asia
6 months ago
Elixiir Foods Raises $9 Mn Seed Led By 3one4 Capital, Incubate Fund
6 months ago
YourStory.com
Elixiir Foods raises $9M in seed round led by 3one4 Capital, Incubate Fund Asia
6 months ago
Embedded lending technology platform Intellend raises $1.2 million from Incubate Fund Asia
7 months ago
Intellend raises $1.2 Mn in seed round led by Incubate Fund Asia
7 months ago
Flent raises ₹21 crore in pre-Series A funding led by Incubate Fund Asia
8 months ago
Orthopedic recovery product startup Lumov raises $1.2 Mn led by Incubate Fund
9 months ago
Bengaluru-based Lumov raises Rs 10 crore in funding from Incubate Fund Asia, others
9 months ago
expresshealthcare.in
Lumov raises $1.2 million seed round from Incubate Fund Asia & others to redefine orthopedic recovery in India
9 months ago
Yuvrit Ayurveda raises USD 800,000 seed funding led by Incubate Fund Asia
9 months ago
INDX Raises ¥100 Million in Seed Funding
11 months ago
SMBC launches $200m Asia-focused venture fund
May 2023
SMBC & Incubate Fund create “SMBC Asia Rising Fund” in Singapore | by Norbert Gehrke | Tokyo FinTech
May 2023
GameFi Company Murasaki Closes €1.5M Seed Round Led by Japanese Incubate Fund
Aug 2022
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