MPower Partners

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Approved Date

Dec 9, 2025

Asset Class

Venture Capital

Catalogue

Company Name Japanese

MPower Partners

Description English

MPower Partners, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, employs a strategy centered on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) integration within a traditional VC framework. They focus on investing in mid- to late-stage startups that are leveraging technology to address significant societal challenges, such as healthcare, education, and sustainability. The firm's founders, Kathy Matsui, Yumiko Murakami, and Miwa Seki, leverage their extensive global networks to support portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on helping them build strong ESG practices to ensure long-term, sustainable growth and prepare for public markets. This approach makes MPower Japan's first VC firm to be explicitly focused on ESG and socially impactful investments.

Description Japanese

MPower Partners（エムパワー・パートナーズ）は、従来のベンチャーキャピタル投資にESG（環境、社会、ガバナンス）の原則を統合することを戦略の中心に据えています。同社は、ヘルスケア、教育、サステナビリティといった重要な社会課題をテクノロジーで解決しようとしているミドルからレイターステージのスタートアップに焦点を当てています。創設者のキャシー松井氏、村上由美子氏、関美和氏は、グローバルなネットワークを活用して投資先企業を支援し、長期的な持続的成長を確実なものにするため、そして上場に備えるために、ESGへの取り組みを構築する手助けをすることに特に力を入れています。このアプローチにより、MPowerは日本で初めてESGに特化したベンチャーキャピタルとなりました。

EMDB (Matching)

Founded Year

2021

Founder

Kathy Matsui

Founder BIO

With over 30 years of experience in finance, she previously served as Vice Chair and Chief Japan Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs Japan for 26 years. Matsui is widely recognized for her pioneering research on structural reforms in Japan, particularly her influential 1999 "Womenomics" report. This research played a crucial role in encouraging the Japanese government to prioritize gender diversity. She has also authored the book How to Nurture Female Employees. Matsui holds degrees from Harvard University and Johns Hopkins SAIS, and her extensive career has focused on driving forward key initiatives in corporate governance, sustainability, and diversity.

Geography

Japan

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Style

Sector focused (Femtech)

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