Monozukuri Ventures

Monozukuri Ventures made an additional investment in SeaSats, which develops maritime autonomous surface vehicles (ASV).

KYOTO, JAPAN & NYC, USA-based VC, Monozukuri Ventures (MZV, CEO: Narimasa Makino), announced an additional investment in SeaSatellite...

Posting date: Nov 18,2022

Monozukuri Ventures hits Final Close of its Second Fund

Monozukuri Ventures (HQs: Kyoto, Japan, and New York, USA; CEO: Narimasa Makino; ), an investment fund specializing in hardware start...

Posting date: Oct 12,2022

Monozukuri Ventures(MZV) Announces Appointment Of Emi Makino, Associate Professor at Hiroshima University, to outside Board Of Directors

Monozukuri Ventures (referred to below as MZV, CEO: Narimasa Makino), a Kyoto & NY-based VC specializing in hard tech startups, is ...

Posting date: Aug 26,2022

Atmoph: How underestimating small things made hardware extra hard for this founder

This article is part of Tech in Asia’s partnership with Disrupting Japan where we publish the revised transcripts from the show’s podcast...

Posting date: Nov 30,2018 Details

Silicon Alley: The Latest New York Startups at NY TechDay (via VOA News)

MBC has been covered in “Silicon Alley: The Latest New York Startups at NY TechDay” on VOA News. Click here for full article.

Sam Miller Has Turned His Father’s Dream Into Sports Tech Reality (via Sport Techie)

Our portfolio startup Boston Biomotion has been covered in “Sam Miller Has Turned His Father’s Dream Into Sports Tech Reality" on Sport T...

Lost In Translation: How to Bring Your Cross-Cultural Team Together

From emails to corporate parties, working in a multicultural team brings its own challenges, not only related to different nationalitie...

Posting date: Aug 05,2018 詳細へ

Working Today / Entrepreneurship on the rise among students (via The Japan News）

MBC has been covered in "Working Today / Entrepreneurship on the rise among students" on The Japan News. Click here for full article.

Posting date: Jan 22,2018 詳細へ

Nobuhiro Seki: Espousing the spirit of craftsmanship abroad (via JapanTimes）

Boston Biomotion & Hoplite Power has been covered in "Nobuhiro Seki: Espousing the spirit of craftsmanship abroad" on JapanTimes. ...

Posting date: Jan 25,2017 詳細へ

How Hospital Strategic Venture Investing Can Improve Returns, Reduce Risk And Improve Care (via Forbes）

Boston Biomotion has been covered in "How Hospital Strategic Venture Investing Can Improve Returns, Reduce Risk And Improve Care" on Forb...

Posting date: Oct 18,2017 Details

Makers Boot Camp opens international makerspace in Kyoto (via The Bridge）

MBC has been covered in "Makers Boot Camp opens international makerspace in Kyoto" on The Bridge. Click here for full article.

“MBC Shisaku Fund” first investment is Boston Biomotion with MIT technology

Makers Boot Camp (Darma Tech Labs, head office: Kyoto City, Representative Director: Narimasa Makino) in charge of managing "MBC Shisak...

8 Hardware startups give pitches at first Hardware Cup in Osaka for Pittsburgh finals (via The Bridge）

MBC has been covered in "8 Hardware startups give pitches at first Hardware Cup in Osaka for Pittsburgh finals" on The Bridge. Click her...

Posting date: Mar 08,2017 詳細へ

New smartwatch tracks the time you spend with your family (via cnet）

Veldt has been covered in "New smartwatch tracks the time you spend with your family" on cnet. Click here for full article.

Posting date: Feb 14,2020 詳細へ

The next generation of IoT: what we learn from a startup Demo Day!

After New Year’s break, it’s time to work on our plans for 2017. As December was a busy time, full of interesting events we had the pleas...

Posting date: Jan 12,2017 詳細へ

Kyoto Hub: KRP + Omron + Makers Boot Camp supporting entrepreneurs.

Makers Boot Camp was an invited speaker at Samurai Island Expo, in Tokyo, to take part on a panel by Kyoto Research Park (KRP). The se...

Posting date: Jun 29,2016 詳細へ

#ConnectedConf: Interview with Sabrina Sasaki from Makers Boot Camp (via Rude Baguette)

MBC has been covered in "#ConnectedConf: Interview with Sabrina Sasaki from Makers Boot Camp" on Rude Baguette. Click here for the full ...

Posting date: May 24,2016 詳細へ

Latest updates: our achievements with many more new challenges to come!

The IoT startup area has improve in many hubs thanks to Incubators, Accelerators, and DIY Makers spaces. Credits: Connected Conference....

Posting date: Jun 03,2016 詳細へ

Makers Boot Camp invited to speak at Connected Conference 2016, in Paris

Makers Boot Camp was invited to join Connected Conference, the 3-day event about IoT and everything related to the convergence of Inter...