Miyabi Ventures

Ryo Oshima serves as Representative Director and CEO and leads the firm's investment activities. The firm has not publicly disclosed a larger investment committee or named additional general partners. Decision-making appears concentrated, consistent with a lean, thesis-driven early-stage manager.

Miyabi sources primarily through its network in the San Francisco Bay Area and other US technology hubs. The firm's structural advantage is its embedded relationship with Japanese corporate limited partners, whose R&D priorities inform thematic sourcing. This creates a proprietary signal: Miyabi sees founders who want strategic Japanese distribution early, often before generalist US funds engage.

Miyabi's limited partners include Japanese corporations that use the fund as both a financial investment and a strategic window into early-stage North American technology. The firm facilitates introductions and eventual commercial partnerships between portfolio companies and these LPs. Specific LP identities are not publicly disclosed, consistent with common Japanese corporate venture confidentiality norms.

Miyabi writes first institutional checks at the seed and Series A stages, often leading or co-leading rounds where the founding team has a technical moat and a future interest in Asian market entry. The firm does not market itself as a passive co-investor; its value proposition depends on active engagement and the strategic LP connectivity it brings.

There is no public statement of explicit sector exclusions. However, Miyabi's disclosed focus on enterprise software, AI/ML, fintech, digital health, and climate tech implies limited attention to consumer social, hardware-intensive industrials, or capital-heavy biotech platforms where the Japanese corporate strategic buyer thesis is less directly applicable.

The firm has not publicly detailed its follow-on reserve strategy. For an early-stage manager with corporate LP alignment, follow-on decisions are often gated by both financial return thresholds and the evolving strategic interest of the limited partners — a dynamic that places a premium on portfolio company performance and LP relationship management.

There is no publicly confirmed fundraise in progress as of mid-2026. Given the firm's low public profile and Japan-headquartered structure, fundraise announcements are unlikely to appear through US venture media; any confirmation would come through Japanese regulatory filings or direct LP communications.