Omron Ventures

Omron Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm associated with Omron Corporation, a Japanese industrial conglomerate founded in 1933 and headquartered in Kyoto. The firm focuses on investing in and fostering the growth of innovative startups across various sectors, aligning with Omron's broader business interests in areas such as industrial automation, electronic components, automotive electronics, social systems, and healthcare. Omron Corporation is recognized for its development of advanced automation components and medical devices, including digital thermometers and blood pressure monitors. With a commitment to enhancing technological advancements, Omron Ventures seeks to leverage its expertise and resources to support emerging companies that contribute to the future of automation and healthcare solutions.

Satoshi Ando

Director

Yoshihito Yamada

President, Chief Executive Officer, and Representative Director

31 past transactions

Patients Know Best

Corporate Round in 2019
Patients Know Best, Ltd. develops online patient portal software for clinicians, researchers, charities, payers, employers, universities, and pharmacies. Its software features include virtual outpatient follow-ups, secure messaging, lab results and reports, home monitoring, and care plans sharing. Patients Know Best, Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Kyoto Robotics

Venture Round in 2015
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.

Avails Medical

Venture Round in 2020
Avails Medical, Inc., an in vitro diagnostics company, provides solutions for antibiotic resistance and health-care associated infections. It offers eQuant, a compact single module instrument that holds a cuvette integrated with an electrical sensor and is inoculated with a diluted sample of positive blood culture. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

ClimateTrade

Seed Round in 2022
ClimateTrade is a blockchain-based trading platform. Their vision is to be the most disruptive and exponential fintech company in the environmental sector to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on the client. They have built an ecosystem where companies and consumers can easily offset their carbon footprint and also invest in green financial products, disruptive technologies, and projects that aim to tackle climate change.

PhableCare

Series B in 2022
In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring. Phable is marching onward to impact a billion lives over the next 5 years.

PhableCare

Series A in 2021
In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcare system. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring. Phable is marching onward to impact a billion lives over the next 5 years.

Realtime Robotics

Series A in 2021
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.

AliveCor

Private Placement in 2020
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Adept Technology

Acquisition in 2015
Adept Technology, is a global, leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and services. Adept systems provide unmatched performance and economic value throughout the production lifecycle, enabling customers to achieve precision, quality and productivity in their assembly, handling and packaging processes.

Microscan Systems

Acquisition in 2017
Microscan has a rich history of technology innovation that includes the invention of the first laser diode barcode scanner and the development of the 2D symbology Data Matrix. Today, Microscan remains a global leader in automatic identification, machine vision, barcode verification, and label inspection, with extensive products and solutions serving customers ranging from factory automation to OEM machines and instrumentation.

SENTECH CO.,LTD

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
SENTECH CO., LTD develops, manufactures, and sells video cameras for machine vision, industry, and security applications. It also offers linear sensor-based line scanning cameras; electronic devices based on other sensors; and industrial endoscopes. SENTECH CO.,LTD was formerly known as Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SENTECH CO.,LTD in January 2014. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Ebina-shi, Japan with a sales office in Minami-ku, Japan. As of July 3, 2017, SENTECH CO.,LTD operates as a subsidiary of OMRON Corporation.

Lark

Series B in 2017
Lark Technologies, Inc. develops a chronic disease prevention and management platform. It offers Lark, a digital platform that provides personalized coaching to help people manage and prevent chronic diseases, such as for diabetes, prediabetes, and hypertension. The company’s application also provides user activity, sleep, and nutrition data. It serves employers and health plans. Lark Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Mountain View, California.

avatarin

Series B in 2024
avatarin Inc. engages in research, development, and deployment of avatar services in Japan. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. avatarin Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ANA Holdings Inc.

Aduro

Acquisition in 2006
ADURO, Inc. offers corporate wellness programs for companies to increase the health and performance of their workplace. ADURO, Inc. was formerly known as Worksite Wellness, LLC and changed its name to ADURO, Inc. in March, 2013. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Redmond, Washington.

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.

Graviton

Series D in 2001
Graviton, Inc. was a high-tech, privately-held, development-stage company located in La Jolla, California. Graviton was a pioneer in the emerging “sensornetics” industry – producing small, aspirin-sized sensors to expand the capacity of the public and private sectors to manage buildings, infrastructure, and other elements of the engineered world. Graviton developed sensor technology to keep managers informed, used wireless communications to provide operations data and real-time connections, and provided managed information services to keep managers in control. Graviton’s integrated solutions were designed to expand the “common sense” of managers and decision-makers at every level by generating, transmitting, and managing new data to provide more accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence to better inform everyday decision-making. In 2003, Graviton merged with Xsilogy, a provider of wireless sensor network technologies and applications.

Cohero Health

Series A in 2016
Cohero Health offers a proprietary connected health platform for those with respiratory illness. Its sensor-based technology and engaging platform improve medication adherence and care coordination between patients and their care providers. The company offers a suite of tools and technology comprises form flexible inhaler sensors, mobile spirometers, to track real-time adherence and lung function, and a mobile application accessible on iPhone, iWatch, and Android. Cohero Health was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Philsar Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2000
Philsar Semiconductor is an Industrial company.

Colin Medical Technology Corporation

Acquisition in 2005
Colin Medical Technology Corporation

Philsar Semiconductor

Series A in 1999
Philsar Semiconductor is an Industrial company.

LifeRobotics

Series A in 2016
Through us it is, provides the development of co-robot to help people, People will contribute to the creation of new value.

Microscan Systems

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Microscan has a rich history of technology innovation that includes the invention of the first laser diode barcode scanner and the development of the 2D symbology Data Matrix. Today, Microscan remains a global leader in automatic identification, machine vision, barcode verification, and label inspection, with extensive products and solutions serving customers ranging from factory automation to OEM machines and instrumentation.

D-ID

Convertible Note in 2018
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.

Delta Tau Data Systems

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc. engages in manufacturing and testing motion and machine control products. It offers power programmable multi axis controllers (PMAC), board level machine controllers, system controllers, amplifiers, PMAC NC controllers, UMAC systems, geo amplifiers, quad amplifiers, 3U amplifiers, motion and control ring optical (MACRO) controllers, MACRO peripherals, geo MACRO drives, Adv 400 packs, and UMAC MACRO stations. The company also provides compact UMAC systems, 3U UMAC system, turbo clipper drives, turbo PMAC clipper controllers, PMAC PC/104 controllers, MACRO interface board level controllers, MACRO ring controllers, geo brick drives, brick controllers, turbo PMAC2 realtime express controllers, and geo brick LV amplifiers. In addition, it offers development software, software tools, CNC systems, operator control panels, and CNC software. The company provides its solutions for various applications, including general automation, robotics, semiconductor manufacturing, machine tools, and medical and packaging equipment. Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Chatsworth, California with additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, and Korea. As of September 1, 2015, Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OMRON Corporation.

AliveCor

Private Placement in 2020
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

D-ID

Series A in 2020
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.

Theranica

Series B in 2019
Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, and affordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.

Rehab

Series D in 2023
Rehab for JAPAN Co., Ltd. provides Software-as-a-Service type cloud support services for nursing care establishments. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Cogsmart

Series A in 2022
Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.

Eagle Genomics

Venture Round in 2023
Life sciences smart data management and analysis solutions