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Best Environment Companies in Tokyo, Japan

The 69 best Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Asuene.

69companies tracked
$183.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
21have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ENVIRONMENT × TOKYO

Our analysis of 309 Environment companies

$75.8b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

309companies analysed
79%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
7unicorns
2015median founding year

Ranked: Best Environment companies in Tokyo

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Acacia Renewables
Developer of wind power plants
——12—————
2besterra
Besterra is a construction engineering company that provides services for thermal power, hydropower, wind…
——145Hazuki Yoshino
CEO
NginxGoogle Font APISakura Internet+5Top 1M21 patents
Wind turbine tower decommissioning and demolition engineering solutions
—
3Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund
Developer of solar energy projects
———Hiroshi Yanagisawa
CEO
YouTubeBootstrapAmazon Web Services+10Top 10M——
4dkk-toa corporation
DKK-TOA is a manufacturer of environmental measuring equipment and solutions.
——634—core-jsSlickjQuery+3Top 5M51 patents
Analytical measurement instruments and bioluminescent luciferase-based bioassay technologies
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5DOWA HOLDINGS
Provider of waste metal and e-waste recycling company
———Akira Sekiguchi
CEO & President
——235 patents
Advanced solid-state lithium battery materials and ceramic‑metal composite technologies
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6E3Mobility
Provider of zero-emission electric vehicle charging systems, leveraging solar power to directly charge EVs…
———Yoshiaki T
Founder
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7enbio holdings
EnBio Holdings is an environmental services company.
——95—NginxMicrosoft ClarityGoogle Analytics+7Top 10M——
8hashimoto sogyo holdings
Hashimoto Sogyo Holdings is a wholesaler of plumbing material and housing equipment.
——1,025—PHPBootstrapAlpine.js+18Top 10M——

Top 12 Environment companies in Tokyo

#1
Series C · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 50 employees
$26.8Mraised
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Manufacturer of PV and energy storage system

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series C$5.4M
  • Dec 2025Conventional Debt—
  • Aug 2025Series C$21.4M
  • Jan 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Kazuyuki UemuraCEO
Investors
Energy & Environment Investment, Mizuho Bank, Hokkoku Bank, Chiba Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, JIC Venture Growth Investments
Tech stack
FirebaseGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#2
Series B · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2021 · 10 employees
$6.5Mraised
▾

Provider of nuclear energy services

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series B$16.9M
  • Dec 2025Series A$5.6M
  • Jul 2025Series A$15M
  • Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$43M
Founders & team
Junichi MiyazawaCo-FounderTakuya GotoCo-FounderNagato YanagiCo-Founder
Investors
Sony Innovation Fund, Plug and Play Tech Center, SBI Investment, SBIR, Toyoda Gosei, Keio Innovation Initiative
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle WorkspaceGsapHsts
#3
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2022 · 12 employees
$3.2Mraised
▾

Provider water management services

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2026Series B—
  • Nov 2024Series B$786.5K
  • Aug 2024Series B—
  • Feb 2024Seed$664.3K
Investors
Miyako Capital, Dai Nippon Printing, Hokkan Holdings, Shizuoka Financial Group, CBC, MUFG
Tech stack
FirebaseGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#4
Series C · Shinagawa, Tokyo · founded 2019
$68.8Mraised
▾

Developer of solar energy projects

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 9.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2024Series C$26.7M
  • Mar 2023Series B$1.1M
Founders & team
Keihiro IwataCo-FounderKohei NishiwadaCo-FounderRakuma -Co-Founder
Investors
Sony Innovation Fund, GMO Venture Partners, GLIN Impact Capital, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, SBI Investment, Sparks Asset Management
#5
Series A · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2022
$2.4Mraised
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Provider of environment, carbon neutral, and energy resources services

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Series A$2.4M
Founders & team
Tsuyoshi ItoCEO
Investors
Archetype Ventures, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, UTokyo Innovation Platform
#6
Series A · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2020
$10.7Mraised
▾

株式会社DGキャピタルグループ is a company focused on developing innovative digital grid solutions to support future power grids. They are actively engaged in the development of technologies that aim to revolutionize the electrical power system.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Series A$10.7M
Founders & team
Rikiya AbeCEO & Director
Tech stack
Google WorkspaceNginxXserver
#7
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2011 · 260 employees
$26.3Mraised
▾

Looop is in the business of development and sales, installation, construction, management and maintenance of distributed solar power plants. The company is focused in developing clean power using solar and other associated renewable energy sources

