Genesia Ventures

Genesia Ventures is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Soichi Tajima, investing in seed and early-stage startups building innovative digital businesses across Asia. The firm operates from three offices in Tokyo, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh City, and fields a team of 20 including three partners. Genesia closed Fund III at $110 million and has since secured a $22.5 million LP commitment from the Japan Investment Corporation for Fund IV. The firm's vision is 'realizing a society that brings wealth and opportunities to all,' organized around six themes: circular economy, prosperous lifestyle, equal access to information and opportunity, knowledge, coexistence and symbiosis, and a healthy society. Genesia leads rounds at the pre-seed through Series A stages, with an average seed check of $1.37 million and an average Series A check of $3.37 million. The portfolio encompasses 163 companies as of January 2026, with 13 new investments in the prior 12 months. The firm is primarily active in Japan (63 portfolio companies), Vietnam (11), Indonesia, and India. Investment areas span software, SaaS, e-commerce, hardware and robotics, and media and entertainment, as well as frontier technology including robotics, digital twinning, and space technologies. Notable exits include Timee (IPO) and HR Brain (acquisition). Recent investments include Sports For Life and Meta Sensing (ultra-compact Raman spectrometers). Genesia Ventures aims to build a platform for the creation of large-scale, sustainable industries across Asia, approaching investment as a long-term regional ecosystem builder rather than a single-market fund. The firm's three-city footprint positions it to identify and support founders in markets that remain underserved by international capital.