Taiga Ueta
Principal
“As global competition in technology intensifies, strong collaboration between Europe and Japan matters more than ever. NordicNinja provides founders with a close, trusted bridge to access capital, partners, and long-term growth opportunities across both regions.”
Taiga Ueta brings a diverse background spanning early-stage SaaS startups and professional M&A advisory across Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia, prior to relocating to Europe. His expertise covers a broad range of industries – including automotive, semiconductors, chemicals, and software/computing – with a particular focus on industrialization and financing.
Before joining NordicNinja, Taiga worked as a management consultant at PwC and an M&A financial advisor at IGPI, where he was involved in M&A advisory engagements and technology-driven projects.
Investment
NordicNinja co-leads €15M Series A in Photoncycle to scale seasonal energy storage
The Series A funding will be used to scale manufacturing and early commercial deployment in Europe and preparing for opportunities to scale in Asia, including Japan, and in the US.
Investment
SEEQC raises $30 million to advance quantum computing platforms with the world’s first full-stack processor for quantum computers
The $30 million investment round led by NordicNinja enables SEEQC to further accelerate its commercial rollout and deepen its integration across the quantum ecosystem.
Investment
tozero raises €11M in seed funding to ramp up recycled lithium production capacity
The NordicNinja led investment round enables the recovery of critical raw materials from lithium-ion battery waste for reintegrated use.
Investment
Wave energy handling the biggest Atlantic storms – €32 million investment into Corpower
NordicNinja leads the investment following the breakthrough results from CorPower Ocean’s commercial scale device surviving the biggest Atlantic storms while efficiently generating power in regular ocean conditions.
Investment
VSParticle raises €6.5 million to power material discovery for a greener future
VSParticle, the leading supplier of nanoparticle printing tools – has raised a €6.5 million A2 extension round led by NordicNinja and previous investor Plural to continue its mission to unlock a century of material innovation in the next 10 years.
fund
Announcing new fund II to help founders tackle global challenges
The largest Japanese VC in Europe expands its operations to the UK, Ireland, and BeNeLux countries, while doubling down on the Nordics and the Baltics