Universal Materials Incubator

Universal Materials Incubator, established in 2015 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the materials and chemical industries. The company manages multiple funds, including its 2017 vintage fund targeting pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and manufacturing companies in Japan, and its 2022 vintage fund with a global focus on sectors such as life sciences, electronics, mobility, and chemicals.

Yoshitaka Gunji

Principal

Wataru Mizutani

Principal

Sayuri Nonaka

Principal

Kazuko Sato

Principal

Yosuke Yamamoto

Director

Past deals in Industrial Engineering

iMicrobes

Seed Round in 2024
Industrial Microbes designs and builds microbes that produce better chemicals with lower costs and lower carbon emissions. We use greenhouse gases as the raw materials, including biogas, natural gas, and carbon dioxide. We scale our process with global chemical producers.

Listie

Seed Round in 2024
Listie is an industrial engineering company specializing in the development, supply, and maintenance of lithium separation equipment and membranes. Its core technology, an ionic conductor, facilitates efficient and selective lithium recovery from diverse sources like used batteries and salt lakes, supporting a sustainable energy system.
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