# Colopl Next: portfolio, investments and team

> Colopl Next is a corporate vc based in Japan. 69 investments on record, 3 in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# Colopl Next

Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 69 cheques on record.

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Deploying now Corporate VC

Pre-seed Seed Series A Entertainment Virtual Reality Sport

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**23%** of best year **3** **cheques in 12 months**, 69 on record

Since the last cheque **61** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$2.8M** Rounds led **0 of 69** Sole investor **9 rounds** Mostly in **Japan, 45%**

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## Colopl Next highlights

- 01 3 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02 Mostly Venture and Series A: 61% of its rounds
- 03 Sole investor in 9 rounds, median $2.0M

## What they do

> Colopl Next was established in 2015 and invests broadly in startups and listed stocks, regardless of industry or business type. Translated from Japanese, from their own website

- **Type:** Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** Not stated
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B Growth
- **Sectors:** Entertainment Virtual Reality Sport
- **Based in:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **69 appearances**

- **2026** 3 rounds
- **Sept** **[Wunderbar](https://millionrounds.com/company/wunderbar)** Series A · JP **$1.9M** With 2 others
- **May** **[Return Helper](https://millionrounds.com/company/return-helper)** Series A · HK **$4.0M** With 1 other
- **Jan** **[Levellr](https://millionrounds.com/company/levellr)** Seed · GB **$2.5M** With 2 others
- **2025** 9 rounds
- **Jul** **[AccordX](https://millionrounds.com/company/accordx)** Seed · JP **$1.4M** With 3 others
- **Jul** **[Floreo](https://millionrounds.com/company/floreo)** US **$25K** With 1 other
- **Jun** **[Polyarc](https://millionrounds.com/company/polyarc)** Venture · US **$5.0M** With 2 others
- **Jun** **[Wunderbar](https://millionrounds.com/company/wunderbar)** Series A · JP **$3.5M** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[Urth](https://millionrounds.com/company/urth)** Seed · JP **$210K** With 2 others
- **Mar** **[CaseBlink](https://millionrounds.com/company/caseblink)** Pre-seed · US **$2.0M** Sole investor
- **Mar** **[Cloudike](https://millionrounds.com/company/cloudike)** Venture · US **$2.6M** With 2 others
- **Jan** **[Channel Talk](https://millionrounds.com/company/channel-talk)** Venture · KR **$7.5M** With 4 others
- **Jan** **[Exosphere Labs](https://millionrounds.com/company/exosphere-labs)** Venture **Undisclosed** With 1 other
- **2024** 7 rounds
- **Oct** **[Aiello](https://millionrounds.com/company/aiello)** Venture **$5.0M** Sole investor
- **Oct** **[Coopel](https://millionrounds.com/company/coopel)** Seed · JP **$939K** With 2 others
- **Sept** **[ChillStack](https://millionrounds.com/company/chillstack)** Venture · JP **Undisclosed** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[Izanagi Games](https://millionrounds.com/company/izanagi-games)** Venture · JP **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Jul** **[A1A](https://millionrounds.com/company/a1a)** Venture · JP **$2.7M** With 1 other
- **Jun** **[Nanome](https://millionrounds.com/company/nanome)** Venture · US **$1.2M** With 3 others
- **Feb** **[Levr.ai](https://millionrounds.com/company/levr-ai)** Seed · CA **$1.0M** With 2 others
- **2023** 10 rounds
- **Nov** **[Mepple](https://millionrounds.com/company/mepple)** Series A · JP **$1.3M** With 1 other
- **Nov** **[Aesop Technology](https://millionrounds.com/company/aesop-technology)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 3 others
- **Oct** **[BitStar](https://millionrounds.com/company/bitstar)** Debt · JP **$3.9M** With 4 others
- **Jul** **[Rybit](https://millionrounds.com/company/rybit)** Series A · US **$10M** With 1 other
- **Jul** **[Vantage Point](https://millionrounds.com/company/vantage-point)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 2 others
- **Jun** **[InstaVR](https://millionrounds.com/company/instavr)** Debt · JP **$7.1M** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Treasurer](https://millionrounds.com/company/treasurer)** Series A · KR **$759K** Sole investor
- **Mar** **[LandVault](https://millionrounds.com/company/landvault)** Series B · GB **$3.0M** With 5 others
- **Feb** **[Torana](https://millionrounds.com/company/torana)** Series C · JP **$1.6M** With 5 others
- **Jan** **[Psychic VR Lab](https://millionrounds.com/company/psychic-vr-lab)** Venture · JP **$1.6M** With 3 others
- **2022** 9 rounds
- **Dec** **[NRISE](https://millionrounds.com/company/nrise)** Series B **$9.6M** With 2 others
- **Sept** **[Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing](https://millionrounds.com/company/japan-wind-tunnel-manufacturing)** Venture · JP **$4.4M** With 2 others
- **Jun** **[pickupon](https://millionrounds.com/company/pickupon)** Seed · JP **$1.8M** With 3 others
- **May** **[Vogo](https://millionrounds.com/company/vogo)** Series A **$8.6M** With 1 other
- **May** **[Rael](https://millionrounds.com/company/rael)** Series B · US **$35M** With 3 others
- **Mar** **[Truck Lagbe](https://millionrounds.com/company/truck-lagbe)** Series A **$7.0M** With 3 others
- **Mar** **[PLNAR](https://millionrounds.com/company/plnar)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 1 other
- **Feb** **[Play Tango](https://millionrounds.com/company/play-tango)** Series A **$832K** With 1 other
- **Jan** **[FAAI](https://millionrounds.com/company/faai)** Venture **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **2021** 7 rounds
- **Dec** **[Soda](https://millionrounds.com/company/soda)** Series D · BE **$26M** With 4 others
- **Sept** **[Truck Lagbe](https://millionrounds.com/company/truck-lagbe)** Series A · BD · Betatron Venture Group **$4.0M** With 5 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**60** of 60 we have independently watched raise

