# Sumitomo Corporation of America

> Sumitomo Corporation of America is a VC fund backing Energy and Manufacturing. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sumitomo-corporation-of-america
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/sumitomoamerica
- Website: https://www.sumitomocorp.com/en/us/scoa/

Sumitomo Corporation of America is an oil & energy company providing investment and financial services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 4 | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 19% |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Automotive | 3 | 14% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 14% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 8 | 38% |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 95% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hideki Hijiya | SVP & Group General Manager, Food & Lifestyle Group | 1 | — |
| Randy Yoshimura | Group GM | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greentek Solutions | GreenTek Solutions is engaged in disposing and recycling IT equipment and assets. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| SHINE Technologies | SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc. manufactures and supplies medical tracers and cancer treatment elements. The company offers Molybdenum-99, a light-emitting element that is administered to patients for the purpose of diagnosing and staging cancer and heart diseases. It also provides Iodine-131 that is used to treat thyroid cancer and variousabnormal thyroid conditions, including hyperthyroidism, as well as to diagnose liver function, renal blood flow, and urinary tract obstruction.The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin. | $240M | Series E | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Grupo Papalotla | Papalotla Group is a leader in the development and marketing of tropical grasses, committed to offering innovative solutions that boost productivity and sustainability in the agricultural sector. With a highly specialized team and a customer-oriented approach, we transform livestock farming through high-performance hybrid seeds and first-classtechnical advice. We sow the future of global agriculture, cultivating the success of our producers. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Independence Hydrogen | Independence Hydrogen, Inc. ("IH") is a privately-held company that is a pioneer in building the American hydrogen economy. IH opens the door to fuel cells with reliable, affordable, and clean hydrogen services. The IH team is 100% veterans from military and government service, many with combat leadership experience which define acompany culture of integrity, service to others and an operational-driven performance mentality. IH's mission is to make communities cleaner, safer, and more energy resilient by providing access to affordable, low carbon hydrogen. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Quest Health Solutions | Quest Health Solutions Helping to make things easier for Diabetes Providers when ordering a CGM for their patients. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| Pacifico Power | Pacifico Power supplies electricity directly to customers in the behind-the-meter distributed energy market with the goal of supporting their operational success through dependable, affordable generation, storage, and microgrids. | $40M | Debt Financing | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| ClearBlade | ClearBlade is an Edge Computing software company enabling enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, real-time, scalable IoT applications. ClearBlade was built for the enterprise from the ground up to run securely in any cloud, on-premise, and at the edge. ClearBlade enables companies to ingest, analyze, adapt and act on any data in real timeand at an extreme scale. Users can unleash their data by leveraging local computing, artificial intelligence, and actionable visualizations while integrating with any enterprise system - all from a single platform.The industry-leading ClearBlade Edge delivers the full power of the ClearBlade Platform directly to devices and gateways. The ClearBlade Edge runs autonomously - independent of network connectivity - ensuring resiliency and security. ClearBlade’s patented communications-agnostic AutoSync technology guarantees your environment is always up-to-date. ClearBlade is fully extensible with a suite of proven components and integrations to deliver solutions quickly and at scale. ClearBlade empowers you to focus on business results and outcomes. Providing a consistent platform across edge, cloud, and on-premise environments.ClearBlade is headquartered in Austin, TX. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Syzygy Plasmonics | Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel cell vehicles and small-scale industrial applications.The company's reactor is powered by light and operates at over 1,000°F lower temperature than conventional chemical reactor technology that helps in reducing maintenance costs and is able to start or stopproduction near instantaneously, enabling fuel cell vehicle companies to produce ultra-low-cost hydrogen gas on-site at customer locations. | $76M | Series C | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| TAE Technologies | TAE Technologies is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Their core mission is to create a new source of clean energy – one that’s powered by nature’s own processes and produces no harmful byproducts. Their groundbreaking work has led to industry-wide advances in accelerator and plasma physics,and acted as a catalyst for adjacent innovations based on their results. With 20 years of focused research, TAE Technologies is on a purposeful path to commercial fusion energy and pioneering sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. | $250M | Series G | Jul 19, 2022 |  |
| Cemvita | Cemvita employs synthetic biology to develop cost-effective solutions inspired by nature, aiming to facilitate the transition towards sustainable energy. The company's CO2 Utilization platform mimics photosynthesis to produce nutrients and pharmaceutics for deep space exploration and industrial chemicals and polymers for energy sustainability. |  | Series A | Aug 11, 2021 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8090 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8090-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Axioma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axioma-ventures-b9b0) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Bison Capital Asset Management — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carbon Direct Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbon-direct) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Climate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sumitomo Corporation of America invest in?

Sumitomo Corporation of America invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and Software startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sumitomo Corporation of America?

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### Who are the partners at Sumitomo Corporation of America?

The team at Sumitomo Corporation of America includes Hideki Hijiya (SVP & Group General Manager, Food & Lifestyle Group) and Randy Yoshimura (Group GM). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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