Yohei Hiroi is a venture capital investor at Marunouchi Innovation Partners who spent two decades building real-asset and financial platforms for Mitsubishi Corporation across infrastructure, shipping, and real estate before moving into climate investing, including hands-on experience as Chief Operating Officer of a U.S. real estate company. He focuses specifically on deep decarbonization technologies like geothermal energy, ammonia-based power systems, and clean shipping fuels, while connecting Japanese strategic capital with global climate tech companies seeking industrial partners and market entry into Asia.
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Marunouchi Innovation Partners is a $720-744M climate tech growth fund backed by major Japanese corporates including Mitsubishi Corporation and MUFG Bank that specifically targets late-stage climate companies moving from technology validation into commercialization and scaling. The fund focuses on six defined climate tech pillars—next generation energy, renewable energy & grid, batteries & electrification, carbon removal, sustainable materials, and climate software—while leveraging its corporate backers' industrial networks to help portfolio companies access customers and deployment channels primarily in Japanese and Asian markets.
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