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Best Disease Self Management Companies in Tokyo, Japan

The 47 best Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ACCELStars.

47companies tracked
$34.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
17have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · DISEASE SELF MANAGEMENT × TOKYO

Our analysis of 50 Disease Self Management companies

$3.0b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
94%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
3unicorns
2014median founding year

Ranked: Best Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ACCELStars
Provider of sleep diagnosis and examination solutions
$7M20 mo agoSeries A—2020—9 patents
Sleep‑wake state detection using biometric monitoring for health and wellness applications
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2Hedgehog MedTech
Provider of digital therapeutic application for headache management
$4M7 mo agoSeries BYumi Kawata
CEO
2021STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+9——
3Bisu
Provider of at-home health data monitoring device
$4M58 mo agoSeedDaniel Maggs
Co-Founder & CEO
2003———
4PGV
Provider of wearable brainwave measurement technology and AI-powered brainwave analysis
$4M59 mo agoSeries AOsamu Oshirasawa
CEO & President
2016HubSpot CMS HubHubSpotcore-js+102 patents
Patents concentrated in health & consumer products
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5Digireha
Provider of rehabilitation system for children
$4M5 mo agoSeedYuki Oka
CEO
2021GSAPAstroNginx+22——
6Grace imaging
Wearable device for tracking muscle metabolism
$4M37 mo agoSeries A—2018—4 patents
Medical imaging and bioanalysis sensors with data processing algorithms.
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7Awarefy
Provider of digital cognitive behavioral therapy application
$3M20 mo agoSeries AShinichiro Ogawa
CEO
2018STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+24——
8Dricos
Provider of a digital device to self-track nutrition level
$2M36 mo agoSeries AYasuhiro Take
CEO
2012WordPressMySQLPHP+193 patents
Digital information delivery systems and AI‑assisted dietary supplement formulation platforms
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9Impute
AI-based app providing personalized therapy for students with autism
$1M55 mo agoSeries A—2017—4 patents
AI-powered autism therapy and diagnostic assistance devices for personalized treatment.
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10Susmed
An app which takes user data, puts it through an algorithm, and then provides advice for fixing patient's…
$880K113 mo agoPublicTaro Ueno
CEO
2015WordPressMySQLPHP+1626 patents
Digital mental‑health therapy platforms delivering CBT, insomnia and treatment management software.
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Top 12 Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo

#1
Seed · Setagaya, Tokyo · founded 2021
$3.7Mraised
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Provider of rehabilitation system for children. The system uses various types of sensors compatible with applications, depending on the users conditions that help to sense finger movements and detect hand, arm, eye, and leg movements. It offers a digital rehabilitation tool that utilizes interactive digital art and sensors to enhance physical therapy experiences for children with disabilities.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2026Seed$5.4M
  • Oct 2024Seed$2.9M
  • Apr 2023Seed$789.3K
Founders & team
Yuki OkaCEO
Investors
One Capital, Beta.Ventures, Kamakura Investment Management, Yamaha Corporation, Hibisin Capital, Future Venture capital
Tech stack
AstroAxiosBownowCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#2
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2021
$4.4Mraised
▾

Provider of digital therapeutic application for headache management. The company is offering a migraine treatment app that can reduce symptoms by recognizing and improving behavioral patterns.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series B—
  • Dec 2023Series A$3.4M
  • Nov 2022Seed$1M
Founders & team
Yumi KawataCEO
Investors
Keio Innovation Initiative, DBJ Capital, Scrum Ventures, D4V, Shinsei Corporate Investment, SMBC Venture Capital
Tech stack
FirebaseGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerMicrosoft 365
#3
Series A · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2020 · 18 employees
$7.2Mraised
▾

