Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Managing Partner of BEENOS - A Tokyo-based investment program. - http://beenos.com
http://hiromaeda.com
Founder of MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of @zynga Japan; Created @zynga's core game framework; Investor in @heyday, @pixelapse, @hipmunk
http://www.amitt.com
Based in Japan, hands-on team manager at DG Incubation. I support localization for portfolio companies while helping run one of JP's leading incubators, OnLab.
デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab
CEO @zendrive. Making Driving A Rewarding Experience. Marketing, Product & Strategy @android, @facebook @boston-consulting-group
Internet entrpreneur + Angel. Founded Sublime IP. Managed Australia's first ISP; >20 years Internet experience. @insead-1 MBA. IP Attorney
I work for Recruit Strategic Partners which is Cooperate Venture Capital of Recruit Holdings in Japan
Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.
Advising early stage startups globally as Trailnavi, Inc. (Founded in April, 2013) Invested in @twitter, @path and etc. when I worked at Digital Garage.
Founder @zynga
Head APAC SMB Acquisition Mktg, @google
PAST:
Global Finance Lead b2b Mktg, @google
Head Finance & Operations, @svox (acquired by Nuance)
Venture Capitalist and Partner at Global Brain Corp.
Co-Founder of @rimnet-k-k, @mysql K.K., @redrobot-k-k; Worked at News Corporation, NTT DoCoMo R&D, @mysql and Sun.
Partner at WiL, a venture capitalist to bridge US and Japan, ex-Digital Garage.
Director of the MIT Media Lab, Board Member of Sony, New York TImes, Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Tucows, Mozilla Foundation. Early stage investor.
http://joi.ito.com/
Founder of @division-films, @w4, Hydra, Investor in Path, Playsino, Titan Gaming, @evertune, @mp3-com, @net2phone
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co
Writer, designer. Previously product designer for @flipboard. Advisor for @medium, @955dreams. Mentor at @500startups & @designer-fund. Investor in @oyster, @editorially, @tokyo-otaku-mode, @timbuktu-labs. 2011 TechFellow. 2012 MacDowell fellow.
http://craigmod.com/journal/
Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel
Co-founder of DeNA
CEO of A2O,Inc., President of TiE Japan, Mentor of 500 StartUps, Advisor of Kamiyama Foundation and Ex.Managing Director of ITOCHU Technology Ventures,Inc.
Managing Director at Draper Nexus
Founded Cocoon Ventures & World TaSCforce. Crossborder VC. Worked at @apple, @tellme-networks. Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-california-berkeley, @university-of-maryland-baltimore-county
Co-Founder of early stage VC, @real-ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.
Co-Founder @gengo-1; @brown-university & @stanford-university in CS & Music; ex-@Microsoft, @sony; OnLab mentor; featured in Time.com & WSJ; J+E bilingual
Serial Entrepreneur. Within 10 years has ventured into Telco, ICT, MLM, FOREX, Hedge Fund, Events, Media Production & Business Consulting for Fortune 500.
Former tech/media banker at GS,MS in Tokyo, a VC in Hong Kong turned seed,early stage investor based in NYC.
Founder & CEO at Archtype(Incubator). Former COO at Inspire Corp.
Worked on Dentsu.(Internet business specialist) Mentor of NTT com Open Lab,
Worked at @open-network-lab, @dg-incubation, Managing director
Partner and CFO
Managing Director of CyberAgent Ventures. One of the most active VC firm, headquartered in Tokyo.
Work @issuu Worked @google, @admob, @criteo • Studied at @iu @cal • Investor
Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure
Startup Accelerator. President & CEO of SunBridge Global Ventures Inc. Co-founder of Interscope Inc.(sold to @yahoo JAPAN), also WebCrew Inc.(listed TSE).
Based in Japan
Investor in @groupon, @playhaven, Pulse (alphonso Labs), @yume, @angieslist, @kaufda-de, @myfab-com, @experteer, Friendbuy, @xango, @9flats, @sapato, @fastlane, @teamo...
CEO @anyroad • Cognitive Neuroscience at @berkeley • Founded KAIS International School in Tokyo. Founder of the Mirai Institute and Midori.so.
Angel Investor, Advisor, C-level Executive with 20 years of Media experience in print and digital platforms. Currently CEO at SheKnows.com
Management Sensei ◦ Infrastructure Samurai ◦ Analytics Otaku ◦ Architecture Ninja. 1st programming job at 14. Effective in teams of 4 to 10,000.
