Sumisho Venture Partners

Profile and portfolio

Parent SumitomoHQ Tokyo, JapanFounded 2022

Sumisho Venture Partners is the corporate venture arm of Sumitomo, a conglomerate. It was founded in 2022 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It invests from Series A to Series C+. Sectors it names: climate and energy, industrial technology and robotics, consumer and retail, healthcare and digital health.

Companies backedS1: 10+

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Snapshot

Investment stage: Series A to Series C+

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Item	Value
Stage range	Series A to Series C+
Sectors	Climate and energy, Industrial technology and robotics, Consumer and retail, Healthcare and digital health, Food and agriculture, Enterprise software
Geography	Asia
Offices	Tokyo, Japan

Sources: S2 Sumisho Venture Partners home; S1 Sumisho Venture Partners portfolio.

Scale and capital allocated

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Measure	Value	Unit	Kind	Source
Companies backed	10+	companies	Stated by the firm	S1
Companies on the firm's portfolio page	10	companies	Counted from the firm's own list	S1

Sources: S1 Sumisho Venture Partners portfolio.

Where it invests and who leads it

Geography

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Offices: Tokyo, Japan

Investment regionsS2 S1

Asia

LeadersS3

Hidehiro YamakiPresident & CEOFind on LinkedIn Firm page
Yasuaki TaniguchiDirectorFind on LinkedIn Firm page
Shuya TakatsuPrincipalFind on LinkedIn Firm page
Yugo SaekiPrincipalFind on LinkedIn Firm page

Sumisho Venture Partners on LinkedIn

Key facts

Fact	Value	Status	Source
Parent company	Sumitomo	Single source	S1
Parent industry	Conglomerate	Single source	S1
Founded	2022	Single source	S5
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan	Single source	S2
Status	Active	Single source	S1
Capital source	Parent company only	Single source	S1
Companies backed	10+	Single source	S1
Stages	Series A, Series B, Series C+	Single source	S2

Portfolio

The firm's portfolio page lists 10 companies.S1

Shared portfolio with other corporate VCs

5 companies on the Sumisho Venture Partners portfolio page also appear on the portfolio page of at least one other firm in this directory. Matched by company website, or by name where no website is published.

Firm	Shared	Companies in common
Bricks Fund Tokyo	1	OptQC
KDDI Open Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
ME Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
Nissay Capital	1	OptQC
Shimadzu Future Innovation Fund	1	OptQC
Norinchukin Capital	1	Faeger
Salesforce Ventures	1	Resilire
Future Creation Capital	1	キビテク
Shizuoka Capital	1	ジザイエ

Companies backed by the most corporate VCs

Every company on the Sumisho Venture Partners list

10 companies, as listed on the firm's own website.S1 Read the firm's list.

Atom-humanoid
Equitas-medical
Faeger
Jizaie
Kuzen
Optqc
Qibitech
Resilire
Secondz
Souco

Official pages

Read the firm's own pages for current information.

Website sumisho-vp.com

Sources

Disclaimer and corrections

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