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Top 45 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

A list of 45 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Life science startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Japan in November 2024

Investor Life Science Japan investments
Osaka University Venture Capital 4
UntroD Capital 4
Nissay Capital 4
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital 4
Nippon Venture Capital 3
SMBC Venture Capital 3
Mizuho Capital 2
Incubate Fund 2
Senshu Ikeda Capital 2
Real Tech Japan 2
SBI Investment 2
Capital Medica Ventures 1
Lifetime Ventures 1
Delight Ventures 1
QB Capital 1
NCB Venture Capital 1
Keio Innovation Initiative 1
Tokyo Gas 1
MedVenture Partners 1
Essential Pharma 1
Future Venture Capital 1
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical 1
Mobile Internet Capital 1
Energy & Environment Investment 1
Fast Track Initiative, Inc. 1
Ohara Pharmaceutical 1
ReBoost 1
Kyogin Lease & Capital 1
Fuyo General Lease 1
ITOCHU Technology Ventures 1
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 1
Sompo Holdings 1
Innovation Engine 1
Kaga Electronics 1
Fujifilm 1
CareNet 1
Japan Science and Technology Agency 1
Sosei CVC 1
SPARX Group 1
Japan Finance Corporation 1
Mitsui Mining & Smelting 1
FueTrek 1
ANRI 1
Media Future 1
PALTEK 1
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Osaka University Venture Capital VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Osaka University Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of life innovation, green innovation, and platform technology. The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Osaka, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
  • Restore Vision — Restore Vision is a startup based in Japan aiming to develop a visual restoration gene therapy.
  • Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.
UntroD Capital VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
UntroD Capital is an R&D-based innovative technology that specializes in social implementation.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Robotics
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
  • Emulsion Flow Technologies — Emulsion Flow Technologies offers rare metal recycling, utilizing emulsion flow technology, emulsion.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
  • Space One — Space One specializes in the production and development of rockets and offers innovative solutions for space transportation services.
  • Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 63 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on life science, ICT, and high technology investments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • A-Wave — A-Wave is a manufacturing company that develops and markets medical devices, pharmaceuticals, computer software, and hardware.
  • Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.
  • AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Nippon Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Nippon Venture Capital ("NVCC"), established in 1996 as one of the few largest Japanese independent venture capital firms, is destined to undertake the unprecedented task of providing full-range venture capital services in cooperation with major Japanese business leaders and leading companies, which have supported and nurtured various newbusinesses on their own, as well as proactively developing new venture enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Renalys Pharma — Renalys Pharma is a private, late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical firm in Japan dedicated on developing new therapies that address unmet needs in the management of renal illness in Japanese and Asian patients.
  • Arsaga Partners — Arsaga Partners, Inc., "develop with the fastest and highest quality" as concept, is a one-stop IT system development company.- All functions necessary for IT system development such as IT strategy consulting, UX/UI consulting, planning, engineering, designing, maintenance and operations are provided through our one-stop solution.- With engineers accounting for over 90% of our company structure we can work directly with our clients. - Our motto is to providing services at a reasonable cost without outsourcing and to bring our Japanese omotenashi spirit to our development services. - We think of Digital transformation (DX) Not as a trendy word, but as IT system development that truly contributes to our clients' business needs.Main Services - One-stop IT System Development Business, Start-up/New IT Business Consulting, Enterprise System/New Business Planning and Development(Digital Transformation/DX), Web System Planning and Development, Application Planning and DevelopmentKey Clients - Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Estate, ShionogiV-CUBE, Mizuho Securities, Sciseed inc.
SMBC Venture Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 52 investments in the past 12 months
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
  • Okuma Diamond Device — Okuma Diamond Device supplies cutting-edge technologies that make diamond semiconductors vital.