Provider of sleep diagnosis and examination solutions. The company has developed an algorithm-based sleep monitoring system, ACCEL, which utilizes jerk-based detection to accurately classify sleep patterns and provide personalized guidance for sleep health.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 178 LinkedIn followers — 9.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2024Series A$7.2M
Investors
FFG Venture Business Partners, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Suzuyo & Co, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, RKB, Paramount Bed Indonesia
#4
Series A · Shinjuku, Tokyo · founded 2018
$2.6Mraised
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Provider of digital cognitive behavioral therapy application. The company offers a self-care app that helps users to improve mental well-being through cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques, such as self-monitoring, behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, meta-cognition, and autograph. It also includes audio guide training and relaxation exercises, including mindfulness meditations.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2024Series A$2.6M
  • Aug 2023Seed—
Founders & team
Shinichiro OgawaCEO
Investors
Dual Bridge Capital, GENDA Capital, Nippon Venture Capital, All About, Mobile Internet Capital
Tech stack
A8.NetAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailApple Sign-InCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#5
Series A · Shinjuku City, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 8 employees
$3.5Mraised
▾

Wearable device for tracking muscle metabolism. The company has developed a wearable device to measure lactic acid concentration within sweat. It also offers MRI technique non-invasively measures for muscle tissue data, such as the separation of fast and slow muscles.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Series A$3.5M
Investors
Keio Innovation Initiative, D3, QB Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, MEDIPAL, NCB Venture Capital
#6
Series A · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 7 employees
$2.3Mraised
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Provider of a digital device to self-track nutrition level. The company develops smart devices that analyze personal data & body composition of humans and also recommends customized nutrient requirements that support nutritional balance.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2023Series A$2.3M
  • Jul 2023Conventional Debt—
Founders & team
Yasuhiro TakeCEO
Investors
Toshibatec, AirTrip, Shoko Chukin Bank, Anobaka, Daiwa Corporate Investment, Energy & Environment Investment
Tech stack
FirebaseGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle Workspace
#7
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2016 · 49 employees
$4.1Mraised
▾

Provider of wearable brainwave measurement technology and AI-powered brainwave analysis. It offers devices and cloud-based services for brain activity visualization and quantification. The company provides tools for electroencephalography (EEG) data collection, signal processing, and pattern recognition. It supports research and development in areas such as sleep analysis, cognitive assessment, and brain-computer interfaces.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2021Series A$2.7M
  • Jul 2020Seed$1.4M
  • 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Osamu OshirasawaCEO & President
Investors
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Osaka University Venture Capital, Shionogi, Station AI
#8
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2003 · 9 employees
$4.3Mraised
▾

Developer of a health-tracking device designed to provide health-monitoring services. The company's devices track users' dietary health, fat metabolism and hydration and provide daily feedback on their levels of electrolytes, hydration, pH, ketones and uric acid via a mobile application, enabling users to track burned body fat, protect metabolic health, achieve optimal ketosis and increase physical endurance.

Founders & team
Daniel MaggsCo-Founder & CEOWojciech BulaCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
QUAD, Asics, 15th Rock, SOSV, Pacific Investments, MedTech Innovator
#9
Series A · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 17 employees
$1.3Mraised
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AI-based app providing personalized therapy for students with autism. The platform provides cognitive training for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, and learning disabilities. It provides a personalized therapy program using eye-tracking, body tracking, etc. It also offers other features such as individual assessment, personalized therapy plans, reinforced learning, and discrete trial training (DTT).

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022Series A$1.3M
  • 2021Seed—
Investors
i-nest capital, Arco Partners, TX Entrepreneur Partners, JFC
#10
Public · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 34 employees
$880Kraised
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Susmed, short for “Sustainable Medicine” takes user data, puts it through an algorithm, and then provides advice for fixing patients insomnia. Their app The yawn is available for iPhone users. It is currently in clinical trials in cooperation with Harumi Hospital affiliated with the National Institute for Neurological Research and Yumikai Kikami Hospital, a social medical corporation from September 2016.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2017Seed$880K
Founders & team
Taro UenoCEO
Investors
SBI Investment, Tohoku University Venture Partners, Sony Innovation Fund, Beyond Next Ventures, Dream Incubator, Healthcare Innovation
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesContact Form 7Core-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#11
Seed · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2023
—raised
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Mobile application to support women with menopause. The company offers a mobile app called HerLife, which provides various features such as symptom tracking, hormone balance insights, expert articles, and community forums.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Seed—
Founders & team
Janet YuCo-FounderSherry ShiCo-Founder
Investors
DEEPCORE, ANRI
#12
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2020
—raised
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Provider of a mobile-based app for women reproductive health. The software assists women in keeping track of their fertility treatment data. It aids in the recording of medical treatment information such as drug type, changes in hormone values, egg harvest and transplantation information, age, and more. Women can also locate information on nearby fertility clinics and discuss fertility-related difficulties with someone who is in a similar situation.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Yukari TsunodaCEO
Investors
Mirai Creation Organization, GxPartners, ANRI, DEEPCORE, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Global Brain

