D4V (Design for Ventures)
Tokyo venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups with IDEO design expertise.
🇯🇵 Tokyo · Founded 2016
D4V (Design for Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded in 2016 as a partnership between IDEO Tokyo and Genuine Startups. It combines IDEO's design methodology and Silicon Valley network with Genuine's financial expertise, giving portfolio companies hands-on support in UX/UI, branding and customer experience design. It invests in consumer and enterprise technology startups and manages around $50 million across two funds.
What they invest in
- Fund
- Fund II · JPY 5.4B
- AI
- Consumer tech
- Enterprise software
- Fintech
- Healthtech
- Japan
How to pitch
Openfor introduces founders whose company fits the criteria above.
Portfolio
D4V has backed 74 companies since 2016 across AI, consumer and enterprise technology, mostly in Japan, with four IPO exits.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 7 companies · 3 exits
Sectors
- Deep tech14%
- Enterprise AI14%
- Fashion AI14%
- Fintech14%
- Other14%
Where the companies are
- 🇯🇵 Japan71%
Portfolio list from public VC databases and press as of Oct 2026, showing 7 of 74 known investments; D4V's own site was not reachable for the full list.