Mirai Creation Fund

Mirai Creation Fund invests in companies and projects that use the latest technologies and business models. The Fund began operations in November 2015 with financing from three companies: Toyota Motor Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and SPARX Group Co., Ltd. As the Fund's manager, SPARX targeted three investment areas in intelligent technology, robotics and technologies for a hydrogen-powered society. In the second half of 2018, SPARX launched Mirai Creation Fund II which broaden the investment categories to include electrification and new materials. Since its inception, Fund I and II have accumulated an extensive track record of investing in promising companies in Japan and across the world.

Shuhei Abe

CEO

81 past transactions

Neural Pocket

Venture Round in 2019
Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.

Oishii Farm

Series A in 2021
Oishii Farm provides an indoor vertical farming technology.

GROOVE X

Seed Round in 2016
GROOVE X, Inc. designs and develops household robot having artificial intelligence and social robotics to provide companionship. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

PKSHA Technology

Venture Round in 2017
PKSHA technology was founded in 2012 by engineers and researchers who research algorithms. It is composed of engineers and researchers in the field of information science in order to provide one-stop services from the most advanced technology in the algorithm domain to its application

Ficha

Venture Round in 2017
Ficha Inc. develops and sells image recognition software for car cameras. It provides object detection software for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). The company also provides Driver Monitoring System (DMS), a system for monitoring the driver's driving condition with an in-vehicle camera to prevent dangerous driving and accidents. Ficha Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Blaize

Series C in 2018
Blaize, formerly Thinci, is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets. It was created to meet growing consumer demands for new interactive products. The company innovates and patents a set of remarkable new technologies that bring unheard-of Vision Processing to all types of consumer devices. Next-generation products require 10x-100x more performance and longer battery life - and Blaize is poised to meet those needs. These innovations will delight end-users around the world, and significantly benefit those companies that embrace Blaize's game-changing advancements. Blaize was founded as Thinci in 2010 and is based in El Dorado Hills, California.

EneCoat Technologies

Venture Round in 2022
EneCoat Technologies is working on materials development for perovskite solar cells and the commercialization of modules.EneCoat Technologies will create the future of energy through thin-film solar cells with the aims of protecting the environment and effectively utilizing natural energy sources.

Exergy Power Systems

Corporate Round in 2016
Exergy Power Systems is focused on developing, producing, and providing energy storage systems that make use of its uniquely developed hydrogen cells, which have ultrafast charging and discharging properties, as well as enhanced durability.

Meltin MMI

Series A in 2017
Meltin MMI is a cyborg-technology company that focuses on biosensors and robotic arms. Meltin has successfully enabled fine finger movements, such as for amputees and participated in Cybathlon 2016 and won the Microsoft Innovation Award.
Japan Data Science Consortium (JDSC) is an AI company that provides solutions for the medical, education and retail areas. As a professional consulting company, JDSC provides holistic support, from system construction to corporate process transformation to realize real profit impact by leveraging AI technology.

Wealthnavi

Series C in 2018
WealthNavi Inc. develops and delivers an online asset management and risk management platform. Its cloud-based platform provides robo advisory services that enable users to locate diversified investments internationally. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

24M Technologies

Series E in 2021
24M Technologies develops energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. builds energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Local Motors

Venture Round in 2020
Local Motors, Inc. manufactures and sells motor vehicle. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Goodyear, Arizona.

FLOSFIA

Series C in 2018
FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.

Getaround

Series D in 2018
Getaround, Inc. operates an online marketplace for peer-to-peer car sharing and local car rentals. The company offers Getaround, an on-demand car sharing marketplace that enables users to share cars and other vehicles with people nearby and rent convertibles, exotics, luxury, snows, SUVs, Tesla, trucks, and vans. It serves customers in San Francisco, San Diego, Berkeley, and Oakland, California; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; Washington, District Of Columbia; and Denver, Colorado. Getaround, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Medley

Series E in 2017
MEDLEY, the online encyclopedia disease that doctors make along with the people of cooperation doctor hundreds of people, we have put together in an easy-to-understand gently variety of information about the disease. Connect the people of doctors and medical institutions that provide people and their families and medical services to receive medical care, we aim to become as to realize the "convincing medical" information infrastructure must-have in society .

Origin Wireless

Series B in 2018
Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals. Specializing in communication platforms for service related B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) solutions. These services may include risk assessment and monitoring, customer service communication and monitoring, integrated management and reporting services, end-user gateways and dashboards.