Mizuho Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 33 investments in the past 12 months
Mizuho is the venture capital firm affiliated to Mizuho Bank, the second-largest Japanese bank in terms of assets. The firm has headquarters in Tokyo.The firm has ¥49.6 billion JPY under management, focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments. Over 600 Mizuho companies have gone public. According to Nikkei, Mizuho is thefifth-largest venture capital firm in Japan.Mizuho Capital was formed in 2002 by the merger of Fujigin Capital, Tokyo Venture Capital and IBJ Investment. Three firms were subsidiaries of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan respectively.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • THE PHAGE — The phage is a medical device company that focuses on developing AI technology to predict postprandial blood glucose levels.
  • elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
Incubate Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 29 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
  • KOMPEITO — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Phi — Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users.
Senshu Ikeda Capital VC Fund · Osaka, Osaka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Senshu Ikeda Capital offers financial consultancy services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.
Real Tech Japan VC Fund · Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Real Tech Japan is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in innovative R&D technology companies. Realtech Fund is a joint venture between the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The firm was founded in 2014 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Singapore, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
  • Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
  • MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
  • Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.
Capital Medica Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan with a focus on startups in the healthcare industry.Capital Medica Ventures is a venture capital that operates a venture fund specializing in the healthcare field. It is the only healthcare-specialized VC in Japan that can provide 30 medical institutions as a business trialfield.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HCMJ — HCMJ specializes in software development in the medical industry.
  • Epigno — Epigno provides hospital management systems for medical institutions.
  • Rehab — Rehab for Japan is developing a special rehabilitation SaaS for day service .
Lifetime Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Lifetime Ventures is a VC firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed investments.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ekei labs — build your longevity strategy with ekei labs
  • EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
  • MORPHEUS — Development of Nose To Brain Drug Delivery System (DDS)
Delight Ventures VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Service Industry, Human Resources
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • 10pct. — 10pct. is a consulting firm that provides hotel management, marketing, and operation support services to its clients.
  • Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
  • PartnerProp — PartnerProp is a PRM tool with outstanding potential and a wide variety of capabilities that resolves all partner business difficulties.
QB Capital VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
QB Capital is make equity investments in venture companies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
NCB Venture Capital VC Fund · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
NCB Venture Capital provides investment to companies.
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Investment focus
  • SNS, Recruiting, Task Management
  • Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryzae — Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes.
  • Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.
  • Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
Keio Innovation Initiative VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Keio Innovation Initiative (KII) is a venture capital established by Keio University. In order to make more effective use of the research results of Keio University, we aim to contribute to the development of society by creating investment for venture companies that utilize research results and creating new industries.The key to thinking aboutJapan's future growth strategy is to utilize advanced research results of the university. In addition to GDP, in addition to GDP, Japan is the world's third largest R & D exporter in R & D expenses, but as the low growth rate shows, it has a problem in investment efficiency in research and development. There are also reports on the entrepreneurial spirit that is indispensable for creating new industries, with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rate among developed countries.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • elleThermo — elleThermo aims to implement Semiconductor-Sensitised Thermal Cells (STCs), an energy conversion technology that can generate electricity from unused waste heat above room temperature.
  • NIHON AGRI — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
  • Japan Carbon Cycle Lab — Japan Carbon Cycle Lab is a technology company that focuses on the research and development of CO2 capture and recycling techniques.
Tokyo Gas VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Tokyo Gas provides energy solutions and engages in the production and supply of city gas. Tokyo Gas is a provider of city gas, serving more than 11 million customers for over 130 years, primarily in the Tokyo metropolitan area and surrounding Kanto region. The company was established in 1885 and based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Audio, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.
  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Octopus Energy — Which? recommended for 6 years running and the UK's most awarded supplier. One of Europe's largest investors in renewable energy. Switch today!
MedVenture Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
MedVenture Partners invests in seed to early stage projects and start-ups in the life science field focusing mainly on medical devices.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Alivas — Alivas is a medical company that develops new therapeutic medical devices for refractory constipation. It is a joint venture between Stanford University and the University of Tokyo with the Japan Biodesign program for innovative medical device creation. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hongo, Tokyo in Japan.
