Sony

Sony Innovation Fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony that invests and engages in early-stage companies. Beyond investment, our mission is to provide resources such as access to the broader Sony world and its global network, as well as collaborate with startups to: • Foster business creation in related lines of business and new areas of interest to Sony • Catalyze a talented and passionate team Sony innovation Fund was founded in 2016.

Kazuhito Hadano

CEO

Tiffany Huang

Senior Associate

Costantino Mariella

Senior Venture Capital Investment Manager

Roy Meirom

Investor

Toshimoto Mitomo

Senior Investment Executive

Austin Noronha

Managing Director, Growth Ventures and Innovation

Tony Seeff

Senior Investment Director

Chieko Tazuke

Investment Director

Joseph Tou

Managing Director

Gen Tsuchikawa

Chief Investment Manager

204 past transactions

NODWIN Gaming

Series A in 2023
Established in 2015, NODWIN Gaming is one of the world’s leading emerging market Gaming and esports companies which is building a high growth and sustainable ecosystem. The framework involves synergies across professional esports athletes, Teams, content creators, products and audiences. NODWIN Gaming works on Sports entertainment (with a focus on esports as their sport of choice) as the core value offering to Fans, Publishers, and brands across its various IPs in esports,Gaming, Music, Comedy and Live experiences focussed on the NODWIN Gaming Fan. NODWIN operates across multiple offices in South Asia, Singapore, Middle East and Turkey. NODWIN Gaming a material subsidiary Nazara Technologies Ltd (BSE: NAZARA).

Rapidus

Grant in 2022
Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductor sector.

ATLANT 3D

Series A in 2022
ATLANT 3D, established in 2018, is at the forefront of atomic-scale manufacturing, providing digital, atomically precise technologies and an ecosystem for rapid innovation in materials, micro/nanodevices, and scalable manufacturing. The company targets key sectors such as semiconductors, optics, photonics, MEMS/sensors, RF and Advanced Packaging, overcoming the traditional, slow, and costly innovation cycle in micro/nanoelectronics that relies on extensive, cleanroom-based setups and specialized expertise. ATLANT 3D has developed a robust portfolio of solutions, including the A-HUBs and NANOFABRICATOR™ platforms, targeting a wide range of applications from semiconductors to life sciences. Our core technology, DALP® (Direct Atomic Layer Processing), brings atom-by-atom manufacturing precision and adaptability to various stages of product development. ATLANT 3D's unique value proposition revolutionizes micro and nanofabrication by enabling local direct material and pattern processing. This innovation overcomes the limitations of conventional cleanroom-based fabrication, significantly reduces development time and costs, and facilitates processing across the entire value chain up to manufacturing. The traditional innovation cycle in micro/nanoelectronics is slow, costly, and geographically constrained, driven by complex, cleanroom-dependent processes that extend development time and are vulnerable to geopolitical influences. ATLANT 3D's platform revolutionizes this by enabling the use of various materials and processes for rapid, on-demand, and cost-effective prototyping and manufacturing. Offering unparalleled flexibility, zero-waste production, and full compatibility with industry standards, ATLANT 3D facilitates a network-centric innovation ecosystem with Advanced Hubs (A-Hub). Our ecosystem dramatically shortens the innovation cycle, supporting scalable manufacturing on Earth and beyond, addressing the urgent need for localized semiconductor and electronics manufacturing.

GetVantage

Series A in 2022
GetVantage is a Fintech platform that offers entrepreneurs growth solutions that include equity-free funding, real-time insights, business optimisation tools, and a powerful founder's ecosystem. GetVantage is India and Southeast Asia’s leading non-dilutive capital gateway for digital-first businesses and SMEs across 18+ sectors including eCommerce, CleanTech, D2C, Edtech, EV & infrastructure, SaaS, Healthtech, Foodtech, cloud-kitchens, QSR and many more. Founded in 2019 by seasoned fintech entrepreneur Bhavik Vasa and Tech and Ops veteran Amit Srivastava, the GetVantage uses proprietary technology to analyze an assortment of sales, marketing, and accounting data to offer growth capital to founders based on current and projected revenue in a fraction of the time it takes to raise from traditional sources. GetVantage makes data-driven investments between US$ 10,000 to US$ 3 million to help digital businesses unlock their growth potential. Unlike traditional funding sources, GetVantage doesn’t require business owners to give up equity or control via board seats, or warrants. As a founders-first company, GetVantage has built a strong ecosystem of strategic partners to provide business owners with powerful growth solutions (capital, community, content, collaboration) to hypercharge growth. GetVantage has quickly become a valued partner in the startup and eCommerce ecosystem helping founders reach new customers and focus on growing revenues without diluting ownership. The company has a number of exciting businesses in its current portfolio and a robust pipeline. As the leading non-dilutive fintech marketplace in India, GetVantage has firmly established itself as one of the most active investors in the country with a portfolio of over 450+ of the most exciting brands in India. The company has onboarded over 9,000+ brands onto its platform and is on track to fund 1000+ brands in the next 18 months. In keeping with the company's commitment to being a founders-first organization, GetVantage also launched a community support initiative for emerging entrepreneurs as a way of giving back by paying it forward to the next generation - www.foundersforfounders.org. In October 2020, GetVantage announced it had raised a US$5 million seed round led by Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) along with Dream Incubators (Japan) and other marquees NBFCs and debt funds. In June 2022, the company announced a $36 million pre-Series A / growth round led by Varanium Group and co-led by returning investor Chiratae Ventures. The round also so participation from returning investor Dream Incubator Japan, as well as new investors Sony Innovation Fund, InCred, and DMI Sparkle Fund.

