Hitachi Ventures is committed to investing in pioneering companies that create breakthrough solutions where scientific innovation and environmental impact converge, addressing critical challenges in decarbonization, circular economy, and planetary boundaries. Through strategic partnerships with forward-thinking entrepreneurs, we aim to reshape humanity’s relationship with the planet while creating economically viable technologies that deliver tangible environmental impact without relying on subsidies.
Areas of interest include: vertical AI solutions in climate, energy transition, circular economy enablers, sustainable transport, sustainable supply chains, and industrial decarbonization.
We look for:

Economically Viable:
We invest in technologies winning market share through efficiency, not subsidies.

Sustainable Performance:
We prioritize solutions that increase performance, lower cost, and enhance resource efficiency, delivering tangible environmental impact.

Global Champions:
We partner with companies driving breakthrough innovations to redefine their industries and lead their categories.
Make nuclear cheap enough to safely power the world’s clean energy needs
Aalo Atomics is pioneering the next generation of nuclear energy with factory-fabricated, extra-modular reactors. These reactors, which can be stacked together, are designed to be safe, efficient, and capable of decarbonizing anything from small data centers to cities, aiming to provide affordable, clean energy.
CEO
Matt Loszak
Sectors
Environment
Industrial
Stage
Series A
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Matt Morris
Grace Mathis
The AI-powered industrial surplus markeplace
Amplio’s AI-enabled marketplace enables manufacturers to sell surplus inventory at fair market prices while helping buyers access discounted, essential parts quickly and confidently. This investment aligns perfectly with Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and efficiency, offering a turnkey solution for managing surplus inventory. Amplio is revolutionizing the supply chain landscape, making it more resilient, transparent, and profitable.
CEO
Trey Closson
Sectors
Environment
Industrial
Stage
Series A
HQ
Georgia
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Grace Mathis
Matt Morris
Somil Singh
Sustainable closed-loop Battery Recycling returning active battery materials back into the supply chain
Developer of a battery resources technology designed to provide sustainable, closed-loop battery materials systems. The company’s EV battery recycling to commercial-scale production of lithium carbonate, NMC precursor (pCAM), and cathode active materials (CAM), Ascend Elements is revolutionizing the production of sustainable lithium-ion battery materials, enabling clients to have a good return on assets to drive recycling and low-cost battery materials economically.
CEO
Mike O’Kronley
Sectors
Environment
Industrial
Stage
Series D
HQ
Massachusettes
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
Global ratings agency and risk analytics for the global voluntary carbon market (VCM)
BeZero is the carbon ratings agency. Its ratings and risk products equip world-leading organisations with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make better climate decisions. Its aim is to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future.
CEO
Tommy Ricketts
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series B
HQ
London
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
Captura specializes in direct ocean carbon capture, employing technology and leveraging the ocean’s natural carbon removal capabilities.
Developer of Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology, which removes CO₂ directly from seawater using a proprietary electrodialysis method. This process leverages the ocean’s natural carbon absorption capabilities, powered by renewable energy, to produce a pure CO₂ stream that can be sequestered or used to create low-carbon products. The system is designed to be scalable and environmentally friendly, with no additives or by-products.
CEO
Steve Oldham
Sectors
Environment
HQ
California
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Jan Marchewski
Creating a Circular Economy for Rare Earth Elements
Cyclic Materials creates a circular supply chain for rare earth elements and other materials critical to supporting the energy transition. They provide solutions for recycling of magnet-containing products made from critical minerals, enabling the creation of a domestic supply chain for REEs through an economic and sustainable magnet recycling process.
CEO
Ahmad Ghahreman
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series B
HQ
Ontario
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Jan Marchewski
Elena Ballesteros
Aerial Robotics that increase grid capacity and automate power line construction
Infravision is an integrated aerial robotics platform featuring custom drones, an electric tensioner unit, and intelligent software / communications that automates and controls the power line stringing process with high precision, significantly enhancing safety, speed, and efficiency over traditional methods.
CEO
Cameron Van Der Berg
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series B
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Grace Mathis
Matt Morris
Somil Singh
Tobias Graf
AI & Data Platform powering sustainable product and supply chain decisions.
Makersite is a pioneering Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform that helps product teams to manage product sustainability, supply chain risk, cost, and compliance in real-time, all in one place. Makersite combines manufacturers’ product and supply chain data, held within multiple systems, with our own data foundation made up of 140 material, process and supplier databases to create a digital twin of their products and their supply chain, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively so that they can design, source and manufacture better products up to 50x faster than traditional methods. With a global workforce and a customer base including Microsoft, Schaeffler, Cummins and Vestas, Makersite’s goal is simple: Make better products, faster.
CEO
Neil D’Souza
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series A
HQ
Stuttgart, Germany
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
Biomanufacturing Platform optimizing Algae to produce high-value compounds in a sustainable way.
Developer of methane reduction technology using Asparagopsis, an algae-based feed additive, to cut livestock methane emissions by up to 95%. Their proprietary Precision Photosynthesis™ process ensures high-quality, sustainable production, making it a game-changer for reducing the environmental impact of cattle farming.
CEO
Nusqe Spanton
Sectors
Environment
Industrial
Stage
Pre-Series A
HQ
Australia
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Enzymatic plastic recycling plastics back to their original chemical building blocks.
Revolutionary enzymatic technology platform designed to infinitely recycle plastic waste. Samsara’s tech is capable of breaking down plastic into its core molecules in minutes, regardless of color, type and state. The monomers can then be reused again as virgin equivalent inputs in new plastics or upcycled to more valuable commodities.
CEO
Paul Riley
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series A
HQ
Sydney
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Jan Marchewski
Agriculture intelligence company offering high precision aerial surveillance imagery to prevent crop yield loss.
Developer of an AI-powered crop analytics platform designed to unlock demand intelligence for agribusiness. The company’s platform uses computer vision, data science, and deep learning algorithms to make informed decisions by detecting early symptoms of weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease or insect infestations, water damage, and machinery problems, enabling farmers to acquire accurate insights to address issues while increasing yields.
CEO
Opher Flohr
Sectors
Digital
Environment
Stage
Series D
HQ
California
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Developer of a fusion energy system intended to create a limitless source of zero-emission power for a sustainable future with an improved stellarator approach.
Thea is a planar coil stellarator design revolutionizing fusion through arrays of planar magnets that enable new ways of designing, manufacturing, and dynamically controlling stellarators to achieve commercial fusion in a cost-competitive way.
CEO
Brian Berzin
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series A
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Tobias Jahn
Elena Ballesteros
Tobias Graf
Tibo manages network congestion, saves energy costs and reduces emissions with smart grid management
AI-driven, cloud-native Energy Management System (EMS) for commercial and industrial sites. Their platform—powered by an engine called “Alice”—simulates and optimises local energy use across solar, batteries, EV chargers, and more, enabling real-time flexibility, cost savings, and smooth electrification even amid grid constraints.
CEO
Remco Eikhout
Sectors
Digital
Environment
Stage
Seed
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Elena Ballesteros
Edoardo Stazio
Eduardo Stazio
Next-generation tech to enhance methane production by breaking down diverse waste(water) streams.
WASE’s Electro-Methanogenic Reactor, using proprietary membrane-less electrode technology with a biofilm, efficiently breaks down diverse waste streams. It’s applicable to wastewater treatment and the Anaerobic digestion sector, generating net energy and producing methane-rich biogas.
CEO
Thomas Fudge
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Seed
HQ
Bristol
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Elena Ballesteros
Grace Mathis
Environment Team