Universal Materials Incubator

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Universal Materials Incubator is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the materials, chemical, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors.

Yoshitaka Gunji

Principal

Wataru Mizutani

Principal

Sayuri Nonaka

Principal

Kazuko Sato

Principal

Yosuke Yamamoto

Director

Past deals in Industrial Engineering

iMicrobes

Seed Round in 2024
Industrial Microbes designs and builds microbes that produce better chemicals with lower costs and lower carbon emissions. We use greenhouse gases as the raw materials, including biogas, natural gas, and carbon dioxide. We scale our process with global chemical producers.

Listie

Seed Round in 2024
Listie is an industrial engineering company specializing in the development, supply, and maintenance of lithium separation equipment and membranes. Its core technology, an ionic conductor, facilitates efficient and selective lithium recovery from diverse sources like used batteries and salt lakes, supporting a sustainable energy system.
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