| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.08.2025 | Ultraviolette Secures $21M, Fuels Global EV Expansion | Ultraviolette, a pioneering Indian electric vehicle startup, has successfully secured $21 million in a strategic funding round. Japanese venture firm TDK Ventures spearheaded the investment. Existing backers like Zoho Corporation also parti... |
| 12.08.2025 | Ultraviolette raises $21M from TDK Ventures, others | Electric motorcycle manufacturer Ultraviolette Automotive on Tuesday raised $21 million, which included a strategic investment from Japanese deeptech investor TDK Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Tokyo exchange listed TDK Corp... |
| 12.08.2025 | EV startup Ultraviolette collects $21 mn from TDK Ventures, Zoho, others | Ultraviolette co-founders Narayan Subramaniam (left) and Niraj Rajmohan
Electric motorcycles maker Ultraviolette said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million (Rs 184 crore) in a funding round from Japanese venture capital firm TDK Ventures, ex... |
| 12.08.2025 | TDK Ventures Invests in Ultraviolette to Support Global Expansion of Electric Two-Wheelers Ultraviolette plans to use the funds to accelerate R&D in advanced battery platforms, scale manufacturing... | Japanese deep-tech investor TDK Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, has made a strategic investment in electric mobility company Ultraviolette as part of its latest USD 21 million funding round. The round also sa... |
| 12.08.2025 | Ultraviolette Raises $21M; Round Led by TDK Ventures | Ultraviolette, a Bangalore, India-based company which specializes in electric motorcycles, raised $21M in funding.
The round was led by TDK Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Co-... |
| 09.07.2025 | Tulum Energy: $27 Million Raised For Scaling Turquoise Hydrogen Technology | Tulum Energy, a methane pyrolysis startup, has announced the closure of a $27 million venture financing round. This significant investment, led by CDP Venture Capital (through its Green Transition Fund) and TDK Ventures and a global consort... |
| 08.07.2025 | Tulum Energy Raises $27M in Venture Financing | Tulum Energy, a Milan, Italy-based methane pyrolysis startup, closed a $27m venture financing round.
The round was led by CDP Venture Capital (through its Green Transition Fund) and TDK Ventures and a global consortium of investors includin... |
| 08.07.2025 | Tulum Energy Secures $27 Million in Venture Financing to Rapidly Scale Groundbreaking Turquoise Hydrogen Technology | Tulum Energy, a pioneering methane pyrolysis startup, has successfully closed a $27 million venture financing round. This significant investment was led by CDP Venture Capital (through its Green Transition Fund) and TDK Ventures and a globa... |
| 04.04.2025 | How Europe’s startup ecosystem is reacting to a new era of tariffs and trade tensions | For European tech founders, the return of aggressive US trade tariffs marks a moment of strategic recalibration.
A tariff is a government-imposed tax on imported goods or services. Tariffs are used to protect domestic industries, raise reve... |
| 12.04.2024 | India’s Exponent Energy brings 15-minute charging to passenger three-wheelers | India is getting an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that charges from 0 to 100% in 15 minutes. The launch of the new EV — a collaboration between auto manufacturer Omega Seiki Mobility and battery-tech startup Exponent Energy — com... |
| 10.04.2024 | Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Nicolas Sauvage
Due diligence has made a comeback. According to a study of 700 venture capital firms, a typical deal once took 83 days to complete. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours o... |
| 07.02.2024 | TDK Ventures invests in Singapore-based startup Amperesand to empower global electrification through solid state transformers | Amperesand's grid infrastructure solutions are powered by innovative solid-state transformer (SST) technology to enable efficient, intelligent, and resilient electrification
TDK Ventures invested in Amperesand because of their groundbreakin... |
| 04.01.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fasal bags $12m to expand precision farming operation, Danone offloads Horizon Organic | It’s been a quiet couple of weeks in agrifoodtech as we stagger into 2024, but there have been a few noteworthy developments since our last installment: Indian precision farming co Fasal bagged $12 million from TDK Ventures and British Inte... |
| 26.07.2023 | TDK Ventures invests in Infinite Uptime's Industry 5.0 digital intelligence platform | Infinite Uptime revolutionizes industrial applications with its state-of-the-art digital intelligence platform that provides real-time fault diagnostics and reliability monitoring for key mechanical equipment in an integrated, smart softwar... |
| 20.06.2023 | TDK Ventures Expands Into Europe To invest in Cleantech Startups | TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced today that subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc., its corporate venture capital arm, is expanding into the European market with plans to invest in startups in the region.