CEO of addlight Inc. / Director of some Japanese start-ups / Angel Investor
Co-founded M3 (TSE:2413). Created world's most successful pharma-to-physician online marketing channel. Transformed $2M startup capital into $1B market cap.
Co-founder of @simplehoney, shopping simplified.
Founder of @icanhascheezburger. Millions of lols.
http://ericnakagawa.com
VP Product & Marketing @sendgrid
Entrepreneur, Technologist, Strategist, Startup Advisor, VC Whisperer, Connector of Dots, Marketer & Creator of Cool Stuff
VC @ DeNA, Founding CEO @ STORYS.JP, Former J.P. Morgan
President of CyberAgent Ventures. One of the most active VC firm focusing on internet service, headquartered in Tokyo.
Founder @fullcourt • Worked at @amazon, @yahoo-japan, @peatix, @six-apart • @500startups Mentor
http://angrymoose.org
Director, ITOCHU Technology Ventures.
http://www.asada23.com/
Specialized in technologies. Investment and incubation, product management, and engineering.
Biz Dev and CVC (KDDI Open Innovation Fund) at @kddi, the biggest Japanese teleco; Worked at Crosslink Capital: Studied at @keio-university and @bates-college
CTO & Co-founder of @bottlenose. Created web products, companies and development teams in Japan, Europe and US. Comp sci background. #machinelearning #bigdata
http://synaptify.com/
Investment Principal at @dg-incubation, ex- @gree-inc In Tokyo 6 years, on my way back to CA. Excited to help companies looking to change the world!
Founder @cirius-technology, @cirius-technologies-usa
COO/CFO of the Marketing Solution Company at Yahoo! JAPAN.
Invest on behalf of Recruit to @translink-capital, DCM, and 500 Startups.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/shby/
Managing Partner at Strive Capital (fka Kii Capital)
http://ngpedro.tumblr.com
Firestarter @ Think Gaming // Previous: co-founder, @squrl, @industrynext
Founder of @digital-magic-labs(DML), @ip-infusion (an ACCESS Company) and Miselu.
Intel Microprocessor designer, EDA experts starting from MetaSoftware FAE, Japan business development consultant for many silicon valley startups, 13 years investment in tech domain.
Venture Partner, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners
Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.
CEO and co-Founder of Gengo
http://robertlaing.com
Co-founder at @100village
Driven to solve big social problems. Co-founded @makible, product managed LEGO.@cuusoo-com. Ex @yahoo, @microsoft.
http://cloneofsnake.posterous.com
CIO at @yahoo Japan. Advisory at Softbank mobile. Founder & President at P.I.M. (Acquired by YahooJP in 2000)
Co-founder of @anyperk. co-founded @goood-company, which was acquired. co-founded AppDorks. Designer.
Virtual Reality @general-motors , Led System Group @industrial-light-magic, Research Scientist @Fuji Xerox PAL, DCinema @fujifilm, Founder @cinemacraft
Venture Capitalist at CyberAgent Ventures, Inc.
http://www.venturising.com/
Co-Founder/CEO of @babelverse. TEDx Organiser. Community Builder. Jungle Survivor. Frequent Traveller & Glomad.
http://babelverse.com/blog
Cofounder @intraix. Graduated @national-university-of-singapore. Self taught @ios-developer. Worked at @yahoo
http://bosslee.co/
Founder Original Stitch, @startforce • Worked at @splashtop • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley
Serial Entrepreneur, Growth Hacker & Rock'n Roll Guitarist
http://www.strikingly.com/3-0inc
Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.
http://venodesigns.net/
Co-founder and Asia Lead of @peatix. Marketing and business development are primary strengths. 15+ yr in B2C and B2B internet space in Japan.
Co-Founder & CTO: @social-rewards, Inc., Screen Rewards
Founder & CEO: Global Micro Solutions, Inc.
Founder & Chairman: GMS Japan, Inc.
Vice President at Recruit Strategic Partners
Just An Indelible Adopter. ex-Investors of a few early birds.
#Angel #i18n #gihyodp #barlog
//All activities on the Internet is the responsibility of mine.//
Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot
Co-Founder of @tokyo-otaku-mode Inc,.Ad Planner/Creative Director. I'm responsible for planning and advertising Web services.
