Universal Materials Incubator

Company Name Japanese
ユニバーサルマテリアルズインキュベーター株式会社
AUM (JPY)
¥33,600,000,000
Founded Year
2015
Asset Class
Private Equity
Geography
Japan
URL
https://www.umi.co.jp
Style
corporate venture capital
Founder
Shosuke Kiba
Founder BIO
After joining Toyota Tsusho Corp., seconded temporarily to Toyota Motor Corp., and later worked in the startup of new business in the functional materials field, as well as investments in material related venture companies, and support for global rollout. In 2012, he joined The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (currently INCJ, Ltd.), where he started up a material/chemicals team, and contributed to the planning of UMI, where he was formally named as a partner in April 2016. He appointed the Program Director of Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program(SIP) led by the Japanese Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) in April 2023. He completed degrees in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, and the Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering.
#Employee
33
#Fund
5
Approved Date
Jun 30, 2023
Description English
Universal Materials Incubator (UMI) is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that aims to foster exceptional material and chemical industries in Japan by bridging academic research and commercial production. The firm focuses its investment on venture companies with post-R&D stage technologies. The firm receives capital and management resources from the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ).
Description Japanese
ユニバーサル・マテリアルズ・インキュベーター(UMI)は、東京拠点のベンチャーキャピタルファームで、日本の優れた材料および化学産業を育成することを目指し、学術研究と商業生産を結びつけています。同社は、R&D後の段階にある技術を持つベンチャー企業への投資に重点を置いています。同社は、イノベーションネットワーク株式会社(INCJ)から資本および経営資源を受けています。
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Hidekazu Ishida
Last edited time
Apr 1, 2025 08:14 PM GMT+0