Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd
Tokyo private equity firm: buyouts, shareholder liquidity deals and fund secondaries in Japanese companies
🇯🇵 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo · Founded 2000
Secondaries
Ant Capital Partners is a Tokyo private equity firm founded in 2000 as AntFactory Japan and renamed in 2008. Its shareholders are its management and employees, The Norinchukin Bank and Mitsui & Co. Principal Investments. The Buyout Investment Group takes majority stakes in mid-sized Japanese companies and joins their management. The Solution Investment Group buys shares from existing shareholders and buys fund interests. The firm also has a VC establishment office for Ant X Partners, a studio-style venture fund focused on AI.
What they invest in
We invest in medium-sized Japanese companies with stable cash flow, in all industries. Multiple investment managers from our Group are personally involved in providing management support to each of the companies in which we invest.
- Stage
- Secondaries
- Consumer goods
- Manufacturing
- Software & IT
- Food & restaurants
- Automotive services
- Japan
How to pitch
Openfor introduces founders whose company fits the criteria above.
Open to
The contact form routes inquiries to the Buyout or Solution Investment Group. The planned Ant X Partners venture studio recruits entrepreneurs through an Entrepreneur in Residence program.
Portfolio
The firm's site lists 44 buyout deals since 2002 and about 50 solution deals since 2005, in small and mid-sized Japanese companies. Sectors range from consumer goods and food to software, manufacturing and auto services. PitchBook counts 126 investments and 93 exits.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 30 companies · 2006–2026 · 13 exits
Sectors
- Beauty7%
- E-commerce7%
- Industrial supplies7%
- Auto parts3%
- Other77%
Where the companies are
- 🇯🇵 Japan100%
30 deals named on the firm's own site, as of Oct 2026: the 26 most recent plus four well-known older exits. The site has the full buyout and solution lists.
