MUFG Innovation Partners
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
MUFG Innovation Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on FinTech and Financial Services. MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.
- Total investments:
- 77
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
- Fund size:
- $136M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries MUFG Innovation Partners invests in
Stages MUFG Innovation Partners invests in
Countries MUFG Innovation Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $12M–$65M
- Series B
- $6M–$102M
- Series C
- $10M–$103M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 29 (38%)
- Financial Services 29 (38%)
- Software 13 (17%)
- Finance 10 (13%)
- Information Technology 10 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 17 (22%)
- Series C 14 (18%)
- Series B 10 (13%)
- Seed 6 (8%)
- Funding Round 6 (8%)
Country
- United States 24 (31%)
- Japan 13 (17%)
- Indonesia 5 (6%)
- India 3 (4%)
- Singapore 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nobutake Suzuki
President and CEO
|
President and CEO | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
Mayank Shiromani
Vice President
|
Vice President | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verda provides a full-stack AI cloud platform for the development, training, and deployment of AI models. Its services include GPU instances, instant clusters, serverless containers, managed storage, and other cloud infrastructure powered by NVIDIA hardware. Verda also operates an AI Lab focused on large-scale training, inference optimization, reinforcement learning, and AI systems engineering. Its platform serves AI developers and organizations across the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping to scalable inference. | $189M / Series B / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Footprint provides an AI-powered risk and compliance platform that automates investigations and manages compliance workflows for financial institutions. Its agentic AI system, Percy, investigates cases, analyzes data, identifies patterns, and executes policies and procedures. The platform generates auditable reports with citations, timestamps, and documented reasoning, while maintaining organizational knowledge across compliance functions such as know-your-customer (KYC), enhanced due diligence (EDD), sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring. | $25M / Series B / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Rogodevelops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers. The platform integrates with internal systems and external financial data sources to analyze large volumes of information, including filings, market data, and proprietary datasets, anddeliver structured outputs like financial models, reports, and presentations. It uses AI models and agent-based systems to automate workflows such as research, due diligence, and market analysis, enabling users to complete multi-step financial tasks within a single system. The company’s technology is built with input from professionals with backgrounds in finance and is tailored to reflect the workflows and requirements of high-finance environments. Its tools are used by financial professionals to reduce manual work, support decision-making, and streamline processes across transactions and portfolio management. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies. | $22.2M / Series C / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Fundamental is an AI research company that focuses on overcoming the fundamental challenges of machine learning in large-scale tabular systems. | Corporate Round / Jul 17, 2026 | ||
| Vinyl Equity offers a cloud-native, API-first transfer agency platform for public companies. The platform supports services such as share registry management, dividend plan administration, proxy voting, and compliance. Vinyl Equity utilizes digital tools, including immutable ledgers, electronic KYC, and e-signatures, to streamline processes likedelegending restricted securities and managing shareholder records. Additional features include automated equity plan integrations, real-time reporting, and proxy lifecycle management. | $20M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Pluang is a financial technology application that opens public access opportunities to financial products easily and affordably. The company offers a gold savings product that allows investments starting from 0.01 grams and provides users with real-time liquidity and peace of mind as the gold is kept in a government-backed institution through theofficial Indonesian commodities exchange.Founded in 2019, Pluang is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $10M / Series C / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $150M / Series D / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| LayerX which promotes the digitization of business processes utilizing technologies such as blockchain technology. | $102M / Series B / Sep 01, 2025 | ||
| Relcu is an intelligent lead-to-revenue lead management and CRM platform that is transforming the financial services industry. Founded in 2020 and is based in Saratoga, California. | Seed / Aug 21, 2025 | ||
| See all 77 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does MUFG Innovation Partners invest in?
MUFG Innovation Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 77 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does MUFG Innovation Partners invest in?
MUFG Innovation Partners typically joins rounds of $12M–$65M at Series A, $6M–$102M at Series B and $10M–$103M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not MUFG Innovation Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds MUFG Innovation Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at MUFG Innovation Partners?
The team at MUFG Innovation Partners includes Nobutake Suzuki (President and CEO) and Mayank Shiromani (Vice President). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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