# DaiwaHouse

> DaiwaHouse is a VC fund in Osaka backing Medical and Robotics. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/daiwahouse-industry-co.-ltd
- Website: http://www.daiwahouse.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DaiwaHouse

DaiwaHouse is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Medical and Robotics. Daiwa House is a home builder that engages in the provision of construction and real estate services. The company also engaged in the construction of factories, shopping centers, health care facilities, and operations of hotels, golf courses, and fitness clubs.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 3 | 19% |
| Robotics | 3 | 19% |
| Hardware | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 9 | 56% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keita Chikahisa | General Manager CSR Department | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keita-chikahisa |
| Tatsuya Urakawa | Director & Managing Executive Officer | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tatsuya-urakawa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ugo | UGO is creating future avatar robots and a platform that connects the administration of multiple robots to achieve the ''fusion of humans and robots,'' or ''collaboration with robots to perform employment that used to be performed only by humans. |  | Series B | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| PNB Housing Finance | PNBHFL provides housing loans to individuals and corporate bodies for construction, purchase, repair and up-gradation of houses. It also provides loans for commercial space, loan against property and loan for purchase of residential plots. | $320.5M | Post-IPO Secondary | May 02, 2025 |  |
| Oishii | Oishii Farm provides indoor vertical farming technology. Oishii sells via supermarkets, offering a container of between eight and 11 strawberries for $50 per package. Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville started the company in 2017. | $19.5M | Series B | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Alliance Residential Company | Alliance Residential Company is a real estate company which provides Investment, Asset Management, Development and building services. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| Gojo & Company | Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $115.3M | Series F | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| LocationMind | LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past. | $6.6M | Series B | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| Rutilea | RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency. | $58.6M | Series D | Sep 02, 2024 |  |
| Synspective | Synspective provides SAR data and remote monitoring services to government agencies. Its satellite data technology utilizes and integrates data from satellite constellations, big data, and machine learning. It provides various satellite services, including remote sensing and satellite imagery using small-sized SAR satellites that can measure humanactivity over a wide area on earth, regardless of time or weather. | $44M | Series C | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Crassone | Crassone is an housing assistance service. | $7.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 10, 2024 |  |
| Seven Dreamers Laboratories | Seven Dreamers Laboratories is the maker of personal-use devices dedicated to creating totally novel, world-first products. The company develops carbon tool, medical equipment with haute couture design, and a household laundry robot. It targets to commercialize the Laundroid, a laundry-folding robot that uses image-recognition algorithms and techto identify types of clothing, such as t-shirts, towels, and pants, fold each one appropriately, and sort them by item or family member.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $141.7M | Corporate Round | Sep 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [JAFCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ENESERVE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eneserve) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gogin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gogin-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hakuhodo DY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakuodo-dy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Panasonic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/panasonic) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does DaiwaHouse invest in?

DaiwaHouse invests primarily in Medical, Robotics and Hardware startups, most often at Series B and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 16 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 DaiwaHouse?

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### Who are the partners at DaiwaHouse?

The team at DaiwaHouse includes Keita Chikahisa (General Manager CSR Department) and Tatsuya Urakawa (Director & Managing Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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