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 1 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $54.1M (across 15 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
26
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Series B
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
Tomokuni Nishiguchi
Member of the Board
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
28 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lunar Energy | Series D | $102M | Feb 2026 |
 Protium | Series B | — | Jan 2025 |
 Blue Laser Fusion | Seed | $37.5M | Jan 2024 |
| BBlue Laser Fusion Inc. | Seed | $37.5M | Jan 2024 |
 EZE | Seed | — | Jun 2023 |
 EZE Wholesale | Seed | $3.7M | Jan 2023 |
 SIMPLEX QUANTUM Inc. | Unknown | — | Dec 2022 |
| IiPrice Group | Seed | $5M | Mar 2022 |
| Ffermata inc. | Series A | — | Jan 2022 |
| LLanvin Group | Growth | — | Oct 2021 |
| RRaven SR Inc. | Unknown | $20M | Aug 2021 |
 Timee, Inc. | Series B | $48.5M | Jan 2021 |
| Timee, Inc. | Series D | — | Jan 2021 |
 BigRentz | Growth | $15M | Jan 2020 |
 Kakehashi | Series B | $24M | Jan 2019 |
 Paidy | Series C | $55M | Jul 2018 |
 Toreta | Growth | — | Jan 2018 |
| TTimee | Series B | $18.5M | Jan 2018 |
 Sakti3 | Series B | $11.2M | Jan 2010 |
| IIGA Worldwide, Inc. | Unknown | $30M | Jan 2008 |
 Veloce | Series A | — | — |
| Bbooost technologies | Series B | — | — |
| SSkyDrive Inc. | Series B | — | — |
| Toreta | Series B | $2.6M | — |
 Smooth Inc. | Series B | — | — |
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Top Co-Investors
JAFCO Group Co., Ltd.5 shared
CyberAgent Capital2 shared
Prologis2 shared
Colopl Next2 shared
Peak XV Partners2 shared
Mizuho Bank2 shared
SBI Investment2 shared
Y Combinator2 shared
C2 Ventures2 shared
Right Side Capital Management2 shared
SoftBank Group Corp.2 shared
Dentsu Ventures2 shared
UTEC2 shared
Development Bank of Japan Inc.2 shared
ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Inc.2 shared
Salesforce Ventures2 shared
Eight Roads2 shared
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.1 shared
Q Capital Partners1 shared
DCVC1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026