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Hitachi Ventures
Corporate VC · Munich, Germany · Europe
Hitachi Ventures is a corporate venture firm backed by Hitachi that invests in startups across four themes: digital, industrial, environment and healthcare. It reports more than $1B in assets under management across four funds and 61 companies on four continents.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsaiadvanced computingindustry 4.0decarbonizationcircular economytechbio
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Or find every investor that fitsHitachi Ventures lists 63 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 30 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 36% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Industrial & Manufacturing (18%) and Healthcare & Biotech (15%). 64% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Samsung NEXT, Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Hitachi Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Hitachi Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 29 companies; its own site lists 63. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundHitachi Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 36% |
| Growth | 11% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 12 | 2 |
| '26 | 17 | 3 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 62 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 19 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 37% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 54th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 31% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 18% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Fintech | 2% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Samsung NEXT | 6 |
| Accel | 4 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 4 |
| Prosperity7 Ventures | 4 |
| Translink Capital | 4 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| DCVC | 3 |
| Energy Impact Partners | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers63100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Hitachi Ventures 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 Hitachi Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for Hitachi Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Hitachi Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
63 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aalo Atomics builds mass-manufactured nuclear power plants designed to power data centers and other applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Akarion provides a GRC management platform for information security, business continuity, and data protection | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Amplio helps companies recover value from their surplus industrial assets, such as equipment and inventory, by handling the complexity of the recovery process for them. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Amplio Ventures provides funding to businesses, particularly those interested in hiring from the refugee workforce. | FintechHuman Resources | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Arcee develops and releases open-weight AI models | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Archetype AI develops and provides a physical AI platform for real-world intelligence and operational understanding | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Arrcus provides AI-native networking software | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Arsenal Biosciences, Inc. is a cell therapy company that discovers and develops next-generation in vivo T cell therapies to address chronic disease, including cancer and autoimmunity. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Ascerta helps enterprises maximize AI return on investment | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Avicena develops microLED-based optical interconnects for high-speed communications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| BeZero Carbon applies independent, risk-based, project level carbon ratings for investing in carbon projects | Climate & Energy | Dec 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Bioptimus trains foundation models to learn the dynamics of human biology and predict outcomes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Captura's technology provides a process for Direct Ocean Capture of carbon and delivers electrodialysis solutions for global industries. | Climate & Energy | Jun 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| ClearOps connects manufacturers, dealers and machines on one enterprise-grade platform, turning fragmented After Sales inventory data into actionable insights to improve parts availability, fill rates, machine uptime and customer loyalty. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Collinear combines high-value tasks, rigorous evaluation, and off-the-shelf delivery so frontier teams can maximize useful learning and measurable capability gains from every model iteration. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cure51 develops precision medicine tools and discovers novel therapeutics for cancer treatment using data from exceptional cancer survivors | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CVector analyzes plant, application, and live market data to create dollar-scored recommendations for operators to act on margin opportunities in real time. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Cyclic Materials recovers rare earths from end-of-life products, building a secure and circular supply chain for materials that are critical to the global economy. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| E6data is a lakehouse compute engine that runs SQL, streaming, and AI workloads on open tables in the user's own cloud. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- hitachi-ventures.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2024
- Companies checked
- 63
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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