# Daikin Industries

> Daikin Industries is a VC fund in Osaka backing Industrial and Beauty. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/daikin_jp
- Website: http://www.daikin.co.jp/

Daikin Industries is a multinational air conditioning manufacturing company. The company was founded on October 25, 1924 and is based in Osaka, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Industrial | 3 | 30% |
| Beauty | 2 | 20% |
| Energy | 2 | 20% |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |
| Security | 2 | 20% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 70% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 10% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Masanori Togawa | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masanori-togawa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Advance Composite | Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products. | $7.2M |  | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $6.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Wassha | Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa. | $8.5M | Series C | Jun 12, 2022 |  |
| OCSiAl Group | Headquartered in Luxembourg, OCSiAl is the world’s largest manufacturer of graphene nanotubes (also known as single wall carbon nanotubes). It employs more than 420 experts worldwide in countries including the United States, China (Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong), Russia, India, Japan, South Korea, and Europe. OCSiAl’s key product is graphenenanotubes. Being a wonder material with remarkable intrinsic properties, graphene nanotubes have been acknowledged as an industrial standard in various sectors. For instance, they are an irreplicable element of silicon-anode batteries—a next-gen technology that all leading EV makers have confirmed they will use in the following decade. OCSiAl has 97% of global graphene nanotube production capacity. OCSiAl is a rapidly growing company. In 2019, it was recognized as a unicorn company by Crunchbase and CB Insights. During a new round of capital raising in summer 2021, the company’s valuation increased to circa $2 bln. Since then, OCSiAl valuation continues to grow. One of OCSiAl’s investors is Japan-based Daikin Industries, Ltd, the global leader in HVAC. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| bitkey | Bitkey is a company provides its own key technology. | $5.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Japan Data Science Consortium | Japan Data Science Consortium (JDSC) is an AI company that provides solutions for the medical, education and retail areas. As a professional consulting company, JDSC provides holistic support, from system construction to corporate process transformation to realize real profit impact by leveraging AI technology. | $24.7M | Series B | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Provigate | PROVIGATE is a provider of bio-transistor sensor technologies in Japan.The company's technologies are able to measure dynamic changes with the help of perception-broadening sensors, enabling individuals to change their habits for health | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 13, 2020 |  |
| Nature Architects | Nature Architects develops Direct Functional Modeling (DFM), the design algorithm for additive manufacturing by which users are able to directly design the functional properties for their product. Using DFM, it is possible to design multiple features, such as motion, kinematics, and elasticity, which have been difficult to design in theconventional design process. By leveraging the benefit of additive manufacturing, users can design and manufacturer a product with multiple functions in a consolidated one part. DFM can be applied to the area in which complex processing and assembling is required such as automobiles, airplanes, Robotics was necessary development. | $3M | Series A | May 29, 2020 |  |
| Informetis | Informatis uses the power of AI and other technologies to innovate energy networks around the world and create the “next-generation social infrastructure” that blends into and cooperates with people's daily activities. | $7.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 20, 2020 |  |
| Provigate | PROVIGATE is a provider of bio-transistor sensor technologies in Japan.The company's technologies are able to measure dynamic changes with the help of perception-broadening sensors, enabling individuals to change their habits for health |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Energy & Environment Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-environment-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirai Creation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirai-creation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Daikin Industries invest in?

Daikin Industries invests primarily in Industrial, Beauty and Energy startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Daikin Industries?

The team at Daikin Industries includes Masanori Togawa (President & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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