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Moon Creative Lab

Moon Creative Lab is a venture studio founded by Mitsui & Co. in 2018, located in Palo Alto, California, and Tokyo, Japan. It focuses on creating new businesses through a human-centered approach.

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Overview

What Moon Creative Lab does

What Moon Creative Lab is

Moon Creative Lab is a venture studio founded by Mitsui & Co. in 2018, located in Palo Alto, California, and Tokyo, Japan. It focuses on creating new businesses through a human-centered approach.

How it participates in the startup ecosystem

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Operational status
Active
Organization type
Venture Studio
Founded
Founded in 2018
Approximate age
About 8 years
Structured capabilities
Program host
Last reviewed
May 7, 2026
What Venture studio means

A venture studio is an organization that systematically creates new startups by generating or sourcing ideas, validating them, building early products, recruiting founders or operators, providing shared resources, and retaining meaningful equity in the companies it helps create.

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Moon Creative Lab as a program host

Program thesis

Enabling collaboration with leading investors, enterprises, and institutions to build and scale new opportunities.

Focus narrative

Moon Creative Lab invests in and provides services related to enterprise-scale opportunities within Mitsui’s global ecosystem. Their focus includes technology and innovation, targeting early-stage opportunities that can translate into measurable projects, leveraging Mitsui's extensive network.

Availability

Application state
Not published

Focus and fit

Stages
Pre-seed · Seed
Regions
Global

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Last reviewed

May 7, 2026

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