Funding & investor landscape

$34.4Mtotal disclosed funding
10companies funded
13disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital4 rounds
ABBALab3 rounds
Keio Innovation Initiative3 rounds
ANRI2 rounds
Beyond Next Ventures2 rounds
DEEPCORE2 rounds
Open Network Lab2 rounds
Station AI2 rounds
15th Rock1 rounds
AS-Accelerator1 rounds

Notable founders

Yuki Oka
CEO · Digireha
Yumi Kawata
CEO · Hedgehog MedTech
Shinichiro Ogawa
CEO · Awarefy
Yasuhiro Take
CEO · Dricos
Osamu Oshirasawa
CEO & President · PGV
Daniel Maggs
Co-Founder & CEO · Bisu
Wojciech Bula
Co-Founder & CTO · Bisu
Taro Ueno
CEO · Susmed
Janet Yu
Co-Founder · YStory
Sherry Shi
Co-Founder · YStory
Yukari Tsunoda
CEO · Vivola
Yuichi Kawamura
CEO · Ax Robotix
Prism market signals · Japan · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,987,818 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Disease Self Management coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH IN TOKYO · Health & Bio

How research on Digital Health in Tokyo is moving

A read on the academic research around Digital Health in Tokyo — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 70 papers.

70 papers · stance +0.20 · 20% breakthrough · 48% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • The University of Tokyo32
  • Tokyo Women\'s Medical University6
  • University of Tokyo Hospital6
  • University of Tokyo Health Sciences4
  • Tokyo University of Technology3
leading researchers
Daniel Asamoah · Ebenezer Ato Ewusie · Forhad Hossain · Junichiro Shiomi · K. Kubota · Myo Nyein Aung
prism intelligence · tone & topics
84% positive · 9% critical tone
HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBusinessGovernmentEducationMachine Learning
▲ Breakthroughs13 · 19%
▲ 0%→20% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→20% of field), led by Interpretability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Interpretability3
  • Visualization3
  • Remote patient monitoring3
  • Big data2
  • Analytics2
Newly emergingInterpretability 0→3 · Visualization 0→3 · Remote patient monitoring 0→3
Landmark Simultaneous Non-Contact Vital Sign Monitoring on Multiple Moving Targets for Daily In-Home Healthcare with a Single Fmc · 5 cites
◆ Advancements20 · 29%
▲ 0%→26% share
1 median citations90% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→26% of field), led by Health informatics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health informatics5
  • Nursing research3
  • Health care3
  • Materials informatics2
  • mHealth2
Newly emergingHealth informatics 0→5 · Nursing research 0→3 · Health care 0→3
Landmark Comparison of Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks in Medical Image Analysis: A Systematic Review · 189 cites
▼ Concerns31 · 44%
▲ 0%→45% share
1 median citations94% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→45% of field), led by Health informatics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Health informatics2→9
  • Health administration1→8
  • Public health2→6
  • Nursing research1→4
Newly emergingHealth care 0→10 · Quality (philosophy) 0→3 · Health services research 0→3
Landmark Returning to work after sick leave due to cancer: a 365-day cohort study of Japanese cancer survivors · 80 cites

Common questions

How many Disease Self Management companies are there in Tokyo, Japan?
Radar tracks 47 indexable Disease Self Management companies headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan?
The Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list have raised a combined $34.4M in disclosed equity funding across 10 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Disease Self Management company in Tokyo, Japan?
ACCELStars is the highest-funded Disease Self Management company in Tokyo, Japan, with $7.2M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan are funded?
10 of the 47 Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Disease Self Management unicorns are there in Tokyo, Japan?
None of the Disease Self Management companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Tokyo, Japan Disease Self Management companies?
The most active investors in Tokyo, Japan Disease Self Management companies on this list include Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, ABBALab, Keio Innovation Initiative, ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures.
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