D4V (Design for Ventures)
Tokyo early-stage VC, set up with IDEO, investing in consumer and enterprise technology startups.
🇯🇵 Minami-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo · Founded 2016
Checks $140K – $1.4M·Seed to Series A
D4V (Design for Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo. It was set up in October 2016 as a joint venture between the design firm IDEO and Genuine Startups. It invests in seed and early-stage startups, mainly in Japan, and supports them with design work such as branding, product development and organisation building. Fund I closed at about 5.3 billion yen in 2018 and Fund II at 5.4 billion yen in 2022.
What they invest in
We are a Tokyo-based venture capital firm focused on the early stage. We invest in consumer and enterprise startups that are not bound by existing ideas and aim to change society through technology.
- Check size
- $140K – $1.4M
- Stage
- Seed to Series A
- Fund
- Fund II · ¥5.4B
- Closed 2022
- Consumer
- Enterprise
- Fintech
- Health
- Education
- Japan
How to pitch
Openfor introduces founders whose company fits the criteria above.
Portfolio
PitchBook counts 112 investments since 2016, with 53 companies still in the portfolio. D4V invests at seed and early stage, mostly in Japan, across business software, healthcare, fintech, consumer and AI.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 31 companies · 2017–2026 · 9 exits
Sectors
- Fintech13%
- Business software10%
- B2B media6%
- AI healthcare3%
- Other32%
Stage when they invested
- Seed10%
- Series A6%
Where the companies are
- 🇯🇵 Japan3%
31 companies named in PitchBook, CB Insights, Waveup, press and D4V's blog, as of Oct 2026. D4V has made more; its own portfolio page has the full list.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
