Osaka Gas
VC Fund
Osaka, Japan
Osaka Gas is a VC fund in Osaka focused on Energy and Automotive. Osaka Gas produces, supplies, and sells domestic energy, city gas, sales of gas equipment, and gas piping construction. They offer fine materials and carbon material products for kitchen machines, air conditioners, cogeneration, gas heat pumps, natural chillers, boilers, commercial gas water heaters, and industrial furnaces and burners.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Osaka Gas invests in
Stages Osaka Gas invests in
Countries Osaka Gas invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series C
- $10M–$28M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.2M–$5.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (23%)
- Automotive 3 (23%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- Marketing 2 (15%)
- Manufacturing 2 (15%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (31%)
- Series C 3 (23%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
Country
- Japan 10 (77%)
- United States 1 (8%)
- The Netherlands 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Motoyuki Hirabayashi
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Takehiro Honjo
Representative Director and President
|
Representative Director and President | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming. | Series A / Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| Koloma is a geologic hydrogen company that leverages its technology, proprietary data, and human capital advantages to identify and commercialize geologic hydrogen resources. The company creates and commercializes data-driven approaches to energy transition resource development solutions that help reduce global carbon emissions, allowing businessesto lower their carbon footprint and combat climate change. | $50M / Series B / Oct 15, 2024 | ||
| enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy. | $38M / Series B / Apr 26, 2024 | ||
| Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market. | $28M / Series C / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Techtouch is a software company that allows overlaying the explanation guidance on an existing web system by introducing a plug-in on the web browser side and JavaScript on the server-side. It offers an AI agent for different industries, as well as the TechTouch platform that enables users to access systems without having to code. | $27.9M / Series C / Jun 26, 2023 | ||
| Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services. | $10.3M / Series C / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| Jedlix is a smart charging service provider for electric vehicles. The company develops and operates a Vehicle-to-Grid Integration (VGI) platform to optimize the charging and discharging of electric vehicles and facilitate their insertion into the power grid at scale. | $5.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 09, 2021 | ||
| Avita is a software development company that develops and creates role-playing support avatars using generative AI. | $4.7M / Seed / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| LOCALWORKS Create a world where SMEs can grow easily by creating trust through visualization of reliability and changing the mechanism. | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 10, 2021 | ||
| REXEV offers a platform that combines energy management and mobility management. It aim to contribute to stable supply by using EV as a storage battery with eMMP and it to adjust the supply and demand of electricity. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website. | $7.2M / Series A / Dec 21, 2020 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Osaka Gas invest in?
Osaka Gas invests primarily in Energy, Automotive and Software startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series C 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 round sizes does Osaka Gas invest in?
Osaka Gas typically joins rounds of $10M–$28M at Series C and $1.2M–$5.8M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Osaka Gas's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Osaka Gas took part in.
How do I contact Osaka Gas?
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Who are the partners at Osaka Gas?
The team at Osaka Gas includes Motoyuki Hirabayashi (President & CEO) and Takehiro Honjo (Representative Director and 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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