# Daikin Industries

> Daikin Industries is a VC fund in Osaka backing Internet and Renewable Energy. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/daikin-ac
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/daikinindia
- Website: http://www.daikin.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DaikinIndia

Daikin Industries is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Internet and Renewable Energy. Daikin Industries, Ltd. is a global leader in the market of commercial and industrial use air conditioning systems, with more than 40% of the market share in Japan and a well-established presence in China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. The company is also one of the leaders in the fluorochemicals industry, with an approximately 20%share of the world market.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 33% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 33% |
| Energy | 2 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| Energy Storage | 2 | 22% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 33% |
| Series D | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 6 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| chuchi Yoneda | Executive Officer, Director of Technology Innovation Center | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuji-yoneda |
| Doug Widenmann | Senior Vice President & President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-widenmann |
| Masanori Togawa | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masanori-togawa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ASUENE | Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. | $41.7M | Series D | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| 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. | $7.6M | Series D | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $34.1K | Series B | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| TeraWatt Technology | Electrifying all for the sustainable future |  | Series B | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Sensio Air Inc. | Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company using patented technologies to identify real-time pathogens in the air. Sensio Air is used by some of the world's largest companies to detect and identify particles like Mold, Pollen, Dander, Dust-mites but also inorganic particles. Paired with a dashboard or mobile application, Sensio allows peoplewith allergies and asthma or individuals at risk to understand the air they breathe and to predict prevent and manage their symptoms. Sensio Air has recently received investment from HVAC giant Daikin to help consumers better manage their indoor air. | $2M | Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Fairy Devices | Fairy Devices is providing multilingual speech translation engine for station guidance robots. |  | Series B | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Aidemy | Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online. | $2.7M | Series A | Jan 30, 2020 |  |
| ELIIY Power | ELIIY Power is a manufacturing and sales of large lithium-ion batteries and power storage system. | $396.9M | Corporate Round | Apr 17, 2012 |  |
| ASUENE | Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. |  | Series C |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Energy & Environment Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-environment-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ricoh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricoh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scrum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scrum-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Yokohama Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yokohama-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chiba Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chiba-dojo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Daikin Industries invest in?

Daikin Industries invests primarily in Internet, Renewable Energy and Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 9 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 chuchi Yoneda (Executive Officer, Director of Technology Innovation Center), Doug Widenmann (Senior Vice President & President) and Masanori Togawa (President & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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