Exvision

Funding Round in 2017
Exvision Inc. provides computer vision technologies for consumer electronics. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

FlyData

Series A in 2017
FlyData Inc. is a SaaS data migration company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. We enable easy management of the data load process to the cloud, allowing customers to move large data sets seamlessly, securely and continuously to existing data warehouses. Our mission is to allow our customers to focus on their core business while we handle the real-time data processing.

Incubation Alliance

Venture Round in 2018
INCUBATION ALLIANCE, INC. manufactures and sells carbon materials in Japan. The company offers carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene, carbon nanotube, and carbon nanofiber. Its products also include graphene flower, graphene tube, graphene sheets, and graphene clothes. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Kobe, Japan.

Kyoto Robotics

Venture Round in 2016
Kyoto Robotics Corporation develops picking robots for logistics systems. The company offers robots for palletizing and piece-picking applications. It also provides technical support services. Kyoto Robotics Corporation was formerly known as 3D MEDiA Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kyoto Robotics Corporation in January, 2018. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Kusatsu, Japan.

AnyMind Group

Series B in 2020
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

H3 Dynamics

Series B in 2018
H3 Dynamics Holdings Pte. Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based commercial drones deployable systems for security and surveillance sectors. The company offers DBX, a field-deployable tele-robotics system, which provides security, communications, geo-sensory, and drone charging services. It also develops an online micro-services platform, H3 Zoom.AI, which scans image data and inspects reports of surface defects. It serves military, aerospace, telecom providers, defense, energy providers, transport and security providers. H3 Dynamics Holdings Pte. Ltd was formerly known as Horizon Dynamics Holdings Pte. Ltd. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Guardian Optical Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
Guardian Optical Technologies Ltd provides four dimensional in-car sensor solutions and applications for private autonomous vehicles and fleets. It offers a sensor technology encompassing 2D, 3D, and motion analysis in a single sensor to enable automobile manufacturers to produce passenger aware cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Joby Aviation

Series B in 2018
Joby Aviation develops a new generation of electric personal aircraft created to revolutionize personal mobility. Its strength is in composite airframe design and fabrication, aerodynamic analysis, high-performance electric motor development, and cutting-edge battery pack design, enabling clients to create a paradigm shift in transportation with safe, quiet, fast, and affordable electric vertical takeoff.

Slamcore

Seed Round in 2018
SLAMcore Limited develops simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Its technology allows moving robots and any other device with outward-looking sensors to localize, navigate, and understand unfamiliar surroundings. The company provides Visual SLAM, sparse feature-based SLAM for robots and single cameras; sensor fusion where information from various sensors is fused together in a probabilistic model to provide an answer to the SLAM problem; Event Camera SLAM that helps develop algorithms which enable incremental reconstruction, tracking, and SLAM from event camera data. It develops ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D real-time methods demonstrating HDR and resolution intensity, panorama reconstruction, and motion estimation from an event-based camera. It also develops and licenses algorithms for smart technology, like drones and self-driving vehicles. SLAMcore Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

JapanTaxi

Series B in 2018
JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. develops a mobile application that enables users to arrange and schedule a cab ride in Japan. The company provides drive recorder devices, a wallet, tablets, a data platform, and payment machines for cashless function. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Nihon Kotsu Co.,Ltd.

WHILL

Series B in 2016
WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications. WHILL is making transportation enjoyable and smart for everybody. It aims to change the perception of mobility devices such as wheelchairs and scooters through advanced technology and smart design. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

GaN Systems

Venture Round in 2019
GaN Systems Inc., a semiconductor company, develops and manufactures a range of gallium nitride power switching transistors. The company offers 650 V E-HEMT and 100 V E-HEMT transistors and wireless power amplifiers. Its products are used in consumer, enterprise, industrial, solar/wind/smart grid, and transportation power conversion applications. The company serves consumer brand and enterprise equipment manufacturers in Japan, Taiwan, China, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Ottawa, Canada with additional offices in Aichi-ken, Japan; Shanghai, China; and München, Germany.

GROOVE X

Series A in 2017
GROOVE X, Inc. designs and develops household robot having artificial intelligence and social robotics to provide companionship. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Kyoto Robotics

Venture Round in 2019
Kyoto Robotics Corporation develops picking robots for logistics systems. The company offers robots for palletizing and piece-picking applications. It also provides technical support services. Kyoto Robotics Corporation was formerly known as 3D MEDiA Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kyoto Robotics Corporation in January, 2018. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Kusatsu, Japan.

giftee

Venture Round in 2018
giftee is an online service where you can send a small 'thank you' through small gifts by twitter and email. Supported by Open Network Lab.

