Marubeni

Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshore trading.
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Hiroki Eda

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Masato Endo

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Past deals in Cambodia

Enlitic

Series B in 2019
Enlitic Inc. is a pioneer in medical deep learning that leverages proprietary algorithms to quickly and accurately improve healthcare diagnosis. With a platform developed by renowned data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and medical experts, Enlitic is able to analyze a wide variety of healthcare data sources, including billions of clinical cases, to improve diagnostic accuracy, speed and patient outcomes, as well as accelerate pharmaceutical research and drug trials. Named one of the world’s “50 Smartest Companies” by MIT Tech Review, Enlitic is based in San Francisco and serves customers around the world.

Gojo & Company Inc.

Series E in 2022
Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in 50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since our establishment, we work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers.

GridMarket, LLC

Corporate Round in 2019
GridMarket is a distributed energy project platform and competitive marketplace leveraging big data and predictive analytics to accelerate the global energy transition. The GridMarket platform automates the creation of customized opportunity assessments and technology agnostic project recommendations. Actionable energy insights empower energy consumers, governments, and utilities to dynamically manage their energy potential and implement the most beneficial, cost-effective solutions.

Floadia Corporation

Series C in 2020
Floadia Corporation is an energetic start up, focused on providing embedded non-volatile memory IP solutions.The engineering team came from Renesas who has been developing embedded FLASH technology for over 20 years, including the inventor of "Source Side Injection" for Split Gate FLASH, which is the fundamental technology for commonly used FLASH architecture today.

D-ID

Series B in 2022
D-ID engages in the deployment of face recognition technologies for Fortune 500 companies and institutions worldwide. It offers a de-identification software that enables enhanced identity theft protection and ensures regulatory compliance by removing unnecessary sensitive biometric data from facial images; and photo protection, facial blurring, and face authentication solutions. D-ID was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Noin, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Noin, Inc. offers online content creation and media development services. The company also offers sales account management and social media management services for online businesses. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Orbit Fab, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets. It develops the infrastructure needed to grow a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses (communications and Earth observation) and new industries like space tourism, manufacturing, and mining. The future for satellites is no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 by its Co-Founders Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel.

MUSCA

Venture Round in 2019
MUSCA is a Japanese startup that is looking to leverage the simple housefly as a solution to the global food crisis, helping curve starvation by creating high-quality organic fertilizer and animal feed in a manner that’s much quicker than existing methods.

Tridium

Series B in 2002
Tridium, a global software and services company, develops and markets a universal software framework targeted at solving the challenges associated with managing smart devices1. Software frameworks provide a platform to allow businesses to more easily build their product offerings. Tridium's core technology, the patented Niagara Framework® (or "Niagara"), a Java-based framework, provides a software infrastructure to integrate diverse systems and devices - regardless of manufacturer or communication protocol - into a unified platform that can be easily managed in real time over the Internet using a standard web browser. Niagara is being successfully applied in energy-services, building-automation, and industrial-automation markets today.

Wassha

Series B in 2019
Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for business partners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.

Sourcewater

Series A in 2019
Sourcewater, from MIT Energy Ventures, is the online exchange for sourcing, recycling, transporting and disposing of water for energy production, a $20 billion U.S. market. We create a marketplace that matches providers of water, wastewater, trucking, treatment, storage and disposal with energy producers, thereby minimizing the capital and operating costs of oil and gas production, ensuring reliability of the water supply chain, and reducing the environmental and community impact of hydraulic fracturing. For water sellers and service providers, Sourcewater creates a marketing platform that reduces cost of sales and maximizes utilization and profitability.

Pace

Series A in 2022
Pace is an online payment platform that allows users to shop for more with no interest or hidden fees. The platform lets shoppers take charge of their spending without giving up on the things they need or deserve. It turns purchases into 3 interest-free installments that give shoppers the breathing space to buy now.

DAIZ Inc.

Series B in 2020
DAIZ Inc. engages in the production and supply of plant-based meat. It offers food soybean-derived functional substances. The company was founded in 2015 and is based Kumamoto, Japan.
Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective. Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plants and industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power-plants or retrofitted to existing ones. Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers.

NeuroBlade, LTD.

Series B in 2021
NeuroBlade develops an Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference chip for data centers and end-devices. The company's chip solution paired with a complete end-to-end SW stack enables businesses to take the next leap forward by increasing the efficiency and affordability of their devices from edge to datacenters. Its approach overcomes fundamental AI challenges, eliminating memory bottlenecks while maintaining access to high-density memories without diminishing the accuracy of the trained model. Founded in 2017, NeuroBlade is headquartered in Hod-Hasharon, Israel.

