# Daisuke Tsuchiya

> Daisuke Tsuchiya is a funding round investor at Marubeni backing Battery and Recycling. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Marubeni](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marubeni-corporation)
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisuke-tsuchiya-1467785

Daisuke Tsuchiya is a funding round investor at Marubeni focused on Battery and Recycling. Daisuke Tsuchiya is the Senior Operating Officer at the Metals and Mineral Resources Division at Marubeni.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Battery | 1 | 50% |
| Recycling | 1 | 50% |
| Sustainability | 1 | 50% |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cirba Solutions | Cirba Solutions is a circular supply chain for battery materials is created using a circular economy model, which recycles old resources and reintroduces them into the value chain for reuse with low waste. Cirba Solutions collects end-of-life batteries, processes them to extract critical materials, and reintroduces these materials into the supplychain. Cirba Solutions' battery recycling management platform provides battery-centric logistics, collection program solutions, second-life applications, and validate cathode production, all while emphasizing environmental compliance through technological processes. | $50M |  | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Cirba Solutions | Cirba Solutions is a circular supply chain for battery materials is created using a circular economy model, which recycles old resources and reintroduces them into the value chain for reuse with low waste. Cirba Solutions collects end-of-life batteries, processes them to extract critical materials, and reintroduces these materials into the supplychain. Cirba Solutions' battery recycling management platform provides battery-centric logistics, collection program solutions, second-life applications, and validate cathode production, all while emphasizing environmental compliance through technological processes. | $50M | Corporate Round | Feb 09, 2023 |  |

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## About Marubeni

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals, and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshoretrading.

2 contacts available at Marubeni.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chubei Itoh | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chubei-itoh |
| Daisuke Tsuchiya | Senior Operating Officer, Metals and Mineral Resources Division | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisuke-tsuchiya-fc87 |

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## FAQ

### What does Daisuke Tsuchiya invest in?

Daisuke Tsuchiya invests primarily in Battery, Recycling and Sustainability startups, most often at Funding Round and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Daisuke Tsuchiya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daisuke Tsuchiya closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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