Top 15 CleanTech VC Funds & Investors in Japan (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mitsubishi HC Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Series B, Debt Financing, Seed | Energy, Software, Renewable Energy | $167k–$921M |
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Mirai Creation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A | Robotics, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $4M–$369M |
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Animal Spirits Ltd.
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical | $389k–$20M |
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Osaka Gas
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, The Netherlands | Series C, Series A | Energy, Automotive, Internet | $28M–$198M |
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elDesign
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed | Energy, CleanTech, Wholesale | |
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GLOBIS
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Pet, Apps | $2.3M–$31M |
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ReGACY Innovation Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series B, Corporate Round | Solar, Nuclear, CleanTech | |
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Mistletoe
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Mobile | $709k–$57M |
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PE&HR
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Fashion, Education | $474k–$31M |
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Tsuneishi Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Apps, SNS, Beauty | $1M–$16M |
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Hamamatsu Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Japan | Seed, Series A | Laser, Electronics, Manufacturing | $1.4M–$5.1M |
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Incubate Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $314k–$91M |
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Beenos Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile | $535k–$51M |
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MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.1M–$198M |
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Toppan Printing
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, India | Corporate Round, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Health Care | $2M–$553M |
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series B, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $167k–$3.6M; Series B $2.5M–$62M; Debt Financing $64M–$921M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Space BD — Space BD aims to become a one-stop shop to respond to all issues related to industrialization of space, and alleviate the work of businesses that are developing new technologies.
- SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
- Prediction — Prediction is an advertising company that provides video advertising media and AI-powered potential customer estimation services.
The Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models, supporting the growth of value in these companies and projects, wherever they are found around the world.
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- Industry: Robotics, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Series A $4M–$269M; Series B $6M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.
- Local Motors — Local Motors were known for their open-source motor vehicle designs, their cutting-edge expertise in 3D-printing cars, and their impressive self-driving vehicle technology.
- Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Discover how NanoQT builds the foundation for scalable quantum computing with nanofiber cavity-QED technology and high-fidelity quantum connectivity.
Animal Spirits is an investment firm that raises funds for seed and early-stage startups and provides relevant advisory services.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $389k–$10M; Series A $1.4M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $973k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kikuvi — Kikuvi develops an AI-driven interview agent that automates question design, execution, and analysis. It eliminates the effort of listening, allowing users to focus their time on decision-making and creativity.
- Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
- Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.
Osaka Gas produces, supplies, and sells domestic energy, city gas, sales of gas equipment, and gas piping construction. They offer fine materials and carbon material products for kitchen machines, air conditioners, cogeneration, gas heat pumps, natural chillers, boilers, commercial gas water heaters, and industrial furnaces and burners.
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- Industry: Energy, Automotive, Internet
- Stage:Series C, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series C $28M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Koloma — Koloma is revolutionizing clean energy by harnessing naturally occurring hydrogen from deep within the Earth.
- Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
- SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
elDesign is a consulting company that also operates a regional revitalization business.
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- Industry: Energy, CleanTech, Wholesale
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Energy Trade — Energy Trade is a energy & power wholesaler that procures and provides wholesale power services for retail electric power companies.
In 1992, GLOBIS started out with one marketing course in a small, rented classroom in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Since then, the management environment surrounding Japanese companies has reached an unparalleled turning point requiring dynamic change and creativity. The history of GLOBIS is the continual pursuit of creative change and innovationdrawing upon our own experience in starting and growing businesses. In "People" infrastructures, we have turned out a large number of business leaders and supported corporate clients in enhancing their management capabilities. In "Capital," we have supported the creative efforts of venture businesses, and in "Knowledge," we have published numerous books on management. With each new day, GLOBIS takes another step toward becoming the No. 1 business school in Asia as well as Asia's No. 1 venture capital firm. Yoshito Hori Chairman and CEO of GLOBIS Corporation
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Pet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anipos — Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance.
- HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
- Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
ReGACY Innovation Group offers complete co-creation support, from discovery to commercialization and monetization.
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- Industry: Solar, Nuclear, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ATOMica — ATOMica is a co-working space and business management company for conference rooms, event venues, circles, and schools. The company uses coworking spaces as HUBs to provide services that maximize individuals' power. It can be used for a variety of purposes, including coworking space, shared office space, meetings, events, and web seminars. Itis also possible to use it only once. They plan and run local communities that bring together a diverse range of people, including students, workers, businesses, universities, and governments.
