# SMBC Venture Capital (slim)

> SMBC Venture Capital's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, SOUNDRAW Inc. and TableCheck Inc., with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smbc-venture-capital/index.md (~550 tokens) · this version ~430 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smbc-venture-capital/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smbc-venture-capital/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Venture firm.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **SOUNDRAW Inc.**, JPY 180M round, July 2022, $3M round, March 2024
  - [SOUNDRAW API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soundraw.md), graded F, 14.5/100
  - Source: https://thebridge.jp/en/2022/07/soundraw-jpy180m-round-funding
- **TableCheck Inc.**, JPY 600M round, July 2019
  - [TableCheck API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tablecheck.md), graded C, 57.1/100
  - Source: https://thebridge.jp/2019/07/tablecheck-jpy600m-funding

## Where they invest

- Music generation, 1
- Restaurant & local bookings, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Daigo Kusunoki](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daigo-kusunoki/), SOUNDRAW Inc.
- [Yu Taniguchi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yu-taniguchi/), TableCheck Inc.
- [John Shields](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-shields/), TableCheck Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has SMBC Venture Capital invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists SOUNDRAW Inc.

### How are SMBC Venture Capital's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, SOUNDRAW API (F, 14.5) and TableCheck API (C, 57.1).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.