# NEC Corporation

> NEC Corporation is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Manufacturing. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nec
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/nec_jp_pr
- Website: http://www.nec.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nec.global

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7.7M–$209M |
| Series B | $10M–$553M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 26% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 19% |
| Semiconductor | 5 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 26% |
| Series B | 6 | 19% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 42% |
| Japan | 7 | 23% |
| Israel | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aalok Kumar | President & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aalok-kumar |
| Ayush Rawal | Data Scientist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayush-rawal |
| Bin Cheng | Senior Researcher | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bin-cheng |
| Isaac Hillel | Executive Vice President | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isaac-hillel |
| James Blackwell | Senior Software Developer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-blackwell-f700 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rapidus | Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector. | $1.7B | Corporate Round | Feb 27, 2026 |  |
| Sakana AI | Sakana AI creates a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence. | $209.3M | Series A | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| SWAT Mobility | SWAT Mobility’s vehicle-routing technology helps companies, transport operators, and government agencies around the world solve complex transportation challenges. We are the first to run high-capacity vehicle pooling services that are both on-demand and dynamically routed. We also have proven results in helping our clients reduce transportationcosts, improve city connectivity, and reduce traffic congestion.Our technology tops the industry's benchmark, Li & Lim, and with our cutting-edge smart mobility optimisation engine, we are future-ready for the world of autonomous vehicles. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Vibe Video | We are creating the first of its kind ai driven app that will allow creatives to have a critical analysis of their music paired with visuals. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Flyhound | Flyhound is a public safety solution to help find people fast. We enable public safety agencies using commercial drones to locate and identify mobile phones on the ground to assist in rescue efforts, locate missing persons, evacuate disaster victims, find criminal suspects, and more. | $550K | Pre-Seed | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Rapidus | Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector. | $52.6M | Grant | Nov 11, 2022 |  |
| D-Wave Quantum | D-Wave Quantum develops quantum computing systems, software, and cloud-based services for commercial, government, and research organizations. The company provides both annealing and gate-model quantum computing technologies, along with application development tools, hybrid solvers, and cloud access that support the development and deployment ofquantum applications. Its technologies are used to address computational challenges in areas such as optimization, materials science, artificial intelligence, logistics, manufacturing, financial services, and scientific research. The company also offers professional services and software development tools that help organizations integrate quantum computing into existing workflows. Through its combination of hardware, software, and cloud services, D-Wave Quantum supports the development and execution of quantum computing applications across a range of industries. | $40M | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| BostonGene | BostonGene Corporation is pioneering the use of biomedical software for advanced patient analysis and personalized therapy decision making in the fight against cancer. BostonGene’s unique solution performs sophisticated analytics to aid clinicians in their evaluation of viable treatment options for each patient's individual genetics, tumor andtumor microenvironment, clinical characteristics and disease profile. BostonGene’s mission is to enable physicians to provide every patient with the highest probability of survival through optimal cancer treatments using advanced, personalized therapies | $150M | Series B | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| CropX | CropX Ltd., an ag-analytics company, develops cloud based software solutions integrated with wireless sensors, which boosts crops yield and saves water and energy. It offers advanced adaptive irrigation software service that delivers crop yield increase, and water and energy cost saving services while conserving the environment. The company alsogenerates irrigation maps and automatically applies the right amount of water to different parts of the same field. It serves farmers worldwide. CropX Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in San Francisco, California.CropX’s proprietary science helps farmers better understand water usage across their fields. Its low-cost soil sensors can increase crop yields while simultaneously cutting water usage by one third. In just one irrigation season, CropX sensors were installed on thousands of acres of all major row crops and demonstrated immense value, with early customers across the United States reporting dramatic water, manpower and cost savings, as well as massive crop yield gains. During the current growing season, CropX technology will be rolled out across hundreds of thousands of acres. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| peace of mind (pom) | Employee mental and physical health programs that reduces stress and burnout |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Development Bank of Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/development-bank-of-japan) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chubu Electric Power](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chubu-electric-power-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NEC Corporation invest in?

NEC Corporation invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 31 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 NEC Corporation's check size?

NEC Corporation typically joins rounds of $7.7M–$209M at Series A and $10M–$553M 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 NEC Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact NEC Corporation?

Public channels for NEC Corporation 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 NEC Corporation?

The team at NEC Corporation includes Aalok Kumar (President & Chief Executive Officer), Ayush Rawal (Data Scientist) and Bin Cheng (Senior Researcher), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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