# SIP Global Partners

> SIP Global Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo backing Software and Robotics. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $75M
- Last fund: Mar 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sip-global-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sip_gp?lang=en
- Website: https://sipgp.com/

SIP Global Partners is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Robotics. Located in Tokyo, New York, Boston and the GCC, we have dedicated our careers to building extraordinary cross-border companies. We are Venture Capitalists, CEOs and Technology Investors with a 35-year history of investing, growing, and exiting tech companies globally. We are also a multinational team of global entrepreneurs, digital creatives andtechnologists.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 31% |
| Robotics | 4 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 19% |
| 3D Printing | 2 | 13% |
| Industrial Automation | 2 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 25% |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 69% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaori Iwamoto | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | — |
| Matthew Salloway | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | — |
| Stuart Kozlowski | Venture Partner | 0 | — |
| Susie Gruda | Venture Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EnCharge AI | EnCharge AI delivers AI compute solutions that span from edge to cloud, catering to various business needs. The company focuses on providing transformative technology for AI computation, emphasizing efficiency and sustainability. EnCharge AI's offerings enable businesses to utilize advanced AI models without being constrained by power, space,or cost limitations. Their products are designed to support a wide range of applications, facilitating enhanced performance and scalability in AI-driven initiatives. By integrating cutting-edge technology, EnCharge AI aims to streamline the computational demands of modern AI workloads. | $100M | Series B | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Lightmatter | Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence.Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet. | $155M | Series C | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Seurat Technologies | Seurat Technologies is transforming manufacturing for people and our planet. Area Printing by Seurat is the next generation of 3D metal printing designed for high-volume, decarbonized industrial production. By decoupling resolution and speed, Seurat is creating a scalable process that can compete with traditional manufacturing in every way.Seurat’s pioneering approach was originally developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and has over130 patents granted and pending. | $99M | Series C | Oct 30, 2023 |  |
| Kotoba Technologies | Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++ | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Lightmatter | Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence.Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet. | $154M | Series C | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Lightmatter | Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence.Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet. | $154M | Series C | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Realtime Robotics | Realtime Robotics is a developer of a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds. They are transforming automation in its broadest sense by enabling machines to recognize, respond and decide how and where to move in milliseconds, even in variable environments. Their RapidPlan processor harnesses cutting-edgecomputer processing and software to end the trade-off between speed and safety that’s holding automation back today.Realtime Robotics is resolving these limitations with specialized hardware enabling fast, collision-free motion in unstructured environments, enabling vastly broader applications of robotics in industry, and autonomous vehicles that drive naturally, enabling more rapid adoption and proliferation. | $14.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| XL Batteries | XL Batteries develops a technology platform to reduce waste formation. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $10M | Seed | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| READY Robotics | READY Robotics builds ForgeOS: the industrial operating system for robotics and automation. Based on patented technology, ForgeOS enables manufacturers to deploy and manage robots and automation systems with a standardized set of low-code apps. Perfect for the type of high-mix/low-volume manufacturing that has historically been challengingto automate.READY Robotics was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Seurat Technologies | Seurat Technologies is transforming manufacturing for people and our planet. Area Printing by Seurat is the next generation of 3D metal printing designed for high-volume, decarbonized industrial production. By decoupling resolution and speed, Seurat is creating a scalable process that can compete with traditional manufacturing in every way.Seurat’s pioneering approach was originally developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and has over130 patents granted and pending. | $21M | Series B | Jan 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does SIP Global Partners invest in?

SIP Global Partners invests primarily in Software, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at SIP Global Partners?

The team at SIP Global Partners includes Kaori Iwamoto (Chief Operating Officer), Matthew Salloway (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Stuart Kozlowski (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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