[A1a](https://millionrounds.com/company/a1a)[Aiello](https://millionrounds.com/company/aiello)[Alice](https://millionrounds.com/company/alice)[And-inc](https://millionrounds.com/company/and-inc)[Autotelicbio](https://millionrounds.com/company/autotelic-bio)[Bitstar](https://millionrounds.com/company/bitstar)[Caseblink](https://millionrounds.com/company/caseblink)[Channel](https://millionrounds.com/company/channel)[Chillstack](https://millionrounds.com/company/chillstack)[Cloudike](https://millionrounds.com/company/cloudike)[Coopel](https://millionrounds.com/company/coopel)[Craful](https://millionrounds.com/company/craful)[Drivemate](https://millionrounds.com/company/drivemate)[Epigno](https://millionrounds.com/company/epigno)[Episoden](https://millionrounds.com/company/episoden)[Flitto](https://millionrounds.com/company/flitto)[Fyusion](https://millionrounds.com/company/fyusion)[Giblib](https://millionrounds.com/company/giblib)[Gofreight](https://millionrounds.com/company/gofreight)[Hachidori](https://millionrounds.com/company/hachidori)[Immersv](https://millionrounds.com/company/immersv)[Insidemaps](https://millionrounds.com/company/insidemaps)[Instavr](https://millionrounds.com/company/instavr)[Izanagigames](https://millionrounds.com/company/izanagi-games)[Kakutoku](https://millionrounds.com/company/kakutoku)[Landvault](https://millionrounds.com/company/landvault)[Levellr](https://millionrounds.com/company/levellr)[Makey](https://millionrounds.com/company/makey)[Massless](https://millionrounds.com/company/massless)[Musicow](https://millionrounds.com/company/musicow)[Nanome](https://millionrounds.com/company/nanome)[Nrise](https://millionrounds.com/company/nrise)[Oddconcepts](https://millionrounds.com/company/odd-concepts)[Onsiteiq](https://millionrounds.com/company/onsiteiq)[Owlchemylabs](https://millionrounds.com/company/owlchemy-labs)[Payke](https://millionrounds.com/company/payke)[Pinscreen](https://millionrounds.com/company/pinscreen)[Playfab](https://millionrounds.com/company/playfab)[Playtango](https://millionrounds.com/company/play-tango)[Rad](https://millionrounds.com/company/rad)[Requpo](https://millionrounds.com/company/requpo)[Resolutiongames](https://millionrounds.com/company/resolution-games)[Returnhelper](https://millionrounds.com/company/return-helper)[Rybit](https://millionrounds.com/company/rybit)[Salowin](https://millionrounds.com/company/salowin)[Seevividly](https://millionrounds.com/company/vivid-vision)[Service](https://millionrounds.com/company/service)[Shoplitlive](https://millionrounds.com/company/shop-lit-live)[Sider](https://millionrounds.com/company/sider)[Skelterlabs](https://millionrounds.com/company/skelter-labs)[Stay-list](https://millionrounds.com/company/staylist)[Symmetry-dimensions](https://millionrounds.com/company/symmetry-dimensions)[Tablecheck](https://millionrounds.com/company/tablecheck)[Timee](https://millionrounds.com/company/timee)[Torana](https://millionrounds.com/company/torana)[Trucklagbe](https://millionrounds.com/company/truck-lagbe)[U-rth](https://millionrounds.com/company/urth)[Uci-therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/uci-therapeutics)[Uploadvr](https://millionrounds.com/company/uploadvr)[Utill](https://millionrounds.com/company/utill) and 111 more

