Investors / Japan / MLC Ventures
MLC Ventures
Corporate VC · Tokyo, Japan · Asia Pacific
MLC Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm backed by Mitsubishi Logistics Corporation. It works to advance collaboration between the group and startups and companies in other industries, aiming to develop new services, support startups, and enhance logistics services as social infrastructure.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningE-commerce & MarketplacesFintech
In its own wordslogisticsreal estatesupply chaincorporate venture capitalautomationcross-border e-commerce
Your fit with MLC Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsMLC Ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (40%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (20%) and Fintech (20%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside COLOPL NEXT, Contour Venture Partners and Daiwa House Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name MLC Ventures, 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 roundMLC 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 | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 33% |
| 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 | 3 | 2 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| COLOPL NEXT | 1 |
| Contour Venture Partners | 1 |
| Daiwa House Ventures | 1 |
| Energy & Environment Investments, Inc. | 1 |
| Global Brain | 1 |
| Japan Post Capital | 1 |
| Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital | 1 |
| Spiral Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 40% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 20% | 6% |
| Fintech | 20% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 20% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare MLC 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 MLC Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 29 May 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for MLC Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in MLC Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelicargo provides a digital air freight sourcing engine for forwarders and airlines | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Return Helper provides a cross-border returns management platform for eCommerce businesses | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company develops and implements level 4 autonomous truck transportation services | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- mlc-ventures.co.jp
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
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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