Monozukuri Ventures
Japan/North America VC backing pre-seed to early-stage hardware and deep tech startups
🇯🇵 Kyoto · Founded 2015
Checks $100K – $1M·Pre-seed to Series A·Co-invests
Monozukuri Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Kyoto, Japan and New York, with additional presence in Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area. Formed through the merger of Kyoto-based Darma Tech Labs and New York-based FabFoundry, it invests in hardware and deep tech startups and also runs a hands-on team supporting prototyping, mass production and business development.
What they invest in
We invest in hardware and deep tech startups, primarily focusing on robotics and physical AI.
- Check size
- $100K – $1M
- Stage
- Pre-seed to Series A
- Role in a round
- Co-invests
- Fund
- Monozukuri Ventures Fund II
- Closed 2022
- Robotics
- AI hardware
- IoT
- Clean energy
- Healthcare devices
- North America
- Japan
- Asia-Pacific
How to pitch
They read inbound pitches that match the criteria above.
Open to
- Pitches from founders
- Mentoring founders
- Co-investment
Portfolio
Around 55-70 investments since 2017, mostly pre-seed and seed hardware and deep tech startups across robotics, IoT, AI hardware, healthcare and clean energy in the US, Canada and Japan.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 24 companies · 2018–2026 · 1 exit
Sectors
- Robotics21%
- Hardware8%
- Smart home8%
- Software8%
- Other54%
Stage when they invested
- Seed75%
- Series A13%
- Series B8%
- Growth4%
Where the companies are
- 🇺🇸 United States67%
- 🇯🇵 Japan33%
Compiled from the fund's own portfolio page and PitchBook, Crunchbase, Tracxn, as of Oct 2026. Full list likely larger.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
