Investors / United States / Acario Innovation
Acario Innovation
Corporate VC · San Mateo, CA, United States · North America
Acario Innovation is the Silicon Valley-based corporate venture capital and open innovation arm of Tokyo Gas, founded in 2017. It funds companies in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors and pursues open innovation and R&D in the energy sector.
Invests inClimate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsenergysustainabilitymobilityenergy storagehydrogendecarbonization
Your fit with Acario Innovation
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Or find every investor that fitsAcario Innovation lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Climate & Energy (67%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (33%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside AVP, BY Venture Partners and CapitalT.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Acario Innovation, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundAcario Innovation does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AVP | 1 |
| BY Venture Partners | 1 |
| CapitalT | 1 |
| Dubai Future District Fund | 1 |
| Earth Venture Capital | 1 |
| Kortschak Investments | 1 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 1 |
| Motion Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Climate & Energy | 67% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Acario Innovation head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Acario Innovation| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Acario Innovation
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Acario Innovation's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a carbon removal intelligence platform for businesses to set and implement decarbonization strategies. | Climate & Energy | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Isometric provides certification services for industrial projects to verify their environmental impact and sustainability credentials. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- acarioinnovation.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 2
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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