News Coverage of Portfolio Companies
and TDK Ventures
TDK Ventures supports “Impact Scalers”, the entrepreneurs who are creating a new era of sustainability and social value. That’s why they are often in the news, and sometimes us. See coverage of their advances by following the links below.
09/14/2022: Battery Recycling Race Heats Up After Inflation Reduction Act
07/31/2022: AutoFlight Prosperity I: Watch This Air Taxi Complete a Test Flight
07/28/2022: Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?
07/01/2022: Smart contact lens prototype puts a Micro LED display on top of the eye
06/28/2022: Mojo's Smart Contact Lenses Begin In-Eye Testing
06/24/2022: Interview with Verdagy, how their electrolysis technology will help decarbonize energy intensive industries
06/23/2022: Technology: Partnership with the Void Displayed Potential of Metaverse
06/09/2022: World’s First Printable Optical Metasurface For Vision, 3D Sensing, LIDAR Now Shipping In Consumer Products
04/26/2022: The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing
04/19/2022: TDK Ventures: Innovating from the Inside Out
04/11/2022: Interview with Verdagy, how their electrolysis technology will help decarbonize energy intensive industries
02/17/2022: Experts’ tips for evaluating startups
02/17/2022: Robot grocery delivery now available in Pleasanton
02/12/2022: TDK Invests in Green Hydrogen
02/09/2022: Verdagy Closes Funding Round Led By TDK Ventures and Joined by Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Leaders Across Four Continents, Development and Scale-up of Unique, Large-scale Electrolyzer Technology
02/08/2022: Hydrogen production without CO2 is getting a boost with new tech from Verdagy
01/27/2022: Risky Business: Adopting A Mindset For VC Success
01/21/2022: TDK Ventures’ Anil Achyuta: ‘Storage companies should be customer-crazy’
12/31/2021: Startups Magazine highlights TDK Ventures in its latest issue
12/06/2021: Here's what CVCs see in the early stage
12/06/2021: Interview: TDK Ventures acts on Actnano deal
11/22/2021: AutoFlight Lands $100M (USD) Investment in Series A Funding from Team Global and Its Founder Lukasz Gadowski
11/12/2021: TDK Backs Scalable Cell Engineering with Mekonos
07/22/2021: What You Need to Unlearn to Succeed in Venture Capital
07/21/2021: TDK Ventures President Nicolas Sauvage named to GCV Powerlist 100 for 2021
07/20/2021: Metal 3D printing company Fabric8Labs raises $19M
04/12/2021: From Cassette Tapes To Venture Funding: TDK Launches Its Second VC Fund With $150 Million
04/12/2021: GenCell Raises US$14.3 million from a Series of Institutional International Investors
02/23/2021: Japanese Technology Company TDK Corporation Joins Alkaline Fuel Cell Manufacturer GenCell in Developing a Novel Low-Cost Approach to Green Ammonia – the Fuel of the Future
12/15/2020: FDA Awards Genetesis Breakthrough Device Designation for CardioFlux® Imaging Technology
12/09/2020: TDK Ventures portfolio company Origin to be acquired by Stratasys
11/30/2020: TDK Ventures portfolio company GenCell has gone public in a NIS205m ($60.7m) initial public offering
11/12/2020: TDK Ventures portfolio company SLD Laser to be acquired by Kyocera
09/16/2020: TDK Ventures Managing Director Nicolas Sauvage named to GCV Powerlist 100 for 2020
08/14/2020: Groq Closes Funding Round; New Automotive Focus ‘Not a Pivot’
07/31/2020: Editorial: TDK finds silver lining
05/29/2020: Not just air taxis: eVTOL developers see growing potential in utility applications
05/07/2020: Cardiac Imaging Company Genetesis Adds TDK Ventures as Strategic Investor and Welcomes New Board Member
02/05/2020: AutoFlightX Nabs Investment From TDK Ventures
02/04/2020: TDK Ventures bets on laser diodes as lighting’s future
02/03/2020: 14 Venture Capital Firms Funding Ingenuity in Silicon Valley
01/22/2020: TDK Invests in GaN Laser Light Firm SLD Laser
10/18/2019: TDK Ventures makes second investment
10/18/2019: TDK invests in mobility company
10/16/2019: Wheels Receives Investment from TDK Ventures
10/16/2019: TDK Ventures backs micromobility company Wheels
08/21/2019: Japan’s TDK Ventures scouts for early-stage deals from debut $50m fund, says MD
08/21/2019: TDK Ventures makes first VC investment
08/21/2019: TDK Ventures invests in first portfolio company Starship Technologies
08/20/2019: Starship Technologies Raises $40M in Series A Funding
08/20/2019: After 100,000 deliveries, robot courier startup Starship Technologies picks up $40M
08/20/2019: Starship Technologies amasses $40 mln Series A
08/20/2019: TDK Ventures invests in first portfolio company Starship Technologies
07/01/2019: TDK announces corporate venture entity to invest in early stage material science technologies and companies