Blue Lab
4 Liberty Square, 5th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
Overview
Blue Lab works collaboratively to accelerate start-ups, internal teams, universities and consumers to develop and shape ideas into a reality by offering access to industry expertise, customer insight, mentoring, coaching and potential opportunity to test and validate products with customers. Their goal is to create an open innovation network to generate plenty of ideas and to make ideas happen. Their new agile working space on the south coast enables us to collaboratively work with start-ups, internal teams, universities and consumers to develop and shape those ideas into a reality.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Business Intelligence
- Consulting
- Coworking
Investment portfolio
- ATOM
Participated · Seed · May 2026
ATOM develops Japan-made bipedal, dual-armed humanoid robots powered by what it calls Physical AI, enabling perception, decision-making, and real-world action. The company builds both the robot hardware and AI foundation models in-house, using data from operations to iterate on design and software. It targets factory and warehouse tasks such as transport, replenishment, and kitting, aiming to address labour shortages in Japan. ATOM was founded by CEO Shunsuke Aoki and is based in Tokyo. Following the ¥3B seed round, the company plans to hire AI engineers and expand its robotics and business infrastructure to move toward deployment. The article notes the sector is capital-intensive and competitive, with commercialization challenges typical of humanoid robotics.
- Qubitcore
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
Founded in July 2024, Qubitcore builds on OIST research to integrate ion-trap quantum processors with micro optical resonators to enable high‑efficiency photon–qubit interfaces and multi-module optical connections. The company aims to realize fault-tolerant quantum computers via a distributed quantum computing architecture and holds an exclusive license with OIST signed in July 2025. Its roadmap targets a cloud-accessible quantum computer prototype operating at OIST in 2026, an Early‑FTQC with error‑correction capabilities by 2028, and a second‑generation multi‑QPU optically connected system by 2029. Qubitcore has strengthened its financial position through a ¥1.53 billion seed round led by SBI Investment, following a pre-seed in January 2025, and plans to deploy funds into R&D, partner/validation activities, and hiring. The company operates its headquarters in Yokohama with R&D facilities and labs based at OIST in Okinawa.