The company selected London as the site ... |
| 19.06.2023 | TDK Ventures expands into Europe; will use new $150-million Fund EX1 to invest in clean-tech startups | TDK Ventures selected London for its first European office
New $150-million (USD) multi limited-partner Fund EX1 (EX = energy transformation) will focus on both European and North American-based electrification and decarbonization startups
... |
| 22.05.2023 | TDK Ventures launches €138.6M fund to back energy, cleantech and climate tech startups in US and Europe | California-based TDK Ventures, a corporate venture capital firm that invests in impact scaling entrepreneurs, announced on Friday, May 19, that it has launched its third fund, Fund EX1, totalling $150M (approximately €138.61M) in new capita... |
| 22.05.2023 | USA-based TDK Ventures launches USD 150 million Fund EX1 | California, USA-based TDK Corporation’s subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc. launched its third fund of USD 150 million, Fund EX1. The company announced the launch on May 19, 2023. |
| 19.05.2023 | TDK Ventures Launches $150M Fund EX1 | TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced that its subsidiary TDK Ventures will launch its third fund, Fund EX1, totaling $150m in new capital.
Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), TDK’s Hong Kong-based lithium-ion rechargeable batteries specialis... |
| 19.05.2023 | TDK Ventures launches $150 million Fund EX1 to invest in energy and climate tech startups | EX in the new fund's name stands for energy transformation, signaling the focus for Fund EX1 on investing in early-stage energy, cleantech, and climate technology startups in the U.S. and Europe
Fund EX1 is TDK Ventures' first multi-LP fund... |
| 17.05.2022 | TDK Ventures Nicolas Sauvage recognized in Top 20 of Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 2022 | SAN JOSE, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced today that subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc. President Nicolas Sauvage has been recognized for the third consecutive year on the Global Corporate Venturing (GCV... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| 17.03.2022 | TDK Ventures presents DX Week 2022, a thought leadership forum on digital transformation | DX Week 2022: Where the Analog World Meets the Digital World
An online gathering of entrepreneurs, academia, government, scientists, venture capitalists, and visionaries at the forefront of digital transformation (DX)
Five two-hour sessions... |
| 01.03.2022 | Starship brings in $100 million in last 30 days to expand autonomous delivery in Europe and US | As the delivery industry driven by autonomous robots expands, Tallinn-founded company Starship Technologies has raised $100 million in the last 30 days to expand its offerings in Europe and the U.S.
The recent $42 million funding round led ... |
| 10.02.2022 | TDK Ventures Invests in Green Hydrogen-Electrolysis Startup Verdagy | – Moss Landing, CA. startup Verdagy brings scalability and technological innovation to the green hydrogen-electrolysis market, which is expected to break $53 billion by 2030
– Verdagy combines their scalability with unprecedented capital co... |
| 09.02.2022 | Verdagy closes funding round led by TDK Ventures and joined by hydrogen and renewable energy leaders across four continents. | MOSS LANDING, Calif., Feb. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Verdagy announced today the closing of a $25MM funding round led by TDK Ventures. Syndicate members represent leaders in a wide range of industries focused on the use of green hydrogen and ... |
| 09.02.2022 | TDK : Ventures Invests in Green Hydrogen-Electrolysis Startup Verdagy | Press Release
February 9th, 2022
TDK Ventures Invests in Green Hydrogen-Electrolysis Startup Verdagy
Moss Landing, CA. startup Verdagy brings scalability and technological innovation to the green hydrogen-electrolysis market, which is exp... |
| 08.02.2022 | Hydrogen production without CO2 is getting a boost with new tech from Verdagy | Hydrogen pioneers Verdagy — from “verde” for green, and “agy” for energy — raised $25 million from a fistful of strategic investors in the energy sector in a bid to take a messy, not-that-environmentally-friendly process of making hydrogen ... |
| 20.12.2021 | TDK : Ventures backs Faction, the scalable driverless transportation startup | Press Release
December 20th, 2021
TDK Ventures backs Faction, the scalable driverless transportation startup
San Francisco-based driverless vehicle developer Faction reimagines urban transportation and micro-logistics with the development... |
| 20.12.2021 | Faction Announces Funding from TDK Ventures | Faction Technology, Inc. - Faction today announced an investment from TDK Ventures, Inc., a subsidiary of TDK Corporation (TSE:6762). Faction is taking a unique approach to both driverless technology and lightweight vehicle systems that can... |
| 30.11.2021 | actnano Inc. Announces Oversubscribed $21.75 Million Series B Funding | actnano, Inc., a global leader in surface protection technologies for automotive and consumer electronics, announced today the close of an oversubscribed $21.75 million Series B financing led by BMW i Ventures. Additional new investors incl... |
| 30.11.2021 | TDK : Ventures backs innovative nanomaterials coating technology company, actnano | Press Release
November 30th, 2021
TDK Ventures backs innovative nanomaterials coating technology company, actnano
Cambridge-based startup actnano, Inc. is a nanomaterials company that develops smart coating solutions to protect a variety ... |
| 22.11.2021 | AutoFlight Lands $100M (USD) Investment in Series A Funding from Team Global and Its Founder Lukasz Gadowski | SHANGHAI and BERLIN, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AutoFlight, a global electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) startup specializing in developing and manufacturing autonomous aerial vehicles, announces a $100M (USD) Series A investm... |
| 09.11.2021 | TDK Ventures backs MEMS-based genome editing tools company, Mekonos | SAN JOSE, Calif. , Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced today that subsidiary TDK Ventures, Inc., has invested in biotech tools company Mekonos to accelerate the development and deployment of Mekonos' integrate... |
| 30.09.2021 | TDK : Ventures presents Energy Week 2021, a thought leadership forum on energy transformation | Press Release
September 29th, 2021
TDK Ventures presents Energy Week 2021, a thought leadership forum on energy transformation
Over thirty top leaders in the battery and energy fields set to share their insights on how the energy industry... |
| 20.09.2021 | TDK : Ventures invests in seed round for dry lithium-ion electrode manufacturing startup, AM Batteries | Press Release
September 20th, 2021
TDK Ventures invests in seed round for dry lithium-ion electrode manufacturing startup, AM Batteries
AM Batteries (AMB) is a Boston-based, seed-stage additive manufacturing company focusing on the lithiu... |
| 12.04.2021 | TDK Ventures Closes $150M Fund II | TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762)’s venture capital subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc. has closed its second fund, totaling $150m in new capital.
