Startup Studio SEREAL Seeks One Pre-Seed/Seed Stage Startup for Investment of Up to ¥10 Million
Startup Studio SEREAL has launched a limited-time campaign offering 'MVP Acceleration Skill Investment' of up to 10 million JPY to one pre-seed/seed stage startup. This initiative aims to address the challenges startups face in proving business viability and securing funding by combining investment with expert hands-on support.
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Startup Studio SEREAL (Headquarters: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture; Representative: Takahiro Adachi) is launching its "MVP Acceleration Skill Investment" campaign, offering up to 10 million JPY to one pre-seed/seed stage startup. This initiative marks the 10th investment target for SEREAL.
Through this campaign, SEREAL is seeking a startup to jointly pursue Product-Market Fit (PMF) as its 10th investment.
**Background**
When pre-seed/seed startups seek fundraising, investors often demand business viability. However, due to the nature of some services, it can be difficult to prove business viability without actually releasing an MVP, conducting verification, and gaining traction.
For such startups, proving business viability and fundraising are a 'chicken-and-egg' problem. This structural contradiction leads to a loss of growth opportunities for many startups.
SEREAL has faced the aforementioned challenges through product development, business development, and investments in many startups to date.
To solve this problem, SEREAL is now providing "MVP Acceleration Skill Investment," which involves investing in pre-seed/seed stage startups for MVP development funds, while having 0->1 experts rapidly create highly accurate products and achieve subsequent fundraising through traction.
**Campaign Overview**
Period: Until the end of June 2026 (ends once the single slot is filled)
Number of companies: 1
Target: Pre-seed/seed startups about to embark on MVP development
Ticket size: 5 million JPY to a maximum of 10 million JPY
Conditions: Concurrent with the investment, SEREAL provides optional skills on a paid basis (skill investment).
**What is Skill Investment?**
This involves co-investment with VCs when they invest in seed/early-stage startups, or direct investment by SEREAL alone.
Subsequently, experts with 0->1 skills from SEREAL participate in the invested startup on a paid basis. This series of processes is defined as "skill investment," where specialists with business and product development skills specifically tailored for the 0->1 phase, such as Product Management, Product Design, Engineering, Marketing, and AI, join the product team as members and commit to driving business growth.
Specifically, skill provision for challenges such as (examples):
* MVP development and improvement (PdM, UI, Dev, etc.)
* Marketing / CS setup
* GTM strategy design
**About SEREAL**
SEREAL is a startup studio specializing in the 0->1 phase (from launch to PMF), where business, product, and marketing experts collaborate, co-create, found, and invest to produce high-quality startups.
Experts with 0->1 specialized skills and knowledge commit to the business as team members, enabling faster and more efficient PMF achievement.
By leveraging these startup-specific assets, SEREAL aims to achieve its mission of "mass-producing high-quality startups" through collaboration with startups, large corporations, and legacy businesses, as well as by creating new businesses internally.
URL: https://sereal.jp
**Contact**
SEREAL Inc.
ONE FUKUOKA BLDG. 7F, 1-11-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Contact person: Yasunaga
Email: contact-sereal@sereal.jp
Through this campaign, SEREAL is seeking a startup to jointly pursue Product-Market Fit (PMF) as its 10th investment.
**Background**
When pre-seed/seed startups seek fundraising, investors often demand business viability. However, due to the nature of some services, it can be difficult to prove business viability without actually releasing an MVP, conducting verification, and gaining traction.
For such startups, proving business viability and fundraising are a 'chicken-and-egg' problem. This structural contradiction leads to a loss of growth opportunities for many startups.
SEREAL has faced the aforementioned challenges through product development, business development, and investments in many startups to date.
To solve this problem, SEREAL is now providing "MVP Acceleration Skill Investment," which involves investing in pre-seed/seed stage startups for MVP development funds, while having 0->1 experts rapidly create highly accurate products and achieve subsequent fundraising through traction.
**Campaign Overview**
Period: Until the end of June 2026 (ends once the single slot is filled)
Number of companies: 1
Target: Pre-seed/seed startups about to embark on MVP development
Ticket size: 5 million JPY to a maximum of 10 million JPY
Conditions: Concurrent with the investment, SEREAL provides optional skills on a paid basis (skill investment).
**What is Skill Investment?**
This involves co-investment with VCs when they invest in seed/early-stage startups, or direct investment by SEREAL alone.
Subsequently, experts with 0->1 skills from SEREAL participate in the invested startup on a paid basis. This series of processes is defined as "skill investment," where specialists with business and product development skills specifically tailored for the 0->1 phase, such as Product Management, Product Design, Engineering, Marketing, and AI, join the product team as members and commit to driving business growth.
Specifically, skill provision for challenges such as (examples):
* MVP development and improvement (PdM, UI, Dev, etc.)
* Marketing / CS setup
* GTM strategy design
**About SEREAL**
SEREAL is a startup studio specializing in the 0->1 phase (from launch to PMF), where business, product, and marketing experts collaborate, co-create, found, and invest to produce high-quality startups.
Experts with 0->1 specialized skills and knowledge commit to the business as team members, enabling faster and more efficient PMF achievement.
By leveraging these startup-specific assets, SEREAL aims to achieve its mission of "mass-producing high-quality startups" through collaboration with startups, large corporations, and legacy businesses, as well as by creating new businesses internally.
URL: https://sereal.jp
**Contact**
SEREAL Inc.
ONE FUKUOKA BLDG. 7F, 1-11-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Contact person: Yasunaga
Email: contact-sereal@sereal.jp