Best Online Grocery Companies in Japan
The 58 best Online Grocery companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Line Man.
Japan's Online Grocery sector is smaller than the headlines suggest, but the funding trail tells you exactly where the bets are landing. Our directory tracks 58 companies with $247M in total disclosed funding, and that number is dominated by one outlier: Line Man sits at $110M, dwarfing everyone else on the list. Vivid Garden follows at $15M, Wada FoodTech at $6M, and the rest cluster well below $1M. No unicorns yet. Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, JAFCO Group, and Global Brain are the most active backers, which signals institutional patience rather than frothy speculation.
So what's the macro pull here? Globally, the online grocery market was valued at roughly $350.6B in 2022 and is projected to reach $2,778.4B by 2032, a 24.6% CAGR that's hard to ignore. Japan's slice of that is still forming, and I'd argue the gap between Line Man's raise and everyone else's sub-$1M rounds is the story this quarter. Instacart's delivery learnings from recent operator discussions point to payment integration and logistics density as the make-or-break variables, exactly the themes heating up here. Coverage of Japan's online grocery space is rising, and the companies closing ground on payment API development are the ones worth watching now.
Ranked: Best Online Grocery companies in Japan
| # | Company | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | SEO maturity | Disclosed funding | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakuyasu Online platform for buying alcoholic beverages | 3,174 | Junichi Sato CEO | Concrete CMSPHPJava+33 | Top 100k | basic | — | — |
| 2 | S & B Foods Online platform offering multi-category grocery products | 2,967 | — | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Facebook Login+16 | Top 50k | rich | — | — |
| 3 | kasumi co KASUMI facilitates supermarkets and retail stores that offer groceries, household goods, clothing, and more. | 2,003 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 100k | rich | — | — |
| 4 | Oisix ra daichi Sustainable food delivery connecting producers and consumers for happier, healthier lives | 1,891 | Kohey Takashima CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | Top 5M | rich | — | — |
| 5 | Line Man App-based platform for booking hyperlocal delivery services | 990 | — | — | — | — | $110M | — |
| 6 | Pieroth Japan Supplier of wine and other alcoholic products based in Tokyo, Japan. | 500 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | Top 10M | rich | — | — |
| 7 | Radishbo Platform offering home delivery of agricultural produce and foods | 239 | — | SentryJavaAmazon ALB+27 | Top 50k | basic | — | — |
| 8 | Foodison Online platform to procure seafood for restaurants | 234 | Toru Yamamoto Founder & CEO | STUDIOApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | Top 10M | basic | $81M | — |
| 9 | Vivid Garden Provider of an online platform connecting consumers directly with producers | 111 | Rina Akimoto CEO | microCMSYouTubeReact+14 | Top 10M | basic | $15M | — |
| 10 | Cake.jp Internet first brand offering cakes | 63 | — | Cart FunctionalityLINE LoginVue.js+27 | Top 500k | rich | $7M | — |
Top 12 Online Grocery companies in Japan
#1
Series B · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 30 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Pan For You specializes in providing delivery of handmade bread made by craftsmen for offices. It offers up to 8 different types of bread from different locations on a monthly basis. Offerings include bread such as low sugar cheese, sagle fruy, cheese bagels, cinnamon roll, croissant, wasabi france, and brioche square.
- Apr 2026Seed—
- Jun 2022Series B$4.7M
#2
Seed · Chuo-ku, Kyushu · founded 2018$5.5Mraised▾
Wada FoodTech is a decentralized foodservice platform that enables foodservice to expand to customers' doorsteps using AIoT hot-chain total solutions. The company offers hot-chain vending machine services in Osaka, Japan, and has partnerships to accelerate growth in Japan and beyond. Wada FoodTech aims to revolutionize the bento market with innovative AIoT technology.
- Jun 2025Seed$5M
- Sep 2023Seed$2.7M
- Sep 2022Seed$2.8M
#3
Series A · Kyoto, Kyoto · founded 2017 · 20 employees$933.2Kraised▾
Provider of online ordering solutions for takeaway restaurants. The software offers features like product editing, inventory control, sales period setting, sales management, public reservations of products, inventory control, and more.
- May 2025Series A$4.8M
- Feb 2024Series A$933.2K
- May 2022Conventional Debt—
- May 2022Seed—
#4
Seed · Osaka, Osaka · founded 2023$656.5Kraised▾
Online retailer of protein-infused ice cream in various pack sizes. The company offers ice cream made with ingredients such as grass-fed whey protein isolate, Hokkaido milk, and organic vanilla extract. The product contains dietary fiber from natural chicory root and is sweetened with allulose. The company also publishes blog posts related to protein intake and fitness.
- Feb 2025Seed$656.5K
#5
Series D · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2008 · 990 employees$110Mraised▾
Lineman is an app-based platform for booking hyperlocal delivery services. It allows users to order, track and book on-demand deliveries of food, parcels, groceries, documents, store items, as well as taxi services. Its app is available across both Android and iOS platforms.
- Jul 2020Series D$110M
#6
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2016 · 111 employees$15.4Mraised▾
Provider of an online platform connecting consumers directly with producers. It offers a platform for producers to sell goods directly to individuals and corporations. Services extend to supporting regional food promotion for government entities. The platform also facilitates corporate gifting and private label offerings.
- Jan 2023Series B$15.4M
#7
Public · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2013 · 234 employees$81.2Mraised▾
Online platform to procure seafood for restaurants. It offers an e-commerce platform that allows restaurants to order raw, frozen, and processed fish and seafood from producers, fishermen, and retailers of Japan. It delivers online orders through an in-house delivery team.
- Dec 2015Series A$81.2M
#8
Series A · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2018$1.3Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering plant-based nutritional drinks. The product catalog includes protein-based nutritional drinks like nutrition powders, shakes, and gift packs. It claims that the products contain vitamins & minerals required for dietary fibers.
- Nov 2023Series A$1.3M
#9
Seed · Meguro City, Tokyo · founded 2021 · 21 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Online retailer of groceries, fresh produce, prepared meals, and household items. It provides options for scheduled or immediate delivery. The business offers a selection of produce, meats, prepared foods, and everyday essentials. Customers can order through its application or website.
- Apr 2022Seed$5.8M
#10
Series A · Shinjuku City, Tokyo · founded 2009 · 63 employees$7.1Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering cakes. It offers baked confectionery, rolled cakes, donuts, chocolate cakes, cheesecakes, pudding, cupcakes, icing cookies, and more. It also offers custom cakes with portraits, personalized text messages, and more.
- May 2021Series A$7.1M
#11
Deadpooled · Shinagawa, Tokyo · founded 2007 · 17 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Planet table runs a food ordering platform called Send that connects farmers with businesses directly. Farmers can upload their products and quantities on the website and restaurants can then see the farmers in their vicinity and order from them.
- Sep 2016Series B$4M
- Jan 2016Series A$850K
- Jan 2010Series A$6.7M
#12
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2021$1.7Mraised▾
Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products with ultra-fast delivery. The platform provides fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, snacks, grains, honey, oil, and more. It also provides dairy products, bakery products, and much more.
- Mar 2022Seed$1.7M
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Online Grocery coverage by sub-theme.
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