# Obayashi Corporation

> Obayashi Corporation is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Internet. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2119534
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/OBAYASHI_JP
- Website: http://www.obayashi.co.jp/

Obayashi Corporation is a construction contractor that offers building construction, heavy civil construction, engineering, urban development, and real estate management services. The company offers services necessary to build and maintain office buildings, residences, tunnels, highways, rail systems, bridges, artificial islands, airports, andnuclear power plants.The company’s portfolio of services includes contracting of construction works; regional, urban, oceanic, and environmental development of businesses related to construction; engineering and management related to research, surveying, planning, devising, designing, and supervising; housing business; sale, purchase, exchange, lease, brokerage, ownership, caretaking, and utilization of real estate; operation of type II financial instruments and exchange business, investment advisory, and agency business under Financial Instruments and Exchange Law; planning, construction, retention, maintenance, and management of infrastructures such as road, port, water supply and drainage, municipal building, educational and cultural facility, waste treatment facility, medical facility, and others; recovering environmental pollutions such as purification of soil, sediment of river and lake, water-quality of lake and sea; and collection, transportation, treatment, and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes; power generation and supply of electricity and heat; manufacture, supply, sale, and lease of construction machinery and equipment, and materials and equipment for temporary works; manufacture and sale of concrete products for construction, fireproof or nonflammable building materials, materials for interior and exterior of buildings, furniture and wooden products for buildings, and sale of civil engineering and building materials; undertaking of maintenance and care of buildings, related facilities, and security and guard services; acquisition, development, licensing for use, and sale of software, industrial properties, and know-how related to utilization of computers; operation of information processing service, business of information furnishing service, and supply of telecommunication circuits; sale, lease, and maintenance service of electronic office machinery and equipment, including computers; management of health, medical, sport and leisure facilities, hotels and restaurants, and travel agencies; manufacture and sale of medical machinery and tools; operation of temporary personnel placement agency businesses under the Temporary Personnel Placement Agency Act; undertaking of services related to general affairs, personnel affairs, and accounting matters; operation of insurance agencies; production, processing, and sale of agricultural products, and acquisition, development, licensing for use and sale of agriculture-related technologies; money-lending and suretyship on obligations and other financial services; consulting serviced relates; and more.Obayashi Corporation has presence in Japan, North America, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceania.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$57M |
| Series A | $5.4M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 38% |
| Internet | 3 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Drones | 2 | 15% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 4 | 31% |
| United States | 4 | 31% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoshigoro Obayashi | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoshigoro-obayashi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glydways | Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs. | $170M | Series C | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| SkyDrive | SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members. | $57.5M | Series D | Jul 04, 2025 |  |
| Linea Innovations | Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology. | $12.3M | Series A | Jun 02, 2025 |  |
| Fabrum | At Fabrum, we research, design and develop new technology and processes in the construction, jointing detail and manufacture of high tolerance, niche market components and systems. We conduct every facet of our design, development and manufacturing in our purpose-built facility in Christchurch, New Zealand. | $23M | Series A | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| KEMARO AG | KEMARO GmbH, headquartered in Eschlikon, Switzerland, was founded in August 2016 by three engineers specializing in the development and production of autonomous industrial robotics. Our first product, the KEMARO-800, is the world's first dry fully autonomous cleaning robot for industrial use, demonstrating our expertise internationally as aleader in artificial intelligence and robotics. | $5.4M | Series A | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| SafeAI | SafeAI retrofits heavy equipment for autonomous applications in the mining and construction industries. SafeAI autonomous technology enables equipment owners to transform existing machines into self-operating robotic assets | $21M | Series A | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Join Digital | Join fuses wired and wireless networking with Secure Access Service Edge into Graphite™, the first unified Secure Agentic Networking Platform. Powered by AgenticOps and delivered on OpenLAN standard hardware, Graphite’s novel architecture delivers superior business outcomes with best-in-class reliability and performance. Join’s modular approachallows customers to respond flexibly to their business priorities, implementing the elements of the platform they need today, while seamlessly growing their implementation as their needs evolve. The result is industry-leading contextual, real-time telemetry and observability that automates network operations and reduces operational complexity. | $4.1M | Corporate Round | Nov 30, 2020 |  |
| SkyDrive | SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members. | $36.8M | Series B | Aug 31, 2020 |  |
| Luup | Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $3.9M | Seed | Jul 30, 2020 |  |
| SafeAI | SafeAI retrofits heavy equipment for autonomous applications in the mining and construction industries. SafeAI autonomous technology enables equipment owners to transform existing machines into self-operating robotic assets |  | Convertible Note | Mar 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ENEOS Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eneos-innovation-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cemex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cemex-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundamental](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundamental) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ITOCHU Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itochu-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Keio Innovation Initiative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keio-innovations-initiative) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Obayashi Corporation invest in?

Obayashi Corporation invests primarily in Manufacturing, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Obayashi Corporation's check size?

Obayashi Corporation typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$57M at Seed and $5.4M–$23M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Obayashi Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact Obayashi Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at Obayashi Corporation?

The team at Obayashi Corporation includes Yoshigoro Obayashi (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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