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Digital Garage

Corporate · Founded 1995 · Tokyo, Japan

#400 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 3% of investors worldwide

In the summer of 1995, as the internet was just beginning to take shape, Kaoru Hayashi and Joichi Ito founded Digital Garage with a forward-looking mission: to create 'context' for the internet age.

77 Portfolio companies+10% in 5 years
8 Unicorns
88 Investments
Jul 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

Digital Garage’s biggest current holdings.

Digital Garage is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $63M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 DroomTransportation · Unicorn 3.5% $1.2B $42M
  2. 2 NoBrokerReal Estate · Unicorn 1.3% $1.1B $14M
  3. 3 PlaycoGaming · Unicorn 0.7% $1.0B $7M

Estimated value = Digital Garage’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Digital Garage also appears inside investor groups in Blockstream, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

Digital Garage’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Digital Garage’s transaction record.

$14B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $42MFashion
$5.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now Fashion
Fin
$3.6B acquisition · 2026
Entered SeedMarketing
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where Digital Garage’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 77 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA43
  2. Japan16
  3. India5
  4. Indonesia4
  5. Singapore4
  6. Poland2
  7. Israel1
  8. UK1
  9. Vietnam1
By sectorCount
  1. Marketing15
  2. Media15
  3. Enterprise Software13
  4. Telecom10
  5. Fashion6
  6. Fintech6
  7. Home Living5
  8. Gaming4
  9. Jobs Recruitment4
  10. Health3
  11. Food2
  12. Kids2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed34
  2. Series A25
  3. Series B+15
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth39
  2. Breakout Stage21
  3. Late Growth17
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside Digital Garage’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 77 tracked.

Wish
Fashion
$42M
Bukalapak
Fashion
GrubMarket
Food · Unicorn
$4.5B
Blockstream
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.2B
MX Technologies
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.9B
Droom
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.2B
Helium
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
NoBroker
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.1B
Zilingo
Wellness Beauty
Fin
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.6B
Fandom
Media
$426M
Wikia
Media
$424M
Playco
Gaming · Unicorn
$1.0B
mmhmm
Media
$400M
Sendo.vn
Telecom
$244M
Unbabel
Media
$300M
Path
Media
$100M
Foresight
Fintech
$156M
Healthians.com
Health
$300M
IfOnly
Media
$80M
Digg
Media
$16M
SafetyWing
Health
$140M
Glide Talk
Media
$80M
WEVR
Gaming
$125M
Warung Pintar
Marketing
$169M
Chartbeat
Enterprise Software
$28M
Kamcord
Telecom
$40M
Kiip
Marketing
$48M
Idein
Event Tech
$77M
Limbix
Health
$60M
Estimote, Inc.
Enterprise Software
$12M
Fond
Jobs Recruitment
$46M
Ralali
Marketing
$65M
BuildZoom
Real Estate
$42M
Silvair
Telecom
$22M
Glide Talk Ltd
Israel
$80M
iRidge
Marketing
$19M
Pocket
Media
$30M
Pocket River
Gaming
$28M
AdStage
Marketing
$12M
Citus Data
Enterprise Software
$38M
Fleksy
Enterprise Software
$6.4M
Boostable
Marketing
$20M
Wondershake
Media
$2.8M
Sentient.io
Jobs Recruitment
Whomor
Gaming
$6.4M
Nuzzel
Media
$6.8M
True Data
Japan
$7.2M
Kicksend
Media
$4.0M
Cuzen Matcha
Food
$14M
TRiCERA
Home Living
$1.2M
Giftpack
Home Living
$17M
Emotion Intelligence
Marketing
$16M
Pie
Telecom
$4.8M
Authy
Fintech
$9.2M
Trim Japan
Kids
$739K
Two Tap
Enterprise Software
$11M
Memolane
Enterprise Software
$2.0M
PitPa
Japan
DoubleRecall
Media
$6.4M
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Digital Garage’s portfolio founders come from.

83 founders across the 77 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States37
  2. Japan14
  3. India8
  4. Poland6
  5. Argentina3
  6. Indonesia3
  7. Portugal2
  8. Spain2
  9. Denmark1
  10. Norway1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University4
  2. University of California, Berkeley3
  3. University of Waterloo3
  4. Griffith University2
  5. Harvard University2
  6. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad2
  7. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad2
  8. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
  9. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur2
  10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
Previous companyCount
  1. Yahoo!4
  2. Deloitte3
  3. Citibank2
  4. ClearCarbon2
  5. Dezine2
  6. eBay2
  7. Impact Collective2
  8. ITC2
  9. Oracle2
  10. ShareChat2