Universal Materials Incubator
#Employee
33
#Fund
5
Approved Date
30/6/2023
Asset Class
Private Equity
Catalogue
Catalogue
Company Name Japanese
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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
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EMDB (Matching)
EMDB (Matching)
Founded Year
2015
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.
No.
141
Style
corporate venture capital
URL
umi.co.jp