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Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital

Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital portfolio

Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital has 2 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: asahikaseiventures.com.

Type: Corporate venture.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 2.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $81M.

Latest deal: Koya Medical · Feb 3, 2022.

About this page

It is a corporate venture investor based in Menlo Park, US, founded in 2008. Its most recent investment on record is Koya Medical's $26M Series B+ round in February 2022, alongside 3×5 Partners, Scientific Health Development Partners, Arboretum Ventures and 1 other. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (1) and Commerce and retail (1). It has co-invested with Arboretum Ventures, 3×5 Partners and Scientific Health Development Partners.

About Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital

Firm type: Corporate venture.

Headquarters: Menlo Park, US.

Founded: 2008.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage.

Sectors: Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Construction Tech, Digital Health, Energy, Hardware, Healthtech, IoT, Medical Devices, New Materials.

Check size: $500K to $3M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 2.

Exits: 0.

Rounds led: 0.

What Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital invests in

Health and bio · 1 · 50%
Commerce and retail · 1 · 50%
Media and content · 1 · 50%

How Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	1 50%	$55M
Series B+	1 50%	$26M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2021	1 50%	$55M
2022	1 50%	$26M

Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital portfolio companies

KKoya Medical$26MSeries B+ · Feb 2022
FFirework$55MSeries A · Mar 2021

Company	Round with Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital	Total raised	Latest raise
KKoya Medical Health and bio	Feb 3, 2022 Series B+ · $26M	$56M	Nov 15, 2023 round
FFirework Commerce and retail	Mar 23, 2021 Series A · $55M	$205M	May 24, 2022 Series B+

Most frequent co-investors

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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/asahi-kasei-corporate-venture-capital (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.