• Pittan

  Participated · Series A · Aug 2024

  PITTAN builds noninvasive sweat-component analysis technology and currently offers a mail-in analysis service that lets users send sweat samples to its lab for evaluation. The company has partnerships with skincare brands, esthetic salons, and fitness gyms and has been expanding a B2B2C business model. PITTAN operates a lab in Kobe and has focused on creating low-cost, low-burden testing compared with blood or urine analysis. The team is developing a portable on-site analyzer designed to deliver results in about 15 minutes to enable immediate, location-based use. Management says the portable device will support expansion into skin care, esthetics, supplements, fitness, and health-device channels. The company emphasizes noninvasive regular monitoring to drive personalized wellness and preventive-health behavior change.

• Metro Weather

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

  MetroWeather has developed a compact Doppler lidar that uses infrared lasers to visualize wind direction and speed over a wide area in real time, with observation data shown via a proprietary UI. The company’s strengths include signal analysis algorithms from years of atmospheric remote sensing research and a domestically optimized lidar design that integrates hardware and software. Its design reduces device size compared with conventional models while accurately measuring wind conditions up to approximately 15 km. Current customers and use cases include offshore wind power generation, airport management, and marine sports events. The firm recently raised capital (see deal) and plans to use proceeds to establish a mass production system, pursue dual-use deployment for defense and civilian applications, and fund R&D of next-generation models with object detection. MetroWeather aims to supply mass production models starting in 2025 and to contribute to safe infrastructure globally through expanded commercialization. Metroweather designs and manufactures Doppler‑lidar devices that use infrared lasers and signal processing to measure wind direction and speed in three dimensions in real time. Its systems can detect wind over a roughly 10–15 km radius and perform well in low atmospheric layers where radar is limited. The company highlights applications for safe drone and eVTOL operations, including expanding use cases for suspicious‑drone detection and other security applications. Metroweather’s technology was adopted by NASA in 2021 and has been deployed to a NASA drone test field in the current fiscal year. The firm is pursuing international expansion, notably accelerating U.S. business development. Financially, the company has increased its Series A cumulative funding to ¥1.2 billion following the latest extension.

No current team members are available.