Metcela

Series C in 2022
Metcela is a clinical-stage biotech startup providing patients with an innovative and alternative treatment option for heart disease. The company's lead asset, MTC001 is a cell therapy based on VCAM-1-positive Cardiac Fibroblast (VCF) that re-established a favorable microenvironment and repaired damaged heart tissues in preclinical studies. Metcela's therapy uses a specific fibroblast cell that is obtained from the patient's heart and instead of replacing them, it repairs the damage by enhancing the cells' ability to heal, providing patients with an effective and reasonably-priced cure for heart failure. It was founded on March 9, 2016, and is headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan.

Cowche

Series B in 2022
KAUCHE is a share-buying app that enables users to enjoy low-cost shopping by group-buying with share-buying companions such as friends and family. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.

WeRize

Series B in 2022
* At WeRize, we are creating a new category in Indian financial services space. We are building, India’s first socially distributed full stack fintech platform for middle class families in tier 2-4 cities. The financial needs of small-city India have been largely underserved since traditional players and even fintechs are unable to properly serve this segment * WeRize is a full-stack provider, both manufacturing and distributing a wide portfolio of customized credit, insurance, and savings products for 300Mn individuals spread across the 4000+ Tier 2 to Tier 4 towns . This $200 Billion market expects a very different product set as well as distribution model which traditional private banks, insurers, and mutual fund companies are unable to provide. The economics of these products as well as operating in small cities for traditional companies is unfeasible due to their high-cost branch-based distribution model. * Families in small towns require high touch sales/after-sales service which can only be profitably provided using a social distribution model. The entire Indian fintech ecosystem is geared towards building DIY apps that help customers choose the right financial products for themselves. However, this approach doesn’t work for small-town families as they need high touch sales and after sales. Additionally, due to lower ticket-size/conversions vs tier-1 city millennial customers, digital CAC unit economics dont work, leading to fintechs staying away from this superb segment *Using the “Social Shopify of Finance” platform, WeRize has enabled thousands of financially literate freelancers in 1000+ cities to sell its financial products in their social circle. This solves trust issue as well as provides high-touch sales/after-sales . * Werize is the only Indian fintech platform/financial services player that has been able to distribute financial services through freelancers without any of its own feet-on-street/local branches. Our freelancers in 1000+ cities are managed only through Werize proprietary tech platform. This enables superb scalability and low CAC/ops cost=> highly profitable business model.

Clausematch

Venture Round in 2022
Clausematch is an award-winning regulatory technology (RegTech) company that enables heavily regulated organizations and other regulated companies to run their businesses safely and meet compliance obligations. Clausematch’s AI-powered platform provides end-to-end policy management and regulatory compliance solutions to help organizations navigate the compliance lifecycle.

Agility Robotics

Series B in 2022
Agility Robotic's legged locomotion expertise is built on a history of academic research, including the bipedal walking and running robot ATRIAS. Agility Robotics is leveraging this work to create products that address the real world needs of rugged, efficient, and highly capable mobility platforms.

Ac-Planta

Venture Round in 2022
Ac-Planta Inc. manufactures the product Skeepon, which can promote the adaptability of plants to heat and drought conditions. Skeepon is a radical agricultural solution that can address climate change issues by using the cutting-edge technology of epigenetics. The company aims to maximize the potential of plant epigenetics to improve how humans and plants interact in climate change.

Epic Games

Venture Round in 2022
Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices.

Medfin India

Series B in 2022
Medfin is a discovery platform for medical processes and financing that helps patients to access surgical treatment procedures. The platform also offers surgeries across departments from ophthalmology to orthopedics and helps patients navigate the entire surgical and related diagnostics processes, including connecting them with surgeons, finding the right course of treatment, performing cost estimates, and insurance coverage checks. The company was founded in 2017 by Arjun Kumar, Arun Kumar, and Sidharth Gurjar.
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. operates as a digital brokerage general agency, providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions tailored for financial institutions, their advisors, and clients. The company's offerings include the Covr Advisor platform, which enables financial advisors to efficiently meet their clients' insurance needs by selecting appropriate products, and the Covr Consumer platform that allows banks and credit unions to sell insurance directly to customers online. Additionally, Covr Insights assists in managing and analyzing existing life insurance policies. Founded in 2013 and based in Boise, Idaho, Covr serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across various financial institutions, including wealth management firms, banks, and credit unions. The company is supported by notable venture capital investors and features an advisory board that includes prominent figures from the financial services industry.

Anzu.io

Series B in 2022
Anzu is the most advanced intrinsic in-game ad solution for mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Anzu’s in-game ads put players first and help advertisers reach audiences programmatically in a non-disruptive and highly engaging way. A patented 3D ad tracking engine, the first to bring viewability measurement in-game with Oracle Moat and IAS, partnerships with trusted AdTech vendors, and compliant with the industry measurement standards outlined by the MRC and IAB make Anzu the preferred in-game advertising partner for brands and agencies worldwide. Anzu helps game developers monetize their titles with ad placements that complement the gameplay, and by monetizing the entire game session, they benefit from consistent and reliable revenue streams. Supporting all major and custom built game engines, and a full-stack ad monetization solution that provides complete control over ad placements makes Anzu the preferred in-game ad monetization partner for developers worldwide. Backed by Sony Innovation Fund, NBCUniversal, Samsung Next, Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund, WPP, PayPal Ventures and many other prominent investors, Anzu is on a mission to make advertising in games better. Better for brands, better for game developers, and better for gamers. Learn more at https://www.anzu.io/

GGWP

Seed Round in 2022
GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.

Rad

Venture Round in 2022
Rad operates a global network focused on virtual reality, 360 video, and immersive experiences, catering to the growing demand for innovative content consumption. Through its platform, Rad delivers a diverse range of programming, including eSports, music, comedy, and sports, appealing particularly to Millennial and Gen Z audiences. The service stands out by offering a variety of viewing formats such as 2D, 3D, 4K, live, and immersive VR content. Additionally, Rad incorporates blockchain technology and peer-to-peer networking, enabling viewers to earn rewards points and engage with the community. This unique combination positions Rad as a hub for next-generation viewers seeking edgy and interactive entertainment.