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$2.8M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$2.0M**

Led 0 of 69 rounds **0%**

- **Sole investor:** 9 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Sept 2026

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Venture *24*
- Series A said *15*
- Seed said *14*
- Series B said *5*
- Debt *3*
- Series C *3*
- Pre-seed said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Dec 2023 Nov 2026

Often in the room with

- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/smbc-venture-capital-2) 6
- [ANOBAKA](https://millionrounds.com/fund/anobaka) 5
- [East Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/east-ventures) 4
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://millionrounds.com/fund/global-brain-corporation) 4
- [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bon-angels) 3
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cyberagent-ventures) 3

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as Colopl Next. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**SMBC Venture Capital** Investment bank **6** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/smbc-venture-capital-2)[**ANOBAKA** VC firm **5** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/anobaka)[**East Ventures** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/east-ventures)[**Global Brain Corporation** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/global-brain-corporation)[**BonAngels Venture Partners** Accelerator **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bon-angels)[**CyberAgent Capital** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cyberagent-ventures)[**DG VENTURES** Accelerator **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dg-ventures)[**Deepcore** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/deepcore)[**Mizuho Capital** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mizuho-capital)[**SBVA** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sbva)[**Altos Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/altos-ventures)[**Animoca Brands** Accelerator **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/animoca-brands)

## Recently backed

The latest companies Colopl Next put money into.

[**Return Helper** $4.0M · May 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/return-helper)[**Levellr** $2.5M · Jan 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/levellr)[**AccordX** $1.4M · Jul 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/accordx)[**Floreo** $25K · Jul 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/floreo)[**Polyarc** $5.0M · Jun 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/polyarc)[**Urth** $210K · Apr 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/urth)

## Quick answers about Colopl Next

### What does Colopl Next invest in?

Colopl Next invests most often at Venture and Series A (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Entertainment, Virtual Reality and Sport.

### How active is Colopl Next?

69 investments on record, 3 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Sept 2026.

### What has Colopl Next invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Wunderbar (Series A, Sept 2026), Return Helper (Series A, May 2026) and Levellr (Seed, Jan 2026).

### How big are Colopl Next's cheques?

The median round it joins is $2.8M.

### Does Colopl Next lead rounds?

Rarely, if at all: none of its 69 investments on record names it as the lead.

### Where does Colopl Next invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in Japan (45%), the United States (30%) and the United Kingdom (6%).

### Is Colopl Next investing now?

Yes: it is actively investing, with 3 investments in the last 12 months.

### Who does Colopl Next invest alongside?

Most often SMBC Venture Capital (6 rounds together), ANOBAKA (5 rounds together) and East Ventures (4 rounds together).

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