Intuition Robotics

Series A in 2017
Intuition designs social companion technologies that positively impacts the lives of older adults. Its technology utilizes artificial intelligence to develop robots, enabling older adults to connect seamlessly with family and friends, making technology accessible and intuitive, and proactively promoting an active lifestyle.

Soxai

Series A in 2024
Soxai manufactures rings for healthcare purposes using IoT.

GROOVE X

Seed Round in 2016
GROOVE X, Inc. designs and develops household robot having artificial intelligence and social robotics to provide companionship. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

VISITS Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
VISITS Technologies is an internet based company.VISITS Technologies developed a unique consensus building algorithm called ideagram (patented),and succeeded for the first time in the world to quantify people's creativity , discerning ability, and the value of the idea itself By utilizing this technology, not only creativity, but also quantifying difficult- to- quantify sensual assets, such as senses,skills, and personal connections , Combined with blockchain technology, value transfer becomes possible.

May Mobility

Series C in 2022
May Mobility, Inc., an autonomous vehicle company, builds and operates a fleet of driverless vehicles for providing shuttle services to enterprise and municipal customers. It offers micro-transit service using six-passenger electric vehicles that steer themselves through traffic on mapped and closed loop. May Mobility, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Nyle

Corporate Round in 2019
Nyle Inc. provides web solution and Internet media services. The company offers Appliv, platform service to find smartphone applications and Appliv Games. Nyle Inc. was formerly known as Volare Inc. and changed its name to Nyle Inc. in September 2007. The company founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Xevo

Series C in 2016
Xevo, a division of Lear Corporation, is a Seattle-based global leader in connected-car software and a development partner to several of the world’s largest automakers. Xevo’s world-class team of connected-car software experts specialize in creating memorable in-vehicle experiences, from consumer commerce and media applications to mobile apps and enterprise services. These powerful solutions connect consumers with their favorite brands, improve vehicle performance and driver safety, deliver an AI-enhanced driving experience, and provide new monetization opportunities for automakers and consumer brands. Learn more about Xevo products and services at xevo.com.

VISITS Technologies

Series B in 2018
VISITS Technologies is an internet based company.VISITS Technologies developed a unique consensus building algorithm called ideagram (patented),and succeeded for the first time in the world to quantify people's creativity , discerning ability, and the value of the idea itself By utilizing this technology, not only creativity, but also quantifying difficult- to- quantify sensual assets, such as senses,skills, and personal connections , Combined with blockchain technology, value transfer becomes possible.

AnyMind Group

Series B in 2018
AnyMind Group is an organization that is transforming industries through artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, AnyMind Group is the parent company of AdAsia Holdings, TalentMind and CastingAsia. In the marketing industry, end-to-end solutions by companies under the AnyMind Group span influencer marketing, programmatic and digital advertising, and publisher monetization. For the human resource industry, AnyMind group’s TalentMind provides human resource and recruitment professionals with an AI-driven recruitment optimization platform to make hiring more efficient and smart. AnyMind Group aims to power businesses and professionals with a suite of AI-based solutions, enabling them to easily achieve greater scale and efficiency within and across departments.

Bitkey, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Bitkey, Inc. develops a smart lock device with a digital key infrastructure using block chain technology, distributed systems, encryption technology. The company's product is used in home, office, and hotels. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Chuo-ku, Japan.

DeepX

Venture Round in 2020
DeepX, Inc. develop software to provides mechanization and automation assistance. The company solves on-site problems, such as labor shortage, lack of skilled workers, and harsh work using deep learning and machine control technologies. It serves construction, food processing, manufacturing, port transport, and agriculture industries. DeepX, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Bunkyo, Japan.

ispace, inc.

Series A in 2017
ispace, inc. engages in developing networked micro robots for building detailed maps of available resources in the space. It develops micro-robots to create and support daily existence of humans in space. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Getaround

Series C in 2016
Getaround, Inc. operates an online marketplace for peer-to-peer car sharing and local car rentals. The company offers Getaround, an on-demand car sharing marketplace that enables users to share cars and other vehicles with people nearby and rent convertibles, exotics, luxury, snows, SUVs, Tesla, trucks, and vans. It serves customers in San Francisco, San Diego, Berkeley, and Oakland, California; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; Washington, District Of Columbia; and Denver, Colorado. Getaround, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kosen Career

Venture Round in 2019
Technical college students and technical college graduates with advanced technologies and practical skills that are applicable globally.They will contribute to the development of the world by creating a more challenging environment for such technical college students.
ACSL is an industrial drone manufacturer and solution provider in Japan originated from the laboratory of Professor Kenzo Nonami at Chiba University since 1998. ACSL is engaged in the R&D, manufacturing, sales and building solutions for industrial drone applications. With its proprietary technologies made and developed in Japan, ACSL aims to lead to the new industrial revolution of the global skies.