Talespin

Series C in 2022
Talespin is building the spatial computing platform to power talent development and skills mobility for the future of work. Founded in 2015, the company leverages its proprietary platform to offer enterprise customers, partners, and individuals an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing, and measuring the impact of immersive learning content. Talespin is building a future of work where the distance between learning and execution is collapsed, enabling people to explore unique career paths that meet the needs of both businesses and individuals.

Scandit

Series D in 2022
Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-time information as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless. Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota.

MonoAI Technology

Venture Round in 2022
monoAI technology develop and operate network games,conduct technology research and content development for VR and AR content and conduct a new type of QA business that incorporates software testing methods and AI.

Superpedestrian

Debt Financing in 2022
Superpedestrian is a venture-backed robotics company that develops lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms. It provides a wealth of data to enhance cycling, from physical wellness to safety. The Copenhagen Wheel is now in mass production and shipping in volume. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

DSP Concepts, Inc.

Series C in 2022
DSP Concepts is the Silicon Valley based leader in the Audio of Things (AoT) market and the creator of Audio Weaver, the Audio Experience platform that makes audio innovation easy. DSP Concepts equips and supports engineers with real-time workflows to quickly stand up prototypes, collaborate and modify designs across teams, and deploy to the most popular chipsets from leading semiconductor companies including NXP, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Cadence, Arm, and others. DSP Concepts technologies are embedded in millions of automotive and consumer products, delivering remarkable Audio Experience solutions to prestigious brands including Bang & Olufsen, BMW, Braun, Facebook, Garmin, GoPro, LG, Mercedes Benz, Panasonic, Peloton, Porsche, Samsung, Sennheiser, Spotify, Tesla, and many more.

Fotokite

Series B in 2022
Fotokite is a team of autonomous vehicle and aerial robotics experts set out with a mission to help first responders save lives and preserve property. Our patented technology enables us to provide solutions that get installed in the top of fire trucks and public safety vehicles, so that when a firefighter shows up to their scene, they push a single button, and their Fotokite system opens up, deploys itself, and flies up to 45 meters in height to provide the first responders with mission-critical information about their scene. From up there, we provide both thermal and regular video down to the ground to give teams visibility and elevated intelligence over their scene. The information delivered helps them size up and assess their incidents quickly and without drawing additional team resources like normal drones. We actively use a tether to provide power up the line and data down the line to deliver a fully autonomous, situational awareness system with 24-hour-plus flight times. The real benefit to the user is the fact that they gain this information without ever piloting the system- it’s as simple as it gets. They simply push “launch” on a tablet, set their altitude and camera angle, and the system takes care of the rest. Once up in the air, the system is also set up to live stream that aerial information to other teams on the same site, or back at the fire station to provide more eyes on the scene than were possible before. They use this information to gain perspective and context of their incident, and then deploy their resources in a more data-informed way.

Mightier

Series B in 2021
Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions. It is a bioresponsive program that harnesses the mind-body connection to build emotional regulation in its players. Its program of bioresponsive video games, developed at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, aims to help children with behavioral and emotional challenges learn how to harness emotions in daily life. Mightier was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cruz Foam

Seed Round in 2021
Cruz Foam develops structural foams intended to help end the global issue of plastic pollution from oceans. It produces bio-benign foam and eco-friendly EPS-alternative solutions that powers key industry leaders to be the catalyst for a cleaner environment. The company's products are produced from naturally sourced biopolymers that create a scalable, compostable alternative using the existing supply chain and at a similar cost. Current industry partners include consumer electronics, appliances, shipping, and consumer packaged goods. Cruz Foam was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

ieso

Series B in 2021
Ieso Digital Health Ltd. specializes in providing online evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to individuals facing various mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression. The company's unique online service facilitates real-time communication between accredited therapists and patients through a secure virtual environment, where sessions are conducted via text. This approach not only mirrors traditional face-to-face interactions but also offers greater convenience for users. Ieso began its operations in the UK in 2000 and has since expanded into the US market, collaborating with Medicaid and commercial health plans to enhance access to mental health services. The company’s therapy model has demonstrated effectiveness, requiring fewer sessions to achieve recovery and showing improved outcomes compared to conventional therapy methods. Ieso serves a diverse clientele, including health providers, private individuals, and businesses, and is recognized for its rapid growth in the digital health sector.

Nudge

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of financial planning platform designed to create a financial institution with new values and behaviors from scratch. The company's platform has been strengthening its team, developing the first service, and preparing for the necessary financial license acquisition, enabling users to secure their future financially.

Kiswe

Venture Round in 2021
Kiswe connects at-home viewers with live events and in-venue fans through interactive video experiences that create memorable social experiences and build loyalty. Kiswe’s video production solution, Kiswe Studio uses cloud-based technology to transform the way live games and events are professionally produced and broadcasted. The Kiswe suite of solutions is used by the world’s largest broadcasters, media companies, sports and eSports leagues, and music labels, including Big Hit Entertainment (BTS), NBA, Globo, MLS, PGA Tour, Turner Sports, and many more. Kiswe is headquartered in the U.S. and has offices in Europe and Asia.

Trioscope Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Trioscope is a storytelling language as well as a production methodology that pioneers a new lane of "hybrid" entertainment by fusing live-action film with animation to provide viewers with a truly immersive viewing experience. It aims to enable creators to share previously untold stories with the rest of the world. The Trioscope hybrid live-action CG platform liberates creators from the traditional constraints of content creation, allowing them to imagine infinite ways to tell stories. Trioscope is a venture-backed company founded by film, television, and animation veterans Crowley, Brandon Barr, and Greg Jonkajtys.

