# JGC Mirai Innovation Fund

> JGC Mirai Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Nishiku backing Manufacturing and Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nishiku, Japan
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.jgc.com/jp

JGC Mirai Innovation Fund is a venture investment firm managed by Global Brain and JGC Holdings Corporation.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Environmental Engineering | 2 | 22% |
| Legal | 1 | 11% |
| Sales | 1 | 11% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Series C | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 78% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BALLAS | BALLAS provides corporate information, business content, procurement of construction materials, custom-made construction materials used at construction sites online, design, development, manufacturing, and sales of construction materials. | $13.2M | Series B | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| IONATE | IONATE is creating the hardware-software system for smart grids. Its Hybrid Intelligent Transformer (HIT) replaces traditional transformers with a smart version, integrating data and control of voltages, harmonics, and reactive power into one unit. The HIT helps stabilize power distribution across grids, power generation, industrial facilities, anddata centers, while also supporting real-time control nodes. | $17M | Series A | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| PorMedTec | PorMedTec is a bio-resource company that manufactures and sells human organs and tissues as next-generation regenerative medicine products. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Mntsq | MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations. | $6.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2024 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $19.4M | Seed | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Kyoto Fusioneering | Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors. | $77M | Series C | May 16, 2023 |  |
| AmicaTerra | AmicaTerra is a supplier of biomass products and services. |  | Series C | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Metro Weather | Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas. | $5.6M | Series A | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Kyoto Fusioneering | Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors. | $11.6M | Series B | Feb 02, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [JAFCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [JIC Venture Growth Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jic-venture-growth-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does JGC Mirai Innovation Fund invest in?

JGC Mirai Innovation Fund invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Environmental Engineering startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did JGC Mirai Innovation Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for JGC Mirai Innovation Fund closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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