Monozukuri Ventures

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Investment-firm

Last deal

Amount

Undisclosed

Stage

25.11.2020

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About Company
Monozukuri VC is a Japanese early stage investor for hardtech and manufacturing-related startups.

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Also Known As

MBC, DTL, Darma Tech Labs, ダルマテックラボ, MZV, monozukurivc, Makers Boot Camp, Monozukuri VC

founded date

03.08.2015

Number of employees

Last funding type

Undisclosed

IPO status

Private

Description

Monozukuri Ventures is an early stage VC focused on hardware startup investments in the US & Japan, providing founders with essential resources such as investment, mentorship, prototyping know-how, manufacturing expertise, and community support to help them bridge the gap between idea and product/market fit. They stress the importance of Monozukuri, the art of making things in a creative way, 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.
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Their latest funding was raised on 25.11.2020. Their latest investor Sony. Their latest round Undisclosed

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25.11.2020
2
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61
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name 
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type 
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06.06.2024
No
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Narimasa Makino
Narimasa Makino

Narimasa Makino

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Monozukuri Ventures

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Kenshin Fujiwara
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Monozukuri Ventures
Monozukuri Ventures

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Kenshin Fujiwara

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Nikolas Schreiber

Nikolas Schreiber

EIR Fellow

Nobuhiro Seki

Nobuhiro Seki

Managing Partner & Board Member

Sabrina Sasaki

Sabrina Sasaki

Principal

Kenshin Fujiwara

Kenshin Fujiwara

Co-Founder

Narimasa Makino

Narimasa Makino

CEO

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