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
5
#Employee
33
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.
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51