About Monex Ventures
Monex Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. It is primarily based out of Chiba, Japan. As of Jan 2023, Monex Ventures has invested in 94 companies. 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 Food and Agriculture Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Degas Overall, Monex Ventures portfolio has seen 6 IPOs and 6 acquisitions including key companies like Money Forward, Uzabase and Harvest. A lot of funds co-invest with Monex Ventures, with names like DEEPCORE sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Monex Ventures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Soonicorns
Monex Ventures' List of Top Investments
Monex Ventures has a portfolio of 94 companies. Their most notable investments are in Folio and Zaiko.Their portfolio spans across Japan, United States, China and 4 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Food and Agriculture Tech and 28 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Monex Ventures:
Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts automatically. It offers features like automatic transaction categorization, receipt scanning, manual cash inputs. The company also announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter.
Key facts about Money Forward
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Minato City (Japan)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $42.9M
- Employee Count: 1,061 as on Dec 26, 2025
- Investors: Mitsui, GMO Venture Partners and 22 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Oct 05, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Uzabase
Provider of market intelligence, data feeds, and software platforms for insights. The company delivers data through APIs, cloud services, and other platforms. It offers access to public and private company data, industry reports, and market analysis. The company provides expert networks for personalized insights and detailed answers.
Key facts about Uzabase
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Minato City (Japan)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $6.82M
- Employee Count: 51 - 200 as on Jul 16, 2025
- Investors: GMO Venture Partners, Shinsei Bank and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Aug 29, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Public
3. Secai Marche
Online e-distributors offering multi-category grocery products. The product catalog includes fruits, vegetables, rice, grains, oil, spices, bakery products, dairy products,and more. It also allows restaurants to purchase products from farmers.
Key facts about Secai Marche
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Tokyo (Japan)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8.68M
- Investors: Shizuoka Bank, Future Food Fund and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 02, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Zaiko
Zaiko offers event organizing and ticketing software. It allows users to organize events, sell tickets, manage payments and provides analytics solutions to analyze events data and capture event performance insights. It enables users to build a dashboard and provide a widget to sell tickets and helps to promote events.
Key facts about Zaiko
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Minato City (Japan)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $1M
- Employee Count: 61 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Headline, North Base Media and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 23, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Alpaca is a commission-free stock trading platform. It provides a platform for algorithmic trading and portfolio management. It provides Trading API for buying and selling stocks, Broker API for a suite of APIs for opening customer accounts, and more.
Key facts about Alpaca Securities
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: San Mateo (United States)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $298M
- Employee Count: 396 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Performance Equity Management, Zillionize and 46 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jan 14, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Monex Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Monex Ventures has invested in 94 companies over the last 17 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Degas and most recent follow-on round was in pickupon.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2020 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2018 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Monex Ventures' Investments by Stage
Monex Ventures has made 21 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.24M, 13 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.84M, 1 investment in Conventional Debt stage, 1 investment in PE stage and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $8.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 21 |
Series A | 13 |
Conventional Debt | 1 |
PE | 1 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Monex Ventures' Investments by Sector
Monex Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the FinTech, Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Food and Agriculture Tech and Media & Entertainment. Notably, it has invested in 64 Tech companies, 40 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 38 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 32 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
FinTech | 11 |
Enterprise Applications | 10 |
Consumer | 9 |
Food and Agriculture Tech | 6 |
Media & Entertainment | 4 |
Others | 29 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Monex Ventures' Investments by Geography
Monex Ventures has made most investments in Japan (32), followed by Kenya where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Japan | 32 |
Kenya | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
Singapore | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Monex Ventures' recent investments
Monex Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Monex Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jan 2023 | Japan | Series A | 6143 | [+1] | |
Jun 15, 2022 | Japan | Seed | 9836 | [+6] | |
Jun 15, 2022 | Japan | Conventional Debt | 2763 | [+6] | |
Mar 14, 2022 | Kenya | Seed | 3023 | [+5] | |
Jan 17, 2022 | Japan | Seed | 8017 | - |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Monex Ventures' Portfolio
6 of Monex Ventures' portfolio companies have become public. Mortgage Financial Services got listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), in Jun 2024 at marketcap of $16M and Mental Health Technologies got listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at marketcap of $48.7M.Here are Monex Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2024 | - | - | 4009 | |
Mar 28, 2022 | Nov 05, 2018 | Seed | 8097 | |
Dec 22, 2021 | Feb 08, 2017 | Series A | 4527 | |
Sep 29, 2017 | - | - | 4729 | |
Oct 21, 2016 | Aug 2009 | Seed | 9344 |
Acquired companies in Monex Ventures' Portfolio
6 companies from Monex Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Logikura in Mar 2026 by freee.Here are Monex Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 19, 2026 | - | - | 5731 | |
Feb 14, 2025 | - | - | 6960 | |
Jan 01, 2023 | Jul 2013 | Seed | 7377 | |
Jul 28, 2022 | Dec 18, 2019 | Seed | 9699 | |
Apr 08, 2021 | - | - | 4264 |
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Team profile of Monex Ventures
Monex Ventures has a team of 1 member. Monex Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Monex Ventures
Over the past 17 years, 226 investors have co-invested in Monex Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Monex Ventures: Samurai Incubate, East Ventures and 24 others have invested in rounds before Monex Ventures. There are 2 companies where Samurai Incubate has invested before Monex Ventures and 2 companies where East Ventures has invested before Monex Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Monex Ventures: 74 investors entered a company along with Monex Ventures. These include investors like DEEPCORE (3 companies).
- Invested after Monex Ventures: A total of 126 investors have invested in Monex Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include SMBC Venture Capital (5 companies), Mitsubishi UFJ Capital (5 companies) and Shizuoka Bank (3 companies).
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