# Murata Manufacturing

> Murata Manufacturing is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Mobile. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyoto, Japan
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/murata-electronics
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/muRata_PR
- Website: http://www.murata.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MurataManufacturing

Murata Manufacturing is a VC fund in Kyoto focused on Information Technology and Mobile. Murata designs and manufactures consumer electronics, automobile-related applications, energy management systems, and healthcare equipment. Its product portfolio includes products in the categories of smart homes, mobile communications, lighting, industrial equipment, networking, business machine, AV equipment, security and safety, automobile,capacitor, inductors, sensors, timing device, micro-mechanics, RFID devices, balun, couplers, filters, front-end modules, circuit boards, and more.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.1M–$19M |
| Series B | $12M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Mobile | 3 | 19% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| Wireless | 3 | 19% |
| Wearables | 3 | 19% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 63% |
| Japan | 4 | 25% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shigeaki Hahsimoto | Application Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shigeaki-hahsimoto |
| Shoji Tsubota | Engineering Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shoji-tsubota |
| Toshihiko Kano | New Business Development, General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toshihiko-kano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Movandi | Movandi is the fastest growing 5G mmWave solutions company with a mission to revolutionize 5G Everywhere. The company was founded by two siblings, Maryam and Reza Rofougaran, today’s top leaders in the wireless industry, whose innovations have shaped and transformed wireless in the last few decades. Having pioneered wireless systems. Movandi issolving real-world 5G mmWave deployments with unmatched differentiation and high performance core technology in 5G integrated circuits, antennas, systems, and algorithms design disciplines, to enable 5G to its full potential. Movandi’s flexible solutions solve 5G mmWave deployment cost and schedule challenges and provide future-proof solutions utilizing mesh and routing to further improve 5G coverage and capacity. Movandi’s strong and diverse system portfolio of IP and patents plays a critical role across the complete 5G ecosystem, from infrastructure to mobile, while allowing for maximum 5G coverage. | $40M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Lightsynq | Lightsynq develops universal optical quantum interconnects that bridge the gap to large-scale quantum computers. | $18M | Series A | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| ASUENE | Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc. | $26.7M | Series C | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Augmental | Augmental Tech develops technology that integrates with the human body that enables to access information without the use of hands. The company actively developing discreet hands-free interfaces for people with both situational and severe motor impairment. They want to help others to overcome the physical and sensory limitations of the body and seethe mouth as unexplored real-estate for human-computer interaction.Augmental Tech enabling access to computers and increased autonomy for those living with paralysis of the upper extremities. They allowing interaction with a mobile device when constraints imposed by context prevent the use of hands. Augmental Tech was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Xona | Xona Space Systems is building a next-generation satellite navigation system using small but powerful satellites in low-Earth orbit. The constellation they are developing is designed to provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy that modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, need tooperate safely at scale. | $19M | Series A | May 08, 2024 |  |
| VIE STYLE | VIE STYLE offers wearable music device and AI technology services. | $2.1M | Series A | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Augmental | Augmental Tech develops technology that integrates with the human body that enables to access information without the use of hands. The company actively developing discreet hands-free interfaces for people with both situational and severe motor impairment. They want to help others to overcome the physical and sensory limitations of the body and seethe mouth as unexplored real-estate for human-computer interaction.Augmental Tech enabling access to computers and increased autonomy for those living with paralysis of the upper extremities. They allowing interaction with a mobile device when constraints imposed by context prevent the use of hands. Augmental Tech was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. |  | Seed | Aug 12, 2023 |  |
| Resonant | Resonant is creating innovative filter designs for RF front-ends for the mobile device industry. With the explosion in the number of frequency bands, the filter has become the fastest-growing component in the RF front-end. They are developing the world's most advanced surface acoustic wave filters and have a design platform that allows ourtechnologists to create what was once thought impossible. Our multi-disciplinary team of physicists and engineers collaborate intensely, pushing the limits of advanced RF filter design. | $10M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 06, 2019 |  |
| 3d Glass Solutions | 3D Glass Solutions provides customers complete glass-enabled systems integration services using their patented APEX® Glass. Their mission is to provide our customers with an integrative solution in electronics and IC packaging that allows them to integrate more components onto a single platform while decreasing overall manufacturing costs. | $12M | Series B | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Locix | Locix develops solutions to provide spatial and contextual awareness to buildings, homes, and connected devices. The company solutions uniquely capture location, visual, and sensor data and combine them with advanced data analytics to provide spatial awareness and enable actionable insights for automated decision making. It is backed by severalventure and strategic investors including ID Ventures, University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Murata Manufacturing, NTT Docomo Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, iRobot, Yaskawa Information Systems, Yaskawa Electric, and Acer Ventures. Locix was founded in 2015 and is based in Silicon Valley. |  | Series B | Sep 06, 2018 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Element Six](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/element-six) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fen-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sony Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sony-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SPARX Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparx-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [5G Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/5g-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Murata Manufacturing invest in?

Murata Manufacturing invests primarily in Information Technology, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Murata Manufacturing's check size?

Murata Manufacturing typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$19M at Series A and $12M–$19M 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 Murata Manufacturing participates in.

### How do I contact Murata Manufacturing?

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### Who are the partners at Murata Manufacturing?

The team at Murata Manufacturing includes Shigeaki Hahsimoto (Application Engineer), Shoji Tsubota (Engineering Manager) and Toshihiko Kano (New Business Development, General Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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