Genesia Ventures

Co-founders Taro Tanaka and Masashi Kiyomine serve as General Partners and lead the investment committee. Both previously held corporate venture roles in Tokyo before launching Genesia in 2016. Day-to-day deal evaluation involves the Jakarta-based investment team for Indonesian and broader Southeast Asian opportunities, with final decisions centralized through the Tokyo office.

Genesia's Jakarta office, established in 2019, anchors on-the-ground sourcing alongside local accelerator networks and university entrepreneurship programs. The firm's Japanese LP base and corporate relationships generate inbound referrals from founders seeking Japan market entry — a pipeline that most Indonesian-focused VCs cannot replicate. Co-investment circles with Japanese corporate venture arms further widen early-access visibility.

Genesia operates as a traditional venture capital firm, not a family office. It raises committed capital from Japanese institutional LPs, corporate investors, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm has no affiliation with a single-family wealth source.

Genesia's investment model is direct-only — the firm does not operate a fund-of-funds program or invest as an LP into other venture firms. All capital is deployed as equity into seed and pre-Series A companies. The firm reserves capital for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies through subsequent rounds.

The firm focuses on seed and pre-Series A rounds, typically deploying initial checks between ¥10 million and ¥50 million. Genesia occasionally follows on into Series A but does not lead rounds beyond the early stage. The portfolio skews toward companies with early revenue or beta products, rather than concept-stage ideas.

Genesia is an independent firm, not the venture arm of any single Japanese corporation. However, its GPs' prior corporate venture experience and the composition of its LP base create close working relationships with multiple Japanese conglomerates that serve as strategic co-investors and potential commercial partners for portfolio companies.

Genesia regularly co-invests alongside other Japan-headquartered and Southeast Asian early-stage funds. The firm does not require lead-investor status and will participate in syndicated seed rounds. Its appeal to co-investors centers on the Japan-Indonesia bridge: Genesia can facilitate Japanese corporate distribution agreements that other co-investors cannot structure independently.