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Arblet
Arblet
Arblet develops a wrist-worn wearable device utilizing cuff-less blood pressure measurement technology with the aim to identify the temporal change in the user’s health condition by cross-analyzing behavioral and vital data.
Utilizing the cloud analysis algorithm and the device on the wrist, it can monitor users’ health around the clock, such as blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature, respiration rate, and other vital and behavioral data. They aim to provide a service to inform future disease risk and emergency alerts for people with or without health concerns.
- Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2016
- CEO: Kosuke Shimizu
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Arieca
Arieca
Arieca is an American advanced materials start-up, spun-out of Carnegie Mellon University, that is pushing the boundaries of materials functionalities in the most demanding applications. Their proprietary and patented liquid metal embedded elastomer (LMEE) technologies allow for unprecedented performances in applications across semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, and healthcare industries. Their main products are TIMbberTM – the most adaptable thermal interface material (TIM) for high performance semiconductor devices, and Thubber® – a soft, stretchable, and thermally conductive elastomer.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Navid Kazem
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
ARIN Technologies
ARIN Technologies
ARIN technology develops high-accuracy indoor positioning systems. This system is used in indoor places such as factories to acquire real-time 3D locations of Work In Progress (WIP). A proprietary transmitting device attached to the object measures the distance from the anchor device to calculate the XYZ location values of the device. ARIN technology also provides a solution to prevent forklift collision by applying the high-precision indoor positioning system.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Vivek Kulkarni
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
Atmoph
Atmoph
Atmoph sells smart windows along with its own high-quality landscape video contents to display on it. It has already released about 1,000 videos. It comes with 10 videos at the time of purchase and ¥590~ per video after that. The latest 27-inch model is fitted with a camera and microphone. It is cheaper than its competitors and easier to mount on the wall. Also, it can display clocks, calendars and connect to Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. Atmoph also provide landscape videos shot by themselves all around the world for a fee. Moreover, it has partnered with Disney to stream the worlds of Disney and Star Wars.
- Location: Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan
- Founded in: 2014
- CEO: Kyohi Kang
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Blast Radio
Blast Radio
Blast is a music streaming service that allows creators to broadcast studio-quality, live audio with a single click on their proprietary device. The streaming music will disappear in 24 hours, which gives creators the freedom to explore without worrying about copyrights. Blast Media Group launched its service in June 2021.
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Yousef Ali
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
Brelyon
Brelyon
BRELYON presents a new category of displays that gives immersion and high fidelity with no need for headsets. The company was founded by an MIT Media Lab graduate based on his own research. BRELYON’s displays have the immersion of VR headsets while maintaining the speed and resolution of desktop displays. BRELYONaims at places where people work with multiple displays, such as the manufacturing industry, trading rooms of financial institutions, and eventually gaming and entertainment fields as well.
- Location: San Mateo, CA, US
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Barmak Heshmat
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
C-INK
C-INK
C-INK is engaged in producing and supplying metal nano-ink (conductive ink). Their nano-ink DryCure-Au and DryCure-Ag are made by cutting down organic impurities to a minimum compared to conventional nano-ink. As a result, they have incredibly high metal purity, minimum high-temperature sintering, stable ink condition, and reduced risk of cracking. By taking advantage of the properties of this nano-ink, it has become possible to produce wiring boards at low cost and high speed, which used to be made under complicated processes.
The system for mass production is already in place and will be used for the wiring of electric circuits and LED signboards.