Style Port

Venture Round in 2021
Style Port is the developer of ROOV, an Internet VR platform that helps real estate agents to advertise and enables users to visualize the interior of a property. The platform offers walkthroughs, furniture placement simulation, indoor measurement, and more.

Tracklib

Series A in 2021
Launched in April 2018, Tracklib is the world’s first and only online crate-digging and music sample clearance service featuring full tracks from popular artists. The service boasts a library of over 65,000 tracks and growing with no loops or sample packs, including one of the most sampled songs in music history: “Impeach the President” by the Honeydrippers. Users can browse the library, listen to full tracks, save their favorites to their collections, and search by categories such as genre, region, song key, BPM, or release date. They can then purchase and download songs for $1.99 each, create their own tracks that sample the songs, and then quickly and easily obtain a license for as little as $50 and a pre-determined revenue share with the original rights-holders. Tracklib’s Creators Advisory Board includes top producers Erick Sermon, Zaytoven, Prince Paul, and Drumma Boy. The service is also supported by industry legends Tom Silverman (Tracklib U.S. Partner), Founder of Tommy Boy Records; Deborah Mannis-Gardner (Tracklib Partner), Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc.; and Steve Lobel (Tracklib Ambassador), CEO of A2Z Entertainment.

Truepic

Series B in 2021
Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity and differentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions.

Yellowbrick Learning

Venture Round in 2021
Yellowbrick empowers the next generation of talent to discover, pursue, upskill, and advance their career within the creative arts, media and entertainment fields. In partnership with industry leaders in the creative arts, media, entertainment, and education — we develop experiences that help the next generation of leaders achieve their career objectives.

Smart119

Series B in 2021
Smart119, a medical & IT company, was founded by the Professor and Chairman of National Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. Smart119's mission is to improve emergency and critical care by computer science and artificial intelligence.

Miles

Series A in 2021
Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, Garmin, Shipt, Pandora, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Download Miles today to start getting rewarded!

Agrando

Series A in 2021
Agrando serves all participants involved in the agri-trade as a tool for communication and information procurement as well as processing and administration of transactions.

KOALA Tech

Venture Round in 2021
Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.

Botrista Technology

Series A in 2021
Botrista is a robotics company based in Silicon Valley. They provide an end to end beverage solution to F&B retail chains. They have the capability to automate drink menus and pour an array of drinks including delicious and high profitable non-alcoholic mixed beverages. The Robot Barista increases drink selection, quality, and consistency while reducing labor. It can also be modified to mix premium cocktails. The Botrista Team combines decades of robotics expertise and beverage industry experience to develop end-to-end automation solutions to help beverage retailers address the shifting demands from today’s health-conscious consumer. It leverages manufacturing techniques and integrates software to revolutionize the way fresh beverages are prepared and produced.

SwingVision

Seed Round in 2021
SwingVision is a real-time automated scoring, stats, and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.

Green Earth Institute

Venture Round in 2021
Green Earth Institute Co., Ltd. is committed and focused on producing carbon neutral biofuels and green chemicals from non-food biomass, such as leaves and stems of plants, instead of using food and feed crops.Using technology originally invented by RITE (Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth) we developed a bioprocessing technology that enables more efficient production of low-cost green products from non-food biomass compared to conventional fermentation technologies. We were established to commercialize this innovative bioprocessing technology enabling our dream to become a reality by addressing major challenges such as global warming by limiting greenhouse gas production from fossil fuels and minimizing diversion of food crops to fuels.

Soracom

Venture Round in 2021
Soracom is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Its services are built on scalable cloud technologies utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling IoT solution providers and developers to efficiently manage and expand their services. Soracom's offerings include secure data communication for IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices through its Air SIM service, which facilitates LTE and 3G mobile connectivity. Users can manage their IoT device configurations and monitor data traffic via a web console or API. Additionally, Soracom Beam allows for the secure offloading of data from IoT devices to the cloud, ensuring high encryption and remote management capabilities without direct internet exposure. By providing flexible, customizable solutions, Soracom aims to reduce the time and costs associated with deploying IoT services. The company officially launched its services in September 2015 and continues to support a wide range of applications within the IoT ecosystem.

Divido

Series B in 2021
Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers. Rapidly build new revenue streams, improve the customer experience and increase conversion by offering finance at the point-of-purchase with Divido. The platform is omnichannel, available online, in-store and via mobile, and works across multiple countries through one integration. Over 1000 partners work with Divido including Nordea Finance, BNP Paribas, BMW, Lenovo and last minute. Divido offers financial services for merchants, lenders, and intermediaries that want to offer instant new credit as a payment option to their end-consumers and corporate clients. Backed by the investors behind Skype, WorldPay, and TransferWise the company launched late 2015 and currently has 300+ partners using its platform including some of the world's well-known brands. By the end of 2017. Divido will operate in 9 countries. Divido was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom

EcoNaviSta

Venture Round in 2021
Eco Navista Corporation is a bio & IT company that creates solutions for ICT systems based on medical research such as fatigue and sleep.

SiLC Technologies

Series A in 2021
SiLC Technologies is a Silicon Photonics start up focusing on photonic Sensor and 3D imaging applications. It develops new and novel technologies and integrated solutions to address the growing needs of an autonomous and smart new world.
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Plunk

Seed Round in 2021
Plunk is an analytics platform that helps homeowners, real estate professionals, and investors value and invest in residential real estate. It tracks an individual home’s price in real time and represents a new level of both comprehensiveness and transparency. Plunk’s real-time solutions are accessed by consumers, real estate professionals, and the investment community via a suite of data and software products, across both web and mobile platforms. It was founded by Brian Lent and David Bluhm in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States.