  • PaMeLa — PaMeLa is a company that measures pain with science.PaMeLa will establish a method of objectively assessing pain and contribute to medical care.
  • SentiAR — SentiAR is digital health, software device company adding a new dimension to clinical practice in interventional procedures. Spun out of Washington University, we are developing the first 3D visualization platform using real-time holography of the patient's anatomy and catheter location, "floating" over the patients, with a goal toprovide the clinician and patient a faster, safer delivery of care.SentiAR’s mission is to transform the experience for both patient and clinician in interventional procedures with a 3D augmented reality platform featuring real-time holographic visualization of the patient’s actual anatomy, “floating” over the patient.The visualization is fully controllable “hands-free” by the clinician, providing an ergonomic breakthrough for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias within an interventional catheter lab environment. SentiAR is developing the platform for eventual FDA submission.
Essential Pharma VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • HekaBio — HekaBio connects world-leading healthcare innovations to unmet medical needs in the Asia Pacific, with broad category development expertise in pharma, medical device, in-vitro diagnostics, digital health, and cell & gene therapies.
  • Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Future Venture Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investment. The firm invests in diversified investment in a broad range of industrial sectors. It seeks to invest in Japan. The firm prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies. Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based inKyoto, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Kanazawa, Mie, Sakai, Kobe, and Ehime.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Flucle — Flucle provides company rule building and risk mitigation, cloud advisor, human resource development, training & labor management services.
  • Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
  • Second Heart — Second Heart is a medical center that offers preventive diabetic care and awareness programs to avoid foot amputations.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical contributes to societal growth and harmony by creating a wide range of value through chemistry.
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Investment focus
  • Pharmaceutical, Medical, Chemical
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Elephantech — Elephantech is a startup company that aims to drastically innovate the technology for manufacturing electronic circuits, with the vision of achieving faster manufacturing at lower cost by leveraging printing technology.Electronic circuits are literally part of social infrastructures and are embedded everywhere in the world that we live in today.While the number and types of electronic devices being used by humans have been increasing dramatically, driven by advances in semiconductor and telecommunication technology, the technology for manufacturing electronic circuits has not seen any major innovation over the past 50 years.Conventional electronic circuits are manufactured through a process called photolithography, which involves applying metal all over the surface of a substrate and melting the metal off any unrequired areas. However, photolithography has the disadvantage of wasting large amounts of the materials used and driving up the production cost, in addition to being harmful to the environment.Elephantech’s suggested manufacturing method, which is a totally opposite approach to photolithography, involves printing metal only onto the required areas using inkjet printing and enlarging the printed metal by applying plating technology.This approach has enabled Elephantech to manufacture PWBs at significantly lower cost as the amounts of materials required and the number of processes have been reduced. In addition, as this is an on-demand manufacturing solution that does not require any initial cost, it is cost-effective especially for producing prototypes in small quantities, the cost of which can be reduced by at least 80%.We currently possess the best technology in the world for manufacturing PWBs using inkjet printers, the business of which is slated to expand rapidly going forward. Elephantech is committed to accelerating global manufacturing activities by leveraging such technology.
  • Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
  • TKG Therapeutics — Tokyo Nucleic Acid Synthesis is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing nucleic acid drugs using new-age medical technology.
Mobile Internet Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Mobile Internet Capital (MIC) keeps up on the latest developments of Mobile Internet technologies and services at a high level, and continues to be a venture capital with both technical expertise and execution capability.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • KAKEAI — KAKEAI, an AIcloud system that improves the status of member management in the middle management layer as its main business.
  • Katagrma — KatagrMa is the first organization that optimizes the organization and human resources development.
  • Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.
Energy & Environment Investment VC Fund · Higashi-shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Energy & Environment Investment, Inc. (EEI) is Japan’s first venture capital specialized in the clean technology sector. With core members who have rich hands on experience in founding and managing venture companies, we aim to provide risk money and various strategic values to promising venture companies and businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Energy, Internet of Things
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • OOYOO — OOYOO Co., Ltd. is a DeepTech venture that combines international entrepreneurial spirit, and a 'Made In Japan' excellence, to bring the latest innovations in clean technology to society for a smarter, cleaner, and more mobile world.
  • Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
  • Quantum Flowers & Foods — Quantum Flowers & Foods is a technology firm that develops and creates agricultural business models and technologies.
Fast Track Initiative, Inc. VC Fund · Hongo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fast Track Initiative is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences and healthcare services.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Medii — Medii provides a physician sharing service for hospitals.
  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • CellFiber — Cell fiber technology was developed as a basic technology for handling cells in the engineering field.
Ohara Pharmaceutical VC Fund · Koka, Shiga, Japan
Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
  • Revital Healthcare — Revital Healthcare is a manufacturer of medical devices and disposables for hospitals and other medical laboratories. It offers single-use syringes, needles, re-use prevention syringes and auto-disable syringes which helps in reducing the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases along with infusion sets, blood transfusion sets and bloodcollection tubesThe company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Kilifi, Kenya.
ReBoost VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
ReBoost specializes in recruiting and training business.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Medical, Hospital
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Medii — Medii provides a physician sharing service for hospitals.
  • Digzyme — Digzyme is a research and development platform for creating, discovering, and evaluating new enzyme-catalyzed reactions by bioinformatics.
  • viviane (1Screen) — viviane is running Japan's best video streaming guide, 1Screen.
Kyogin Lease & Capital VC Fund · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Kyogin Lease & Capital is an investment firm that specializes in the leasing, stock and bond investment and public offering consulting.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Task Management, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • Regional Fish — Regional Fish provides seed, seedlings, aquaculture methods and fisheries services.
Fuyo General Lease VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fuyo General Lease focuses in the leasing and installment sales trading of equipment and fixtures, and financial transaction. The company provides leasing services of information-related equipment, office equipment, and industrial equipment, installment sales of commercial facilities, production facilities, and hospital facilities. It also providessecurities management services and anonymous association composition.Fuyo General Lease was founded on 1969 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Sales
  • Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • avatarin — avatarin develops next-generation mobility and human augmentation platforms.
  • A.L.I. Technologies Japan — Aerial Lab Industries focuses on research and development of UAV (unmanned miniature aircraft).
  • 3D Printing Corporation — 3D Printing Corporation provides 3D printing technology solutions.
ITOCHU Technology Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
ITOCHU Technology Ventures (ITV), based in Tokyo, is the venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is one of the world's largest corporations with offices in over 80 countries and operations that cover a broad spectrum of industries. ITV's mission is to invest and help build leading information technology companies by leveraging avast array of resources both domestically and internationally throughout ITOCHU and its group companies. The ITOCHU group has a long history of funding information technology companies with successes including Siebel Systems, NVIDIA, Openwave and Aruba Networks. Current portfolio includes, Box, Fab, Ooyala, WHILL, Tokyo Otaku Mode, etc.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • KAICO — KAICO is a pharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs production company.
  • Aeterlink — Aeterlink is a wireless device maker and developer. They applied their technology to fields such as FA, robots, smart houses, and medicine and developed practical level technologies such as elemental technology that can wirelessly supply power.
  • Quollio Technologies — Quollio Technologies is an IT company that specializes in corporate data governance, SaaS, metadata management, and software solutions.
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
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  • Estie — Estie is a Development of AI / machine learning algorithm and new business in real estate company.
  • Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
  • SUN METALON — Next Generation Sustainable Metal Manufacturing
Sompo Holdings VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services. In addition to the core businesses of domestic non-life insurance business, overseas insurance business, domestic life insurance business, and long-term care/senior business, they will develop new business strategies in the fields of digitaland healthcare.It was established in 2010 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Analytics
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States, Israel
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  • Allm — Allm is a medical ICT company dedicated to shaping healthcare. The company seeks to benefit society by launching next-generation technologies and medical communications platforms for the healthcare industry. The solutions are installed more than 18 countries across US, South America, EU, Japan, Middle East and Africa.