- Location: Soja-shi, Okayama, Japan
- Founded in: 2012
- CEO: Masayuki Kanehara
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
CleanRobotics
CleanRobotics
CleanRobotics provides a solution to enable centralized management of trash cans that sort trash automatically. In the U.S., because of the lack of waste education, people can not sort waste accurately even if they want to. “Trashbot” developed by Using AI computer vision, CleanRobotics can detect if the trash is recyclable. Moreover, monitoring all Trashbots remotely simultaneously, the system can let staff know when Trashbot is getting full.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Charles Yhap
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
DENSHINDO
DENSHINDO
Denishindo develops a home use atmospheric pressure plasma facial skin-care device called “Un.” “Un” reduces spots by generating Plasma Air Shower. The problem of laser treatment at beauty salons, which is the most effective way to reduce spots, is that it is painful and expensive. In addition, there are no existing facial products that work on stubborn blemishes. This product opens the skin barrier and improves the penetration of toners and serums by exposing skin to plasma. It accelerates skin regeneration, and spots get reduced as a result. They are aiming to enter the Japanese and Chinese markets.
- Location: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Kyo Nomura
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
EarthGrid
EarthGrid
EarthGrid has invented plasma tunnel boring robots that are solar-powered, use no water, have zero emissions and can bore tunnels 100x faster at 1/10th the cost of conventional techniques. They are building a network of large, underground utility tunnels that improve infrastructure and rapidly accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy by enabling underground clean energy power lines, high-speed data, water, and wastewater, H2 pipelines, e-commerce parcel transportation via pneumatic tubes, etc. They have a BOOM model (Build, Own, Operate and Manage) and intend to lease space to investment-grade utilities.
- Location: Richmond, CA,US
- Founded in: 2016
- CEO: Troy Helming
- Investment Team: Sabrina Sasaki, Nobuhiro Seki
Digital Dream Labs
Digital Dream Labs
Digital Dream Labs develops engaging learning robots. One of their robots, “Cozmo,” is a coding robot for kids to learn through play, while “Vector” is an interactive companion robot embedded with cutting-edge AI. Anki, the company that developed these products, sold the business to DDL in 2019 and took over the products and services.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2012
- CEO: Zack Anton
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
Edge Case Research
Edge Case Research
Edge Case Research is developing Hologram, a safety simulation system for developers of automated driving technology using proprietary AI models, and nLoop, a risk analysis system for automated driving. While automated driving still requires driver intervention once every few tens of thousands of kilometers due to automated driving system failures, object misidentification, and other reasons, the company is working to achieve safe automated driving by collecting vast amounts of data and training AI models.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Nathan Parker
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
EdgeCortix
EdgeCortix
EdgeCortix provides low-power, low-latency AI inference hardware IP and software stacks for edge devices.
Its main customers include automotive semiconductor manufacturers, industrial equipment makers, and cloud server providers. While development is based in Japan, the company is headquartered in Singapore and has sales offices in both Japan and the U.S. The edge AI chip market is projected to reach USD 5 billion by 2025, and the edge AI software market is expected to grow to USD 1.8 billion by 2026. On FPGAs, EdgeCortix’s MERA Compiler delivers 2–5× performance gains, and on ASICs, performance improves by 15–20× through the use of proprietary architecture.
- Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan/Singapore
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Sakyasingha Dasgupta
- Investment Team: , Nobuhiro Seki
Enecoat Technologies
Enecoat Technologies
EneEcoat Technologies is a Kyoto University–based startup developing next-generation perovskite solar cells.
The research, led by the Wakamiya Laboratory at Kyoto University’s Institute for Chemical Research, has been ongoing for several years and led to the company’s founding with full support from the university. These solar cells are thin, lightweight, and flexible—making them suitable for installation on building walls and rooftops. Unlike conventional solar panels, they maintain high power generation efficiency even under cloudy skies or indoor lighting. By overcoming traditional installation constraints, the technology is expected to enable broader adoption of solar energy across diverse environments.
