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TDK Ventures invests globally in early-stage hard-tech entrepreneurs and works intimately with them to help scale their impact. Join our team and scale your VC career by serving the next Impact Scalers.

Your VC job: help start-up companies achieve their dreams

TDK Ventures is looking for talented, driven individuals to join our VC team. If the thought of helping innovative start-up companies achieve their dreams appeals to you, we need to talk. With presence in Silicon Valley, Boston, Tokyo and soon India and China, TDK Ventures offers you the opportunity to work with other motivated and exceptional individuals in helping to make the world a better place.

Be a part of a corporate venture capital group that is leading in sustainability and social value. Join a team whose heritage includes an 85-years proven track-record of solving the hardest problems.

Position Open

TDK Ventures is looking for an Investment Director to join its investing team to deep-dive into world-changing technologies and solutions. TDK Ventures is an award-winning corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of TDK Corporation, with $350M AUM deploying across three funds. Most recently, TDK Ventures raised a multi-LP fund named Fund EX1 (EX = energy transformation) focused on investing in pathbreaking startups in the electrification, decarbonization arena within North America and Europe (link).

The investment team within TDK Ventures is focused on building unique and deep insights, and this relentless quest for quality insights is inspired by our commitment to making better bets on the future. Our guiding investment principle is supporting entrepreneurs who are dedicated to making the world a better place.

 

Position Open

TDK Ventures is seeking a deeply technical and highly effective program manager to support its portfolio of entrepreneurs. The Portfolio Program Associate will apply deep technical knowledge, partnerships building, and program management skills to the core investment areas of focus for TDK Ventures in Renewable Energy, Materials Technologies, Cleantech, Industry 5.0, Mobility, Computing & Connectivity. This is an exciting opportunity to work with an award-winning, top-tier Corporate Venture Capital fund in Silicon Valley. TDK Ventures continues to pioneer corporate venturing with “TDK Goodness” to entrepreneurs in the deep-tech space. Currently, TDK Ventures is investing with $200M AUM and is backed by TDK Corporation – a Japanese electronics conglomerate.

Reporting to the Portfolio Program Manager, the Portfolio Program Associate will work closely with the TDK Ventures team, to engage with startups all around the world, understand deeply their key technologies and solutions and support detailed exploration of collaborative synergies with global TDK teams and assist in program management of the projects from start to finish. The goal is to explore, identify, secure, and track mutual value creation between the startups and TDK. This position’s responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Position Open

TDK Ventures is currently seeking a Financial Analyst. This is an exciting opportunity to work with award-winning top-tier Corporate Venture Capital fund in Silicon Valley. The Financial Analyst is responsible for supporting the Financial Principal with Financial Modelling of prospective investment opportunities, Financial Performance Management of TDK Ventures Portfolio, ongoing accounting support, financial statement preparation, and Financial Compliance. The role is central to TDK Ventures’ investment conclusions, involves liaising with the most innovative hard-tech startups in the world, as well as internal TDK teams.

 

Position Open

TDK Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of TDK Corporation, and invests in startups to bolster innovation in materials science, energy/power and related areas typically underrepresented in venture capital portfolios. Established in 2019 as a wholly owned subsidiary of TDK Corporation with dedicated funds, the corporate venture company’s vision is to propel the digital, energy and environmental transformations of segments such as Cleantech, Energy, Materials, Industrial, Mobility and Medical and the wider IoT/IIoT markets. TDK Ventures invests globally in early stage hard-tech entrepreneurs to help accelerate their dreams, and serves our portfolio companies by bringing the full “TDK Goodness” to them, including technical expertise and access to global markets where TDK operates. We believe in a sustainable world where digital, energy and environmental transformations will improve billions of lives. Our mission is to help accelerate learning and contributions to society, investing in start-ups with similar idealism.

Position Open

TDK Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of TDK Corporation, and invests in startups to bolster innovation in materials science, energy/power and related areas typically underrepresented in venture capital portfolios. Established in 2019 as a wholly owned subsidiary of TDK Corporation with dedicated funds, the corporate venture company’s vision is to propel the digital, energy and environmental transformations of segments such as Cleantech, Energy, Materials, Industrial, Mobility and Medical and the wider IoT/IIoT markets. TDK Ventures invests globally in early stage hard-tech entrepreneurs to help accelerate their dreams, and serves our portfolio companies by bringing the full “TDK Goodness” to them, including technical expertise and access to global markets where TDK operates. We believe in a sustainable world where digital, energy and environmental transformations will improve billions of lives. Our mission is to help accelerate learning and contributions to society, investing in start-ups with similar idealism.

Position Open

POSTION OPEN ONLY FOR TDK GROUP EMPLOYEES

TDK Ventures is searching for a Technical Analyst to join our Platform team and support our Engagement Team. As a top tier Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), TDK Ventures aims to be a technology thought leader and impact scaler. You will utilize your many years of hands-on and strategic technology development to support our Engagement Team with Technology Explorations between innovative startups and TDK teams all around the world. TDK Ventures’ industry focus areas include Renewable Energy, Materials, Cleantech, Industry 5.0, Mobility, Computing, Connectivity & Healthtech.

The Technical Analyst conducts Technology Explorations to identify potential mutual value creation scenarios with TDK teams to augment collaborations with both TDK Ventures portfolio and non-portfolio companies (“startups”). The Technical Analyst will support the Engagement Team to ensure TDK Ventures brings consistent, visible and appreciated value to startups. This is an exciting opportunity to work with an award-winning, top-tier CVC fund while partnering with early stage deep-tech startups. TDK Ventures continues to pioneer corporate venturing with its “TDK Goodness” to entrepreneurs in the deep-tech space. Currently, TDK Ventures is investing with $200M AUM and is backed by TDK Corporation – a Japanese electronics conglomerate.