Coral Capital: agent readiness, investment criteria and pitch path

Tokyo, Japan · Asia-Pacific · scanned 31 October 2026

Agent-Ready Index4210th of 97
Agent tasks1of 3 verified tasks
Readiness levelL1Basic Web Presence
Checks passed8/25all decided

WEEK BY WEEK

The index is scanned again every week; this firm's history starts with the 26 Oct edition (42).

Every weekly edition is reviewed by a person before it goes live. Week-by-week data for all firms: history.json.

FIVE PARTS OF THE INDEX

Discoverability60%
Content for agents67%
Bot access50%
APIs, MCP and auth0%
Agent tasks33%

Each part counts 20%. Parts are the share of their checks passed; agent tasks give half credit for criteria only in page prose and for a pitch form.

THREE AGENT TASKS

✓ Machine-readable

Can an agent discover the investment criteria?

“Coral Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that invests globally under a "Build with Japan" thesis — backing founders in Japan and in the United States who build with Japan's industrial strengths, talent, and capital.” (sectors, geography · llms.txt)
“Began investing in 2016 as 500 Startups Japan and was renamed Coral Capital in 2019.” (geography · llms.txt)
“Invests globally, with portfolio companies in Japan and the United States.” (geography · llms.txt)
✗ No

Can it access APIs or MCP tools?

No MCP server card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools.

✗ Email or none

Can it find a structured pitch-submission path?

No pitch form, tool or pitch email found.

FIRM PROFILE

Fund size

Not stated on its site.

Ticket

No ticket size an agent could read.

Stage, in its words

“The Coral Capital funds invest at seed and early stage; the Coral Growth vehicles are” — source

Backed (as listed on its site)
ANDURILGeneral MatterrampIVRyMarqVisionTeraWatt Technology InchacomonoKyoto Fusioneering
WebsitePortfolioReceipts (JSON)

EVERY CHECK

Discoverability

✓robots.txt — A valid robots.txt is published (1 User-agent group).
✓Sitemap — robots.txt lists 1 sitemap(s).
✗Link headers — Homepage Link header has no agent-useful relations.
✗DNS-AID — DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) records not found under _agents.
✓Organization identity — Organization structured data names Coral Capital with 5 official profile link(s).

Content for agents

✗Markdown on request — Accept: text/markdown returns text/html; charset=UTF-8, not Markdown.
✓llms.txt — A valid /llms.txt summary is published for AI agents.
✓Readable without JavaScript — The server HTML carries the page text (404 of 404 words).

Bot access

✓AI bot rules — No AI-specific groups; the wildcard rules apply to AI crawlers.
✗Content Signals — No Content-Signal directive in robots.txt.
✗AI usage signals — No AI usage preferences declared (Content Signals, IETF Content-Usage, TDMRep or noai).
–Web Bot Auth — No Web Bot Auth directory (informational: only for sites that run their own bots).
✓AI agents can get in — 7 of 7 AI crawlers are allowed and reached the page.

APIs, MCP and auth

✗API catalog — No API catalog found.
✗OAuth discovery — No OAuth/OIDC discovery metadata found.
✗Protected Resource — No valid /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
✗auth.md — auth.md not found.
✗MCP server card — MCP Server Card not found.
✗A2A agent card — A2A Agent Card not found.
✗Agent Skills — Agent Skills index not found.
✗WebMCP — No WebMCP tools were registered while the page loaded.
✗ARD manifest — No ARD capability manifest found.
✗Personal Agent Protocol — No Personal Agent Protocol manifest (/.well-known/poppy.json).

Agent actions

✓Criteria for agents — Key facts (sectors, geography, stage) are stated in machine-readable channels.
✗API / MCP access — No API or MCP entry point for agents (no MCP card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools).
✗Pitch path agents can finish — No structured action path found for agents.

Commerce

–x402 — x402 payment protocol not detected (not a commerce site).
–MPP — MPP payment discovery not detected (not a commerce site).
–UCP — UCP profile not found (not a commerce site).
–ACP — ACP discovery document not found (not a commerce site).
–AP2 — AP2 not detected (no A2A Agent Card) (not a commerce site).

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FAQ

What is Coral Capital's ticket size?

Coral Capital did not state a ticket size anywhere an agent could read on 31 October 2026.

How do you pitch Coral Capital?

We found no pitch form, tool or pitch email on Coral Capital's site on 31 October 2026.

Is Coral Capital agent-ready?

Coral Capital scores 42 out of 100 in the Agent-Ready VC Index (rank 10 of the firms we could fully check) and reaches agent-readiness Level 1 (Basic Web Presence), passing 8 of 25 checks.

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