# Monozukuri Ventures

> Monozukuri Ventures is a VC fund in Kyoto backing Hardware and Software. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Japan
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last fund: Feb 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/monozukuriventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/monozukurivc
- Website: https://www.monozukuri.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monozukurivc

Monozukuri Ventures is a VC fund in Kyoto focused on Hardware and Software. We Make Hardware Startups Together. Empowering people to build high-quality products.For startup founders, it takes more than funding to bridge the gap between idea and product/market fit. With our unique way of supporting startups with manufacturing needs, we partner with startups for the long term and work hand-in-glove with our portfolioevery step of the way to grow their businesses. Monozukuri Ventures (former Makers Boot Camp) is an early stage VC focused on hardware startup investments in the US & Japan.Our mission is to help the world’s entrepreneurs deliver high-quality products to the market, regardless of production volume. As a global ecosystem contributor, we provide founders with essential resources such as investment, mentorship, prototyping know-how, manufacturing expertise, and community support.To achieve this ambitious goal, we stress the importance of Monozukuri, the art of making things in a creative way. Although known as a traditional practice of manufacturing in Japan, Monozukuri enables us to create new values by fusing two opposite ideas integrated into harmony, such as old and new, East and West, hardware and software, and historical and modern.Based in historical Kyoto City and modern New York City, Monozukuri Ventures empowers talented and diverse people to build tangible solutions to create a better future.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $726k–$23M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hardware | 11 | 14% |
| Software | 11 | 14% |
| Robotics | 10 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 10 | 13% |
| Internet of Things | 9 | 12% |

101 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 37 | 47% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 17% |
| Series A | 9 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 40% |
| Japan | 26 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Narimasa Makino | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/narimasa-makino |
| Nobuhiro Seki | Managing Partner & Board Member | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nob-seki |
| Sabrina Sasaki | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabrina-sasaki |
| Kenshin Fujiwara | Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenshin-fujiwara |
| Nikolas Schreiber | EIR Fellow | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikolas-schreiber |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LENZO | They are system architects and builders, committed to engineering high-performance, energy-efficient hardware for a new generation of workloads. They hold great expectations that Japan-based LENZO will drive a game-changing breakthrough with its innovative semiconductors and establish a strong presence on the global stage. Their proprietary CGLAarchitecture delivers breakthrough performance per watt in a compact, cost-effective form. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| REVORN | REVORN is a fragrance AI and DX research and development company. They develop products such as odor sensors that can respond to odor issues and needs. They provide consultation at a range of levels, from identifying issues to developing solutions. | $1.4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Rutilea | RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency. |  | Series C | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Edgecortix | EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) processing at the edge. The company’s platform includes the SAKURA-II AI accelerator, a low-power silicon co-processor capable of real-time generative AI inference on multi-billion-parameter models within an approximately 8 W envelope. Italso offers the MERA compiler and software framework that enables developers to deploy models across heterogeneous systems, leveraging flexibility through the Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) architecture. The hardware-software co-design approach ensures adaptable, runtime-reconfigurable performance for use cases ranging from vision to language applications. | $20.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Rutilea | RUTILEA is an IT company that aims to solve social issues through open-source. By advancing revolutionary 'AI teaching AI' concept, edefine automation, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency. | $2M | Series C | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| Magic Shields | Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products. | $1.6M | Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Ugo | UGO is creating future avatar robots and a platform that connects the administration of multiple robots to achieve the ''fusion of humans and robots,'' or ''collaboration with robots to perform employment that used to be performed only by humans. |  | Seed | Oct 28, 2022 |  |
| ImaCreate | ImaCreate provides planning, development and operation of VR / AR / MR system. | $1.2M | Series A | Oct 21, 2022 |  |
| Seasats | Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods. | $10M | Corporate Round | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Seasats | Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods. | $10M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Innovation Works](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-works) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Monozukuri Ventures invest in?

Monozukuri Ventures invests primarily in Hardware, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 78 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Monozukuri Ventures's check size?

Monozukuri Ventures typically joins rounds of $726k–$23M at Seed and $1.2M–$35M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Monozukuri Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Monozukuri Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Monozukuri Ventures?

The team at Monozukuri Ventures includes Narimasa Makino (CEO), Nobuhiro Seki (Managing Partner & Board Member) and Sabrina Sasaki (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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