# JIC Venture Growth Investments

> JIC Venture Growth Investments is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 105 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marunouchi, Japan
- Total investments: 105
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last fund: Jul 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.j-vgi.co.jp/en/

JIC Venture Growth Investments is a VC fund in Marunouchi focused on Information Technology and Software. JIC-VGI helps promote innovation and improve its international competitiveness through growth-investments in startup companies. The firm accelerating innovation and helping to solve industrial and social issues by supporting and seeking innovative technologies and new businesses.JIC Venture Growth Investments was established in July 2020 and isbased in Tokyo, Japan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $4.7M–$52M |
| Series C | $4.3M–$77M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 10 | 10% |
| Software | 9 | 9% |
| Medical | 7 | 7% |
| Consulting | 6 | 6% |
| Health Care | 6 | 6% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 16 | 15% |
| Series C | 11 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 10% |
| Series A | 8 | 8% |
| Seed | 4 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 47 | 45% |
| Singapore | 3 | 3% |
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Thailand | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hideki Yarimizu | CEO, President & Founder | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hideki-shikizu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RoboTruck | RoboTruck develops autonomous driving technologies for huge trucks, as well as practical applications. | $31.8M | Series A | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| bitkey | Bitkey is a company provides its own key technology. | $24.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Smooth | Smooth is a financial services company that provides initial cost installment payment solutions for real estate rental contracts. | $4.3M | Series C | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Arrowsmith | Arrowsmith is committed to unlocking the full potential of bacteriophages to revolutionize the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Through transformative science, Arrowsmith strive to create a world free from the pain and fear caused by antimicrobial resistance. | $6.5M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Beren Therapeutics | Beren Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops innovative therapies to make them accessible to every patient. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Thousand Oaks, CA. | $135M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Mjolnir Spaceworks | Mjolnir Spaceworks desings and manufactures state-of-the-art novel space rockets with efficient engines as well as other space equipments. | $7.5M | Series B | May 29, 2026 |  |
| Atom | Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life. | $18.8M | Seed | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Toregem BioPharma | Toregem BioPharma is a startup from Kyoto University that develops a treatment for congenital adentia. Toregem BioPharma is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. | $5.3M | Series C | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Henry | Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals. | $19M | Series C | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Magic Shields | Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products. | $6.5M | Series B | Apr 21, 2026 |  |

10 of 105 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
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- [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 13 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does JIC Venture Growth Investments invest in?

JIC Venture Growth Investments invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 105 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is JIC Venture Growth Investments's check size?

JIC Venture Growth Investments typically joins rounds of $4.7M–$52M at Series B and $4.3M–$77M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds JIC Venture Growth Investments participates in.

### How do I contact JIC Venture Growth Investments?

Public channels for JIC Venture Growth Investments 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 JIC Venture Growth Investments?

The team at JIC Venture Growth Investments includes Hideki Yarimizu (CEO, President & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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