# Hiroshima Venture Capital

> Hiroshima Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and E-Commerce. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hiroshima, Japan
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $69M
- Last fund: Apr 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HiroshimaVC
- Website: http://www.h-vc.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hgcp001

Hiroshima Venture Capital is a VC fund in Hiroshima focused on Manufacturing and E-Commerce. Hiroshima Venture Capital provides venture capital investment services. The firm creates corporate value from a long-term perspective.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $881k–$17M |
| Series B | $4.2M–$170M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 8% |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 8% |
| Software | 4 | 7% |
| Health Care | 4 | 7% |

100 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 12 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 20% |
| Seed | 9 | 15% |
| Series A | 8 | 14% |
| Series C | 3 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiroshi Iwamoto | CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroshi-iwamoto |
| Kanji Fukuda | Senior Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanji-fukuda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Global Trust Networks | GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost. | $18.5M | Private Equity | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| JIZAIE | JIZAIE is an artificial intelligence firm that wants to combine VR, robots, and wearable computing to create solution. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Solaris | Solaris commercializes, manufactures, and sells soft robotics using pneumatic artificial muscles. Solaris was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $3.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Olive | Olive is developing a business that uncovers causal relationships between emotions and the background of human behavior and decision-making through the analysis of biometric data. |  | Seed | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Smooth | Smooth is a financial services company that provides initial cost installment payment solutions for real estate rental contracts. | $10.2M | Series B | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Hattendo Farm | Hattendo Farm promotes collaboration between commerce, industry, agriculture, and welfare. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Tenchijin | Tenchijin is optimiz human civilization using space big data. | $4.7M | Series B | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| RICOS | RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies. RICOS creates an AI algorithm called IsoGCN that is tailored for use with simulation data, allowing for faster and more interactive design and evaluation. RICOS promotes research and development with the goal ofrealizing a world in which scientific computing technology, including CAE, can be used at manufacturing sites and people's ideals can be realized instantly. | $4M |  | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| Newmo | newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort. | $8.4M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Phytolipid Technologies | Phytolipid Technologies specializes in the research and production of lipids in plants and algae and is an expert in lipid analysis. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Hiroshima Venture Capital invest in?

Hiroshima Venture Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, E-Commerce and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hiroshima Venture Capital's check size?

Hiroshima Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $881k–$17M at Seed and $4.2M–$170M 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 Hiroshima Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Hiroshima Venture Capital?

Public channels for Hiroshima Venture Capital include X (Twitter), the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hiroshima Venture Capital?

The team at Hiroshima Venture Capital includes Hiroshi Iwamoto (CEO) and Kanji Fukuda (Senior Associate). 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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