DAIZ Inc.

Series B in 2021
DAIZ Inc. engages in the production and supply of plant-based meat. It offers food soybean-derived functional substances. The company was founded in 2015 and is based Kumamoto, Japan.

Skeleton Technologies

Series D in 2021
Skeleton Technologies OÜ manufactures ultracapacitors, ultracapacitor modules, components, and systems for automotive, grid, industrial, and transportation applications. The company also provides welding services. It serves customers through distributors worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia with subsidiaries in Großröhrsdorf and Berlin, Germany. Skeleton Technologies OÜ operates as a subsidiary of Skeleton Technologies Group OÜ.

BYTON

Series C in 2019
BYTON turns cars into a next-generation smart device. At BYTON automobiles and digital literacy are equally at home with each other. As a start-up, the company creates an environment for free thinking and action. Moreover, the company aims to become a global pioneer in the coming era of connected mobility by designing its cars as a fully connected smart device on wheels.

Shop LIT Live

Seed Round in 2021
Lit Live, Inc., doing business as Shop Lit Live, develops and operates a social marketplace for live shopping. The company offers a mobile application, LIT.Live, which allows the influencers and brands to connect with live audiences for selling beauty, fashion, technology, and lifestyle products. It also allows the influencers and brands to chat, co-stream with a creator, and live-stream the advertising content. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fnatic Ltd

Venture Round in 2021
Fnatic is a global esports entertainment brand focused on seeking out, leveling up, and amplifying gamers and creators. Founded by Sam and Anne Mathews in 2004 in the early days of the professional video gaming industry, Fnatic has since helped shape the new world sport into a fast-growing phenomenon. Today, driven by its ability to advance esports performance, Fnatic is the channel through which the most forward-thinking brands communicate with young people. It delivers content, experiences, and activations through offices and facilities in cities between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Alliance Magnesium Inc.

Funding Round in 2020
Alliance magnesium is develops and patents a breakthrough technology based on an electrolytic clean-tech approach to the processing of magnesium contained in serpentine rock. Its approach innovates on current methods used worldwide by magnesium producers essentially located in China, using an archaic energy intensive process which is no longer acceptable from an environmental and economic standpoint.

ePlane

Series A in 2020
ePlane is an eCommerce platform designed to bring together buyers and sellers in the aerospace industry. It enables straightforward transactions to be quickly and easily carried out online. The company serves as a free end-to-end sourcing solution for the aviation industry, connecting buyers, sellers & MROs from across the world. ePlane's user-friendly platform enables you to buy, repair, loan, and exchange aircraft parts – all in one place. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Limassol, Cyprus.
Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective. Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plants and industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power-plants or retrofitted to existing ones. Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers.

Enlitic

Series B in 2019
Enlitic Inc. is a pioneer in medical deep learning that leverages proprietary algorithms to quickly and accurately improve healthcare diagnosis. With a platform developed by renowned data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and medical experts, Enlitic is able to analyze a wide variety of healthcare data sources, including billions of clinical cases, to improve diagnostic accuracy, speed and patient outcomes, as well as accelerate pharmaceutical research and drug trials. Named one of the world’s “50 Smartest Companies” by MIT Tech Review, Enlitic is based in San Francisco and serves customers around the world.

Mainstream Renewable Power Limited

Corporate Round in 2013
Mainstream Renewable Energy does project design and management for renewable and alternative energies. Mainstream was founded in 2008 by Dr. Eddie O’Connor and Fintan Whelan, the former CEO and Corporate Finance Manager of Airtricity.

RETC

Acquisition in 2018
RETC, LLC (Renewable Energy Test Center, LLC) is an engineering services, and certification testing provider for photovoltaic and renewable energy products. RETC is TÜ Sܒs exclusive PV Test Laboratory in North America and Global Partner complementing its strategy to deliver a One-Stop-Shop capabilities for the growth of PV testing and certification services. RETC is ISO 17025 accredited by A2LA, an ILAC affiliated laboratory, and awarded a CBTL status, the highest accreditation in IEC scheme.

GrubMarket, Inc.

Series D in 2020
GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fat foods. GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California.

