• The Hard Tech Report 2026

    The Hard Tech Report 2026: Mapping the Semiconductor & AI Infrastructure Stack

  • A new era in reproductive science - Announcing Pangaea’s Investment in Dioseve

  • ChEmpower Announces Chakra™, the First Functional Pad for Abrasive-Free Planarization

  • Building Better Data Centers: Why We Invested in Nautilus

  • What is hard tech (and why we are so passionate about it?)

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IVFを超えて:生殖科学の新時代 ― PangaeaのDioseve社への投資を発表

生殖生物学は、ハードテック分野における重要なフロンティアとして台頭しており、生殖医療の提供方法を根本から変える可能性を秘めています。Dioseve社はまさにその2領域で事業を促進しており、Pangaea Venturesは同社への新たな投資を通じてその取り組みを支援させて頂きます。これは、Pangaeaにとって日本初のスタートアップ投資であり、日本においてより多くのハードテック創業者を支援するための基盤を整えてきた成果でもあります。

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Beyond IVF: A new era in reproductive science - Announcing Pangaea’s Investment in Dioseve

Reproductive biology is emerging as an important frontier in hard tech, with the potential to reshape how fertility care is delivered. Dioseve is building at that intersection, and Pangaea Ventures is pleased to support that work through a new investment in the company, our first startup investment in Japan where we have been laying the groundwork to support more hard tech founders in the country.

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Reducing the Strain of IVF: Pangaea Announces Participation in Dioseve’s Series A Extension (EN)

Pangaea Ventures today announced it joined Dioseve’s $7 million (JPY 1.0 billion) Series A Extension financing round, alongside participation from Archetype Ventures, DG Daiwa Ventures, Mirai Door (Asuka Innovation Fund), D4V, and Shionogi & Co., Ltd. Dioseve is a biotechnology company developing a new approach to fertility treatment grounded in stem cell biology and reproductive medicine.

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Connecting Japanese Industry to AI and Semiconductor Hard Tech (Webinar) (Japanese)

Pangaea Venturesは白博堂およびCorundum Systems Biologyとともに、2026年6月24日(火)午後4時(PT)(日本標準時:6月25日午前8時)にオンラインウェビナーを開催します。PangaeaパートナーのAndrew Haughianが登壇し、AI、半導体、および周辺インフラにおけるグローバルなハードテック機会をどのようにマッピングしているか、またその変革から成る「新規事業の機会を見守る」立場から「新規事業を形成する」立場へと移行したい日本のコーポレートベンチャー・戦略リーダーにとって何を意味するかを共有します。

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Connecting Japanese Industry to AI and Semiconductor Hard Tech (Webinar)

Pangaea Ventures is joining Hakuhodo and Corundum Systems Biology for an online webinar on June 24 at 4pm PT (8am June 25 Japan Standard Time), featuring Pangaea Partner Andrew Haughian. Andrew will share how our team has mapped global hard tech opportunities in AI, semiconductors, and adjacent infrastructure.

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Kandai Yamashita joins Pangaea Ventures as investment lead in Tokyo

Pangaea Ventures is excited to welcome Kandai Yamashita as our new investment lead in Tokyo, further strengthening Pangaea’s long-standing partnership model with corporate limited partners and Japan’s hard tech ecosystem.

Pangaea Venturesは、東京に於ける新たな投資担当として山下 寛大(Kandai Yamashita)を迎えることになりました。これにより、当社が長年培ってきたコーポレートLPとのパートナーシップモデルと日本のHard Tech Ecosystemとの繋がりをより一層強化していきます。

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Building Better Data Centers: Why We Invested in Nautilus

Nautilus Data Technologies sits on the bleeding edge of one of the most important shifts in digital infrastructure: how we cool ever more powerful data centers without overwhelming local water and energy systems. Their EcoCore platform is a modular, facility‑scale liquid cooling solution designed to make AI‑ready data centers more efficient, flexible, and sustainable wherever they are built.

Read on to learn in detail why we were proud to lead Nautilus’ recently closed Series B.

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Hard Tech Ideas and Voices from the Ecosystem: Pangaea’s Year in Review (Part 2)

Part 2 of our 2025 Year in Review looks beyond the term sheets to the ideas, events, and voices that defined the year. From the launch of the Hard Tech Report and our 25th‑anniversary webinar, to founder interviews, ecosystem panels, and a growing lineup of podcast appearances, this chapter captures how the hard tech conversation is evolving, and how the Pangaea community is helping shape where it goes next.

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Breakthrough Hard Tech, New Partners, and a Bigger Stage: Pangaea’s Year in Review (Part 1)

In a year when the headlines felt louder and more unpredictable than ever, Pangaea’s founders stayed focused on turning hard science into real‑world infrastructure. Part 1 of our 2025 Year in Review highlights the capital and people behind that work: from major funding milestones in regenerative medicine, bio‑based chemistry, semiconductors, water, and critical metals, to strengthening our global bench with new senior advisors in Japan and beyond.

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Marking 25 Years of Breakthroughs: Voices from Pangaea’s Journey at the Frontier of Hard Tech

As we continue to commemorate our 25 years in Hard Tech, join us for weekly interviews with past and current LPs and portfolio company CEOs starting Tuesday October 28, on the Pangaea blog. With contributions from Tony Sun from GC Ventures, Glenn Bindley of Redlen Technologies, Soichi Ueki of JX Advanced Metals, along with other past and present CEOs and LPs, who will share their unique perspectives and stories.

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Pangaea Ventures Highlights Semicon West Startup Social with Investment in Membrion’s $20M Series B1

Pangaea Ventures and the Arizona Commerce Authority hosted the Semicon West Startup Social during Semicon West’s first conference in Phoenix, a curated gathering of global semiconductor industry leaders highlighting Phoenix’s emergence as a vital node in the global semiconductor ecosystem.

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