日本与欧洲：新兴科技联盟：日本对欧洲初创企业及风险投资领域的投资

Japanese investments in theEuropean startups and venturecapital sector November 2025 1Europe & Japan: A Strategic Tech Partnership 2Japanese investments in Europe Japan andEurope havestrong economicties, with nearly€200 billion ofbilateral trade ingoods andservices Europe and Japan boast powerful tech alliances spanning key industries Mobility Robotics Biotech & Pharma Neura Robotics collaborates with KawasakiRobotics to develop next-generation cobots andwith Omron to promote cognitive robots for factoryautomation. The UK Atomic Energy Authority andJapanʼs Fukushima Institute for Research,Education and Innovation are co-developingrobotics for harsh environments including nucleardecommissioning. Wayve opened a testing and development centre inJapan to adapt its autonomous driving software tolocal road environments, following investmentfrom SoftBank and a partnership with Nissan.Toyotaʼs KINTO uses Greater Thanʼs predictive riskanalytics and behavioral insights for their carsharing services. Takeda acquired Adaptate Biotherapeutics andGammaDelta Therapeutics, while Astellas investedin PhoreMost. Through these collaborations, bothTakeda and Astellas aims to strengthen theirdevelopment in advanced oncology and anticancerdrug technologies. Energy Space Quantum Skovgaard Energy and Sumitomo are producingsustainable aviation fuel, while Octopus Energy andTokyo Gas collaborate to grow renewable retail inJapan. Skeleton Technologies partners withMarubeni, which invested and became the exclusivedistributor of its SuperBattery, supporting Japanʼsshift toward next-generation energy and storagetechnologies. IQM partners with TOYO Corporation to distributetheir quantum computers in Japan, whileQuantinuum works with Mitsui & Co. on distributionin Japan and Asia-Pacific and jointly developsquantum applications. Fujitsu and Toshiba maintainEuropean R&D centres to drive practical quantumcomputing innovations. JAXA and ESA continue over 40 years of cooperation,with recent joint missions including Moon and Marsexploration. Demonstrating growing ties, ESA plans toopen its first Asian office in Tokyo. ICEYE partnerswith Tokio Marine, combining radar satellite data withinsurance expertise to create innovative risk anddisaster-management solutions. Europe hascreated a verystrong startupecosystem with2.1x moreVC-backedstartups and 4.3xmore unicornsper capita thanJapan This is is drivingJapan's interestinto theEuropeanstartup scene Why Japan looks to Europe for innovation andinvestment is clear: Europe has become thelaunchpad where frontier ideas meet realmarkets, while Japan offers the industrial depthto scale them globally.“ Japanese investors are turning their eyes to Europe with growing intensityeach year, especially across deep tech, AI, and climate tech. This is notcapital tourism; Japan has a long tradition of building enduring partnershipsrather than one-off transactions. Add the growing EU–Japan alignment intechnology and security, from semiconductors to energy, space, androbotics, and we see a rare window to turn cross-border collaboration intolasting strategic advantage. When Europeʼs entrepreneurial drive meets Japanʼs engineering excellenceand industrial networks, scalable and resilient solutions emerge. AtNordicNinja, we exist to make that bridge tangible, turning collaboration intolong-term impact innovations.” Tomosaku SoharaCo-Founder and Managing Partnerat Nordic Ninja 1Europe & Japan: A Strategic Tech Partnership2Japanese investments in Europe €3.5B worth ofdeals inEuropeanstartups in 2024had links withJapan Since 2024, ~6% of VCinvestment in Europeinvolved Japanese capital The top roundswith Japaneseinvestors havebeen in DeepTech sectors 70% of thefunding fromJapaneseinvestors andJapanese-backedfunds went intoDeeptech and AIin 2024 This share is nearly 2xhigher than what it was atits last all time high in 2021 Resilience funding has alsoseen a strong growth 2024 saw arecord of earlyand breakoutstage deals withJapaneseinvestorsparticipation Japaneseinvestors havebacked early andbreakout-stagerounds across adiverse range ofsectors Deep Tech,Climate Tech andAI attracted themost funding byJapaneseinvestors since2024 Deep Tech is also thelargest segments since2019, followed by ClimateTech Fintech saw notableactivity in the past yearsbut dropped strongly in theranks recently, mirroringbroader market sentiment View 270+ European Deep Tech startups backed by Japaneseinvestors and Japanese-backed funds Europe–Japan partnerships driving global innovation Japanese Partnership: Varjo, a world leader in mixed reality headsets from Finland, istransforming simulation across industries, saving time, money, andresource. Honda designs vehicles more efficiently by replacingtraditional physical prototypes with virtual models created throughVarjoʼs headsets. Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storagesolutions from the United Kingdom, has been actively expanding itspresence