Monozukuri Ventures

We Make Hardware Startups Together. Empowering people to build high-quality products. For startup founders, it takes more than funding to bridge the gap between idea and product/market fit. With our unique way of supporting startups with manufacturing needs, we partner with startups for the long term and work hand-in-glove with our portfolio every step of the way to grow their businesses. Monozukuri Ventures (former Makers Boot Camp) is an early stage VC focused on hardware startup investments in the US & Japan. Our mission is to help the world’s entrepreneurs deliver high-quality products to the market, regardless of production volume. As a global ecosystem contributor, we provide founders with essential resources such as investment, mentorship, prototyping know-how, manufacturing expertise, and community support. To achieve this ambitious goal, we stress the importance of Monozukuri, the art of making things in a creative way. Although known as a traditional practice of manufacturing in Japan, Monozukuri enables us to create new values by fusing two opposite ideas integrated into harmony, such as old and new, East and West, hardware and software, and historical and modern. Based in historical Kyoto City and modern New York City, Monozukuri Ventures empowers talented and diverse people to build tangible solutions to create a better future.

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Industries:

Advanced Materials

Industrial

Manufacturing

Drones

Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

Marine Technology

National Security

Consulting

Embedded Software

Insurance

InsurTech

Logistics

Software Engineering

Transportation

Communications Infrastructure

Hardware

Information Technology

Software

Internet of Things

Machine Learning

Semiconductor

EdTech

Education

Beauty

Wellness

Consumer Electronics

Health Care

Medical Device

Personal Health

Wearables

Investor Types:

Venture Capital

Investment Stages:

Seed

Early Stage Venture

Location: Japan