
Sumitomo Heavy Industries
ThinkPark Tower, 1-1 Osaki 2-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-6025, Japan
Overview
Sumitomo Heavy Industries is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Manufacturing
Investment portfolio
- Sound Wave Innovation
Participated · Series C · May 2026
Sound Wave Innovation is developing a therapeutic platform built around Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) aimed at treating early-stage Alzheimer’s disease with its flagship LIPUS-Brain device. Exploratory clinical studies completed in 2022 reported a strong safety profile and suggested potential efficacy for patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment. In 2022 the LIPUS-Brain system was designated by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the country’s first “Breakthrough Medical Device” for Alzheimer’s treatment. The company has a strategic manufacturing and commercialization partnership with Sumitomo Heavy Industries, which will oversee manufacturing and distribution while Sound Wave Innovation continues clinical development and IP licensing. Sound Wave Innovation raised about $17 million in a Series C to fund completion of a pivotal confirmatory trial expected to finish by the end of 2026. After the trial the company and its partners are targeting regulatory approval.
- Highview Power
Participated · Equity · Feb 2021
Highview Power is an energy-infrastructure company that has spent 17 years developing proprietary Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) technology capable of storing renewable electricity for several weeks and providing critical grid-stability services. Its hybrid long-duration energy storage (LDES) plants pair LAES with lithium-ion batteries to deliver flexible, multi-hour power output while supplying inertia, short-circuit and voltage support. The company’s flagship Millennium Series will comprise 3.2 GWh facilities, beginning with a site at Hunterston, Scotland, that can power roughly 650,000 homes for up to 12.5 hours. A 300 MWh LAES plant is already under construction in Carrington, Manchester, and the Hunterston project’s first “stability island” phase is expected on-line by August 2026 with full storage operations targeted for 2027–2030. Highview also operates a grid-analytics platform that forecasts energy needs and optimizes plant dispatch. To date the firm has raised more than £500 million to commercialize and scale its technology, while creating a UK supply chain expected to support 1,000 construction jobs and 650 supply-chain jobs during build-out.
Team
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