ENEOS Innovation Partners

Message from the President

代表近影

Moving forward

toward a

vibrant future!

President

Naganuma Toru





What is ENEOS Innovation Partners?

How do we accomplish both energy transition and business transformation to make our presence known all the way into 2040? In order to find a sustainable solution to this challenge, we at the ENEOS Group have made a dynamic approach to launch “Emerging Business Development Department” in 2019 and started challenging new territory with the establishment of the sole CVC of ENEOS Group, “ENEOS Innovation Partners Godo Kaisha” These two organizations will take on the roles of business creation and investment respectively, to contribute not only to the development of our society but also towards the mission of the ENEOS Group, to create a vibrant future through open innovation.

Overwhelming strength

We commit ourselves to providing the utmost performance through our swift decision-making process and utilization of ENEOS Group’s vast resources.

We make it our commitment to execute one of the fastest and most solid investment processes for startups. On the back of our independent decision-making process from ENEOS Group, we are confident to provide reliability and long term partnership through our investment.

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, we at ENEOS Innovation Partners continued our mission, making a cumulative total of over 40 investment deals globally over the past four years.

Another of our key strengths is that our portfolio companies can access ENEOS Group’s assets and resources. For example, we can offer service stations (gas stations) and refineries as demonstration sites. In order to maximize the value of these resources, one of our unique features is that our 30 team members not only work on sourcing investments but also work closely together with our portfolio companies to create new businesses.

Area of focus

Our Areas of Focus: Data Science, Carbon Neutrality, Circular Economy, Community Integration (Smart City), Mobility, and more.

Today’s mainstream business portfolio of ENEOS Group is energy and materials. However, we at ENEOS Innovation Partners, without limiting ourselves to the conventional business area, have diversified investment portfolio which broadly consists of data science, decarbonization, circular economy, community development, and mobility. In fact, we have invested in startups in various fields such as AI, robotics, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and healthcare. Our one and only required criteria for investment is whether we can work together to share and create a vibrant future.

We wish to actively work with entrepreneurs and companies who can passionately express their dreams and visions.

We are not pushing ourselves to seek immediate investment returns, but rather, we are seeking for partners who we can collaborate with to work towards our 2040 goals.

Future developments

Let’s work together to create a sustainable world filled with excitement!

Our keyword in discussing the future is excitement, or “waku waku” in Japanese. Ideas should excite and inspire people.

In addition to excitement, we also highly value long-term view. Together with our esteemed partners, we hope to work on projects that will lead to prosperity and sustainability for the society through open innovation. In order to achieve this goal, we have an accelerator program on our website and the doors are wide open for all startups with innovative ideas. Let’s explore new business opportunities and create a vibrant future together!

We look forward to working together with you.

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ENEOS Accelerator Program

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Through the ENEOS Accelerator Program we welcome entrepreneurs who share our vision of the future, and aspire to create innovative products and services together with us.

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If you are considering applying for the program, we have prepared a PDF document that provides more details than the website about the accelerator program.

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