Universal Materials Incubator

Geography

Japan

Last edited time

Oct 16, 2024 12:42 PM

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

#Fund

#Employee

Founded Year

2015

Asset Class

Private Equity

Style

corporate venture capital

URL

https://www.umi.co.jp

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.