69 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 184 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $12.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $181.5m.

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

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$570.0m

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Dialpad is a San Francisco-headquartered business communications platform company.

8

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$274.7m

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Sisense is a software company offering a platform for data analysts and data engineers to transform data into actionable business insights.

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$1.6b

Money raised

Snyk is a technology company offering a software development security platform using open-source code.

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$165.0m

Money raised

Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

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$335.0m

Money raised

Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.

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9

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$364.0m

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Altiostar Networks is a company that provides 4G and 5G open vRAN software in a B2B model.

3

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$5.5m

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Tupl Inc. is a Bellevue, Washington-based artificial intelligence and software company developing automation utilities for various industries, including telecommunications, agriculture, manufacturing, and health.

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18

Funding Rounds

$438.7m

Money raised

Cognigy is a developer of conversational AI services and products for enterprise customer contact centers.

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4

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$42.5m

Money raised

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

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$13.5m

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Binah.ai is a company that provides artificial intelligence-powered, video-based health and wellness monitoring.

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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

Money raised

An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

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$30.4m

Money raised

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

7

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$121.8m

Money raised

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

9

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$262.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company using genetic editing technologies to develop therapies for the treatment of cancer and genetic diseases.

1

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$77.0m

Money raised

MiRXES is a Singapore-based biotechnology company specializing in microRNA-based diagnostics founded in 2014.

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7

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$72.7m

Money raised

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

9

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$313.2m

Money raised

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

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$1.2b

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Insightec is a Tirat Carmel-based company developing and manufacturing MR-guided focused ultrasound devices for image-guided acoustic surgery.

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$16.0m

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A pharmaceutical company that develops topical products to treat rare diseases

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$11.1m

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Aprinoia Therapeutics is a developer of diagnostics, therapeutics and drug discovery platform for neurological diseases.

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4

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$155.8m

Money raised

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

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$72.0m

Money raised

ProteinSimple is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2004.

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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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3

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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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$1.1b

Money raised

Cognite is an industrial software company headquartered in Oslo, Norway, that creates software for oil and gas, power and utilities, renewable energy, manufacturing and other asset-heavy industries.

2

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$12.5m

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A software quality assurance automation platform powered by artificial intelligence.

3

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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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2

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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.

5

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$8.5m

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Cryptact is a company founded in 2018 by Masuda Shunsuke.

4

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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

Money raised

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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3

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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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$540.6m

Money raised

Scandit is an enterprise barcode scanner founded in 2009.

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$62.6m

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A company that develops and manufactures dental implant products

2

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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

Money raised

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

Money raised

ALE is a space startup company.

1

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$85.6m

Money raised

Saxo Bank is an Hellerup, Denmark-based company founded in 2023 by Lars Seier Christensen.

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9

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$246.5m

Money raised

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

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6

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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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$100.0m

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Nityo Infotech is a Plainsboro Center, New Jersey-based company founded in 2006 by Aileen Cecilia Munoz.

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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.

3

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$2.8m

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

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6

Funding Rounds

$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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$11.2m

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Surrey NanoSystems develops and manufactures nanoscale materials for engineering and product applications.

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$1.4m

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Almac is a biomedical services company based in the UK founded in 1968 by Allen McClay.

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$31.7m

Money raised

Sensyn Robotics is a Japan-based robotics company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

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

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$4.5m

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Oxsensis is a manufacturer of optical sensors for pressure, vibration, temperature, and multiple parameters.

3

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$38.5m

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Telexistence is a company in Tokyo.

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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.

5

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$123.1m

Money raised

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

9

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$33.6m

Money raised

Contents.com is an AI-powered multilingual content generation platform founded in 2020.

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Altimetrik is a Southfields-based company founded in 2012.

1

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$1.0m

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Credify - Delivering the world's leading embedded finance platform. Our solution enables financial industry participants to connect with consumers at the right time in the right way.

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$7.0m

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First Access is a company founded in 2006.

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$99.0m

Money raised

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

8

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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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