# Chubu Electric Power

> Chubu Electric Power is a VC fund in Nagoya backing Energy and Health Care. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nagoya, Japan
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chubu-electric-power-co-inc/
- Website: https://www.chuden.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chuden.jp/

Chubu Electric Power is a VC fund in Nagoya focused on Energy and Health Care. Chubu Electric Power generates, distributes, and sells electricity, natural gas, and on-site energy products and services. Its chief segments include electric power, which supplies electric power to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, and energy, which sells natural gas and operates cogeneration facilities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 5 | 23% |
| Health Care | 5 | 23% |
| Medical | 4 | 18% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 7 | 32% |
| Series B | 4 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 18% |
| Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 16 | 73% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Douglas MacArthur | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-macarthur |
| Hiroki Sato | Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroki-sato-bbac |
| Tatsuya Kagami | General Manager of Procurement and Supply and Demand Division | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tatsuya-kagami-de46 |
| Toshiya Hayashi | General Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toshiya-hayashi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shonai | Shonai is a real estate company that focuses on the development of residential and commercial properties. | $6.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 30, 2026 |  |
| Ecommit | Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis |  | Series A | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| JOYCLE | JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| NewGreen | NewGreen is an agricultural service firm that provide services that contribute to improving farmers' incomes in the green market. | $633.9K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Enechain | enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy. | $38M | Series B | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| SWAT Mobility | SWAT Mobility’s vehicle-routing technology helps companies, transport operators, and government agencies around the world solve complex transportation challenges. We are the first to run high-capacity vehicle pooling services that are both on-demand and dynamically routed. We also have proven results in helping our clients reduce transportationcosts, improve city connectivity, and reduce traffic congestion.Our technology tops the industry's benchmark, Li & Lim, and with our cutting-edge smart mobility optimisation engine, we are future-ready for the world of autonomous vehicles. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Aakel Inc. | Aakel Technologies provides optimization services for energy use and mobility operations with the aim of realizing a decarbonized society. | $167.5K | Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Ecowende | Ecowende specializes in ecological wind farming. It helps marine mammals and marine life. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 02, 2024 |  |
| Eavor | Eavor is a technology based energy company that provides a clean, carbon-neutral, scalable, baseload power solution. The company's solution represents a truly scalable form of clean baseload power. They achieve this by mitigating or eliminating many of the issues that have hindered traditional geothermal solutions. The system is made withexisting commercial componentry configured in a completely novel way. They use the most recent advances in drilling techniques and merge them with the latest heat to power generation technology to create a scalable, steady, and reliable source of green power. | $131.9M | Series B | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Nealle | Nealle offers business development, business planning and consulting services. | $241M | Series A | Aug 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hokkaido Electric Power Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hokkaido-electric-power-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k4-ventures-8a86) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Minerva Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minerva-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirai Creation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirai-creation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Chubu Electric Power invest in?

Chubu Electric Power invests primarily in Energy, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series B stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Chubu Electric Power?

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### Who are the partners at Chubu Electric Power?

The team at Chubu Electric Power includes Douglas MacArthur (Founder), Hiroki Sato (Executive Officer) and Tatsuya Kagami (General Manager of Procurement and Supply and Demand Division). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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