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2020Series B$26.3M
Founders & team
Soichro NakamuraFounder & CEO
Investors
ENEOS Group, NEC Capital Solutions, Sojitz, GPD, FFG Venture Business Partners, DBJ Capital
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCore-JsDatadog
#8
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 8 employees
$8.3Mraised
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Challenergy is developing a vertical axis wind turbine incorporating the technique behind Magnus force. The final outcome is a vertical axis wind turbine that can utilise wind from all directions, and by using Magnus force it can vary the power generation according to the wind speed by controlling the rotation of the cylindrical blade. Currently under testing as on March, 2017. The company claims that it can withstand very high winds including that of a typhoon.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series A$8.3M
Founders & team
Atsushi ShimizuFounder & CEO
Investors
Maezawa Fund, Realtech Fund, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Glocalink
Tech stack
All In One SeoAstroCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsContact Form 7Font Awesome
#9
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 1997 · 70 employees
$24Mraised
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Zephyr is a Wind Energy company which designs, manufactures, imports, consults and sells (comprehensive package of installation design, installation, leasing,and maintenance), a range of wind/solar/water power generation equipments and peripherals. The Zephyr brand of wind turbines are used by the company for installations. Zephyr chaired Japan’s “Project Z” R&D consortium, charged with developing the world’s most advanced small wind turbine.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2012Series B$8.6M
  • May 2010Series B$10.6M
  • Sep 2008Series A$4.8M
Founders & team
Masaya KuboCEO
Investors
INCJ, Investor Growth Capital
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareContact Form 7Core-JsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
#10
Seed · Bunkyo, Tokyo · founded 2021
$1.3Mraised
▾

It is a startup that has developed an innovative AI analysis system for steel scrap. They offer an automatic steel scrap analysis system and a scrap classification system.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 51 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2023Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Makoto SaekiCo-FounderKeijiro TajimaCEO
Investors
DCM Ventures
Tech stack
CloudinaryFirebaseGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#11
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2021
$724.2Kraised
▾

Sustineri is a company that provides carbon offset solutions. They offer services such as carbon offset cloud, Susport, and Susport construction. The company has also received funding of 100 million yen.

Funding rounds
  • May 2023Seed$724.2K
Founders & team
Yosuke HariuCEO
Investors
Energy & Environment Investment, Incubate Fund India, Incubate Fund
Tech stack
All In One SeoAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerContact Form 7Core-Js
#12
Public · Chuo City, Tokyo · founded 2003 · 219 employees
$4.4Mraised
▾

Provider of recycling services

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2014Series A$4.4M
Founders & team
Akira OchiPresident & CEO
Investors
INCJ, Kyushu Venture Partners, iSigma Capital, Japan Asia Investment, Nippon Venture Capital
Tech stack
BootstrapGoogle AnalyticsJqueryMicrosoft 365MysqlNginx

Funding & investor landscape

$183.8Mtotal disclosed funding
13companies funded
24disclosed rounds
2rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital5 rounds
Japan Asia Investment4 rounds
Nippon Venture Capital4 rounds
DBJ Capital3 rounds
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital3 rounds
SBI Investment3 rounds
Sony Innovation Fund3 rounds
Energy & Environment Investment2 rounds
GMO Venture Partners2 rounds
INCJ2 rounds

Notable founders

Kazuyuki Uemura
CEO · Sharing Energy
Junichi Miyazawa
Co-Founder · Helical Fusion
Takuya Goto
Co-Founder · Helical Fusion
Keihiro Iwata
Co-Founder · Asuene
Kohei Nishiwada
Co-Founder · Asuene
Tsuyoshi Ito
CEO · EX4Energy
Rikiya Abe
CEO & Director · DG Capital Group
Soichro Nakamura
Founder & CEO · Looop
Atsushi Shimizu
Founder & CEO · Challenergy
Masaya Kubo
CEO · Zephyr
Makoto Saeki
Co-Founder · EVERSTEEL
Keijiro Tajima
CEO · EVERSTEEL
Prism market signals · Japan · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,011,835 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Environment coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Tokyo · institutions

What Tokyo researches in environmental monitoring

33 papersstance +0.3824% breakthrough28% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Water Quality Monitoring TechnologiesMicroplastics and Plastic PollutionAir Quality Monitoring and ForecastingRadioactive contamination and transferBiosensors and Analytical DetectionElectrochemical sensors and biosensors
top institutions
  • The University of Tokyo12
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute3
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University3
  • Tokyo College of Environment2
  • Tokyo University of Technology2

Common questions

How many Environment companies are there in Tokyo, Japan?
Radar tracks 69 indexable Environment companies headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan?
The Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list have raised a combined $183.8M in disclosed equity funding across 13 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Environment company in Tokyo, Japan?
Asuene is the highest-funded Environment company in Tokyo, Japan, with $68.8M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan are funded?
13 of the 69 Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Environment unicorns are there in Tokyo, Japan?
None of the Environment companies in Tokyo, Japan on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Tokyo, Japan Environment companies?
The most active investors in Tokyo, Japan Environment companies on this list include Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Japan Asia Investment, Nippon Venture Capital, DBJ Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital.
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