Makers Boot Camp
Umekoji Market 3F, 34 Shuzaku Hozokucho, Kyoto, Shimogyo-ku, 600-8846, Japan
Overview
We Make Hardware Startups Together. Empowering people to build high-quality products. For startup founders, it takes more than funding to bridge the gap between idea and product/market fit. With our unique way of supporting startups with manufacturing needs, we partner with startups for the long term and work hand-in-glove with our portfolio every step of the way to grow their businesses. Monozukuri Ventures (former Makers Boot Camp) is an early stage VC focused on hardware startup investments in the US & Japan. Our mission is to help the world’s entrepreneurs deliver high-quality products to the market, regardless of production volume. As a global ecosystem contributor, we provide founders with essential resources such as investment, mentorship, prototyping know-how, manufacturing expertise, and community support. To achieve this ambitious goal, we stress the importance of Monozukuri, the art of making things in a creative way. Although known as a traditional practice of manufacturing in Japan, Monozukuri enables us to create new values by fusing two opposite ideas integrated into harmony, such as old and new, East and West, hardware and software, and historical and modern. Based in historical Kyoto City and modern New York City, Monozukuri Ventures empowers talented and diverse people to build tangible solutions to create a better future.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- CleanTech
- Hardware
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Internet of Things
- Robotics
- Wearables
Investment portfolio
- Proteus Motion
Participated · Equity · Dec 2019
Proteus Motion develops a hardware and software fitness system that uses patented strength-measurement software to guide users through 4-minute physical assessments and a resistance training experience called 3D Resistance™. The company’s systems are installed in 41 U.S. states and two Canadian territories and are used by high-profile athletes across MLB, the NBA, the NFL and professional golf. Led by founder and CEO Sam Miller, Proteus Motion plans to use new capital to expand the team, scale production capabilities and grow its software offerings. In conjunction with the financing, industry executive Paul Byrne joined the company’s board of directors. Financially, Proteus Motion announced an $8.5M Series A and has raised $17M to date. The company positions its product for elite athletic and commercial fitness markets through combined hardware and analytics. Proteus Motion is a NYC-based sports and healthtech company (formerly Boston Biomotion) that has developed patented hardware and software delivering intelligent strength training and rehabilitation via unlimited three-dimensional movements. Its system is designed to strengthen, optimize and restore sport movements, protect joints and ligaments, and enable faster recovery. The technology has gained particular traction in the pitching community for arm care, improving biomechanics, pitching velocity and rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery. Proteus’s products are used by teams in MLB, NHL and top NCAA athletic programs, as well as prominent training and rehabilitation facilities worldwide. The company offers a software subscription that lets trainees access training content, track trends and receive personalized insights, leveraging 50 million data points captured to date. Proteus plans to use new funding to develop and manufacture its software products, conduct R&D on Version 2 of the Proteus system, and grow its subscription user base.
Team
No current team members are available.