# North Pacific Bank

> North Pacific Bank is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Aerospace. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sapporo, Japan
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/%EF%BC%88%E6%A0%AA%EF%BC%89%E5%8C%97%E6%B4%8B%E9%8A%80%E8%A1%8C/
- Website: https://www.hokuyobank.co.jp/

North Pacific Bank is a VC fund in Sapporo focused on Manufacturing and Aerospace. North Pacific Bank provides various banking products and services for individuals and corporations in Japan. It offers deposits, and negotiable certificates of deposit, as well as loans. North Pacific Bank also offers ATM, foreign exchange, and investment trust services. It operates 171 branches and 3 overseas representative offices. HokuyoSogo Bank that began operation in 1917 became North Pacific Bank in 1989. It has its headquarters in 1917, with its headquarters in Sapporo in Japan.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $48k–$57M |
| Corporate Round | $12k–$1.7B |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 21% |
| Aerospace | 3 | 10% |
| Consulting | 3 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 10% |
| Sales | 2 | 7% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 24% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 17% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mitsuharu Yasuda | President | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsuharu-yasuda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JIZAIE | JIZAIE is an artificial intelligence firm that wants to combine VR, robots, and wearable computing to create solution. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| JPYC | JPYC is a financial institution that issues the community stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen of Japanese. They want to create a society where everyone can develop by fusing the real world with the world of cryptocurrencies and increasing the liquidity of capital to achieve their goal of overcoming the social conundrum. It will promotecapital's liquidity and create an environment that helps in development for all. | $17.6M | Series B | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Mugen Estate | Mugen Estate is a firm that buys and sells rental properties. business of leasing real estate. a company that revitalizes and sells used real estate continues to provide clients with new value and excitement, and has made real estate purchasing and resale its primary business. | $1.9M | Post-IPO Debt | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Innovative Space Carrier | Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies. | $20.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Mechano Cross | Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions. |  | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Ezowin | Ezowin is a management firm dedicated to developing agricultural products and connecting Japanese agriculture to future generations. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 05, 2025 |  |
| Forest Digital | Forest Digital is a media company that provides video, presentation, animation, and VR production services. | $842.9K | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Letara | Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology. | $3.2M | Seed | Nov 29, 2024 |  |
| Interstellar Technologies | Interstellar Technologies is a rocket development, manufacturing and launch service. | $21.3M | Series E | Aug 05, 2024 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Incubate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incubate-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation-54d8) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Development Bank of Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/development-bank-of-japan) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hokuyo Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hokuyo-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [QB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qb-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-bridge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does North Pacific Bank invest in?

North Pacific Bank invests primarily in Manufacturing, Aerospace and Consulting startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is North Pacific Bank's check size?

North Pacific Bank typically joins rounds of $48k–$57M at Seed, $12k–$1.7B at Corporate Round and $2.5M–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds North Pacific Bank participates in.

### How do I contact North Pacific Bank?

Public channels for North Pacific Bank include LinkedIn 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 North Pacific Bank?

The team at North Pacific Bank includes Mitsuharu Yasuda (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 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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