# MUFG Bank

> MUFG Bank is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 265 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 265
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $300M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mufg/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/btmu_official
- Website: https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bk.mufg.jp/

MUFG Bank is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. UFG Bank offers corporate and investment banking, transaction services for financial institutions, and personal banking services. MUFG Bank is Japan's largest bank and one of the world's largest, with offices throughout Japan and in 40 other countries.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Debt | $63M–$1.3B |
| Debt Financing | $6.5M–$1.5B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 28 | 11% |
| Renewable Energy | 24 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 23 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 6% |
| FinTech | 13 | 5% |

174 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 66 | 25% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 26 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 6% |
| Series A | 10 | 4% |
| Series B | 8 | 3% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 56 | 21% |
| United States | 24 | 9% |
| India | 23 | 9% |
| France | 4 | 2% |
| Australia | 4 | 2% |

22 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hironori Kamezawa | Director, Representative Executive Officer, President & Group Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hironori-kamezawa-2237 |
| Junichi Hanzawa | president & chief executive | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junichi-hanzawa |
| Michael Kirschen | VP, ServiceNow Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-kirschen |
| Ryo Terazawa | Managing Director and Deputy Head of the Transaction Services Division | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryo-terazawa-c8c7 |
| Yasuhide Hayashi | Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yasuhide-hayashi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| Zeta Global | Zeta is a Data & Analytics company that uses a People-based Marketing Cloud to help leading brands acquire, grow and retain customers. Founded by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley (former CEO of Apple Computer and Pepsi-Cola) in 2007, Zeta uses big data, advanced analytics and machine learning to power marketing programs for hundreds ofFortune 1000 and Middle Market brands. Zeta was named one of the 50 most promising private companies by Forbes and one of 10 companies on the planet in two Gartner Magic Quadrant reports. The Company's highly-rated technology platform competes with Oracle, IBM, Salesforce and Adobe. With over 1,000 employees worldwide, the company is headquartered in New York City, with Centers of Excellence in Silicon Valley, Boston, London, and Hyderabad, India, and 12 additional offices around the globe. | $1B | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Khaba Renewable Energy | Khaba Renewable Energy is the subsidiary of ENGIE India. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 24, 2026 |  |
| Global Trust Networks | GTN is a Japanese real estate brokerage firm. Foreigners can use the company's rent guarantee and real estate rental brokerage services to acquire brokerage services at a low cost. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| IDF & Oaktree - JV | IDF & Oaktree - JV is a specialized project finance vehicle created to deploy behind-the-meter Bloom Energy fuel cells for Nebius' AI cloud infrastructure. The entity operates as an independent, on-site utility provider, bypassing traditional grid-connection delays to supply dedicated, clean power for high-density computing workloads. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Starlight Engine | Starlight Engine develops and commercializes fusion energy power plant technologies. | $37.4M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Nscale | Nscale is an AI GPU cloud platform that provides scale computing to the generative AI market. It develops AI-ready data centers, deploys GPU infrastructure, and delivers AI cloud services. Its AI private cloud platform supports the entire generative AI lifecycle, enabling developers to run and train AI models. It also provides bare metal andvirtualized GPU nodes, Kubernetes-native services (NKS), AI workload scheduling empowered by SLURM, and advanced serverless and dedicated inferencing options. | $900M | Debt Financing | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $35.7M | Debt Financing | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Turing | Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles. | $43M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| MET Group | MET Group is an integrated energy company, with activities in natural gas, power and oil, focused on multi-commodity wholesale, trading and sales, as well as energy infrastructure and industrial assets. | $1.4B | Debt Financing | Jul 03, 2026 |  |

10 of 265 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does MUFG Bank invest in?

MUFG Bank invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Financial Services startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 265 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

MUFG Bank typically joins rounds of $63M–$1.3B at Post-IPO Debt and $6.5M–$1.5B 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 MUFG Bank participates in.

### How do I contact MUFG Bank?

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### Who are the partners at MUFG Bank?

The team at MUFG Bank includes Hironori Kamezawa (Director, Representative Executive Officer, President & Group Chief Executive Officer), Junichi Hanzawa (president & chief executive) and Michael Kirschen (VP, ServiceNow Engineering). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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