# MPower Partners

> MPower Partners is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Health Care. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mpower-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MPower_Partners
- Website: https://www.mpower-partners.com/

MPower Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Information Technology and Health Care. MPower Partners empower bold, globally-minded entrepreneurs providing tech-enabled solutions to societal challenges.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for MPower Partners. Shizune tracks 3 team members at MPower Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/mpower-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $846k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $4.9M–$41M |
| Series B | $7.7M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 13% |
| Health Care | 5 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 10% |
| Consulting | 4 | 8% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 8% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 21% |
| Seed | 7 | 15% |
| Series A | 5 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 10% |
| Series C | 4 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 26 | 54% |
| United States | 5 | 10% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kathy Matsui | General Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathy-matsui |
| Masatoshi Fukasawa | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masatoshi-fukasawa |
| Trista Bridges | ESG Industry Expert | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trista-bridges |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ikura | Ikura is a travel company that provides personalized travel experiences, connecting travelers with local communities and businesses. | $927K | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| LQUOM | QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology. |  | Series B | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Magic Shields | Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products. | $6.5M | Series B | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| 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. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Uniam | Uniam is a manufacturing company that produces and sells pet food and other pet-related products. | $4.9M | Series A | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Uniam | 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 | 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 | 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 | Sakana AI creates a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence. | $128.8M | Series B | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Japan Cyber Defense | Japan Cyber Defense is a security-based company that protects national infrastructure and organizations against cyberattacks. | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does MPower Partners invest in?

MPower Partners invests primarily in Information Technology, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 48 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?

Public channels for MPower Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 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.

### 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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