Co-Founder and Director at @weatherly-japan
Angel,entrepreneur in Japan.Founded @bizseek(acquired by @rakuten for 20M$),@crocos,@nanapi,@starfestival.
Invested in over 10 companies.
Hacker • Founder @wazanova • Worked at @dena, @ntt
Former DeNA full-stack engineer specialized in front-end for successful social games and credited for a popular HTML5 OSS. Co-Founded 2 companies in Tokyo.
http://chikathreesix.com/
Principal at DGIncubation. I do early stage investment on behalf of Digital Garage.
CEO of @six-apart. Founder and investor of @connectfree-k-k, @ikumore. Investor of @say-media. Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @university-of-tokyo
An angel investor with a business development and investment banking background in the US and Japan.
@babelverse Co-Founder.
Glomad. Ideator. Hacker. Maker.
Winner @ LeWeb, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt.
Alumni @500startups, @startupchile, @startupweekend
http://blog.deborniol.com/
President of KLab Ventures
http://koukokuno.tumblr.com/
Co-Founder, VP of Sales and BD at Aktana. Sales/Biz Dev/Product Mngt specialist. Big data, analytics, and mobile expertise. Former D-1 College Football Player.
Led business and technology consulting practices at PwC Consulting and IBM, Brand Manager at P&G, Co-founded consumer start-up in China with a successful exit
Developer, Growth Hacker, Hardcore Gamer, All-around otaku-nerd that bounces between Tokyo and SF.
junior developer
Co-founder at Denno-tai (Mobile Search Engine, Acquired by YahooJP)
Senior Planner at Dentsu.
Founder & CEO at Distant Drums inc.
Experienced Program/Project Manager of WW Professional Service with global team members/partners/customers. Worked at Rovi, Adobe/Macromedia, @openwave, @ntt.
Excective secretory of CyberAgent, Venture capitalist of CyberAgent Ventures,
http://ameblo.jp/tetsu-mame/
Investor @cinemacraft, @technostar • Studied at @insead-1
Ph.D (Univ. of Tokyo), M. Sc (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), B.Eng (Nat. Univ. of Singapore). Worked at IBM Singapore, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NICT Japan, Gengo.com.
Innovation strategy. Advisor to startups and programs in emerging markets.
http://papadimitriou.co
CEO Founder of @storefront-social. Creator of SushiGuru, @storefront-social, @spekkle and many more. Global Marketing, International experience, fluent Japanese.
http://globetrotter.us
Investor in @social-rewards.
I.T. Bureau Chief at Fuji Television (Japanese Biggest TV station)
Co-Founder and CEO of @wondershake, Evangelist, Hustler and a Dreamer.
Principal at ZenShin Capital, MS&E at @stanford-university 2015, @stanford-university BASES
Co-Founder & CTO of:
Exco Financial Services, including Paidy.com, Aqush.com and MyCredit.jp.
Wavecell, Global SMS aggregator.
Nozara, research & investment.
Secretary-General of the French National Digital Council, essayist and journalist, former CLO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Lawyer, Business Angel, Entrepreneur
Co-founder/CEO at @selvz. Co-Founder/CEO @iPing/MrWakeup (acquired by eCal); Investor/Advisor @Conatus Energia (Brazil)
http://mrwakeup.tumblr.com/
Director of Asia Community Engagement @mozilla; @500startups mentor; @h2 Tokyo co-chair; advisor @fullcourt; advisor @Reviewed.com; ex-Sony; ex-Toyota.
Founder @vinetrade • Worked at @marono-media-k-k, @peatix • Studied at @university-of-sussex, @university-of-brighton
http://www.tacchistudios.com
Co-Founder & CEO @whill , @smile-park, @500startups • Worked at @nissan-motors • Studied at @ritsumeikan-asia-pacific-university, @nanjing University(China)
Co-Founder and CTO of @unda. Studied at Tokyo University. Devoted surfer and PhD of Engineering.
http://www.sonasphere.com/
Co-Founder and CEO @amazinglife, Japan Country manager @dropmysite, Previous Founder and CEO @everconnect.
http://shinoha.la
Rinkya MFCEO, entrepreneur, resident nerd, techie, otaku, pimp, Ironman
Born & raised in Brooklyn, lived in Tokyo for 11 years, just moved to London.
UCSC Comp Sci B.S., web (backend mostly, Ruby, Python, PHP), desktop development (Qt/C++). Loves music, natural languages, traveling. Working in Tokyo.
