# Isuzu

> Isuzu is a VC fund in Minami-shinagawa backing Software and Electronics. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minami-shinagawa, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.isuzu.co.jp/

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## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | $30M–$524M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Electronics | 1 | 25% |
| 3D Technology | 1 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 25% |
| Image Recognition | 1 | 25% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 1 | 25% |
| Turkey | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hiroshi Sato | Executive officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroshi-sato-d7e7 |
| Masanori Katayama | CEO and President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masanori-katayama |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Buyutech | Büyütech is a mobility perception company developing sensor-agnostic, AI-driven vision systems for automotive, defense, and industrial mobility. The company designs and manufactures camera-based ADAS systems, including Front & Rear ADAS Cameras, Surround and Side-View Cameras, and Driver Monitoring Systems. Büyütech also develops a multi-sensorperception platform that enables safer, regulation-ready mobility across sectors. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Gatik | Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $30M | Corporate Round | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Foretellix | Foretellix is enabling the Digital Transformation of safety-critical automotive verification. Foretellix’s solutions uniquely scale to meet the challenge of verifying the safety of today’s increasingly complex automated driving systems, thus reducing risks, cost, and time to market. Foretellix was founded by a team of pioneers in measurableverification and validation combined with a highly automated and proven Coverage Driven Verification methodology broadly adopted in the semiconductor industry. They have adapted and tailored their approach for the safety verification and validation of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. | $85M | Series C | May 02, 2023 |  |
| Dynamic Map Platform | Dynamic Map Platform is a company that provides research, development and commercialization of high precision 3 dimensional (3D) map data used in the realization of autonomous driving and safe-driving support systems, beginning with Japan’s motorways and expanding to overseas markets. | $524.5M | Corporate Round | Jun 13, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Jump Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Woven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/woven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beycelik Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beycelik-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bilişim Vadisi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bili%C5%9Fim-vadisi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Büyütech GSYF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b%C3%BCy%C3%BCtech-gsyf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Isuzu invest in?

Isuzu invests primarily in Software, Electronics and 3D Technology startups, most often at Corporate Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Isuzu's check size?

Isuzu typically joins rounds of $30M–$524M at Corporate Round. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Isuzu participates in.

### How do I contact Isuzu?

Public channels for Isuzu include the website linked on this profile. 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 Isuzu?

The team at Isuzu includes Hiroshi Sato (Executive officer) and Masanori Katayama (CEO and President). 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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