Aillis

Series B in 2020
Aillis specializes in the development of testing methods for Influenza using artificial intelligence technology. The company mainly focuses on new methods of diagnosing influenza. The company was founded in 2017.

MJI

Venture Round in 2017
MJI develops communication robots " Tapia " which make the user smile, soothe, and make life more fulfilling. MJI develops communication robots " Tapia " under the slogan of " more joyful innovation". The company envisions a future in which robots can be an assistant at the office, a receptionist at a front desk, a bedside nurse in a hospital, and even a companion in your home.

Realtime Robotics

Series A in 2019
Realtime Robotics, Inc. develops motion planning and control processors that enable robots and vehicles to instantly react to their environments. It offers a collision-free motion planning platform that continuously accommodates changes occurring in a work cell, which allows users to operate single/multiple robots safely in unstructured and uncaged environments. The company’s combination of software and hardware also enables collision-avoidance around known static objects and connected dynamic objects, such as other robots while executing variable tasks in variable locations. Realtime Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

FiNC

Series C in 2017
FiNC Technologies is a health tech venture specializing in preventive health care x AI (artificial intelligence).There are many gaps between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, physical complexities, body problems such as low back pain, knee pain, stiff shoulders, and many other health issues and concerns. Looking at the world, the inequality of starvation and lack of medical care in developing countries and the obesity and increase in medical expenses in developed countries are regarded as problematic. And at the root of these health problems are bad habits of exercise, nutrition and rest. Under the mission of "Personalized AI for everyone's wellness

Pricebook

Series D in 2019
Pricebook Co., Ltd., a company offering shopping search engine for gadgets in Indonesia and SEA. The company aims to "adapt proven know-hows to the huge & fast growing market, offering a No.1 platform for online shoppers".

KIYO Learning

Venture Round in 2018
KIYO Learning Co.,Ltd. engages in planning, production, sale, and operation of educational content and services for business people in Japan. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Realtime Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Realtime Robotics, Inc. develops motion planning and control processors that enable robots and vehicles to instantly react to their environments. It offers a collision-free motion planning platform that continuously accommodates changes occurring in a work cell, which allows users to operate single/multiple robots safely in unstructured and uncaged environments. The company’s combination of software and hardware also enables collision-avoidance around known static objects and connected dynamic objects, such as other robots while executing variable tasks in variable locations. Realtime Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

RT Corporation

Series B in 2019
RT Corporation develops and sells robots and related parts for robots. The company's products include army type robots and micro mouse type robots, such as CRANE-X7, AI Chip V3, Raspberry Pi Mouse, and CRANE+V2. Its services include robot development, hardware and software development. compound biopsy service, and contract manufacturing. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Chiyoda ku, Japan.

Open8

Series B in 2018
Open8 will launch a native video ad scheme on @Cosme and Women Excite in late November. @Cosme is a Japan’s leading cosmetic portal site by iStyle while Woman Excite is a women-focused portal site by Excite Japan.

Architek

Series B in 2020
ArchiTek specializes in circuit design for embedded systems, handling high level architecture design.

umitron

Seed Round in 2018
Umitron is a data company for aquaculture. We support fish farmers to increase productivity through data analytics. One of the biggest challenges in aquaculture is increasing feeding cost. We optimize feed amount and timing by using fish behavior analytics and water quality data. Our goal is to "install Sustainable Aquaculture on Earth".

aptpod

Series A in 2017
Aptpod Inc. operates in M2M/IoT software and hardware planning, development, and sales; M2M/IoT cloud service administration; and application/system prototyping. Its products include intdash, a bidirectional data transmission platform for streaming data generated at frequency of 100 msec to 1 msec intervals through a network; visual M2M, a web application that visualizes sensor data automatically collected in real time in the cloud; and automotive pro. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Kymeta

Series D in 2016
Kymeta is developing antennas for next generation satellite communications for mobile and fixed applications. Kymeta’s innovative antennas use metamaterials technology to dynamically steer the beam towards the satellite with no moving parts resulting in flat, thinner, lighter, more efficient and less expensive antennas. First to market will be a Portable Satellite Terminal- a laptop sized device with high speed internet connectivity and a built-in WiFi hotspot. Kymeta is also working on fixed antennas as well as antenna modules that can be incorporated as part of satellite terminals for any moving platform such as airplanes, trucks, trains, buses, automobiles or vessels.

