# Mizuho Bank

> Mizuho Bank is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 313 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 313
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last fund: Nov 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mizuho/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mizuho_promo
- Website: https://www.mizuhobank.co.jp/

Mizuho Bank is a commercial bank that began operation on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan. It offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities. It also provides current and ordinary, deposits at notice, time, and specified deposits, deposits for tax,nonresident deposits in yen, foreign currency deposits, negotiable time deposits and loans by bill, loans on a deed, and overdrafts as well as discounts for bank acceptances, commercial papers, and documentary bills. Moreover, it offers investment banking and custodial, syndication, bond administrative, real estate finance, acquisition finance and corporate restructuring, project, and asset finance services, settlement and asset management services. It operates as a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Debt | $150M–$5.6B |
| Debt Financing | $1.3M–$925M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 24 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 5% |
| Software | 16 | 5% |
| Financial Services | 15 | 5% |
| Energy | 13 | 4% |

178 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 78 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 26 | 8% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 12 | 4% |
| Series B | 10 | 3% |
| Series A | 9 | 3% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 116 | 37% |
| United States | 9 | 3% |
| Singapore | 5 | 2% |
| India | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Koji Fujiwara | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koji-fujiwara |
| Daisuke Horiuchi | Executive | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisuke-horiuchi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Polyuse | Polyuse Co., Ltd. is developing technology centered on "3D printers for construction" for the construction and civil engineering industries under the mission of "updating the construction industry with the power of technology". | $7M | Debt Financing | Aug 04, 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. | $9.5M | Debt Financing | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners | Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (‘Quinbrook’) is a specialist ‘value-add’ investor and asset manager that originates, acquires, constructs, operates and manages, direct investments in the low-carbon energy infrastructure market with a track record of successful energy investing since the early 1990's. They are exclusively focused on one ofthe most significant infrastructure investment trends of our time. The transition to lower carbon and more sustainable energy production, distribution and consumption, demands significant long-term capital investment in new energy infrastructure assets needed to replace obsolete fossil fuel power plants being retired at an unprecedented rate. Recently committed carbon pollution reduction goals in North America, the UK and Australia, are set to drive a rapid transition of these energy markets. | $327M | Debt Financing | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| Bank of India | Bank of India is a Nationalized bank with a presence in all the major trade centers of the world. | $600M | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| Sazo | Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI. | $9.6M | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| LAMP Japan | Lamp is a Content marketing business | $2.2M | Series A | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Starlight Engine | Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies. | $37.4M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Vena Energy | Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region. | $963.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Mercuria | Mercuria is a privately held Swiss international commodity trading company active over a wide spectrum of global energy. | $3.8B | Debt Financing | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| SolaNika | SolaNika mission is to shackle energy with laser wireless power transfer and accelerate human progress. |  | Debt Financing | Jun 30, 2026 |  |

10 of 313 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumitomo-mitsui-banking-corporation) — VC Fund, 79 deals together
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- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 29 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mizuho Bank invest in?

Mizuho Bank invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 313 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mizuho Bank's check size?

Mizuho Bank typically joins rounds of $150M–$5.6B at Post-IPO Debt and $1.3M–$925M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mizuho Bank participates in.

### How do I contact Mizuho Bank?

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### Who are the partners at Mizuho Bank?

The team at Mizuho Bank includes Koji Fujiwara (Chief Executive Officer) and Daisuke Horiuchi (Executive). 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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