Beyond Next Ventures Inc.
Tokyo deep-tech VC backing seed and early-stage startups in Japan and India, from research to market.
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2014
Pre-seed to Series A·Leads or follows
Beyond Next Ventures is a Tokyo deep-tech venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tsuyoshi Ito. It backs startups built on university and research technology, mainly at seed and early stage, in Japan and India, where it has a Bengaluru subsidiary. It manages about $340 million across multiple funds and leads most of its early rounds. Checks run from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of yen, with up to 2 billion yen in total per company. It also runs the BRAVE accelerator and a shared wet lab in Tokyo.
What they invest in
We invest in deep-tech startups from Seed to Series A. Currently, we invest in Japan and India. We aim to solve humanity's challenges from macro to micro through science and technology.
- Stage
- Pre-seed to Series A
- Role in a round
- Leads or follows
- Fund
- BNV Fund 3 · ¥25.7B
- Closed 2024
- Healthcare & MedTech
- Drug Discovery & Biotech
- Agri-food
- AI & Digital
- Space
- Japan
- India
How to pitch
They read inbound pitches that match the criteria above.
Open to
- Pitches from founders
- Hiring for portfolio companies
- Speakers for events
- Media & interviews
Founders can send a pitch deck through the contact form. The same form takes partnership, careers, interview and speaking requests.
Portfolio
Beyond Next Ventures had backed about 80 deep-tech startups across its three funds by July 2024, mostly at seed and early stage. Sectors include healthcare, drug discovery, agri-food, digital, space and climate tech. Most are in Japan, with 13 companies in its India portfolio.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 30 companies · 2017–2026 · 8 exits · led 5
Sectors
- Agriculture & Food20%
- AI & Digital17%
- Digital Health13%
- Biotech10%
- Other40%
Stage when they invested
- Seed13%
- Series A13%
- Series B7%
- Series C+10%
Where the companies are
- 🇯🇵 Japan43%
- 🇮🇳 India10%
- 🇸🇬 Singapore3%
- 🇺🇸 United States3%
30 of the 74 companies on the fund's own portfolio page, as of Oct 2026. Rounds and years come from its news releases and public databases. Its site has the full list.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