Architek

Series A in 2018
ArchiTek specializes in circuit design for embedded systems, handling high level architecture design.

Finatext

Series C in 2018
Finatext provides a range of mobile financial services. The company’s product portfolio includes Asukabu, a mobile stock learning and trading platform; Karufx, a mobile forex learning platform; Fundect, a mutual funds select platform; Invesgate, a mobile trading platform for stocks, forex, and funds; and Assetarrow, a mutual fund database.
Guardian Optical Technologies Ltd provides four dimensional in-car sensor solutions and applications for private autonomous vehicles and fleets. It offers a sensor technology encompassing 2D, 3D, and motion analysis in a single sensor to enable automobile manufacturers to produce passenger aware cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Guardian Optical Technologies Ltd provides four dimensional in-car sensor solutions and applications for private autonomous vehicles and fleets. It offers a sensor technology encompassing 2D, 3D, and motion analysis in a single sensor to enable automobile manufacturers to produce passenger aware cars. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Kymeta

Series E in 2017
Kymeta is developing antennas for next generation satellite communications for mobile and fixed applications. Kymeta’s innovative antennas use metamaterials technology to dynamically steer the beam towards the satellite with no moving parts resulting in flat, thinner, lighter, more efficient and less expensive antennas. First to market will be a Portable Satellite Terminal- a laptop sized device with high speed internet connectivity and a built-in WiFi hotspot. Kymeta is also working on fixed antennas as well as antenna modules that can be incorporated as part of satellite terminals for any moving platform such as airplanes, trucks, trains, buses, automobiles or vessels.

JapanTaxi

Series A in 2017
JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. develops a mobile application that enables users to arrange and schedule a cab ride in Japan. The company provides drive recorder devices, a wallet, tablets, a data platform, and payment machines for cashless function. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Nihon Kotsu Co.,Ltd.

JapanTaxi

Venture Round in 2018
JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. develops a mobile application that enables users to arrange and schedule a cab ride in Japan. The company provides drive recorder devices, a wallet, tablets, a data platform, and payment machines for cashless function. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. JapanTaxi Co.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Nihon Kotsu Co.,Ltd.

Magellan Systems Japan, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Magellan Systems Japan, Inc. researches, develops, and licenses high precision satellite positioning systems. The company offers semi-software and software global positioning systems (GPS), digital signal processing technology systems, multi-frequency multi-global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), high precision GNSS real time kinematic systems, GNSS inertial measurement systems, GPS timing solutions, and autonomous ephemeris prediction solutions. It also imports and sells GNSS related products. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Amagasaki, Japan.

Freee

Series D in 2016
freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business. The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.

Keycafe

Seed Round in 2019
Keycafe Inc. provides an online exchange for remotely managing access to homes or rental properties. It serves home owners in Canada. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Autotalks

Series D in 2017
Autotalks, Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, provides V2X automotive-grade vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure chipset for vehicle safety and mobility applications. It offers CRATON (ATK4100), an automotive-grade integrated vehicular communication processor; and PLUTON (ATK3100) V2X RF Transceiver, an automotive-grade highly integrated optimized 802.11p RFIC. The company also provides PANGAEA4 V2X communication module, security verification and trustable signing, mobility, and software solutions. It serves OEMs, and Tier1s and Tier2s worldwide. Autotalks, Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Kfar Netter, Israel. It has local offices in North America, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, and China.

Slamcore

Pre Seed Round in 2017
SLAMcore Limited develops simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Its technology allows moving robots and any other device with outward-looking sensors to localize, navigate, and understand unfamiliar surroundings. The company provides Visual SLAM, sparse feature-based SLAM for robots and single cameras; sensor fusion where information from various sensors is fused together in a probabilistic model to provide an answer to the SLAM problem; Event Camera SLAM that helps develop algorithms which enable incremental reconstruction, tracking, and SLAM from event camera data. It develops ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D real-time methods demonstrating HDR and resolution intensity, panorama reconstruction, and motion estimation from an event-based camera. It also develops and licenses algorithms for smart technology, like drones and self-driving vehicles. SLAMcore Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Smart Robotics

Series B in 2019
Smart Robotics is a Dutch company operating in software and rental services for robotics.