What does Incubate Fund invest in?
Incubate Fund invests most often at Seed and Venture (71% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Startups.

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Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 245 cheques on record.
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40 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 71% of its rounds
Sole investor in 72 rounds, median $835K
2 exits from the portfolio
We are a venture capital firm that continues to be "challengers." Our mission is to fully support the challenges of aspiring entrepreneurs from the early stages of their founding.Translated from Japanese, from their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first245 appearances
34 rounds
48 rounds
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.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration7 named
We also hold 15 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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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.
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Incubate Fund. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Incubate Fund put money into.
1 episode naming Incubate Fund in the title.

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Incubate Fund invests most often at Seed and Venture (71% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Startups.
245 investments on record, 40 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Kaminashi (Series C, Oct 2026), ACIMUS Co., Ltd. (Seed, Oct 2026) and WED (Venture, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $2.8M.
Sometimes: it led 1 of its 245 investments on record (0%).
Most of the companies it backs are in Japan (97%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 40 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often SMBC Venture Capital (34 rounds together), IVC (17 rounds together) and Mizuho Capital (17 rounds together).
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