
PNB-INSPiRE Ethical Fund 1 Investment Business Limited Liability Partnership
5-3-10 Minami-Aoyama 1st 3F, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan
Overview
Inspire Corporation partners and customers to overcome practices and old-fashioned businesses. Inspire aims to create pioneering businesses and companies that can change the world.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- SUPWAT
Led · Series A · Jan 2026
Founded in 2019, SUPWAT develops WALL, a digital transformation platform that formalizes data-driven decision-making and accelerates experimentation and analysis cycles across the manufacturing engineering chain. The cloud-based tool applies advanced AI technologies to help enterprise customers—such as automobile, auto-parts, materials, and chemical manufacturers—reduce time and cost in product development. The company’s vision is to usher in an era of intelligent manufacturing by making engineering workflows more efficient and transparent. SUPWAT plans to use newly raised capital to deepen WALL’s functionality, expand its team, and strengthen internal operations in preparation for its next funding round. Although specific revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the platform has already been adopted by a wide range of large manufacturing enterprises, underscoring early market traction. The startup positions itself within the broader trend of digital transformation (DX) and industrial AI in Japan’s manufacturing sector.
- TheLorry
Participated · Series B · Apr 2019
TheLorry is a Selangor-based logistics startup that connects thousands of individual and corporate clients with truck, lorry, pickup, and van owners across Southeast Asia through web and mobile channels. Its combined fleet exceeds 7,000 vehicles, including large trailers for heavy-load transportation, and it uses a matching algorithm and back-end technology to reduce costs and underutilized capacity. The company provides professional training to driver partners to improve their livelihoods and help them grow their businesses. Founded in 2014 by Nadhir Ashafiq and Goh Chee Hau, TheLorry expanded into Thailand and Indonesia last year and has reported positive growth in those markets. The startup aims to be the market leader for logistics platforms in Southeast Asia and will use new funding to strengthen its presence in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. In 2019 the company plans to focus on existing markets while remaining open to exploring further regional expansion.
Team
Ryosuke Takatsuki
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