Founder and general partner of @incubate-fund. Managing 50MM USD fund and actively investing into seed stage startups of mobile, media, gaming in Asia pacific.
http://www.corepeople.jp
CTO of @language-cloud
Otaku, gamer, media executive, business developer, ex-chemist, producer-director, Japanese speaker, world traveler, recipe-maker, hot dog.
Co-CEO of @language-cloud
Early stage venture capital. Focus in consumer media, mobile and EC. Expert in US-Japan cross border biz dev and investments.
Working on @appsocially. Cycle Road Racer. Writer @GrowthHackerjp @jpTechCrunch @StartupDating @Shimizukobundo
http://growthhacker.jp
Co-founder & CEO of @unda. Serial entrepreneur, hustler. Founded my first company at age 17. Technologist and web pioneer in Latin America.
http://neotokyo.vg
Tokyo-based consultant focused on Japan's web, mobile and social gaming industries, Japan contributor for TechCrunch
http://www.serkantoto.com
Invested DENNOO, MONOCO
http://ameblo.jp/mta045
A seasoned linguist passionate about data
http://www.proz.com/profile/13290
Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures
Interface Developer with a passion for user experience
Investor @30k • Investor @airhelp • Investor @trekbooking.com •Studied at @rutgers-university-newark, @iscte-lisboa
Mobile, web & cloud enthusiast. Webmaster at VC-funded startup with 15. Former IT Consulting + Web Ops at HP. Previous mobile startup experience. iOS developer.
http://funkfeuer.net
Investor in @nobot, @share0, @bukupe, @anydoor, @social-recruting, @fanbook, @whyteboard, @i-c-cruise, @nagisa, @rei-frontier, @miew, @trippieace, @bluenote, @frybridge...
Full Stack Generalist, developer at Gengo
http://herman.asia
Founder @little-arrows & @valet-1, previously founder @poke-new-york and @winedirect.
http://aaronrutledge.com/#/blog
Hacker @edsurge
http://medium.com/@chibicode
Owner Beccari Consulting - Product Strategy, Innovation, Startups. VP at Isango! (sold to TUI). Head of Global Products at Amadeus. R&D at HP. INSEAD. Dad. I liked Gopher.
Helping travelers discover unique experiences @voyagin. Indian tech geek / entrepreneur from Japan, @columbia-university Eng grad, previously @producteev, @social-bicycles
http://www.tushark.com
Manager - Client Engineering @cinemacraft, Partner and CTO at BluSoft Inc., Strong background in UI/UX & Backend design and implementation. Never sleeps.
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer and Engineer of @sassor. He has been working on Interaction designer.
Co-Founder | President | CTO of ubi interactive inc. / @ubi-interactive / Human Computer Interaction, ex-Vodafone, ex-Siemens, ex-Philips, CDTM, TUM Alumnus
http://chaozhang.com
Business Co-Founder of MakeLeaps, a B2B SaaS Invoicing platform. 13 years in Japan, 10+ years running a business here. Fluent in Japanese.
First visited Japan in 2005. Founded MakeLeaps in 2010 to focus my 12+ years of software experience in startups and enterprise on the Japanese SME space.
Angel and Int'l BizDev at NEXT. Joined Rakuten in 1999 when sales was $6 million, grew it to $1.2 billion in 2005. Then joined a VC, helped 2 startups thru IPO.
Venture Capitalist at CyberAgent Ventures. One of the most active VC firm focusing on internet service, headquartered in Tokyo.
My studies and strong interest in information and communications technology, computer science, social networking and the web have become my career.
http://www.bucchi.me
Front End Engineer, UXD
http://www.bucchi.me
Manager of Innovation Encouragement in SunBridge Global Ventures. Marketing expert especially in marketing communication(includes PR, SMO, website).
Economist, Writer & Globetrotter. Cold emails are my superpower. @500startups
http://hongkongandbeyond.com
I am the co founder & CEO of 8 Securities. My journey has taken me through Silicon Valley, New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and now Tokyo.
http://www.siliconyuan.com
Founder of Vanguard K.K. and three other Japanese companies. Investor, advisor, hacker, author, picker, grinner, lover, sinner.
http://t3.org/en
Founded Unoh Inc. (sold to Zynga), then founded Mercari, Inc.
