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Rebright Partners

VC Fund 📍 Japan, Asia

About Rebright Partners

Rebright Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Takeshi Ebihara, a 30-year venture capital veteran and serial entrepreneur who previously founded internet companies including one that reached a public listing. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India and Singapore, and describes itself as "the gateway between Japan, ASEAN and India" — backed by prominent Japanese corporate and institutional investors and leveraging that network to help portfolio startups expand regionally and forge partnerships with major Japanese technology companies. Its investment team includes Partner Brij Bhasin (co-founder of GSF Accelerator, an early advisor at Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014) and Principal Mahesh Kumar (formerly of Sony Innovation Fund).

The firm has built a portfolio of more than 35 companies across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, spanning healthcare (MediBuddy, Virohan, Nivaan, Instalimb), e-commerce (Bukalapak, Qraved, Elanic), edtech (Codingal, Stimuler), logistics and mobility (LetsTransport, ClickPost, Numocity — later acquired by ABB e-Mobility), agritech (Aquaconnect, Eggoz), and fintech/insurtech. Its one confirmed Philippine investment is Coins.ph, the cryptocurrency and blockchain-based financial services platform.

Investment Thesis

Rebright Partners invests at the early stage — typically seed through Series B — across a deliberately broad set of consumer internet, mobile, healthcare, edtech, logistics, agritech, and fintech businesses throughout South and Southeast Asia. The firm's distinguishing value proposition is its Japan connectivity: it aims to help portfolio companies access Japanese corporate partnerships, distribution, and capital as they scale, drawing on relationships built through its Japanese institutional and corporate limited-partner base.

Portfolio Companies

Coins.ph, Bukalapak, MediBuddy, Numocity, Dat Bike, Aquaconnect