Hitachi Ventures, the corporate VC arm of Hitachi Group, was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany. The fund focuses on investing in startups at the Seed, Series A, and Series B stages, particularly in the areas of E-Commerce, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), and Robotics. With a portfolio of 13 companies and 1 exit, Hitachi Ventures is led by Partner Pete Bastien, who can be reached at pete.bastien@hitachi-ventures.com. Their investments include companies like inVia Robotics. For more information, visit their website at https://www.hitachi.com/.