- Location: Kuse-gun, Kyoto, Japan
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Naoya Kato
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
ESTAT Actuation
ESTAT Actuation
ESTAT Actuation develops cutting-edge actuators to revolutionalize industries using robots. ESTAT Actuation uses new electroadhesive clutch technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University to dramatically reduce the weight, size, and cost of actuators. In addition to selling those actuators, ESTAT’s goal is to license the clutch technology.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA,US
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Stuart Diller
- Investment Team: Sabrina Sasaki, Nobuhiro Seki
Everykey
Everykey
EveryKey is a startup developing security devices that can lock and unlock multiple devices without passwords or keys. For example, you can unlock your smartphone and computer at once just by getting close to them, and vice versa. The device utilizes Bluetooth technology to enable that. You can manage their passwords by using their software. In the accident of loss or theft, you can deactivate all functions remotely.
- Location: Cleveland, OH, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Chris Wentz
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
FingerVision
FingerVision
FingerVision is a startup that develops technology to “estimating tactile sensation based on an image (captured by a camera).”By mounting the FingerVision sensor, which consists of a transparent soft skin (made of silicon rubber) and a small camera, on the fingertip of a robot hand, etc., it becomes possible to perceive tactile sensations (distribution of force, slippage, etc.) and realize control of a robot as if a person were handling an object using “palm” sensation.
- Location: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2021
- CEO: Yuki Nono
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Forest Devices
Forest Devices
Forest Devices provides a solution that automates stroke severity assessment and hospital triage in ambulances.
In the U.S., only a limited number of hospitals are equipped to treat strokes, making accurate transport essential. Yet, around 30–50% of stroke patients are misdiagnosed and taken to the wrong facility. The product allows paramedics to measure brainwaves and, with the help of AI, assess the likelihood and severity of a stroke within three minutes. A pilot program has been underway in Alberta, Canada since May 2021.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Ashok Rao
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
ImaCreate
ImaCreate
Ima-create develops virtual training materials for the industrial and medical fields. They call it “Active VR,” where users actively use their bodies in the virtual world instead of passively watching the content. In the “Nup Welding Training” jointly developed with KOBELCO E&M, Ima-create confirmed that people improved their welding skills more effectively in VR than in the real world. Ima-create is looking to expand its business overseas and further develop the training technology for industry and the medical field.
- Location: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo,Japan
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Akihiro Yamamoto
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
Kidou Systems
Kidou Systems
Kidou Systems was founded out of the University of Michigan. Amid growing demand for automation and a severe labor shortage, interest in autonomous mobility technologies for manufacturing and logistics is rapidly increasing.
Kidou has developed a proprietary centralized, AI-driven control system that shifts robotic intelligence from the robot itself to infrastructure-side sensors. This enables scalable, cost-effective, and highly flexible automation solutions.
- Location: Ann Arbor,MI,US
- Founded in: 2024
- CEO: Koji Shiono
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
LENZO
LENZO
LENZO designs and manufactures semiconductors for cryptocurrency mining and AI inference.
The company’s key strength lies in a parallel workload algorithm developed at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, achieving up to nine times higher power efficiency than NVIDIA’s semiconductors (as of October 2025).
They plan to sell systems equipped with these semiconductor chips to hyperscalers.
- Location: Ikoma-shi,Nara,Japan
- Founded in: 2024
- CEO: Kenshin Fujiwara
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
LOAD&ROAD
LOAD&ROAD
LOAD&ROAD develops the “teplo teapot,” a connected tea pot which automatically brews your tea by communicating with your smartphone, available in both Japan and the United States.
Brewing tea requires precise control of factors such as tea leaf quantity, water volume, temperature, and steeping time—teplo handles all of these automatically. It also features a “personalized brewing” that replicates artisan techniques, using six sensors to analyze the drinker’s physical condition and mood to brew the optimal cup of tea.
Through its official online store and app, the company offers a variety of tea leaves along with flavor profiles and background stories to enhance the experience.
- Location: Meguro-ku,Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Kazunori Kawanobe
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
log build
log build
Log Build is a startup focused on improving productivity and operational efficiency at construction sites.