Huma

Series C in 2021
Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research. The company's technology integrates data from hospital databases, patient wearables, and mobile devices to provide real-time information to healthcare providers.

Covr Financial Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Covr Financial Technologies, Inc. operates as a digital brokerage general agency, providing life, long-term care, and disability insurance solutions tailored for financial institutions, their advisors, and clients. The company's offerings include the Covr Advisor platform, which enables financial advisors to efficiently meet their clients' insurance needs by selecting appropriate products, and the Covr Consumer platform that allows banks and credit unions to sell insurance directly to customers online. Additionally, Covr Insights assists in managing and analyzing existing life insurance policies. Founded in 2013 and based in Boise, Idaho, Covr serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across various financial institutions, including wealth management firms, banks, and credit unions. The company is supported by notable venture capital investors and features an advisory board that includes prominent figures from the financial services industry.

Epic Games

Venture Round in 2021
Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices.

Community

Venture Round in 2021
Community is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable. It connects businesses, brands, governmental and public personalities, creators, singers, celebrities, and others to their consumers at scale via a unique 10-digit phone number.

Trax

Series E in 2021
Trax provides offers in-store execution tools, market measurement services, and data science solutions for retail. Its mission is to enable brands and retailers to harness digital technologies' power to produce the best shopping experiences imaginable. Trax’s retail platform allows customers to understand what is happening on a shelf, in every store, all the time so they can focus on what they do best – delighting shoppers. Many of the world’s top CPG companies and retailers use Trax’s dynamic merchandising, in-store execution, shopper engagement, market measurement, analytics, and shelf monitoring solutions at scale to drive positive shopper experiences and unlock revenue opportunities at all points of sale. As a pioneer in computer vision, Trax continues to lead the industry in innovation and excellence through the development of advanced technologies and autonomous data collection methods. Trax is a global company with hubs in the United States, Singapore, and Israel, serving customers in more than 90 countries worldwide.

Gastrograph

Corporate Round in 2021
Analytical Flavor Systems’ AI-driven Gastrograph platform helps packaged food companies achieve greater success in a saturated food industry that has an over 80% failure rate. Gastograph moves CPG brands’ development process beyond traditional tasting panels; it surveys each product with a flavor profile engine that is predictive, anticipating how new foods will perform in different markets, over a long time horizon, and against various demographic archetypes. Food companies are struggling to launch new products in an era of rapidly shifting consumer tastes, and an AI-driven platform like Gastrograph gives big food a more accurate map with which to navigate into the future.

Edgematrix

Series B in 2021
EDGEMATRIX is a startup spun out from the AI ​​project team of a global venture company and provides "Edge AI Box", "Edge AI platform" and "Edge AI Solutions".

Ubitus

Venture Round in 2021
Established in 2013. The headquarter is located in Tokyo. Supported by R&D center in Taipei. Ubitus is a technology leader in deploying cloud-enabled rich media services, offers major game companies and telcos the world’s best cloud gaming solution. With the same innovative GameCloud technology, Ubitus is able to stream metaverse content on multi-devices for platform operators and digital content developers.

Oishii

Series A in 2021
Oishii Farm provides indoor vertical farming technology. Oishii sells via supermarkets, offering a container of between eight and 11 strawberries for $50 per package. Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville started the company in 2017.

Identiq

Series A in 2021
Identiq is a young startup company set to change the $12B Identity Verification market. Unlike traditional identity verification vendors, the Identiq protocol can validate a new end-user without asking its customers to expose any user data whatsoever, setting a new standard for end-user privacy. Identiq is bringing together like-minded companies to form the first fully anonymous global identity verification network. This will allow companies to onboard new customers with confidence, while reducing false positives, increasing approval rates and creating a better user experience. This technology can also be used for funding source validation, fast withdrawal, password recovery flows, and other high-risk activity validation. Founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv, Identiq is made up of a team of high-tech and risk management veterans, each bringing over 20 years of experience to the company.

LiLz

Series A in 2021
LiLz is a technology startup that combines machine learning and IoT technology to reduce fieldwork operations. The startup's LiLz Gauge captures and analyzes values by using a low-power IoT camera to capture the current analog meter, uploading it to the cloud, and performing character and image recognition. Analog meters can perform the same functions as smart meters. They are also working on a sound search service (LiLz Sound Search) for detecting signs of abnormalities in equipment.

Arkose Labs

Venture Round in 2021
The mission of Arkose Labs is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2023 Leader in Bot Detection and Mitigation, with the highest score in customer satisfaction and largest market presence four quarters running, Arkose Labs offers the world's first $1M warranties for credential stuffing and SMS toll fraud. With 20% of our customers being Fortune 500 companies, our AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic threat response to undermine the strategy of attack, all while improving good user throughput. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in London, Costa Rica, and Brisbane, Australia, Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.

Anzu.io

Series B in 2021
Anzu is the most advanced intrinsic in-game ad solution for mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Anzu’s in-game ads put players first and help advertisers reach audiences programmatically in a non-disruptive and highly engaging way. A patented 3D ad tracking engine, the first to bring viewability measurement in-game with Oracle Moat and IAS, partnerships with trusted AdTech vendors, and compliant with the industry measurement standards outlined by the MRC and IAB make Anzu the preferred in-game advertising partner for brands and agencies worldwide. Anzu helps game developers monetize their titles with ad placements that complement the gameplay, and by monetizing the entire game session, they benefit from consistent and reliable revenue streams. Supporting all major and custom built game engines, and a full-stack ad monetization solution that provides complete control over ad placements makes Anzu the preferred in-game ad monetization partner for developers worldwide. Backed by Sony Innovation Fund, NBCUniversal, Samsung Next, Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund, WPP, PayPal Ventures and many other prominent investors, Anzu is on a mission to make advertising in games better. Better for brands, better for game developers, and better for gamers. Learn more at https://www.anzu.io/

Metcela

Series B in 2021
Metcela is a clinical-stage biotech startup providing patients with an innovative and alternative treatment option for heart disease. The company's lead asset, MTC001 is a cell therapy based on VCAM-1-positive Cardiac Fibroblast (VCF) that re-established a favorable microenvironment and repaired damaged heart tissues in preclinical studies. Metcela's therapy uses a specific fibroblast cell that is obtained from the patient's heart and instead of replacing them, it repairs the damage by enhancing the cells' ability to heal, providing patients with an effective and reasonably-priced cure for heart failure. It was founded on March 9, 2016, and is headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan.

