ITOCHU Corporation is one of Japan's largest sogo shosha (general trading and investment companies), with diversified operations spanning textiles, machinery, energy, food, ICT, and financial services. Through its corporate venture capital arm, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, it invests in early-stage IT and deep tech startups, with focus areas including AI, healthcare, fintech, and decarbonization.
They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $48.7M (across 32 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
43
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Series B
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Tomokuni Nishiguchi
Member of the Board
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
53 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lunar Energy | Series D | $102M | Feb 2026 |
 Nanoramic Laboratories | Unknown | $54M | Nov 2025 |
 Protium | Series B | — | Jan 2025 |
| ZZapata Computing, Inc. | Series B | $38M | May 2024 |
 Blue Laser Fusion | Seed | $37.5M | Jan 2024 |
| UUpstart Power | Unknown | $40M | Jan 2024 |
 Eze | Seed | — | Jun 2023 |
 EZE Wholesale | Seed | $3.7M | Jan 2023 |
 SIMPLEX QUANTUM Inc. | Unknown | — | Dec 2022 |
 Sensible 4 | Series A | — | Aug 2022 |
 Wingcopter | Series A | $42M | Jun 2022 |
| Ffermata inc. | Series A | — | May 2022 |
| IiPrice | Seed | $5M | Mar 2022 |
 Docquity | Series C | $44M | Jan 2022 |
| Ffermata inc. | Series A | — | Jan 2022 |
| LLanvin Group | Growth | — | Oct 2021 |
 Raven SR Inc. | Unknown | $20M | Aug 2021 |
| Wingcopter | Series A | — | Jan 2021 |
 Timee, Inc. | Series B | $48.5M | Jan 2021 |
| Timee, Inc. | Series D | — | Jan 2021 |
 Zapata | Series B | $38M | Nov 2020 |
 Paidy Inc. | Series C | $120M | Nov 2019 |
 Kakehashi, Inc. | Series D | — | Oct 2019 |
 KAKEHASHI | Series B | $24M | Jan 2019 |
 Spire | Series D | $40M | Jan 2019 |
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Top Co-Investors
JAFCO Group Co., Ltd.6 shared
ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Inc.6 shared
World Innovation Lab5 shared
500 Global4 shared
Dentsu Ventures4 shared
Mizuho Capital4 shared
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.3 shared
Prelude Ventures3 shared
Mizuho Bank3 shared
SBI Investment3 shared
Global Brain Corporation3 shared
Wellington Management3 shared
SMBC Venture Capital3 shared
Salesforce Ventures3 shared
Eight Roads3 shared
European Investment Bank3 shared
Q Capital Partners2 shared
DCVC2 shared
Sunrun2 shared
Leitmotif2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026