Backing Europe's
most ambitious founders

We invest in and work with Europe’s most ambitious founders – those who are leading the digital transformation of the industrial world.
Sumitomo’s group businesses operate in dozens of industries in over 60 countries, which is why we are able to support startups with operational expertise in their domains, route-to-market, recruitment and financing needs.
We have long-term investment horizons; we offer friendly investment terms; and we seek real impact as well as venture returns.
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Current Portfolio, Europe
We back Europe’s most ambitious founders, from series A to Exit.

Trafi Ltd. (Lithuania)
Public transport MaaS platform to plan and book journeys using real-time data.

Teroplan S.A. (Poland)
Cheap tickets for intercity journeys via public transport and own on-demand transportation service.

AppyWay. (UK)
Increasing the utilisation of parking assets for cities and car park operators.

Connected Energy Ltd. (UK)
Industrial-scale energy storage systems intended to utilize second-life EV batteries.

GA Drilling, a. s. (Slovakia)
Contactless plasma drilling and milling solutions for geothermal projects.

Target intervention AS (Norway)
Improving oil & gas well productivity via real-time monitoring of temperature and pressure.

A.A.A Taranis Visual Ltd. (Israel)
Using computer vision, data science and deep learning algorithms to monitor crop fields.

Tropic Biosciences UK Ltd (UK)
Genetic editing technologies to develop high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops.

CropX inc. (Israel)
Advanced Ag analytics + soil sensing technology to automate farm management.