Iris Automation

Series B in 2020
Iris Automation is a safety avionics technology company pioneering on- and off-board perception systems and aviation policy services that enable customers to build scalable flight operations for commercial crewed and uncrewed aircraft; unlocking the potential of countless industries. Iris’ Casia system runs either onboard the aircraft or in a ground-based configuration, allowing them to fly safely with minimal human intervention. The company works closely with civil aviation authorities globally as they implement regulatory frameworks ensuring uncrewed aircraft flight beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) is conducted safely, partnering on multiple FAA UAS Integration Pilot Programs, NASA's Unmanned Traffic Management program, and Transport Canada's BVLOS Technology Demonstration Program. Iris is recognized by AUVSI as the number one Technology and Innovation Leader for 2020.

PreAct Technologies

Venture Round in 2020
PreAct Technologies aims to bridge the gap between collision avoidance systems and active safety technology. Every millisecond matters before a crash, and our patent-pending suite of sensor technologies, computing systems, and unique countermeasure algorithms aim to drastically reduce fatalities and injuries in a crash. Their Portland-based firm leverages existing vehicle infrastructure to predict and prepare both a vehicle and its occupants for an imminent collision. This alone can reduce the majority of injuries from the most common types of crashes while saving the industry billions of dollars annually. Seasoned automotive experts lead PreAct Technologies, with the engineering team comprised of leaders in computer vision, optics, and parallel processing. It arose from more than 15 years of DARPA-funded research in high-speed optics and computing systems and a major investment from Artis Corporation, the leading US provider of military active protection systems.

Monozukuri Ventures

Funding Round in 2020
We Make Hardware Startups Together. Empowering people to build high-quality products. For startup founders, it takes more than funding to bridge the gap between idea and product/market fit. With our unique way of supporting startups with manufacturing needs, we partner with startups for the long term and work hand-in-glove with our portfolio every step of the way to grow their businesses. Monozukuri Ventures (former Makers Boot Camp) is an early stage VC focused on hardware startup investments in the US & Japan. Our mission is to help the world’s entrepreneurs deliver high-quality products to the market, regardless of production volume. As a global ecosystem contributor, we provide founders with essential resources such as investment, mentorship, prototyping know-how, manufacturing expertise, and community support. To achieve this ambitious goal, we stress the importance of Monozukuri, the art of making things in a creative way. Although known as a traditional practice of manufacturing in Japan, Monozukuri enables us to create new values by fusing two opposite ideas integrated into harmony, such as old and new, East and West, hardware and software, and historical and modern. Based in historical Kyoto City and modern New York City, Monozukuri Ventures empowers talented and diverse people to build tangible solutions to create a better future.

Happy Quality

Venture Round in 2020
Happy Quality created farm technology to address social difficulties in agriculture. The company's technology raises the bar for agriculture by addressing issues such as population aging and the loss of agricultural skills due to a decrease in the number of farmers. The company's technology uses big data and optical sensors to achieve low-cost production of quality tomatoes and melons, allowing the agricultural industry to obtain a technology that addresses an emerging agricultural inability to inherit craftsmanship.

Agility Robotics

Series B in 2020
Agility Robotic's legged locomotion expertise is built on a history of academic research, including the bipedal walking and running robot ATRIAS. Agility Robotics is leveraging this work to create products that address the real world needs of rugged, efficient, and highly capable mobility platforms.

Kakehashi

Venture Round in 2020
Kakehashi Memory is a information technology company that QR code, and bespoke system construction services.

Senseye

Venture Round in 2020
Senseye is the leading cloud-based software for Predictive Maintenance. It helps manufacturers avoid downtime and save money by automatically forecasting machine failure without the need for expert manual analysis. Its intelligent machine-learning algorithms allow it to be used on any machine from any manufacturer, taking information from existing Industrial IoT sensors and platforms to automatically diagnose failures and provide the remaining useful life of machinery.

RevComm

Series A in 2020
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .

nevion

Acquisition in 2020
We are the architects of virtualized media production. For over 20 years, we have been providing award-winning, mission-critical, real-time media transport and processing solutions to broadcasters, telecom service providers, governmental agencies and other industries. Our core competencies are designing, developing, deploying and supporting Software Defined Technologies that bring virtualization capabilities, enabling our customers to become more agile, productive and ultimately more competitive.

Bayes Esports

Venture Round in 2020
Dojo Madness develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. It offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis, gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. Dojo Madness offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. Christian Gruber, Jens Hilger, Markus Fuhrmann, and Mathias Kutzner founded Dojo Madness on December 29, 2014. It has its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.

PhotoniCare

Series A in 2020
PhotoniCare is a medical device company developing a patented imaging platform technology that provides growth opportunities beyond otology. Its ear diagnosis devices utilize advanced light-based technology to see through the eardrum to directly and harmlessly visualize the middle ear, determine quickly and easily the contents of the middle ear, and decide which antibiotics or surgical interventions might be needed.

