Itaru Shiraishi is a venture investor at Energy & Environment Investment who brings hands-on experience from carbon credit trading at Fortis/ABN Amro, renewable energy project development at Masdar, and setting up energy service company joint ventures at Marubeni across Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi, and Tokyo/Paris. Based in Europe, he serves as EEI's bridge between Japanese capital and European climate startups, combining his multi-regional climate and energy market experience with cross-border industrial energy business structuring skills that are uncommon among venture capitalists.
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Energy & Environment Investment is Japan's first venture capital fund exclusively focused on environment and energy since 2006, giving it an unusually long and specialized track record in climate and cleantech compared to peers in Japan and many global funds. The firm positions itself as an impact investment manager aiming to realize a sustainable society through startups in decarbonization, resource circulation, and resilience, with partners focusing on sectors where environmental contribution is central to the business model and can be tracked with clear metrics such as CO₂ reduction.
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