Universal Materials Incubator

Founder

Shosuke Kiba

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#Employee

#Fund

AUM (JPY)

¥33,600,000,000

Approved Date

Jun 30, 2023

Asset Class

Private Equity

Catalogue

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

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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Founded Year

2015

Style

corporate venture capital

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Jun 26, 2025 09:21 AM GMT+0

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.

Geography

Japan

Reviewed By

Hidekazu Ishida

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