OMRON Ventures

OMRON Ventures invests in startups and supports the commercialisation of technologies in healthcare, automation and related fields. The firm is aligned with the technical interests of OMRON Corporation, a Japanese electronics company founded in 1933 and headquartered in Kyoto, whose stated core competency is 'Sensing & Control + Think' - a combination of sensing, control technology and applied intelligence used to address social challenges.

Investment areas correspond to OMRON Corporation's established technical domains: automation, sensing and sensor technologies, robotics, control technology, electronics and healthcare monitoring technology. The parent group operates in industrial automation, healthcare, electronic components, social systems and manufacturing, and sells in more than 130 countries with approximately 26,000 employees worldwide. Its product history includes Japan's first push-button automatic ticket gate and its first vending machine, along with blood pressure monitors and other medical and healthcare monitoring equipment, robotics and automation solutions, and industrial sensor technologies.

OMRON Ventures' stated role is not limited to capital allocation: it supports the commercialisation of technologies held by portfolio startups, drawing on the parent group's operating presence across nine decades of industrial and healthcare markets. Sector focus is therefore narrow and technical rather than generalist, and is concentrated on fields where OMRON Corporation has existing engineering depth.