Miraise Hosts Third LP-Facing Demo Day for Seed Portfolio Startups

May 30, 2025 · Source ↗

TLDR

Tokyo seed VC Miraise held its third LP-only demo day on May 27 at Shibuya’s GOLDEN EGG incubator, featuring four portfolio startups.

Four portfolio companies pitched: Zenmetry (AI productivity agents), Carelink (gig-work matching for elder care facilities), Jizaie (remote heavy-equipment operation via AI video compression), and datagusto (data governance layer preventing AI agent failures and hallucinations).
Miraise DEMO DAY launched in 2024; across three editions, 10 startups have presented, with some pitches leading to business partnerships or follow-on investment.
International LPs attended, including an investor based primarily in China who cited discovering Japan-specific AI approaches as a highlight.
Miraise, founded in December 2018, had invested in approximately 68 companies as of July 2024 and actively pursues cross-border deals for Japanese startups targeting overseas expansion and foreign teams entering Japan.

Direct LP-founder interaction at a dedicated event is a deliberate Miraise format choice, creating deal flow and partnership leads beyond the pitch itself.
The attendance of overseas LPs signals Miraise’s cross-border positioning is attracting non-domestic capital to Japanese seed-stage companies.
datagusto’s AI governance angle and Jizaie’s edge-device remote operations represent hardware-software bets outside the typical B2B SaaS pattern dominant in Japanese seed rounds.

合同会社Miraise, PR TIMES · 2025-05-30 · Read on PR TIMES