Taiki Hino serves as a Principal at Energy & Environment Investment, a specialist Japanese VC focused on energy and environment, and previously co-founded and served as Managing Director of BIG Impact, Inc., giving him both hands-on founder experience and venture investing expertise. He has moved between investing and building companies rather than following a traditional linear VC career path, and actively participates in the startup ecosystem as a judge in competitions like GRIC PITCH.
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Energy, Climate, Transportation, Logistics, Deeptech / Hardware
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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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