To address challenges in site management, the company has developed tools including the avatar robot Logkun, the 360-degree camera system LogWalk, and LogMeet, a video conferencing app specialized for construction management. These tools enable remote site monitoring, construction supervision, and virtual meetings—accelerating digital transformation (DX) in the construction industry. Japan’s construction DX market is projected to grow to approximately ¥3 trillion by 2030.
- Location: Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
- Founded in: 2020
- CEO: Kenichi Nakahori
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
Magic Shields
Magic Shields
Magic Shields develops, manufactures, and sells “Koroyawa”, a soft floor that reduces the risk of bone fractures. About 250,000 older adults fracture their femur every year. Fractures caused by falls are the third leading cause of needing nursing care, and the pain of the fracture and the life that awaits afterward can be a significant burden for the elderly themselves and their families.
Magic Shilds’ “Koroyawa” is designed and manufactured based on the concept of mechanical metamaterials. Its internal “variable rigidity structure” enables it to absorb shock and reduce the risk of femur fractures by sinking significantly only when falling from a chair or bed, transferring to a wheelchair, or falling from walking.
- Location: Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, Japan
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Hiroshi Shimomura
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
Maxwell Labs
Maxwell Labs
Maxwell Labs is bringing state-of-the-art materials science to data center cooling. The company develops and manufactures thermal interface materials and intelligent radiative heatsinks with the express aim of simultaneously lowering both the operating cost and environmental impact of data centers worldwide.
- Location: Minneapolis, MN, US
- Founded in: 2019
- CEO: Jacob Balma
- Investment Team: Sabrina Sasaki, Nobuhiro Seki
Mitate Zepto Technica
Mitate Zepto Technica
Mitate Zepto Technica (MZT) is a startup leveraging semiconductor technology to accelerate genome analysis.
By developing a proprietary ASIC and dedicated hardware, the company aims to increase genome processing speeds by 10 times while reducing costs to one-fifth of conventional methods. This approach enables high-speed data processing on standard servers without the need for large-scale computing infrastructure, potentially making genome diagnostic devices more accessible to smaller research institutions and medical facilities.
- Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2020
- CEO: Keisuke Harashima
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
mui Lab
mui Lab
mui Lab is a startup that develops and sells the wooden touch panel interface device “mui” and the accompanying UI/UX platform under the philosophy of “mui-shizen” (technology that blends into our daily lives). The company’s strength lies in its patent for a high-definition display on a small piece of natural wood, as well as its unique touch panel technology, which has been highly acclaimed at exhibitions and on crowdfunding. In a world full of smart devices, we can expect more technologies that blend into the environment in many different fields. They are jointly developing consumer products with Wacom and Honeywell and are in talks with smart speaker suppliers and automotive Tier 1.
- Location: Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,Japan
- Founded in: 2017
- CEO: Kazunori Oki
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
ORPHE
ORPHE
ORPHE (formerly known as no new folk studio) is a company that sells smart shoes called Orphe. Orphe provides smart shoes for entertainment, with LEDs inside the soles that light up, synchronizing with the music. The LEDs are programmable to specifically design for your expression. By taking more advantage of the sensor module, Orphe is now working with ASICS to develop smart shoes for sports and healthcare.
- Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2014
- CEO: Yuya Kikukawa
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Proteus Motion
Proteus Motion
Proteus Motion is a New York-based startup that develops Proteus, a training device that provides 3D resistance.
By applying resistance in all directions, a wide range of exercises can be performed using a single machine. Users can review past performance data on a connected tablet and receive personalized training programs. The system also enables real-time motion monitoring, making it useful for sports form correction and rehabilitation. Proteus has been adopted by MLB teams and the top-ranked orthopedic hospital in the U.S., and is backed by HBSE, the ownership group of NBA and NHL teams.