The new fund will primarily target early-stage, global investments in:
clean technology,
advanced material... |
| 12.04.2021 | TDK CORPORATION
TDK : Ventures Closes $150 Million Fund for Early-Stage, Materials Science and Hard-Tech Startups | TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced today that subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc. has closed its second fund, totaling $150 million in new capital. The new fund will primarily target early-stage, global investments in clean technology, advanced... |
| 04.02.2021 | TDK : Ventures invests in Metalenz, pioneer in high-performance optical metalenses | Press Release
February 4th, 2021
TDK Ventures invests in Metalenz, pioneer in high-performance optical metalenses
Metalenz manufactures a breakthrough, high-performance miniaturized flat lens technology that transforms light in a myriad o... |
| 23.08.2020 | San Francisco based MedTech startup Exo raises USD 40M in series B funding | San Francisco based MedTech start-up, Exo which develops new diagnostics hardware for the medical industry announced on 20th August 2020, that it has secured USD 40M in series B funding round as investors are backing the start-ups which red... |
| 21.04.2020 | TDK Ventures Invests in Biomagnetic Medical Imaging Company Genetesis | Magnetocardiography (MCG) based technology company, Genetesis, is TDK Ventures’ fifth investment from its $50 million venture fund, and first in the healthcare space.
Ohio-based Genetesis develops advanced medical imaging solutions for card... |
| 01.02.2020 | AutoFlightX Receives Investment from TDK Ventures | AutoFlightX, a Munich, Germany-based electric air mobility company, received an investment from TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) subsidiary TDK Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by CEO and founder Tian Yu, AutoFlightX is an... |
| 30.01.2020 | TDK Ventures invests in electric air mobility company AutoFlightX | An electric vertical take-off and landing company, AutoFlightX is TDK Ventures’ fourth investment from their $50 million CVC fund.
AutoFlightX is an eVTOL air-cargo and air-taxi company headquartered in Munich, with R&D centers in Shang... |
| 22.01.2020 | TDK Ventures invests in GaN laser light pioneer SLD Laser | TDK Ventures makes third investment from $50 million fund in SLD Laser, a GaN materials pioneer commercializing the next generation of visible laser light sources for automotive, mobility, medical, LiFi communication, sensing, specialty lig... |
| 20.08.2019 | TDK Ventures invests in first portfolio company Starship Technologies | TDK Ventures makes first investment from $50 million fund in autonomous delivery service startup, Starship Technologies, as a result of its innovative technology, growth trajectory and high customer satisfaction.
Starship Technologies will ... |
| 01.07.2019 | TDK Announces Corporate Venture Entity to Invest in Early Stage Material Science Technologies and Companies | TDK Corporation to establish a corporate venture, TDK Ventures, Inc.
TDK Ventures will focus its investments on technologies and solutions that embrace digital and energy transformation towards a sustainable future.
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINE... |
| 01.07.2019 | TDK launches $50 million corporate venture fund for material science technologies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
TDK announced that it has established TDK Venture... |
| 01.07.2019 | TDK launches $50 million corporate venture fund for material science technologies | TDK announced that it has established TDK Ventures as a $50 million corporate venture capital fund to invest in early-stage startups in material science, energy and power, and related areas, such as semiconductors.
These kinds of hardware c... |
| 01.07.2019 | TDK Launches $50M Corporate Venture Entity TDK Ventures | TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762), an electronics company based in Tokyo, Japan, established a new corporate venture company (CVC) TDK Ventures, Inc.
Established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDK Corporation with an initial fund size of $50m, T... |
| - | Starship brings in $100 million in last 30 days to expand autonomous delivery in Europe and US | As the delivery industry driven by autonomous robots expands, Tallinn-founded company Starship Technologies has raised $100 million in the last 30 days to expand its offerings in Europe and the U.S.
The recent $42 million funding round led ... |
| - | Reducing Global Dependence on Fossil Fuels: TDK Ventures Invests in E-Fuel Company INERATEC | TDK Ventures, a subsidiary of TDK USA Corporation – through its new energy transformation Fund Ex1 – has participated in a Series B funding round that raised more than $129 million for INERATEC, a pioneering e-fuel company.
Orrick represent... |
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