Sony Financial Holdings

Acquisition in 2020
The Sony Financial Group is a financial services group comprising the financial holding company Sony Financial Holdings Inc., and its subsidiaries including Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Sony Assurance Inc. and Sony Bank Inc. By integrating the diverse functions that are inherent to such financial services as savings, investment, borrowing and protection, the Sony Financial Group aims to earn high levels of trust from its customers by providing high-value-added products and quality services that meet their individual economic needs. The Sony Financial Group seeks to become the most highly trusted financial services group by customers. To this end, the Sony Financial Group will combine many different financial functions (savings, investment, borrowing, and protection) to provide high-value-added financial products and high-quality services that meet every customer's financial needs.

Epic Games

Corporate Round in 2020
Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices.

Tracklib

Seed Round in 2020
Launched in April 2018, Tracklib is the world’s first and only online crate-digging and music sample clearance service featuring full tracks from popular artists. The service boasts a library of over 65,000 tracks and growing with no loops or sample packs, including one of the most sampled songs in music history: “Impeach the President” by the Honeydrippers. Users can browse the library, listen to full tracks, save their favorites to their collections, and search by categories such as genre, region, song key, BPM, or release date. They can then purchase and download songs for $1.99 each, create their own tracks that sample the songs, and then quickly and easily obtain a license for as little as $50 and a pre-determined revenue share with the original rights-holders. Tracklib’s Creators Advisory Board includes top producers Erick Sermon, Zaytoven, Prince Paul, and Drumma Boy. The service is also supported by industry legends Tom Silverman (Tracklib U.S. Partner), Founder of Tommy Boy Records; Deborah Mannis-Gardner (Tracklib Partner), Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc.; and Steve Lobel (Tracklib Ambassador), CEO of A2Z Entertainment.

IDUN Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
IDUN Technologies AG is a Swiss neurotechnology startup founded in 2017, specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced biosensors for wearable devices. The company is known for its innovative product, DRYODES, which features dry conductive electrodes suitable for electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG) applications. These electrodes enhance user convenience by providing soft, skin-conformable surfaces that eliminate the need for adhesives. IDUN Technologies aims to integrate neuroscience into everyday products through its Guardian Neuro-Intelligence Platform, a Brain-Computer Interface that captures real-time neuro markers. This platform enables the collection and analysis of brain activity data, allowing manufacturers to enhance their products by tailoring them to users' emotional and cognitive states. By employing a holistic approach that encompasses biosensor development, hardware design, data analysis, and product integration, IDUN Technologies seeks to create a more connected world where devices can respond to human emotional needs, ultimately fostering more fulfilling user experiences.

MagicCube

Series B in 2020
MagicCube is the Software Defined Trust (SDT) category with its software TEE-based platform. The technology enables large-scale deployment and management of IoT and mobile- secure solutions to consumers.

Metcela

Series B in 2020
Metcela is a clinical-stage biotech startup providing patients with an innovative and alternative treatment option for heart disease. The company's lead asset, MTC001 is a cell therapy based on VCAM-1-positive Cardiac Fibroblast (VCF) that re-established a favorable microenvironment and repaired damaged heart tissues in preclinical studies. Metcela's therapy uses a specific fibroblast cell that is obtained from the patient's heart and instead of replacing them, it repairs the damage by enhancing the cells' ability to heal, providing patients with an effective and reasonably-priced cure for heart failure. It was founded on March 9, 2016, and is headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan.

Infostellar

Convertible Note in 2020
Infostellar make space communications infrastructure, & are now developing our cloud-based satellite antenna sharing platform, StellarStation. By lowering costs and increasing transmission time, Infostellar empowers satellite operators to improve the quality of their service and expand potential business.

Bilibili

Post in 2020
Bilibili provides high-quality content and an immersive entertainment experience, and have built their platform based on the strong emotional connections of their users to their content and communities. They started as a content community inspired by ACG, and have evolved into a full-spectrum online entertainment world covering a wide array of genres and media formats, including videos, live broadcasting, and mobile games. They have a young and culturally aspirational user base willing to invest in a high-quality entertainment experience. Bilibili uses an Adobe Flash or HTML5 player, which can be manually switched, to play user-submitted videos hosted by either itself or third-party sources, while featuring a real-time overlaying subtitle system for interactive playback experience.

KOALA Tech

Venture Round in 2020
Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.

Kitman Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Kitman Labs is a sports analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to increase athlete performance and health. It is driven by a mission is to enable the sports team to win by increasing player availability through injury reduction. The company believes that winning has as much to do with science as it does with desire. By accurately capturing relevant athlete data and applying algorithms grounded in scientific research, Kitman's products and services provide actionable insights that improve player availability and deliver stronger team results. Kitman Labs is the only company serving the elite athlete marketplace providing accurate, marker-less motion capture and delivering real-time alerts that enable coaches and staff to take preventative actions before injuries occur.

DSP Concepts, Inc.

Series B in 2020
DSP Concepts is the Silicon Valley based leader in the Audio of Things (AoT) market and the creator of Audio Weaver, the Audio Experience platform that makes audio innovation easy. DSP Concepts equips and supports engineers with real-time workflows to quickly stand up prototypes, collaborate and modify designs across teams, and deploy to the most popular chipsets from leading semiconductor companies including NXP, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Cadence, Arm, and others. DSP Concepts technologies are embedded in millions of automotive and consumer products, delivering remarkable Audio Experience solutions to prestigious brands including Bang & Olufsen, BMW, Braun, Facebook, Garmin, GoPro, LG, Mercedes Benz, Panasonic, Peloton, Porsche, Samsung, Sennheiser, Spotify, Tesla, and many more.