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Founded in: 2016
- CEO: Lisa Frankovitch
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
REVORN
REVORN
Reborn is developing odor sensors and data management systems based on the vision of “eliminating “somehow” smells” through scent x AI x DX. They are building a “smell data platform” that accumulates smell data from all over the world by utilizing their proprietary smell sensing devices and AI. They are using advanced sensing devices and AI analysis to identify smells, which often rely on human senses and experience, to develop and improve the quality of products for the manufacturing and food industries.
- Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo,Japan
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Hiroaki Matsuoka
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
RUTILEA
RUTILEA
RUTILEA is an AI solutions company founded in 2018 with the mission of “Making AI Simple.” The company leverages zero-code AI and generative AI to drive digital transformation (DX) across industries. In September 2024, RUTILEA launched the AI Fukushima Data Center, a GPU-powered facility in Fukushima Prefecture, offering AI development platforms and GPU cloud services. RUTILEA provides end-to-end support for manufacturing companies and AI firms from selecting AI models to deployment and operations.
- Location: Kyoto-shi, Kyoto,Japan
- Founded in: 2016
- CEO: Takafumi Yano
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
Sana Health
Sana Health
Sana Health is an American startup developing “Sana” that relieves chronic pain and improves mental well-being. Sana is a portable device that provides treatment by audiovisual. It is estimated that 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic pain and 10 million suffer from fibromyalgia. Users would see low pulses of light through the closed eyelids and hear sound pulses through the headphones. It measures the heart rate on the forehead. Using a smartphone app, the user can get personalized treatment depending on the current health condition. Sana Healthaim to get FDA medical device approval by the end of 2021.
- Location: Lafayette, CO, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Richard Hanbury
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
SeaSats
SeaSats
Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
- Location: San Diego, CA, US
- Founded in: 2020
- CEO: Mike Flanigan
- Investment Team: Sabrina Sasaki, Nobuhiro Seki
Sembient
Sembient
Sembient, based near New York City, provides solutions to maximize the efficiency of office usage and sharing resources. Using the proprietary software, users can see and analyze the real-time and accumulated usage data of meeting rooms, offices, and shared computers, collected by the optical sensor attached to the ceiling. Users can acquire detailed analysis of usage data such as, “85% of the time the meeting room was occupied by fewer than 5 people” or “this room was never used by more than 5 people at the same time in the last 2 months.”
- Location: Kearny, NJ, US
- Founded in: 2017
- CEO: Aleksandar Jovicic
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
StimScience
StimScience
StimScience offers Somnee, an electronic sleep aid headband to improve sleep quality.Somnee uses non-invasive electrical stimulation to promote the natural sleep patterns of the user’s brain. After only 15 minutes of use, the overall quality of sleep is improved; Somnee customizes stimulation sessions based on individual sleep patterns and allows users to track their sleep through an app. This improves sleep quality and allows you to wake up relaxed and recharged.
- Location: Berkeley, CA,US
- Founded in: 2017
- CEO: Tim Rosa
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
16Lab
16Lab
An award-winning developer of the world’s smallest IoT/Wearable module, 16Lab Inc., has gathered the best minds across the globe in order to shape a new computer-aided life for the Smart City era through our software that empowers the efficient use of sensors.
- Location: Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
- Founded in: 2013
- CEO: Ko Kijima
- Investment Team: Narimasa Makino
S-Mat (formerly Smart Shopping )
S-Mat (formerly Smart Shopping )
Smart Shopping provides inventory management and an automatic order placement system with their proprietary IoT scale as well as a commodity price comparison site for businesses and consumers. In Japan’s retail market, which is over 100 trillion yen, daily necessities and food products account for 60% of the total market, and purchases via EC have been increasing in recent years in both BtoB and BtoC. Enterprises can reduce inventory management and purchase costs by simply placing consumables on the “Smart Mat,” which can be used for anything and in any location, without relying solely on purchase history in EC. In addition, as for BtoC, Smart Shopping can provide an integrated customer experience by using the “Smart Mat” as well as the existing functionalities of “Smart Shopping” such as price comparison, shopping agent, and unique catalog. Smart Shopping is applying for patents on the business model in Japan and the US.