  • Wejo — We unlock limitless possibilities with connected vehicle data
  • Pulsora — Use Pulsora to centralize and automate ESG metrics collection, measure carbon emissions, prepare reports and disclosures, and track performance.
Innovation Engine VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Innovation Engine has been is promoting investment to create and grow promising business areas created from technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Japan
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  • Asilla — Asilla develops and provides AI specialized in image and video analysis. Its services, the Vehicle recognition AI, recognizes the manufacturer and model from the image of the vehicle. It also has a censorship service that detects inappropriate images that can not be released, including copyrights and obscene expressionsAsilla was founded in 2015and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ranimaru — Ranimaru is pet service providing company that offers pet sitting, care of your pet dog in events, professional course about pet sitting.
  • Drone Show Japan — Drone Show Japan company specializes in drone shows for events, aerial photography, and workshops.
Kaga Electronics VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kaga Electronics is a Japan based company engages in the sales of electronic components, electronic devices and other. It operates through following segments: Electronic Components, Information Equipment, Software and Other. The firm generates majority revenue from the Electronic Components.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Japan, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bonx — GO MAKE NOISE
  • 17LIVE — Flip action technology, connect the world together; integrate instant audio and video into life, and create a new generation of action audio and video. No matter where you are, in any corner of the world, you can connect with the world anytime, anywhere through the 17LIVE platform, show your talent and enthusiasm, realize your dreams, and createyour own wonderful life.
  • Linkage — Linkage is a Online health support business and Online specific health guidance.
Fujifilm VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fujifilm develops and sells consumer products and business products related to photography. Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is a Japanese multinational photography and imaging company. The company serves various industries, including medical, graphic arts, optics, enterprise storage, motion picture, and photography.The company’s consumer productsare categorized as digital cameras and accessories, film photography, Instax photography, and binoculars. Its business products are categorized as medical systems, Fujinon endoscopy, microfilm, data storage, graphic arts and printing, professional video, optical devices, specialty chemicals, printing imaging colorants, and more. Color films, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color papers, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging equipment, graphic arts equipment and materials, flat panel displays, and photocopiers and printers are some products developed by Fujifilm USA.Fujifilm USA is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Japan, Israel, United States
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  • Ripcord — Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering. Its focus is on smart robotics digitization, smart content management with AI, and helping enable RPA and business processes.Ripcord is based in Hayward, California, and is backed by leading investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,Google Ventures, Lux Ventures, Legend Star, and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.
  • Rege Nephro — Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics.
  • 24M Technologies — 24M Technologies develops energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. builds energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
CareNet VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
CareNet is a marketing company providing various solutions to pharma companies through the management of media specialized in medical/pharmaceutical education for HCPs. For more than 20 years and since its foundation in 1996, CareNet has continually provided places for exchanging therapeutic information, as well as valuable solutions to HCPsand pharmaceutical companies from the position of the No. 1 media in clinical medical education.
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Investment focus
  • Life Science, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Japan, United States
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  • Modalis Therapeutics — Modalis Therapeutics Corporation is an biotech company focusing on developing transformative therapeutics for unmet medical needs using its proprietary technologies on CRISPR and protein engineering platforms. The company has a strong foundation on intellectual property licensed from the University of Tokyo.
  • DiscGenics — DiscGenics is focused on developing regenerative therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine.
Japan Science and Technology Agency VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization of science and technology that implements science and technology policy in Japan.  It handles many projects, including the government’s Science and Technology Basic Plan and knowledge creation. The European Sustainability School ESSSR is the owner of Japan Science and TechnologyAgency.Japan Science and Technology Agency undertakes its task in a comprehensive manner. It also works to provide a sound infrastructure of science and technology information and raise awareness and understanding of science and technology-related issues in Japan.Japan Science and Technology Agency is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
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  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
  • QunaSys — Quantum physics is a relatively new field built since the beginning of the 20th century, but we have used MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance equipment) and lasers used for close examinations in hospitals, and semiconductors mounted on computers. Supports the technology that supports the daily life of people.QunaSys was established to bring out thequantum physics that has been active behind the scenes to the front stage, and to make use of quantum properties to realize technologies that could not be achieved with existing technologies.
