# Osaka Gas

> Osaka Gas is a VC fund in Osaka backing Energy and Automotive. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/osaka-gas
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/osakagastsushin
- Website: https://www.osakagas.co.jp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osakagas.tsushin/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $10M–$28M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1.2M–$5.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 23% |
| Automotive | 3 | 23% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Marketing | 2 | 15% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 31% |
| Series C | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 10 | 77% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Motoyuki Hirabayashi | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motoyuki-hirabayashi |
| Takehiro Honjo | Representative Director and President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takehiro-honjo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SPACECOOL | Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming. |  | Series A | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Koloma | 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 | enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy. | $38M | Series B | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| Terra Motors | 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 | Techtouch is a service that allows overlaying the explanation guidance on an existing web system by introducing a plug-in on the web browser side and js on the server-side. | $27.9M | Series C | Jun 26, 2023 |  |
| Brave group | Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services. | $10.3M | Series C | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Jedlix | 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 | Avita is a software development company that develops and creates role-playing support avatars using generative AI. | $4.7M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Local Works | 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 |  |
| Local Works | 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 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Minerva Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minerva-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirai Creation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirai-creation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsubishi Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pegasus Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pegasus-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumitomo-mitsui-auto-service) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Osaka Gas invest in?

Osaka Gas invests primarily in Energy, Automotive and Internet 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 is Osaka Gas's check size?

Osaka Gas typically joins rounds of $10M–$28M at Series C and $1.2M–$5.8M 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 Osaka Gas participates 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 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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