FanAI

Series A in 2019
FanAI Inc. owns and operates an artificial intelligence (AI) driven audience monetization platform. The company provides sponsors the insight to understand the fans, the ability to tailor the right targeted relationship with the right fan at the right time, and to predict the fan’s response. It serves esports and ecosystem of event organizers, game publishers, leagues, teams, sponsorship, digital agencies, and brands/sponsors. The company’s platform includes dashboards, real time analysis, fan segments, behavior analytics, return on investment measurement, and return on sponsorship. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Wrench

Series C in 2019
Wrench is an online fleet management and maintenance platform that provides auto repair services. It offers mobile mechanics service for all types of cars and trucks. Wrench offers services such as alternator replacement, battery replacement, brake caliper replacement, brake pad replacement, and other repairing services. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Aircastle Limited

Acquisition in 2020
Aircastle Limited, through its subsidiaries, leases, finances, sells, and manages commercial flight equipment to airlines worldwide. As of December 31, 2019, its aircraft portfolio comprised 287 aircraft leased to 85 lessees located in 49 countries. Aircastle Limited was founded in 2004 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. As of March 27, 2020, Aircastle Limited operates as a subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation.

Maneo

Venture Round in 2008
maneo market Inc., through its web portal, offers crowd-funding services. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of maneo Inc. As of September 17, 2020, maneo market Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NLHD Co., Ltd.

InfraREIT

Private Equity Round in 2010
InfraREIT is engaged in owning and leasing rate-regulated electric transmission assets in the state of Texas and is structured as a real estate investment trust. The Company is externally managed by Hunt Utility Services, LLC, an affiliate of Hunt Consolidated, Inc. (a diversified holding company based in Dallas, Texas, and managed by the Ray L. Hunt family). The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "HIFR."

B-Bridge International

Venture Round in 2005
B-Bridge International -- founded in 2000 and based in Santa Clara, California with branches in Japan -- acts as an incubator to connect the two business ecosystem to increase Japan's presence in the world, by educating companies and entrepreneurs of both cultures.

Spaldings Ltd.

Acquisition in 2012
Spaldings Limited distributes agriculture and ground care products to farmers, estates, contractors, and local authorities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Azuri Technologies Ltd

Corporate Round in 2019
Azuri Technologies Ltd. develops, manufactures, and installs solar power products for off-grid emerging markets in Africa and the United Kingdom. The company offers AzuriTV, a solar-powered television; Indigo, a pay-as-you-go system that enables solar electricity to be delivered as a service using scratch cards for payment; Azuri Quad, a solar home system that provides household lighting, including LED lights, rechargeable radio and torch, and mobile phone charging; and PayGo, a solar home system that delivers clean energy to rural households living without electricity. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom with distribution networks in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Zambia, and South Africa.

Creekstone Farms

Acquisition in 2017
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC produces, processes, and sells beef and pork meat products. The company also offers gift cards. It sells its products through grocery stores and restaurants in the United States, as well as online; and exports to Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Arkansas City, Kansas. As of July 18, 2017, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC operates as a subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation.

@Network

Series B in 2000
Their focus is in assisting the global integration of the Asian markets into the new e-conomy. They are building the bridges that will connect Asian countries to each other and to the rest of the world. They are breaking down barriers, which will lead to a more connected world. This is achieved through the use of Their virtual backbone in addition to Their comprehensive suite of e-business and marketing services. Their Internet backbone is guaranteed to be up 100% of the time. In addition, Their solutions are flexible enough to be implemented seamlessly, allowing companies to infiltrate the Asian markets in a matter of weeks, not months.

Opnext

Venture Round in 2001
Opnext is a leading designer and manufacturer of optical modules and components which enable high-speed telecommunications and data communications networks globally. Their transceiver modules, which typically utilize our lasers and detectors, convert signals between electrical and optical for transmitting and receiving data over fiber optic networks, a critical function in optical communications equipment.

Wassha

Corporate Round in 2018
Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for business partners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective. Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plants and industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power-plants or retrofitted to existing ones. Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers.

AND Global

Series A in 2020
AND Global is a financial and services company that provides a smartphone-based personal loan platform. Its platform features credit scoring and unlocks unsecured personal loans and payments. AND Global specializes in assessing credit risk for lending. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

Interstellar Technologies Japan

Venture Round in 2019
Interstellar Technologies Inc. develops sub-orbital rockets for conducting observations in space and experiments in zero gravity. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hiroo-gun, Japan.