- Location: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Hidetoshi Hayashi / Takayuki Shiga
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
teamS
teamS
TeamS is a startup that develops SSE, embedded software that bidirectionally links smartphones with external displays. Android accounts for about 70% of the smartphones market share. It is expected that the full adoption of 5G after 2022 and the spread of flexible sheet displays will create more demand for SSE. An SSE embedded device would only need minimum components such as image/audio processing, touch panel, communication, and battery. Two types of mass-production models, sheet OLED and glass OLED, are under development through collaboration. TeamS keeps expanding the range of applications, such as virtual displays on the cloud, as they create the frontiers of the 5G era technologies.
- Location: Chuo-ku,Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2016
- CEO: Akira Takashima
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
ugo
ugo
Ugo, formerly known as Mira Robotics, aims to solve the labor shortage through teleoperated robots. Ugo is targetting building maintenance services such as security, monitoring, cleaning. With their hybrid remote-controlled-autonomy robots, applications and UI/UX for operating and monitoring, and data storage in the cloud, Ugo seeks to create an integrated platform to eventually open up the API plugins to other robotics makers as well.
- Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2018
- CEO: Ken Matsui
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Vertiq
Vertiq
Vertiq, also known as IQ Motion Control, designs and builds high performance propulsion systems for commercial and defense drone platforms.
Vertiq spun out of the University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab in 2017 and has since grown to be one of the leaders in the drone propulsion market.
Vertiq makes ultra compact, high performance servo motors for drone propulsion. Combining a unique hardware design (integrated motor, controller, and position sensor) and proprietary motor calibration and control software, Vertiq optimizes motor performance and controllability.
As a result, Vertiq’s products significantly increase the effectiveness of commercial and defense drones. The vehicles using Vertiq technology fly 10% longer, maneuver and stabilize 4x faster, experience 75% fewer critical failures, and have access to unique propeller positioning capabilities.
Vertiq’s mission is to bring high end motor performance to vital robotic applications, starting with drones and in the future, expanding into ground and marine mobile robotic applications.
- Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
- Founded in: 2017
- CEO: Jon Broome
- Investment Team: Sabrina Sasaki, Nobuhiro Seki
VELDT
VELDT
Veldt Inc. is a data science company that develops data analysis technologies for real-world applications and societal needs. Veldt offers causal inference AI (CausalAI) solutions and is developing xCausal, an advanced evolution of its high-speed causal inference platform, Data Ethnography. This platform can be applied across a wide range of industries requiring causal analysis and effective solutions, including manufacturing, finance, distribution, and marketing. Currently, Veldt is also collaborating with consulting firms to accelerate the discovery and generation of solutions to complex challenges by leveraging data to estimate cause-and-effect relationships.
- Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Founded in: 2012
- CEO: Jin Nonogami
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
Waqua
Waqua
Waqua is an Okinawa-based startup that manufactures small desalination devices under the vision of “delivering safe freshwater to the world.” Waqua has the technology to make small devices optimized for all kinds of water desalination, from pool water to seawater. Their strength is that the device is compact, inexpensive, and processes a relatively large amount of water per unit weight. Potential applications include small offshore fishing boats, coastal areas, remote islands, and construction site with no water supply infrastructure.
- Location: Uruma-shi, Okinawa, Japan
- Founded in: 2012
- CEO: Toru Matsuoka
- Investment Team: Mikuni Kimura
HiberSense
HiberSense
HiberSense’s smart home solution enables precise climate control for each room, which was impossible with central air conditioning. The central hub controls adjustable adapters for AC vents and collects sensor data of temperature, humidity, brightness, and human presence. People in each room can set their preferences in their app, and the hub controls the climate automatically.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
- Founded in: 2015
- CEO: Bob Fields
- Investment Team: Nobuhiro Seki
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