# Hamamatsu Ventures

> Hamamatsu Ventures is a VC fund in Hamamatsu backing Laser, Electronics and Manufacturing. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamamatsu, Japan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamamatsu
- Website: https://cvc.hamamatsu.com/jp/en.html

Hamamatsu Ventures is a VC fund in Hamamatsu focused on Laser and Electronics. Hamamatsu Photonics Corporate Venture Capital provides capital and make global technical and business resources available to help start-ups.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$5.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Laser | 2 | 25% |
| Electronics | 2 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 25% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Japan | 1 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Femtum | Femtum offers mid-infrared pulsed fibre lasers, fibre amplifiers, and tunable fibre lasers for medical and industrial use. They give access to mid-infrared spectroscopy with laser systems. Their team developed know-how and patented technologies to make a difference in the laser industry. | $11.8M | Series A | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Pinc Technologies | PINC Technologies is a Caltech spinout that creates sophisticated integrated nonlinear photonic circuits and devices. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Silveray | Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market. | $5.1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| iLoF | iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber is a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system identifies unique features of various gold-standard biomarkers, capturing their signature on a cloud-based library. |  |  | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| SuperLight Photonics | SuperLight Photonics specializes in the development of supercontinuum generation lasers. |  | Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| BEAM Technologies | BEAM Technologies, focuses on developing optical semiconductor devices using special light to offer clean solutions to ecosystem-related problems. | $1.4M | Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Femtum | Femtum offers mid-infrared pulsed fibre lasers, fibre amplifiers, and tunable fibre lasers for medical and industrial use. They give access to mid-infrared spectroscopy with laser systems. Their team developed know-how and patented technologies to make a difference in the laser industry. | $3.7M | Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| NLM Photonics | NLM Photonics is a pioneering photonics company developing computing and networking solutions and devices. | $1M | Convertible Note | Jun 27, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hamamatsu Ventures invest in?

Hamamatsu Ventures invests primarily in Laser, Electronics and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hamamatsu Ventures's check size?

Hamamatsu Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$5.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hamamatsu Ventures participates in.

### When did Hamamatsu Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hamamatsu Ventures closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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