Yakumi
Tokyo angel investor group connecting global angels with startups mainly based in Japan.
🇯🇵 Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo · Founded 2017
Seed
Yakumi is a Tokyo-based group of angel investors. It runs a platform that connects global angel investors with startups and small companies, mainly in Japan. Its members are full-time professionals, including a New York lawyer, an entrepreneur with IPO experience, a banker, a hedge fund manager and a management consultant. They have studied, worked or invested in countries including Canada, China, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. PitchBook lists it as an angel group founded in 2017.
What they invest in
We target Japan-based startups and small companies with a unique product or proprietary technology, a scalable business model, a niche target market, a global mind and an amazing team. We focus on long-term organic growth and we do not take control.
- Stage
- Seed
- B2C
- Consumer non-durables
- Agriculture
- Japan
- United States
- Europe
- Asia
How to pitch
Openfor introduces founders whose company fits the criteria above.
Portfolio
Pangaea Ventures describes Yakumi as having nearly 50 startups in its portfolio across Japan, the U.S., Europe and Asia. Public databases name four of them, from 2018 to 2021, in food products, biotechnology and publishing.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 4 companies · 2018–2021
Sectors
- Food products50%
- Biotechnology25%
- Publishing25%
Stage when they invested
- Seed50%
Where the companies are
- 🇺🇸 United States25%
Four investments named on PitchBook, as of Oct 2026. Yakumi's own site lists no portfolio. The full portfolio is much larger than this list.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
