MPower Partners
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
MPower Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Health Care and Information Technology. MPower Partners empower bold, globally-minded entrepreneurs providing tech-enabled solutions to societal challenges.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries MPower Partners invests in
Stages MPower Partners invests in
Countries MPower Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $846k–$6.5M
- Series A
- $4.9M–$41M
- Series B
- $7.7M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 6 (12%)
- Information Technology 6 (12%)
- Manufacturing 5 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (10%)
- Consulting 4 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (20%)
- Seed 7 (14%)
- Series A 6 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (10%)
- Series C 4 (8%)
Country
- Japan 27 (55%)
- United States 5 (10%)
- Indonesia 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kathy Matsui
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Masatoshi Fukasawa
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Trista Bridges
ESG Industry Expert
|
ESG Industry Expert | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
SiccaNova Therapeutics
|
SiccaNova Therapeutics is a Japanese biopharmaceutical company dedicated to treating sicca (dryness) related medical conditions. The company’s lead drug candidate, XF8302, is a novel, small-molecule M3 muscarine receptor Positive Allosteric Modulator (M3 PAM). Developed initially for dry mouth in Sjögren’s syndrome patients, the drug enhancesnatural acetylcholine signaling to stimulate salivation without the systemic side effects common in traditional agonists. | $7.9M / Series A / Sep 03, 2026 | |
Ikura
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Ikura is a travel company that provides personalized travel experiences, connecting travelers with local communities and businesses. | $927K / Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | |
LQUOM
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QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology. | Series B / Apr 21, 2026 | |
Magic Shields
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Magic Shields develops impact-absorbing flooring solutions designed to reduce injuries from falls in care environments. The company produces cushioning floor materials that use a structured design to balance softness for safety with firmness for everyday mobility, supporting both residents and caregivers. Its products are used in settings such asnursing homes and healthcare facilities, where fall-related injuries are a concern.The flooring system is engineered to absorb shock during a fall while maintaining stability for walking and the use of equipment like wheelchairs or carts. This approach aims to help reduce the severity of injuries without disrupting daily operations.Magic Shields also conducts research and testing to evaluate the effectiveness of its materials, contributing data to support adoption in care settings and inform ongoing product development. | $6.5M / Series B / Apr 21, 2026 | |
Edgecortix
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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. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2026 | |
Uniam
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Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products. | $4.9M / Series A / Apr 01, 2026 | |
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Uniam
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Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products. | $4.9M / Series A / Apr 01, 2026 | |
Boost Health
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Boost Health is an IT company that offers a mental health care app for planning, development, and HR consulting services. | $940.9K / Seed / Mar 26, 2026 | |
Phoenix Tailings
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Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the miningindustry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically. | $30.2M / Series B / Feb 19, 2026 | |
Sakana AI
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Sakana AI creates a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence. | $128.8M / Series B / Nov 17, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does MPower Partners invest in?
MPower Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Information Technology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is MPower Partners's check size?
MPower Partners typically joins rounds of $846k–$6.5M at Seed, $4.9M–$41M at Series A and $7.7M–$43M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MPower Partners participates in.
How do I contact MPower Partners?
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Who are the partners at MPower Partners?
The team at MPower Partners includes Kathy Matsui (General Partner), Masatoshi Fukasawa (Partner) and Trista Bridges (ESG Industry Expert). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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