Currently Nodejs, Rails, iOS. Love coding, making things, running and rockclimbing
http://dyashkir.com
Established in 2000. A listed company. Focus on providing mobile contents to consumer, apps, email decoration, e-commerce. Offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Singapore.
Investor, KLab Ventures.
Representative of Japan venture research
Partner of Sun Bridge Global Ventures
Angel activity
salesforce.comJapan founding president
Sun Bridge founders
Founder @wantedly • Worked at @facebook, @goldman-sachs • Studied at @kyoto-university
Branding consultant as well as investment advisor (US-based strategic micro fund and others). Also entrepreneur of two startups as well.
Co-Founder @pocketmath, • Studied Economics/Math at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
Worked at @dg-incubation, @open-network-lab
Love Tech, Mobile & Startups
http://www.ryoumezawa.com/
Former entrepreneur and capitalist himself, currently advises enterprises and mentors startups worldwide. Also teaches at SBI Graduate School of Business.
http://nobuya-yoshida.sblo.jp/
Co-founder/Developer at @fullcourt
#4 employee and Board member of GREE, founder and SVP of its US branch, GREE International. Product leader having Engineering background.
CEO Vizalytics Technology • Content janitor. Worked at @razorfish, @FinancialTimes @newsweek • Studied at @city-university-of-new-york, Former IBCLC with private practice.
http://cuppagemma.com/
Hi there, I'm kristopher. I create experiences wherever I go and right now, I'm in Kyoto. CEO at connectFree k.k., founder of @zooomr -- remember to say hello!
Founder @cottontracks • Worked at @demand-media • Studied at @hec-paris, @telecom-paristech
Investment partner at Netprice.com, serial entrepreneur.
EIR at Beenos.com
My previous startup (cloudshop.jp) is acquired by Aucfan.com which is Japan's largest product-price data analysis company.
http://beenos.com
I invest startups on behalf of @mitsui-co-ltd .Worked at @kicklabs • Studied at @Tuck @dartmouth-college as a Special Student.
Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.
Founder and CEO of @3d-travel, a travel-tech startup that raised $3.5MM. Founder and CEO of @team-vision, a successful interactive agency for over 15 years.
http://3dhawaii.com/blog
Seed incubator. Achieves 80% of portfolios' next round funding. Helps concept making, strategy development and execution, alliance & funding. Ex-BCG consultant.
http://www.rising-asia.com
Codes. Dreams. @Penn @Brown @salesforce MVP. Founder @swarm
http://www.fractastical.com
C#.NET, MSSQL Web & Desktop Developer / Consultant
CEO @marono-media-k-k
Founder @iVentLABS Business Accelerator, @ArdreyGroup LLC • Partner at @K5 Launch Alliance @maverick Angels
Founder @wantedly • Worked at @goldman-sachs • Studied at @kyoto-university
Serial Entrepreneur,Changemaker, Go-to-market strategist.
Japan Market Entry Manager and Senior AI Developer at Skimlinks (User Intent and Text understanding),
Founder of @expressi (emotional relevance), @emotion-ai. Co Founded @zukool (machine learning / recommendation). BSc Artificial Intelligence.
http://expressi.mewww.emotionai.comwww.attentionai.comwww.neon.aiwww.zukool.com
CEO of Increments, the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch. Worked at @google, @hatena.
http://yaotti.hatenablog.com
Cambridge Univ/Cavendish Laboratory PhD in Physics.
Entrepreneur/Founder in Tokyo/Japan
worked with 100s of high-tech companies on business development and strategy in Japan
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
Serial entrepreneur. CEO at J-Seed Ventures and Chief Mentor at @venture-generation, a Tokyo-based venture community.
Working on @unda as Android developer. Have made more than 30 apps for iOS and Android devices. Founder of @goldrush-computing (Tokyo based app dev company)
Angel Investor
Leading scholar and consultant on virtual economies and digital labor. Splitting my time between London School of Economics and a startup. Ex-game developer
CEO at E-Fi Entreprenuer. Independent Marketing Consultant and CMO for start-ups. Strong Business Background. Looking for a job.
Artist, Founder @artsocket @eureka-1 @hechnr-business-engines-inc-1
http://knowledgeandanticipation.tumblr.com
co-founder of Increments.
Researcher, Security Auditor, Developer, Software Architect, Enterpreteneur, ...