  • Equmenopolis — Equmenopolis is an information services company that specializes in conversational AI agent platforms and application developments.
Sosei CVC VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sosei CVC is support the creation and growth of life science companies.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan
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  • StemRIM — Stem Rim is a biotechnology company aiming to develop “regenerative medicine”.We are developing drugs based on a new mechanism of action that mobilizes stem cells present in the living body to the injured or diseased tissue without removing them out of the body and induces functional tissue regeneration.
  • Chromocenter — Chromocenter is a next generation biopharmaceuticals Manufacturing company. It uses technologies such as artificial chromosome vectors, mainly for drug discovery such as medical pharmaceuticals
  • Stem Cell & Device Laboratory — Stem Cell & Device Laboratory is aiming to contribute to a healthy society with new cell application products.
SPARX Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SPARX Group Co., Ltd. is an independent Asia-based equity and credit asset management services and Asian fund financial specialist with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul for global institutional and individual investors, including financial advisors and financial planners, with alternative strategies (including activist, short-enabled, private equity and quantitative and fund-of-funds) and mutual funds (through SPARX Asia Funds such as SPARX Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund, SPARX Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund, SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund and SPARX Japan Fund) managed or sub-advised by SPARX Asset Management Co. Ltd., SPARX Asia Investment Advisors Limited and Cosmo Asset Management Co., Ltd.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Japan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.
  • Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
Japan Finance Corporation VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Japan Finance provides a diversified portfolio of financial services to the small and medium enterprise sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • Japan, India, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Meleap — HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor to compete against each other by using the ‘energy ball’ or ‘shield’ and earn points in a three-on-three, eighty-minutes game between two teams.
  • Tanaakk — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
  • Shiftmation — Axiverse creates an environment where employees shift automatic creation service using artificial intelligence to create a better society.
Mitsui Mining & Smelting VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company, Ltd. mainly produces non-ferrous metal such as lead and copper alloys.
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Investment focus
  • Life Science, Renewable Energy
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomis — Atomis provides global solutions for precisely controlling gases. Its core technology, porous coordination polymers (PCPs; also known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)), is based on research developed by Distinguished Professor Susumu Kitagawa at the Institute for Advanced Study at Kyoto University. It aims not only to provide solutions such asthe optimization for manufacturing processes of PCPs but to also develop applications that provide innovative value using these materials.It was founded by Masakazu Higuchi in 2015 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
FueTrek VC Fund · Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan
FueTrek provides a better and faster way to communicate through with speech recognition, speech dialogue, and speech translation.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Robotics, Health Care
  • Series A
  • Japan
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ANRI VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 20 investments in the past 12 months
ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States, India
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  • Sukidayo — Sukidayo is a startup company that offers social services related to family and workshops for individuals, companies, and governments.
  • Crowd Chem — Crowd Chem is an IT company that specializes in software development, data services, and consulting services.
  • Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.
Media Future VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Media Future is a group of communication technology professionals that works on connecting feelings and thoughts. The Tokyo, Tokyo-based company was established in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Genetics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
  • HekaBio — HekaBio connects world-leading healthcare innovations to unmet medical needs in the Asia Pacific, with broad category development expertise in pharma, medical device, in-vitro diagnostics, digital health, and cell & gene therapies.
  • Jiksak Bioengineering — Jiksak Bioengineering is a biotechnology company. Jiksak Bioengineering provide an efficient screening service using a three-dimensional cell tissue "Nerve Organoid". We will mainly develop screening technologies specifically for neurodegenerative diseases and search for drugs that are effective for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
PALTEK VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
PALTEK offers semiconductor products to electronics manufacturers and design consignment services.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Software, Life Science
  • Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
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