For over 70 years Sony has been relentlessly innovating technology, content and services. With the creation of Sony Innovation Fund in 2016, we are now investing in companies to journey along with us.
Sony Innovation Fund is dedicated to engaging with promising early-stage companies. Beyond investment, our mission is to provide access to the broader Sony world and its global network and collaborate with startups to:
• Foster business creation in new and existing areas of interest to Sony
• Catalyze a talented and passionate team
• Develop innovative and scalable technology
• Explore new and emerging ecosystems
Our investment criteria:
• Funding: Seed, Series-A, Series-B round or similar funding stages
• Geographies: US, Europe, Israel, Japan
• Areas of Interest: Consumer and Enterprise-facing businesses, including but
not limited to:
• Platform and Service offerings across verticals
• Entertainment and Gaming
• Lifestyle, Health and Wellness
• Industrial, Manufacturing, Mobility, Agriculture & Logistics
• Financial Technology (Fintech)
• Enabling Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: core algorithms,
recognition technologies, service platforms
• Drones and Robotics: structural and embedded technologies,
control systems, management platforms
• Sensors and IoT: sensing hardware, middleware, connectivity
• Immersion and Visualization: virtual reality / augmented reality /
mixed reality
• Next-generation devices: display, security, biometrics, haptics
Sony Innovation Fund is dedicated to engaging with promising early-stage companies. Beyond investment, our mission is to provide access to the broader Sony world and its global network and collaborate with startups to:
• Foster business creation in new and existing areas of interest to Sony
• Catalyze a talented and passionate team
• Develop innovative and scalable technology
• Explore new and emerging ecosystems
Our investment criteria:
• Funding: Seed, Series-A, Series-B round or similar funding stages
• Geographies: US, Europe, Israel, Japan
• Areas of Interest: Consumer and Enterprise-facing businesses, including but
not limited to:
• Platform and Service offerings across verticals
• Entertainment and Gaming
• Lifestyle, Health and Wellness
• Industrial, Manufacturing, Mobility, Agriculture & Logistics
• Financial Technology (Fintech)
• Enabling Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: core algorithms,
recognition technologies, service platforms
• Drones and Robotics: structural and embedded technologies,
control systems, management platforms
• Sensors and IoT: sensing hardware, middleware, connectivity
• Immersion and Visualization: virtual reality / augmented reality /
mixed reality
• Next-generation devices: display, security, biometrics, haptics
Location: Japan, Tokyo
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 21.09.2024 | Pictoria?? | pictoria.co.jp | - | Japan, Tok... |
| 21.09.2024 | 3DC | 3dc.co.jp | - | - |
| 21.09.2024 | Woodstock | woodstock.club | - | Japan, Min... |
| 21.09.2024 | UTAITE | utaite.co.jp | - | - |
| 21.03.2024 | Jabali | jabali-ai-2.webflow.io | - | - |
| 21.03.2024 | Oncoustics | oncoustics.com | $6M | Canada, On... |
| 19.02.2024 | Cambridge ... | cambridgemechatronics.com | $40M | - |
| 08.02.2024 | Carry1st | carry1st.com | $55.5M | South Afri... |
| 10.01.2024 | Zyla Healt... | zyla.in | - | India, Har... |
| 29.11.2023 | Sinaptica ... | sinapticatx.com | - | - |
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| 08.01.2024 | Exclusive: Venrock ups its find size for the first time in a decade, raising $650M for tenth fund | It was mid-December as Venrock partner Bryan Roberts waltzed into one of the conference rooms of the venture capital firm he’s been running since 2007—his German Shepherd close at his heels with a tennis ball. When I asked how he’s been, he... |
| 09.10.2023 | Sony Ventures, Interview With Gen Tsuchikawa and Austin Noronha | Sony Ventures Corporation was established in 2016 to manage all of Sony’s venture investment activities through Sony Innovation Fund (SIF), Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, a joint venture with Daiwa Capital Holdings, Sony Innovation Fund: Envi... |
| 24.08.2023 | Sony Innovation Fund adds $500K to Scriptic's Seed round | Sony Innovation Fund has topped up Scriptic’s Seed fund with a $500,000 investment bringing the company’s total seed round to a close at $8.7 million. The UK-based media tech firm's latest funding announcement was in June when it raised $5.... |
| 24.08.2023 | UK’s Scriptic raises €5.7M in second close of seed round for AI-powered phone-first interactive shows | Read this article in: London-based Scriptic, a studio developing interactive phone-first shows and pioneering creative apps of generative AI in entertainment, announced on Thursday that it has secured $6.2M (approximately €5.7M) in the seco... |
| 06.07.2023 | 15 investors lift the lid on the biggest surprises of H1 2023 | The first half of 2023 hasn’t been kind to startups, but venture capital investors weren’t spared migraines either. Some VCs had a tough time of it, with their portfolio companies finding it hard to fundraise, while others dialed back their... |
| 02.07.2023 | 15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023 | As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year. As expected, it appears a good mix of investors w... |
| 05.06.2023 | 6 investors explain why they are bullish about Japan’s startup scene despite an uncertain economy | Thinking of Japan often evokes notions of bleeding-edge tech mixed with deep tradition and culture. The country’s startups, however, haven’t seen the sort of growth that upstart tech companies in other parts of the world have. There are sig... |
| 24.05.2023 | Sony Innovation Fund Joins Largest UK Quantum Investment in Second Close of Quantum Motion’s Funding Round | Sony Innovation Fund is making its first investment in quantum computing with Quantum Motion LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 24, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Sony Innovation Fund has become the latest high-profile investor to back Quantum Motion, ... |
| 25.04.2023 | Indian media startup Lokal raises $14.6m from Global Brain, Sony Innovation Fund | Bengaluru-headquartered Lokal, a hyperlocal content, community, and classified platform, on Tuesday announced that it has raised about $14.6 million (Rs 120 crore) in its Series B funding round from new investors Global Brain and Sony Innov... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
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