Pace Ventures

We are experienced venture capital investors who have been at the forefront of impact investing since 1999. We are passionate about generating extraordinary results, creating positive changes, and partnering with visionaries who combine these two. Our team has invested in over 70 ventures, bringing time-tested perspective and expertise to partnerships with entrepreneurs. We are ready and eager to build something special together.

Through its investments, Emerson Ventures accelerates innovation by obtaining early access to disruptive discrete automation solutions, environmental sustainability technologies and industrial software solutions that have the potential to solve real customer challenges. We leverage our global network, expertise and market access for the benefit of our portfolio companies and co-investors to maximize success.​ We support, mentor and invest in early-stage startups with big, bold ideas focused on driving innovation for a greener future.​ We enhance the industries we serve by fostering partnerships to gain strategic insights on emerging industrial technologies, adjacent markets and industry disruptors.​

Comrades who are eager to change the world, connect with us. With JERA Ventures, reshape the world no one has ever seen. Change the norm and deliver new value. Bonding, collaborating for brighter future. Brave and committed challengers, ready to rock the world. Time to answer the call now. Mission JERA Ventures connects JERA with the world to facilitate open innovation and deliver the best experience to all people. Vision JERA Ventures will be a sandbox for people who are serious about changing the world. ValueBe open to new ideas, challenge with passion. Get connected, be the catalyst for change. We can reshape the world. Be True. Do good. Theme Go beyond the norm, Create the best. JERA Ventures makes strategic investment totalling 300 million USD in the following 3 areas; Energy transformation: Decarbonization technologies including making existing energy business smart, developing hydrogen and ammonia value chains, and renewables. Customer centric: Digital technologies that offer new value to customers using digital energy platforms, AI, blockchains, etc. Corporate: Well-being, femtech*, and other technologies that contribute to the virtuous spiral of employee happiness and corporate value creation. *Femtech: A neologism combining “female” and “technology” that refers to products and services that address women’s health issues.

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. We invest early and accept informed risks through a fundamental emphasis on venture-level returns combined with a deep understanding of the challenges of frontier technologies and markets. In 2009, we started the company with a commitment to take action. We began with a simple idea: the economy of the future will be driven by the climate needs of today. We saw an opportunity to invest in and support bold thinking that could help turn the tide against climate change while building the next generation of category-defining businesses. We were in a position to help these entrepreneurs change the world. So we did. Years later, this continues to be our central ethos: if we can act, we must. The transition to the low-carbon economy is the greatest investment opportunity of this century. We champion the brightest ideas and the boldest entrepreneurs with the goal of achieving the greatest positive impact on climate.

LiquidMetal Ventures is a newly established venture capital fund based in Boston, aiming at investing in early-stage (Seed, Angel, and pre-A round) in a minority group, particularly deep-tech startups. LiquidMetal Ventures is based on deep-tech start-up communities and has a unique advantage in reaching out to ‘off-the-market’ early-stage deals and cooperating with peer VC funds tightly to reduce the risk, overall a high return could be expected. LiquidMetal Ventures focuses on biotech and healthcare, carbon neutrality, AI and data, infrastructure, and consumer tech. There is a huge tide of startups among Boston entrepreneurs in the US on the way. We would like to be the first to check VC with the founders. Investment FocusBioTech Medical Device Sustainability AI & Data Science Advanced Energy Technology Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing

We love tech startups who are pushing the possibilities in materials science. From enabling sustainable energy solutions, to accelerating advanced materials breakthrough, to ensuring wider availability of sophisticated healthcare technologies, TDK Ventures is actively searching for solutions for difficult problems. TDK has a proven track-record of solving problems, since 1935. Our VC firm believes in a sustainable world where digital, energy, and environmental transformation will improve billions of lives. Our mission is to help accelerate learning, bring meaningful contributions to society, and invest in startups with similar ideals. We absolutely want to “move the needle”, by delivering meaningful financial results with our co-investors and bringing new powerful transformational business opportunities to TDK. By focusing on Scaling Impact, we ensure a sense of purpose and a sense of urgency, with both patience and speed in our investment decision making. TDK Ventures exists to provide every startup we invest in with the tools they need to bring their visions to life. Of course, this includes financial resources and support, but we also bring a full measure of TDK Goodness to our portfolio companies to help accelerate their success. Depending on their needs, we may provide early product validation, pilot programs, customer, channel, and ecosystem access, industry and outsourcing connections, market insights, materials, manufacturing, supply chain expertise, branding, and/or go-to-market mentorship.