67 Best Startups in Tokyo to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Tokyo

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 140 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $89.4m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$42.5m

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Vungle (Vungle, Inc.) is startup which powers video advertisements inside of mobile apps and games.

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Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.

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$1.3b

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An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

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$30.4m

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IoTium is a provider of secure managed software-defined network infrastructure.

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$121.8m

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Artificial intelligence to help perform visual tasks with more speed, accuracy, and scale

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$72.7m

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AxelSpace is a company that is developing technology for private microsatellites.

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$313.2m

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Safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations

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$155.8m

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AI Medical Services is an artificial intelligence and healthcare company making software for the early detection of gastrointestinal cancers.

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$1.0m

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A blockchain company that has a platform for its entertainment studio. It is located in Singapore and was founded in 2018.

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$9.5m

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Talkwalker is a social media analytics and monitoring tool.

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$18.0m

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Gengo is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2008 by Robert W. Laing.

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$12.5m

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A software quality assurance automation platform powered by artificial intelligence.

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$11.7m

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A company developing and manufacture laser and MRI-guided technology products

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$1.4m

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A company developing internet infrastructure, media, and financial technologies.

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Ineeza is a company founded in 2015 by Tetsuro Takemoto.

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$4.6m

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LeapMind is centered on the innovation of machine learning-powered software and hardware solutions for a variety of applications.

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$108.6m

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Artificial Intelligence company

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$1.3b

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Operator of a news platform intended to discover and deliver the latest trending news stories.

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$6.0m

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Scalix provides email, group calendaring and other collaborative software that enables users to reduce cost of ownership.

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$190.0m

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Preferred Networks is a software development company integrating machine learning technologies to the applications of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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$76.8m

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Mujin is a Tokyo, Japan-based technology company offering a platform to facilitate the autonomous movement of robots and industrial equipment The company's platform MujinController leverages a real-time digital twin and provides a suite of perception, planning, and control algorithms.

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$80.6m

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Rapyuta Robotics is a company that positions itself in building lightweight autonomous mobile robots.

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$22.0m

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ALE is a space startup company.

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$246.5m

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ELIIY Power Co., Ltd. is a producer and distributor of energy storage systems

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$23.1m

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ZMP INC. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2001 by Hisashi Taniguchi.

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$26.7m

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MELTIN MMI describes itself as "developing Cyborg Technology that connects bodies with machines." The company's products examine biosignals to produce highly accurate real time analyses of body movements. Their MELTANT-? cyborg is a robotic hand model which is used by a human user to create motions as similar as possible to our own hands while adding features such as enhanced flexibility, speed, strength, power, and accuracy. The cyborgs can be operated by a human user wearing the robotic devices, or remotely, even from overseas, thanks to the MELTIN MMI servers. While creating the MELTANT hand was the primary goal of the company, it has now set its sights on other modalities beyond movement, such as vision.

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$281.0m

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Paidy is a Minato, Tokyo-based developer of a buy now, pay later platform and related financial services.

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$30.5m

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Accelerate revenues with digital intelligence. Cloud Identity Management CRM & eCommerce

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$9.9m

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Healios is a biotechnology company developing stem cell regenerative medicine therapies for the treatment of retinal and age-related macular diseases.

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$2.8m

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QunaSys is a Bunkyo, Tokyo-based information technology company.

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$24.5m

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Cyfuse Biomedical K.K. is a tissue-engineering technology developing company.

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$13.0m

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Spike is a Herzliya, Isreal-based software development company offering an AI-powered email platform featuring a chat-like interface with voice calls, video calls, group collaboration, advanced search, priority inbox, and file management.

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$31.7m

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Sensyn Robotics is a Japan-based robotics company.

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$140.0m

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Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.

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$321.3m

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Developer of a cloud HR software designed to help automate social insurance and employment insurance procedures.

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$25.0m

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Mevion Medical Systems is a company developing radiation therapies for cancer treatment founded in 2004 by Tina Tianning Yu.

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Datance is a company that provides enterprises with the worlds first fully-managed, code-free, data analyst friendly data management and analytics solution.

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$123.1m

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Preferred Networks is a company that develops the applications of deep learning and other advanced technologies.

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$43.5m

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Developer of online games platform designed to create, distribute and manage VR games.

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$99.0m

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Atonarp is a Tokyo-based electronics and data processing manufacturer developing spectrometers capable of gas-composition analysis.

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$12.6m

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AI inside Inc. is a Tokyo-based firm engaged in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

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$99.4m

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GROOVE X is a Japanese robotics company.

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$48.0m

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CureApp is a company that is recreating treatment with software.

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$2.4m

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Umami Bioworks (previously known as Umami Meats) is a Singapore-based food technology company producing cultivated fish.

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$4.7m

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Orb is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2014 by Masaaki Nakatsu.

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$100.0m

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Tier IV is a mobility company founded in 2015.

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$3.4m

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Bespoke is a company that offers an AI Powered Chatbots.

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$2.9m

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EmbodyMe is a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company developing technology for synthetic media, including for video chat, live stream, and video production.

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$9.2m

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TAGCyx Biotechnologies is an oligonucleotide Drug Discovery Platform founded by Hirao Ichiro.

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Digital Media Professionals Inc. is an artificial intelligence and robotics company.

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$2.6m

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Kibiro is a small fishing village is controlled by the Bunyoro Kingdom and it is situated along the Southeastern shores of Lake Albert in Uganda where people do fishing, process and sell salt. Kibiro is different from other fishing villages because of its salt gardens.

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$39.1m

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Modalis Therapeutics Corporation is a genome Editing Tools founded by Haru MORITA.

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$22.6m

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A company in Tokyo, Japan that provides a construction management application for users throughout Japan.

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$4.1m

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HEROZ Japan is an AI company focused on development of Japanese Chess.

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$105.0m

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Liquid Global is a company offering a cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2014.

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$1.9m

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Aeronext Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2017.

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$1.7m

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JustInCase is a Tokyo-based insurance technology company develop peer-to-peer insurance and artificial intelligent-based health insurance products.

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$3.4m

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Novars is a Tokyo-based developer of connected batteries.

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$60.0m

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Free is a Tokyo-based online accounting software developer which syncs with bank accounts and automatically categorizes entries to create financial reports.

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$22.6m

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Six Apart is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2003.

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$1.8m

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Soundraw is a music generator for creators.

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$3.7m

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Robosoft Technologies is a company founded in 1996.

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$43.7m

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Jij develops and provides a quantum computing-based optimization software platform for applications in a variety of fields.

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amplified ai is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Samuel Davis.

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$20.0m

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SanBio is a regenerative Cell Medicine founded in 2001 by Hideyuki Okano.

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$439.6k

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Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings is focused on the development of ophthalmic solutions in the form of medicines and medical devices.

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$1.8m

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Amadeus Code is a Tokyo-based synthetic media company developing an artificially intelligent songwriting assistant.

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