Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

Triorb develops the TriOrb BASE, a ball-driven 360° omnidirectional mobility platform that uses three spheres and three motors at its base to achieve full-direction movement. The platform offers millimeter-level positioning and autonomous navigation via proprietary Visual SLAM and ROS2 modules and supports coordinated transport of multiple units. The standard model has a 300 kg payload capacity while a heavy-duty model carries up to 800 kg; the system can traverse 45 mm grooves, 10 mm steps, and gradients of approximately 9°. An optional battery provides about 3.5 hours of continuous operation. Target industries include automotive, semiconductors, steel manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, and construction, and a cited adoption example is Sugino Machine’s new mobile manipulator. The company has opened a Detroit base to support U.S. expansion.

Led · Series C · Feb 2026

Founded in 2015 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Linkwiz builds software that transfers human craftsmanship to industrial robots, advancing factory automation. Its flagship offerings include L-ROBOT, a production-optimization system; L-QUALIFY, an automated inspection solution; and LINKWIZ FACTORY CLOUD, a tool for collecting, analyzing, and leveraging production data. These products are already deployed across transportation equipment, agricultural and construction machinery, building materials, and plant-engineering sectors. The company’s technology centers on a proprietary high-speed 3D processing engine and flexible hardware connectivity, enabling robots to handle tasks such as welding inspection now running in Suzuki’s Hamamatsu and Kosai plants. Linkwiz aims to create “factories that improve quality the more they produce” by interlinking data across time and space. Strategic collaborations with Suzuki and Toyota Tsusho are expected to accelerate global rollout and the development of new EV-related manufacturing processes. To date, the firm has raised ¥850 million in its Series C round, bolstering resources for product expansion and international growth.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2025

Electra has developed a proprietary electro-chemical process that produces 99% pure iron using renewable electricity, enabling low-carbon, high-grade steel and other advanced material applications. Its modular system design supports phased, rapid expansion, minimizing upfront capital outlays and accelerating time to market. The company recently brought a demonstration facility online and has already secured advanced purchase orders from industry leaders such as Nucor, Toyota Tsusho, and INTERFER Edelstahl Group, signaling early commercial traction. Electra also executed its first Environmental Attribute Credit agreement with Meta, highlighting demand for its green iron outputs. Financially, the firm closed a $186 million Series B round in 2025, won a $50 million Breakthrough Energy Catalyst award, and received Colorado’s inaugural $8 million clean-industry tax credit. The new venture debt facility strengthens its balance sheet as it prepares for its first commercial-scale plant.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

LIGHTz provides an AI platform that visualizes and digitizes skilled engineers' thinking using its proprietary “汎知化” and BrainModel technologies. Its core product, blooplinter, links 3D CAD models with expert knowledge and past-case data so users can retrieve knowledge visually and textually and perform automated checks. The company emphasizes shifting firms from labor‑intensive operations to knowledge‑stocked workflows to improve quality, cost and speed. LIGHTz plans to standardize and scale its汎知化 and BrainModel technologies and further develop and generalize blooplinter for wider adoption across Japan’s manufacturing sector. The company completed a Series A and reported total funding of ¥860 million to accelerate product development and commercialization. It intends to expand regional partnerships, strengthen marketing, and support local manufacturers in addressing skills transfer and productivity challenges.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2020

WhereIsMyTransport builds detailed maps of formal and informal public transport networks and uses that data to power consumer and enterprise journey-planning and analytics products. It licenses transport network data to governments, development finance institutions, NGOs, operators and third-party developers for research, analytics, insights and solutions. The company launched a consumer product, Rumbo, in Mexico that has more than 100,000 users and delivers over 750,000 real-time network alerts. WhereIsMyTransport has mapped 41 cities across 28 countries and has completed data projects in Mexico City, Lima, Bangkok, Gauteng and Dhaka, with an established presence in South Africa and Mexico. The team says it plans to launch Rumbo in Lima later this year. Clients include Johannesburg’s Gautrain, Transport for Cape Town, Google, the World Bank and WSP. WhereIsMyTransport specialises in mapping formal and informal public transport networks across emerging markets. Its integrated mobility API uses proprietary algorithms and features designed for the complex transit networks found in those cities. The company has mapped 34 cities in Africa, is mapping cities in India, Southeast Asia and Latin America, and its platform contains more than 750,000 km of routes in 39 cities. WhereIsMyTransport collects diverse transport data and turns it into usable information for planners, operators and commuters—summed up as making “the invisible visible.” The startup positions its products to address mobility challenges that disproportionately affect poor and fast-growing urban populations and to support social and economic development. The company plans further international expansion supported by new strategic investment and partnerships. WhereIsMyTransport collects and provides access to public transport data and offers journey-planning services via an open integrated mobility data platform. The firm aggregates data from more than 30 major cities, including Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Originally founded in 2008 in Cape Town, the company relaunched in 2015 and now operates from Cape Town and London. It is expanding into India, Southeast Asia and Latin America, and carried out data collection in Mexico City last year. The company underwent staff retrenchments in late 2017 but described itself as being in an expansion stage; a March visit observed roughly 20–30 staff at work. Management did not disclose whether the company is generating revenue. As of this raise the firm has reported total funding of $5.8 million.