Co-Founder for bootupAsia Inc. and @startupdating. Writer of TechCrunch Japan
Stanford MBA, has extensive network of creators, designers and people in the media industry in Japan
Creator of Dynamic Paper. Energy efficient display technology for e-readers identical to paper. Background in product development of unique display tech.
I invest in 5-10 startups @ $30K a year.
http://ougonnokane.com
Co-founder @readerie; Co-founder XM Asia, acq by WPP Group; Founded Organic Asia, IPO in 2000; Worked at @microsoft, Beacon Communications/Leo Burnett Japan.
http://startuphui.com
Founder @garbs, @grooves
http://www.social-recruiting.jp/
Former TechCrunch Japan editor.
VP Marketing @endpoint.com, Fluent Japanese, founder @mediabang-com • Worked @backcountry-com, @red-hat @shoes.com
http://www.davejenkins.com
Berkeley MFE, Waterloo Comp Eng, International Experience Designing and Developing World Class Software Systems, Working with Large Data Sets
Investor&Fundraiser @masdar, Banker @credit-suisse-first-boston-csfb & Techie @merrill-lynch;
MIT Sloan MBA '08, Undergrad LSE '01; born, raised & from Tokyo
COO of Increments,the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch.Open Network Lab is one of the most famous incubation in japan.Worked at Rakuten.
Co-founder of Remotus and currently in charge of business development.
General partner & Co-founder of @incubate-fund, social and mobile apps- focused venture fund in Japan.
EVP of CyberAgent Ventures. 10+years of internet industry experience. Joined CyberAgent in 2003, led CyberAgent America,Inc. from 2007.
Investor: @pinterest, @500startups , @ahalife, @viber ; Founder:; Advisor: @adaptics; Investment/biz role at R Group, @credit-suisse, @ibm; MBA/MS at MIT
Head of Worldwide Corporate and Business Development at @nexon
Venture Capitalist in Asia
Founder @YSK MEIDA • Worked at @samsung corporation,Investor in @nimbuzz, @ucanfunding, @onoffmix,@lawncompany,@heybread,@xlush
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Cerego LLC
Enabling Innovation @sony, Fueling Growth among new Ventures and emerging Intellectual Property
Founder of @locomizer, a B2B geo-behavioral targeting engine to help companies monetize on targeted recommendations and advertising.
http://www.locomizer.com/blog/
Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @yahoo-japan
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben
Was in on the ground floor @the-orchard, @digital-rights-agency, @electronic-arts, @digital-music-group-inc, @red-melon-records • Cognitive Science at @university-of-california-san-diego
Founder & CEO @origami-4
CEO of LM3LABS • Technology management roles @accenture, @nortel-networks @gartner • Engineering + MBA education.
Co-Founder of Doorkeeper. Enthusiastic Web Developer (10+ years) and Entrepreneur. Startup Weekend Facilitator.
General Partner & Co-Founder of IncubateFund. Focus on Asia/Japan/Mobile. Woked at CyberAgent,Inc
Founder of @asiajin.com, English blog media on Japanese web/IT.
http://asiajin.com/blog/
Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
Dutchy that grew up in Europe, spent a decade in Tokyo and now in SF. Starting team member of recruitment firm Wahl & Case and Partner at Red Brick Ventures.
Worked at @dentsu, @360i • Studied at @columbia-business-school, @waseda
Worked at @east-ventures
http://maruyoshi104.hatenablog.com/
General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital
Worked at @the-university-of-tokyo
Film Finance Advisor & Producer with some focus on alternative investments. Graduate of Stern Business School's Entertainment, Media & Technology Program.
CEO of GOOPA Inc. Lived in Silicon Valley for 8.5 years. Animation major at Tokyo Polytechnic University. Worked at amana inc. as newly graduate.
Software engineer with 14 years’ experience as a technology leader, architect and entrepreneur in enterprise & high-volume web. Building a Google Glass startup.
http://www.superhumanlabs.com/blog
Misanthropologist
Founder @everyone @recipay-com-1
https://medium.com/@thierrybezier
Design and programming expert of apps. Launched 2 iPhone/ 2 Android apps, master of Asian market.
CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard
Business Development & Growth at Tokyo-based UI Design company Goodpatch Inc. Worked at @deutsche-bank, @porsche
https://medium.com/@ideeeedit
Founder @nipponterest, @aviationfanclub • Worked at @bbc-worldwide, @bt-group • Studied at @ecole-des-mines-de-paris
Builds stuff. CS @berkeley and @stanford-university. Likes Machine Learning, Big Data, UX Design, Lean Startups. Lived in US, Germany, Japan, Thailand.
http://dennybritz.com
COO at @chatwork, Worked at @microsoft, @viacom • Studied at @science-university-of-tokyo
Product Design. UI. Director of Product Design @zendesk
https://www.vizify.com/maurio
Co-Founder, CEO of CoinPass. Ex Director, Regional Head of APAC, Global RTB Team, at Criteo, BD Manager at Groupon, also Co-Founder of Musavy
Work at @samurai-incubate-1 which is a seed-Investor.
Director/Event Organizer/
http://www.entrepreneursmind.net/
A jack-of-all-trades developer who code both front-end and back-end with 10 years of experience.
Founded @imobile-inc, @ehealthcare-inc. Owner @imobile, President @ehealthcare, Brand Manager @procter-gamble
Associate @ Incubate Fund
Founded AppThemes. Seasoned entrepreneur with strong expertise in Online Marketing and Web Development. Early employee at Salesforce.com.
CEO at Profero Tokyo, Founder Growth Hacking Japan, 500 Startups Mentor. Japan-focused brand strategist & growth hacker, bilingual, WPP Fellow, OxfordUni MPhys
http://jameshollow.com
CEO of Tokyo based startup @campfire.
Owner, Software engineer of @LittleApps Inc.
http://ngsdev.org/
Chief Architect at Recruit Co., Ltd
http://kawanet.blogspot.com/
Planner at @digital-garage, Tokyo. Project Management related to incubation of mobile and web applications in the Japanese market. PR, marketing expertize.
Co-founder @chiizu. @university-of-california-los-angeles MFA Media Art 2006, @swarthmore-college CompSci 1996. Built Pretendster plus social networks for MTV, Participant Media.
Serial entrepreneur. Co-Founder at @basaar & @siison. Studied marketing and finance at the University of Tartu and Waseda University in Tokyo.
http://silverhage.com
Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @ctc-enterprises • Studied at American University from Pennsylvania and Master degree in Japan Social Science.
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben
Founder Vitanect • Worked at @medtronic, @eli-lilly, @arthur-andersen • Studied at @insead-1, @universidade-nova-de-lisboa
Creative, independent professional with experience working abroad in hospitality, travel and trip planning and online editorial content management.
http://glimpsesfromthestreet.com/
StudyPact Founder. MSc in Big Data. Deep passion for behavioral design. Entrepreneur & full-stack dev since age 10.
I get things done.
http://www.hoenisch.at
Founder @yoketown, Sence • Worked at @goldman-sachs, @morgan-stanley • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-waterloo
https://medium.com/@fon_tran
Media Mogul behind #QEBLLC @QEBVLogTV #PublishingQEB #QEBStudios & #QEBFoundation. NEWS TIPS #4045329232
Vice President of CyberAgent Ventures. One of the most active VC firm, headquartered in Tokyo.
Worked at @canon, @samurai-international • Studied at @university-of-california-irvine
Founder. Art Director. Launched mobile app Area Now.
Game industry conference planner. Worked @ startups in Tokyo & Vienna. Speaker @ MIT, GDC, Gamescom. PhD.
Founder at @design Royale (acquired dec'12). Founder at @drumo
Born in Vancouver, Canada but Tokyo is home now. Fintech & Japan market expert, over 8 years experience building new businesses and services in finance & EC
Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com
Swedish Entrepreneur and currently founder of Primal Shield. 5 Countries, 5 companies, 5 Languages and 5 areas of expertise.
Ruby on Rails contributor, Kaminari maintainer(watched by +2600 on Github). experience in programming for +10 years.
http://yukinishijima.net
Interactive Developer Web/Device
Developing Second Screen experiences
Worked at @hatena • Studied at @hosei-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yosuke/
Mobile Developer, Photographer, Blogger.
http://zuco.org
CFO/BizDev @matrixvision • Studied at @georgia-institute-of-technology • Worked at MUFJ @morgan-stanley in Tokyo.
Founded CyberAgent Crowdfunding inc,
Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships @ HPC.
EPITECH CS, full-stack web nerd with a focus on front-end development and UI/UX design. Co-founded LocalRepublic.
http://roadtocairns.com/
Executive Officer at GREE,Inc. Worked at @linkshare, @Livedoor.com • Studied at @sophia University
USC Business Administration-Cinematic Arts Graduate
ex-Co-founder of @fluxflex.
