Genesia Ventures Announces Final Close of Its $113M Fourth Fund

Genesia Ventures announces the final close of its fourth fund, Genesia Venture Fund IV Investment Limited Partnership (“Fund IV”), at $113M. The fund is dedicated to investing in seed-stage startups across Japan, Southeast Asia, and India.

About Genesia Ventures

Genesia Ventures is an independent venture capital firm focused primarily on seed-stage startup investments and hands-on support across Asia. The name “Genesia” combines “Genesis,” meaning origin or creation, with “Asia,” reflecting our aspiration to become a venture capital firm that helps shape the future of Asia.

About Fund IV

Through Fund IV, Genesia Ventures will continue backing ambitious founders from the earliest stages of company building. The fund is backed primarily by domestic and international institutional investors and financial institutions.

Since inception, we have supported startups and founders across Japan, Southeast Asia, and India through both capital and operational support. Building on the knowledge and networks cultivated across these markets, Fund IV is centered around our “Asia Origin” vision — the belief that globally impactful companies will increasingly emerge from Asia’s unique structural shifts.

As technological breakthroughs such as AI continue accelerating alongside energy transition and Asia’s economic rise, long-standing barriers that once constrained industrial progress and latent demand are dissolving at unprecedented speed. We believe this moment will create opportunities for a new generation of startups to build globally significant businesses from Asia.

Through our offices in Tokyo, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bengaluru, we will continue leveraging local knowledge, regional networks, and cross-border collaboration to provide hands-on support for portfolio companies.

Fund IV will focus on founders building transformative businesses at the intersection of these structural changes and technological shifts.

Investment Philosophy and Focus Areas

We do not define our investment strategy by fixed industry sectors. Rather than focusing on categories themselves, we pay attention to the underlying drivers of change shaping each market. As these drivers evolve and begin affecting new domains, our investment focus evolves with them.

What we build as a team is not a list of sectors, but an ability to understand the structure of change itself. As a result, our investments have ranged from animation production technologies to material purification technologies for nuclear fusion reactors—fields that may appear entirely unrelated on the surface.

Through Fund IV, we will continue supporting globally impactful founding teams from the earliest stages, regardless of industry category.

For more on this investment philosophy, see: “The Belief Behind ‘Scientific Innovation’ — Reflections on the Renewal of Market.iO”

Portfolio Highlights

Selected Exits

• Timee(IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in July 2024 / Japan)
• HRBrain(Secondary exit to European investment fund EQT in November 2023 / Japan)

Southeast Asia’s Leading Platforms

• Docquity(Doctor platform operating across seven countries / Indonesia)
• Qoala(Insurance solutions platform operating across five countries / Indonesia)

Workforce Transformation

• Sukedachi(Platform for the construction industry / Japan)
• Linc(Connecting international talent with Japan)

Transformation in Energy Markets

• Tensor Energy(Renewable energy platform / Japan)
• MiRESSO(Material purification technologies for nuclear fusion reactors / Japan)

Rebuilding Immature Supply Chains

• Buymed(Pharmaceutical distribution infrastructure / Vietnam)
• KAMEREO(Food procurement infrastructure / Vietnam)

Financial Inclusion Through Technology

• movus technologies(Mobility infrastructure / Indonesia)
• Fundiin(Alternative credit infrastructure / Vietnam)

Frontier Market Creation

• ElevationSpace(Next-generation space transportation infrastructure / Japan)
• Beff(Intelligence platform for next-generation battery industries / Japan)

Message from the Management Team

Soichi Tajima, Founder & General Partner

We are deeply grateful for the support from numerous institutional investors and corporate partners, which enabled us to establish Fund IV at $113M.

We believe that multiple revolutions are unfolding simultaneously and accelerating one another in a compounding manner: the information revolution driven by generative AI, the trust revolution enabled by blockchain, breakthroughs in energy and computational power such as quantum technologies and nuclear fusion, and advances in life sciences including biogenomics. Together, these shifts are creating unprecedented opportunities for startups.

While remaining firmly committed to investing in seed-stage startups, we will continue backing founders operating at the intersection of these transformational changes and pursuing opportunities with the potential to create significant societal impact.

As fundraising hurdles beyond Series A continue to rise, founders at the seed stage are increasingly required to achieve stronger traction and build resilient teams earlier than ever before. To do so, sufficient capital at the earliest stages is critical. While increasing our fund size, we will be more selective in the number of investments we make, allowing us to invest more deeply and provide stronger support to each company. We welcome entrepreneurs who aspire to create transformative industries and encourage them to reach out to us.

Takahiro Suzuki, Head of Overseas Investments / General Partner

Rapid advances in technologies such as AI have led some to question the future potential of startups. I believe the opposite is true. At a time when AI, energy transition, and Asia’s economic rise are happening simultaneously, long-standing barriers that once prevented industrial progress and latent demand from emerging are being removed at unprecedented speed.

I strongly believe this is an era in which startups have expanding opportunities to create major businesses and industries. Since our founding, we have remained deeply rooted not only in Japan, but also across emerging Asian markets including Southeast Asia and India.

Our “Asia Origin” vision is to work alongside entrepreneurs building companies born from Asia’s unique challenges and structural transformations — and help them create global impact.

Toward realizing our mission of “building platforms where sustainable industries emerge in Asia,” we will continue serving as a bridge connecting Japan, Southeast Asia, and India — facilitating regional collaboration and partnerships between startups and large corporations, while supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs shaping the future.

Programs & Community

Beyond investment, Genesia Ventures supports founders through organizational development programs, founder communities, and cross-border knowledge sharing initiatives across Asia.

Key initiatives include:

• HR Compass by Genesia.— organizational and leadership resources for startup teams
• Ayo! by Genesia. — a podcast spotlighting the untold stories behind startup building
• Players by Genesia. — an interview series exploring founders’ journeys and motivations
• Global Founders Gathering — a cross-border founder community connecting entrepreneurs across Japan, Southeast Asia, and India
• Cross-border market insights and case studies — including deep dives into companies such as BuyMed and KAMEREO, highlighting startup strategy, organizational development, and market expansion across Southeast Asia

More insights and community initiatives: https://www.genesiaventures.com/

Company Information

Company Name: Genesia Ventures Inc. 
Website: https://genesiaventures.com/
Founded: August 2016
Founder & General Partner: Soichi Tajima
Head Office:
Orbit Shibuya, Shibuya Place 3F, 1-10-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Offices:
Jakarta: WeWork Revenue Tower, SCBD, Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.52-53, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia 
Ho Chi Minh City: Genesia Orbit Ho Chi Minh City, 53 Nguyen Co Thach, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Bengaluru: Block L, Embassy Tech Village, Devarabisanahalli, Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India