# ENEOS Innovation Partners

> ENEOS Innovation Partners is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Internet. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.eneos-innovation.co.jp/

ENEOS Innovation Partners is an investment firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $4.2M–$553M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $6.9M–$74M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 25% |
| Internet | 4 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 15% |
| SaaS | 2 | 10% |
| Robotics | 2 | 10% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 11 | 55% |
| United States | 3 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Masashi Shimanuki | President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masashi-shimanuki |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sorabito | SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $9.3M | Seed | Jul 01, 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. | $7.6M | Series D | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Desamis | Desamis is a major consumer electronics manufacturer who has been engaged in the agribusiness. | $4.2M | Series B | Mar 18, 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 |  |
| Alt | Alt is an AI technology company that develops “Personal Artificial Intelligence” systems. Their product suite includes AI GIJIROKU (automatic transcription), altBrain, CLONEdev, altTalk, and the EMETH GPU Pool infrastructure. They also offer enterprise AI solutions and cloud infrastructure for data storage and processing. | $269.3M |  | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Persefoni AI | Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides userswith a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions. | $50M | Series C | Aug 11, 2023 |  |
| H Cycle | H Cycle deploys proven waste gasification technology to produce low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen for industrial and retail customers. |  | Series A | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| Redivivus | Redivivus offers services such as cryogenic shredding to reduce logistics costs and storage risks of li-ion batteries. The company also has a hybrid solution of hydrometallurgical and electrochemical battery recycling to recover battery elements as a metallic alloy. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Oxa | Oxa develops autonomous vehicle software and hardware solutions for industrial mobility automation. The company provides self-driving software that can be configured for various industrial vehicles, paired with modular hardware systems that allow existing fleets to be upgraded. Oxa also offers fleet management software that can integrate withthird-party logistics systems to support coordinated operations. Its solutions focus on improving efficiency, productivity, and safety in environments such as ports, airports, and industrial yards. Oxa incorporates safety and monitoring measures throughout its development and deployment processes, ensuring controlled and explainable vehicle autonomy. The company collaborates with organizations to implement and optimize automation strategies while supporting the adoption and operation of autonomous fleets. | $139.8M | Series C | Jan 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Incubate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incubate-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does ENEOS Innovation Partners invest in?

ENEOS Innovation Partners invests primarily in Manufacturing, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ENEOS Innovation Partners's check size?

ENEOS Innovation Partners typically joins rounds of $4.2M–$553M at Series B and $6.9M–$74M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ENEOS Innovation Partners participates in.

### How do I contact ENEOS Innovation Partners?

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### Who are the partners at ENEOS Innovation Partners?

The team at ENEOS Innovation Partners includes Masashi Shimanuki (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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