UltraSense Systems

Series B in 2020
UltraSense Systems is a consumer electronics company that offers sensor solutions for smartphones, home appliances, automotive, and medical industries. It features TouchPoint sensors enable a low-power user interface that detects touch and force through virtually any material and material thickness using UltraSense’s patented 3D ultrasound technology. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2020
Lynq connects the people who protect our lives. Lynq’s instant-on, scalable, and secure networks are used by first responders, government agencies, and enterprises for whom reliable communications is a life-or-death requirement. When seconds count in complex environments with no or unreliable connectivity, organizations rely on Lynq to connect people and their equipment.

minma

Venture Round in 2020
Minma is a Japanese online marketplace. The company is a Tokyo, Japan-based startup that runs the online marketplace for local services Curama. Curama is a P2P jobs and services marketplace operated by Minma.

Zoomcar

Series D in 2020
Zoomcar is the marketplace for car sharing in emerging markets, with over 20,000 cars on its technology-driven platform across India, Southeast Asia, and Egypt. Zoomcar empowers host entrepreneurs to safely and easily share their cars to earn additional passive income. Guests in the Zoomcar community enjoy a diverse, affordable selection of cars to unlock memorable driving experiences with friends and family. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50 cities across India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt. Uri Levine, the co-founder of mobility unicorns Waze and Moovit, currently serves as Zoomcar’s Chairman of the Board.

Matternet

Series B in 2020
Matternet is the leading developer of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environments. The company ships the Matternet M2 drone and Matternet Software Platform and operates its technology directly for customers or in partnership with logistics organizations, such as UPS. In 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for commercial Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations of drone logistics networks over cities in Switzerland. In 2019, Matternet and UPS partnered to launch drone delivery services in the U.S. and together started the first revenue drone delivery operations in the U.S. In 2022, Matternet M2 became the first drone delivery system to achieve standard Type Certification and Production Certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the U.S. To date, Matternet technology has enabled over 20,000 commercial flights.

Dronestream

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dronestream was founded on the basis that it would contribute to the movement that integrates Unmanned Aerial Systems into society. We wish to see unmanned technology save lives, create more efficient businesses and assist in making the world a safer place. Commercial and emergency service users are able to create secure streaming groups, allow viewers to send messages to the pilot and view current location via the map interface. With many more features and integrations, this pushes a drones capability to real-time, team-wide situational awareness. All this and more, via an easy to use app and browser interface.

Promethera Biosciences

Series D in 2019
Promethera® Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company, spin-off of the Université Catholique de Louvain, that develops innovative treatments based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. Promethera® Biosciences' mission is to discover, develop and commercialize cell therapy products to treat liver diseases in an innovative way using allogenic progenitor cells from healthy human livers. Promethera® Biosciences develops two products based on a newly discovered and patented progenitor cell type: the human Adult Liver-Derived Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell (hALDMSC):

Insightness

Acquisition in 2019
Insightness develops visual tracking systems based on brain-inspired technology. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Shippio

Series A in 2019
Shippio is a service that enables a wide range of collective international logistics arrangements and management solutions via web.The platform features full-service export and import solutions for various international transportation needs; a special dashboard designated for import and export business, shipment, cost analysis, and invoice management; and documentation support.

Aroma Bit

Venture Round in 2019
Aroma Bit develops compact odor sensor and innovative services and products using the sensor.They live in a world surrounded by an endless number of scents and aromas. However,our olfactory sense is often overlooked. This is partly because it is so difficult to capture the essence of a scent only using words. For example, how would you clearly describe what a rose smelled like to someone who has never smelled it?

Activ Surgical

Series A in 2019
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

AI Medical Service

Series B in 2019
AI Medical Service is a start-up company that develops artificial intelligence that brings together the wisdom of Japanese endoscopic specialists and contributes to the development of endoscopic medical care worldwide.

what3words

Series C in 2019
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot, or a drone landing point – using three simple words. What3words is helping improve businesses around the world and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. What3words can also be built into any other app, platform, or website, with just a few lines of code.

Idein

Venture Round in 2019
Idein with the aim of enabling all real-world events to be handled by software, applying pattern recognition and signal processing technologies that have made remarkable progress in recent years to sensing. We are working on the development of machine learning models, application applications, and speeding up inference. You can run the inference of trained models on inexpensive computers that are commercially available using acceleration technology. By calculating at the edge, only the necessary data can be taken out when needed, so sensing can be performed without worrying about data communication, privacy, and large-scale data processing problems. With these technologies, Idein will create a future where advanced sensing technology can be used more easily and cheaply. We are also developing our own products and services that make it possible to easily use these advanced sensing technologies in ordinary households.

Exo

Series B in 2019
Exo is a medical device startup handheld ultrasound platform and AI for imaging and therapeutic applications. The company is committed to delivering affordable and easy-to-use medical imaging to healthcare professionals around the world. By delivering easy-to-use, high-quality medical imaging. Exo empowers healthcare professionals to make critical, real-time decisions that improve patient outcomes. The Exo ultrasound platform combines advances in nano-materials, novel sensor technologies, advanced signal processing, and computation with the economies of scale of semiconductor manufacturing to dramatically reduce the cost of imaging. It also represents a giant leap in imaging and therapeutics technology one that will drive the development of high-performance products that are accessible, easy-to-use, and available at a price point never before possible.

Ground

Series B in 2019
GROUND provides innovative solutions based on the advanced technologies in the logistics and distribution industry (LogiTech®), aiming to achieve Intelligent Logistics®, its original concept that applies the latest technologies such as AI and robotics.

LANDR

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2013, LANDR is a platform where music makers can create, master, and distribute their music. Powered by a passionate team of engineers, producers, and musicians, LANDR continues their groundbreaking work at the intersection of music and technology, combining the broadest set of tools and services in the industry under one platform to support both emerging and professional creators.

Connected Robotics

Series A in 2019
Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Koganei-shi, Japan.
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