# Industrial Growth Platform

> Industrial Growth Platform is a VC fund backing Software and Biotechnology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/industrial-growth-platform-inc.
- Website: http://igpi.co.jp

Industrial Growth Platform is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Biotechnology. Industrial Growth Platform provides operational and financial services to companies. It also offers management support, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisition advisory services. Industrial Growth Platform was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 20% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 20% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 40% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 13 | 87% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kazuhiko Toyama | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazuhiko-toyama |
| Makoto Shiono | Partner , Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makoto-shiono |
| Tofuku Kawakami | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tofuku-kawakami |
| Toshinari Furusawa | Founding Member and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toshinari-furusawa |
| Kawakami Takayoshi | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kawakami-takayoshi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ACES | ACES is providing image recognition algorithms such as object recognition and face and expression recognition | $45.4M |  | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| DeepX | DeepX is an AI startup company based in Tokyo that was founded in 2016 by graduates from the University of Tokyo, Japan’s leading institution of higher education. After three strong years of establishing ourselves, we continue to grow and are ready to make an impact on society through our work. Our core mission is to ‘automate any machinery’ andsupported by our successful projects, we believe that Deep Learning and its real-world implementations will bring an unprecedented breakthrough to solve current and future societal problems. A key challenge that Japan is currently facing is a super-aging society and a shrinking labor population leading to shortages. We develop software to automate machines ranging from small industrial robots to big heavy equipment. Our control models can achieve flexible operation for various environments and conditions using cutting-edge technology such as Deep Reinforcement Learning. | $226.8M |  | Jul 31, 2020 |  |
| BeBit | BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services. | $368.5M |  | Jul 27, 2020 |  |
| Ollo | Ollo Factory is image recognition software that analyzes work with precision using only one camera and a small edge device. By capturing one cycle of standard work and inputting breaks in elemental work on the tool, all work is automatically measured in hours and days of a year. They discover waste and variations in work by monitoring the site inreal time. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 03, 2020 |  |
| ACES | ACES is providing image recognition algorithms such as object recognition and face and expression recognition |  |  | May 22, 2019 |  |
| Homura Heavy Industries | Homura Heavy Industries Corporation is a company that develops outdoor robots and related products. |  |  | Feb 25, 2019 |  |
| Tohoku Magnet Institute | Tohoku Magnet Institute is a Administrative Services. | $21.3M | Corporate Round | Nov 30, 2018 |  |
| Ac-Planta | Ac-Planta manufactures the product Skeepon, which can promote the adaptability of plants to heat and drought conditions. Skeepon is a radical agricultural solution that can address climate change issues by using cutting-edge epigenetics technology. The company aims to maximize the potential of plant epigenetics to improve how humans and plantsinteract in climate change. |  | Seed | May 08, 2018 |  |
| Michael Japan | Michael is a Internet service development and operation. | $15.6M | Corporate Round | Jan 10, 2018 |  |
| OSCAR TECHNOLOGY Japan | Oscar Technology is a Software parallel service consulting company.By providing various parallelization solutions centered on the OSCARTech compiler that realizes automatic parallelization, we will speed up your software thoroughly and save power. | $77.1M | Corporate Round | Mar 21, 2017 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Deep30](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deep30) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dentsu Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fujita Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fujita-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gogin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gogin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovation Network Corporation of Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-network-corp-of-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Industrial Growth Platform invest in?

Industrial Growth Platform invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Medical Device startups, most often at Funding Round and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 15 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 Industrial Growth Platform?

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### Who are the partners at Industrial Growth Platform?

The team at Industrial Growth Platform includes Kazuhiko Toyama (President & CEO), Makoto Shiono (Partner , Managing Director) and Tofuku Kawakami (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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