About GREE Ventures
GREE Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. It is primarily based out of Minato City, Japan. As of Dec 2025, GREE Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 47 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Japan based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Syneron Bio Overall, GREE Ventures portfolio has seen 5 IPOs and 1 acquisition including key companies like Visional, C Channel and Healint. A lot of funds co-invest with GREE Ventures, with names like ANRI sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. GREE Ventures has team of 10 people including 6 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
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Seed & Series A
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Deals in last 12 months
GREE Ventures' List of Top Investments
GREE Ventures has a portfolio of 47 companies. Their most notable investments are in 81RAVENS and Ayoconnect.Their portfolio spans across Japan, Singapore, United States and 3 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, FinTech and 17 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by GREE Ventures:1. Fond
Employee recognition and perks platform. It is a recognition platform for managers, employees, and company admins to recognize and reward peers. It provides features to allocate budget, set up programs including spot awards, service awards, and birthdays. It recognizes peers with reward points, redeems reward points, and tracks program progress. It allows employees to avail corporate discounts on various products and services spanning categories in fitness, travel, professional development, home services, entertainment, and others with Fond's partners. Also, provides a free engagement survey tool.
Key facts about Fond
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $24.5M
- Employee Count: 68 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: FCVC, GMO Venture Partners and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 01, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Visional
Key facts about Visional
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Shibuya (Japan)
- Stage: Public
- Employee Count: 34 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Z Venture Capital, SMBC Venture Capital and 5 Others
- Highlight: Public
3. unito
Provider of a home rental listing platform for residential spaces. It facilitates users to book rooms without deposit fee, renewal fee, short contract period, rent simulation, move out cost, and also offers rent reduction if the tenant is not present for that particular day. It offers rooms for new students, society members, and remote workers.
Key facts about unito
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Meguro (Japan)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $6.92M
- Investors: IT-Farm Corporation, GREE Ventures and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jun 10, 2025, $*****
4. Jiraffe
Key facts about Jiraffe
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Tokyo (Japan)
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $26.4M
- Employee Count: 4 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: AppWorks, DG Ventures and 25 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Dec 02, 2024, $*****
5. Ayoconnect
Platform providing open banking API solutions. Customized APIs offer solutions to direct debit by collecting recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts, recurring payment management for revenue operation with subscription billing solutions, virtual card numbers, and more.
Key facts about Ayoconnect
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Jakarta (Indonesia)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $46.5M
- Employee Count: 201 - 500 as on Jul 17, 2025
- Investors: Tiger Global Management, CE Innovation Capital and 22 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jan 22, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
GREE Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
GREE Ventures has invested in 47 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 4 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Syneron Bio and most recent follow-on round was in Univearth.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2024 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
GREE Ventures' Investments by Stage
GREE Ventures has made 13 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.61M and 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $20M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 13 |
Series A | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
GREE Ventures' Investments by Sector
GREE Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Vertical SaaS, Blockchain Technology, Business Services and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 20 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 16 Software companies and at least 9 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 8 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
Blockchain Technology | 3 |
Business Services | 3 |
High Tech | 3 |
Others | 17 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
GREE Ventures' Investments by Geography
GREE Ventures has made most investments in Japan (15), followed by Singapore where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Japan | 15 |
Singapore | 2 |
China | 1 |
Indonesia | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
GREE Ventures' recent investments
GREE Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by GREE Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 18, 2025 | China | Series A | 8279 | [+7] | |
Oct 02, 2025 | Japan | Seed | 8241 | [+3] | |
Mar 12, 2025 | Japan | Series A | 7585 | [+6] | |
Jan 21, 2025 | Japan | Series A | 7310 | [+8] | |
Oct 30, 2024 | Singapore | Series A | 5433 |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in GREE Ventures' Portfolio
5 of GREE Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. Rice Curry got listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), in Jun 2024 at marketcap of $24.6M and Nile got listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at marketcap of $95.8M.Here are GREE Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2024 | - | - | 3998 | |
Dec 20, 2023 | - | - | 4546 | |
Apr 22, 2021 | - | - | 3387 | |
May 25, 2020 | - | - | 9295 | |
Mar 26, 2020 | - | - | 5024 |
Acquired companies in GREE Ventures' Portfolio
1 company from GREE Ventures' portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Healint in Feb 2024 by Aptar Digital Health for $*****.Here are GREE Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2015 | Seed | 9781 |
Team profile of GREE Ventures
GREE Ventures has a team of 10 members including 6 Partners and 4 Principals located in Japan. GREE Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in GREE Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | Tokyo | - | - | |
Partner | Japan | - | ||
Partner | Tokyo | - | - | |
Partner | Minato | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - |
Co-investors of GREE Ventures
Over the past 13 years, 126 investors have co-invested in GREE Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before GREE Ventures: Joyful Frog Digital Innovation, Sublime and 1 other have invested in rounds before GREE Ventures. There is 1 company where Joyful Frog Digital Innovation has invested before GREE Ventures and 1 company where Sublime has invested before GREE Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of GREE Ventures: 70 investors entered a company along with GREE Ventures. These include investors like ANRI (3 companies).
- Invested after GREE Ventures: A total of 53 investors have invested in GREE Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (3 companies), Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (2 companies) and Tiger Global Management (1 company).
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