Mitsui Chemicals
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Mitsui Chemicals is a leading manufacturer and supplier of value added specialty chemicals, plastics and materials for the automotive, healthcare, packaging, agricultural, building, and semiconductor and electronics markets. Combining advanced technologies and processing methods, we deliver high performance materials to you for use in thedevelopment of medications, packaging materials, automotive components, building materials and electronic parts and accessories.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Mitsui Chemicals invests in
Stages Mitsui Chemicals invests in
Countries Mitsui Chemicals invests in
Contacts
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Jun Sasaki
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Atsushi Komoriya
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Nakajima Hajime
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Osamu Hashimoto
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 5 (36%)
- Biotechnology 4 (29%)
- Medical 2 (14%)
- Robotics 2 (14%)
- Industrial Manufacturing 2 (14%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Corporate Round 2 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (14%)
Country
- Japan 8 (57%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
- South Korea 1 (7%)
- United States 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Jun Sasaki
General Manager, Corporate Planning Group
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General Manager, Corporate Planning Group | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Atsushi Komoriya
Managing execuitive
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Managing execuitive | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Nakajima Hajime
Chief Financial Officer, Finance
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Chief Financial Officer, Finance | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Osamu Hashimoto
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Varinos
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Varinos is a clinical laboratory contract analysis company that is a partner of medical institutions. Varinos provides genomic testing development and contract analysis services using the latest technology, the next-generation sequencer. | $7.9M / Series D / May 12, 2026 | |
Glydways
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Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $170M / Series C / Apr 14, 2026 | |
Monogusa
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Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $12.2M / Series C / Oct 28, 2025 | |
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Glydways
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Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $101.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 29, 2025 | |
RLWRLD
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RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments. | $14.8M / Seed / Apr 14, 2025 | |
Rege Nephro
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Rege Nephro is a biotech company that specialized in R&D, production and marketing of renal disease therapeutics. | $15.2M / Series B / Oct 07, 2024 | |
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Glydways
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Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $20M / Series B / May 14, 2024 | |
Apeiron Bioenergy
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Apeiron Bioenergy is an integrated global player in the entire chain of bioenergy products from feedstock to the end and by-products. | Corporate Round / Aug 31, 2022 | |
Monozukuri Ventures
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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. | Nov 25, 2020 | |
Z-Works
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"Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2020 | |
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FAQ
What does Mitsui Chemicals invest in?
Mitsui Chemicals invests primarily in Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Mitsui Chemicals includes Jun Sasaki (General Manager, Corporate Planning Group), Atsushi Komoriya (Managing execuitive) and Nakajima Hajime (Chief Financial Officer, Finance). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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