- Esree Energy — Esree Energy is a creator of thermal-based energy storage systems designed to effectively store and distribute electricity. The business stores excess energy as thermal differentials using compressed carbon dioxide and heat pump concepts.
- Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
Mistletoe is a hub for startups and the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem. It specifically provides learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, facilitates startup communities, invests in and supports startup companies and venture capitals.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $709k–$28M; Series A $2.1M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
- Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
PE&HR is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in incubation, start-up, and early-stage companies. PE&HR primarily invests in the human resources, internet, healthcare, IT, mobile, and social commerce-related industries.
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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $474k–$9.9M; Series A $2.1M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
- Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
- Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.
Tsuneishi Partners provides services and products in shipbuilding, shipping, environmental, energy, and services. With regard to product development, the company has a lineup of container carriers and tankers centered on bulk cargo ships to meet the needs of various markets. It was established in 1917 and is based in Hiroshima, Japan.
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- Industry: Apps, SNS, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$16M; Series A $1M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JaQool, Inc. — JaQool is a company that will leverage social innovation and new technologies to create convenient services that are something to get excited about. Three entrepreneurs from different backgrounds have gathered together to utilise these new technologies and techniques to develop services that can help to make the world a better place.JaQool willinitially work on a mobile translation service for tourists coming to Japan from overseas. The number of tourists from overseas has been increasing rapidly in recent years, but many have encountered difficulties due to being unable to understand Japanese. Removing the language barrier is a pressing challenge that needs to be addressed, particularly in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics that will be held in 2020. JaQool can help contribute towards a solution.
- Kotozna — Kotozna is an IT service company that aims to solve the social problem of "language cave" using cutting-edge technologies such as AI and machine translation. Multilingual translation services such as "Kotozna Chat", which provides messaging with simultaneous translation between different SNS platforms, and "KotoznaCamera", which translates Japanese content such as restaurant menus and displays them by QR code scanning.
- Blossom Energy — Developed advanced nuclear reactors that are able to produce clean energy, Blossom Energy manufactures nuclear reactors for the nuclear energy industry. The focus of the company is on providing affordable, stable, and sustainable energy for the world. The company utilizes HTGR, which is a fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
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- Industry: Laser, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Femtum — Femtum offers mid-infrared pulsed fibre lasers, fibre amplifiers, and tunable fibre lasers for medical and industrial use. They give access to mid-infrared spectroscopy with laser systems. Their team developed know-how and patented technologies to make a difference in the laser industry.
- Silveray — Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market.
- Pinc Technologies — PINC's nanoPPLN platform brings nonlinear circuits to integrated photonics, unlocking breakthroughs in sensing, computing, communications, and beyond.
Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 295
- Round size: Seed $314k–$18M; Series A $2.7M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
- Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
- Pixie Dust Technologies — Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.
Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $535k–$6.6M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $10M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
- Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
- Delivered Korea — Delivered Korea is an e-commerce platform, that accelerates cross-border e-commerce from South Korea to your country.
MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$33M; Series B $1.8M–$198M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Balus — Balus provides motion capture, Unity systems, and AR live permanent venues.The company provides character content infrastructure using real-time animation, we also support the production of original content. Balus provides the necessary technology for event planning, casting, VR events, recording and creation of production images, real-timemotion capture during live events, real-time transmission, event management, and systems that allow users to participate in the production.
- iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
- Smart Craft —
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. provides commercial printing and related services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Information & Networks, Living Environment, and Electronics. The Information & Networks segment provides commercial printing services for posters, catalogs, pamphlets, flyers, calendars, pop materials, and gifts, as well asoffers design and event services, sales promotion planning, multimedia-related activities, and database and network system design and operation services; and publications printing services magazines and books, as well as CDROMs, DVDs, and other electronic publications. It also offers securities, such as stocks, bonds, gift certificates, and product coupons; cards comprising magnetic cards and prepaid cards; and develops and designs IC card systems, IC tag systems, and security management systems.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series B $3M–$553M; Corporate Round $2M–$213M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
- Ascenders — Ascenders is a sports human resources business platform.
- Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
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