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RICOH Innovation Fund
Corporate VC
RICOH Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that invests in startups with new technologies and services supporting creative work in offices and on the front line, and the realization of digital workplaces. It supports startup growth through collaboration with Ricoh Group resources and global customer touchpoints, aiming to co-create businesses.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfuture of workdigital workplacewellbeingautomationdecarbonizationai
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Or find every investor that fitsRICOH Innovation Fund lists 12 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 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 AI & Machine Learning (28%), Healthcare & Biotech (11%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 73% of its companies are based in Japan. It invests most often alongside Global Brain, 1Flourish Capital and Abies Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name RICOH Innovation Fund, 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 RICOH Innovation Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 12. 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 roundRICOH Innovation Fund 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 | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 50% |
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 | 1 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 30th | 12 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 25% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 45th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 69th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 11% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Developer Tools | 6% | 0% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Global Brain | 2 |
| 1Flourish Capital | 1 |
| Abies Ventures | 1 |
| Airbus Ventures | 1 |
| Battery Ventures | 1 |
| Canal Ventures | 1 |
| Cortical Ventures | 1 |
| DG Daiwa Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers12100%
- 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 RICOH Innovation Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with RICOH Innovation Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Round Led | |
| 23 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for RICOH Innovation Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in RICOH Innovation Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
12 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asuene provides a cloud service for calculating, reducing, and reporting CO2 emissions and greenhouse gas emissions | Climate & EnergySpace & Defense | Jul 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Butlr develops and provides an AI platform for intelligent spaces, including data center, care, and workplace solutions using anonymous thermal occupancy sensors. | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides labor management tools utilizing AI and technology | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Intellect provides mental health care and wellbeing support services to businesses and individuals | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Round | Page + round | |
| The company develops and provides robot and AI technology solutions for social and industrial infrastructure | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a remote construction management system to digitalize and share construction site information among all stakeholders in real-time. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Marsdy provides a solution for automated number management and updating, called AutoDate, which automates daily number management in Excel and other applications. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| O Ltd. provides a virtual space for art and subculture | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| May 2026Seed | Page + round | |||
| Tohanasu provides a system to connect employees and organizations, aiming to improve work efficiency | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates robotics | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Weaviate develops an AI database for developers | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- innovation-fund.ricoh
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 12
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