# ENEOS

> ENEOS is a VC fund in Otemachi backing Energy and Robotics. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Otemachi, Japan
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jxtg-eneos
- Website: https://www.eneos.co.jp/english

ENEOS is a VC fund in Otemachi focused on Energy and Robotics. ENEOS focuses on the business management and incidental operations of subsidiaries and group companies engaged in the energy business. The company is headquartered in Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $9.2M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 5 | 26% |
| Robotics | 3 | 16% |
| Clean Energy | 3 | 16% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 16% |
| Internet of Things | 3 | 16% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 8 | 42% |
| United States | 4 | 21% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tsutomu Sugimori | Chief Executive Officer & Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsutomu-sugimori |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glydways | Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $101.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Green Revolution Cooling | Green Revolution Cooling they provide cooling technologies, that help companies to grow computing power sustainably, and limitlessly. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Zypp Electric | Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business. | $13.9M | Series C | May 25, 2024 |  |
| Glydways | Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $20M | Series B | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Sensyn Robotics | Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world. | $14.9M |  | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Moment Energy | Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 17, 2022 |  |
| Umitron | Umitron is a data company for aquaculture. We support fish farmers to increase productivity through data analytics. One of the biggest challenges in aquaculture is increasing feeding costs. We optimize feed amount and timing by using fish behavior analytics and water quality data. Our goal is to install Sustainable Aquaculture on Earth. | $9.2M | Series B | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Ubiquitous Energy | Ubiquitous Energy is the world leader in transparent photovoltaics. Its award-winning technology is the world’s only truly transparent solar product. UE technology harvests solar energy and serves as an invisible, onboard source of electricity for a variety of end products. The thin coating can be applied to the surface of windows glass to provideelectricity generation and energy efficiency while remaining visibly indistinguishable from the fully transparent standard windows on the market today. Originally spun out of MIT, Ubiquitous Energy is now producing its highly transparent, efficient solar cells and windows in its production facility in Silicon Valley. | $30M | Series B | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Ample | Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation. It created an economical, rapidly deployable, and widely accessible platform that delivers a full charge to any electric car in minutes. The aim is to make it possible to have “Electric Cars for Everyone”. It wasfounded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $160M | Series C | Aug 19, 2021 |  |
| OpenStreet | OpenStreet is a service that allows to use shared cycling nationwide. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acs-actividades-de-construccion-y-servicios) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gates Frontier Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gates-frontier-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsui Chemicals](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsui-chemicals) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mizuho Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Science Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-science-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does ENEOS invest in?

ENEOS invests primarily in Energy, Robotics and Clean Energy startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 19 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's check size?

ENEOS typically joins rounds of $9.2M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ENEOS participates in.

### How do I contact ENEOS?

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### Who are the partners at ENEOS?

The team at ENEOS includes Tsutomu Sugimori (Chief Executive Officer & Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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