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Asuene

WeWork, KDX Toranomon 1-Chome Building 4F, 1-10-5 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo, 105-0001, Japan

Overview

Asuene is a Tokyo-based sustainability AI company founded by CEO Kohei Nishiwada that serves over 50,000 clients worldwide. Its flagship ASUENE platform supports greenhouse gas measurement, reduction, and reporting, and the company also offers NZero, an AI Energy Optimization Platform, and Carbon EX, an Integrated Carbon Credit AI Platform. The company raised $87M in Series D financing in 2026, bringing its total funding to $161M. Asuene plans to use the new capital to pursue M&A to accelerate business expansion in Japan and internationally, to advance AI and product development, and to launch new businesses. Corporate investors in the round included firms such as DAIKIN and RICOH alongside other domestic and international backers.

Total raised
$67M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series D
Latest activity
Jul 2026

Industries

  • Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Consulting
  • Environmental Consulting
  • Sustainability
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Recent funding

  1. Series D

    Jul 2026

    $42M

  2. Series C

    Aug 2024

    $5M

  3. Series B

    Oct 2022

    $20M

Team

  • Shu Setogawa

    Director, Sales and Business Development

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  • Masayuki Kobayashi

    Executive Officer, Head of M&A and Strategic Partnership

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  • Salmon Sim

    Director of Product Solutions

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