Network/Infra Engineer, @amazon EC2/AutoScaling, iPhone Apps Dev, Internet Backbone Operation(BGP).
Worked at NTT, IRI, transcosmos
http://hirofukami.tumblr.com
MS from Todai, BS from Berkeley. Studied IT management and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Pirate be me native tongue.
Inventor, "Med-Surg Onshoring" (pat. pend.). Project leader $50MM ILEC COs. Leading Wall St. analyst Cable-Modem 1.0. MBA, UNC-Chapel Hill. U-Mich. award.
Founder @band-industries • Worked at @nec-corporation, @csiro • Studied at @american-university-of-beirut. Loves startups & plays flute
http://www.roadietuner.com/blog
Founder of Etsuri
Founded Roth Management, Founding board member of the Catalina Film Festival.
http://www.ryan-roth.com
Carnegie Mellon Engineering undergrad and MBA. Business management generalist with a bent toward strategy and development.
Founder islamap
Studying Waseda University
I'm now in MOVIDA School by Taizo Son.
Graduated Kaisei High&Middle Hish School.
Startups and large corporations work experience in management positions. MBA holder. Technical background & business experience. Trilingual (Japanese, English and Spanish)
Area Manager of Europe at Recruit Strategic Partners
Technology-oriented business development expert specializing in Mobile, Internet and ICT with international experience and local expertise in Japan and Asia
Former Principal of Japanese VC firm. Strong and unique background in venture financing and software engineering.
Founder and CEO of @godigex. Strong international business background (operations at ConAgra Foods, marketing at Brambles). MBA @georgia-institute-of-technology 2009 - Batts Fellow.
CEO of Origoh (Current). Rocket Engineer in JAXA, Public Officer in Japan, Statistian, Chicago Booth MBA 2013 (Sponsored by Government) and Art lover.
VC at @nvcc • Investor @flutterscape, @spline-network
Worked at @sony • Studied at @university-of-texas-austin, @nagoya-university
Assistant Professor (Machine Learning)
@university-of-electro-communications
Tokyo, Japan
Founder of @hitch-d. Mother of two. Web Designer and Fulbright Fellow. Former Tech Recruiter in Tokyo.
An ex-director of mixi Inc. that is one of popular Japanese socia network service.
raises capital for private equity funds
Founder & CEO of Startouts Inc
Entrepreneur based in Tokyo and CEO at Cream - Mobile Marketing Lab.
CTO at @frafty
Venture Investment Associate @BEENOS
Beenos (Tokyo) | Beenos Partners (US) | Beenos Asia (Singapore)
http://beenos.com/en
Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group
Software Developer, Engineer, Founder. Worked at @business-objects. Worked in Japan, Canada, Romania, India.
Worked at @the-bridge • Studied at @keio-university
Webdeveloper, Nerd and Idealist
http://www.serial-experiments.com
bitcoin security specialist
Studied @monash-university University. Electrical engineering background. Focused on process-oriented innovations.
I'm a film producer and I'm co-founder @distrify - a revolutionary new way for film distribution. If you have a film you want to distribute, get in touch!
http://blog.distrify.com/post/21376009167/heres-a-great-video-interview-with-andy-green
I gave a lot of iPhone apps. I was ranked in the category of App Store rankings of America. I made a reward media in CyberAgent. It was a great success.
http://blog.sumyapp.com/
Founder Soundforge.Inc • Worked at @baycurrent-consulting • Studied at @waseda University
Founder @bulqy • Worked at @deloitte-consulting, @sap
CEO of MediaProbe Inc.
International business development and operations executive with experience at Ask.com, Google and Dell supporting int'l growth in region and at headquarters.
Creative problem solver. Founded, ran and sold online travel startup. Strong online background from @expedia and @mckinsey-company
Lead on @pelikan-projects, United Nations international project management system
Business angel, consultant and entrepreneur; focus on education, also fintech, health and cleantech.
Worked at @recruit
Serial cleantech entrepreneur with successful startup, IPO, secondary, turn-around and MBO experience. Currently CEO of VAIREX air systems.
Undergrads and MBA from Colorado Univ. IRS Enrolled Agent. Experience in Japan and Silicon Valley. Now working with US-AU-CN-JP-EU (especially "mundane") SMBs.
Co-Founder @nous
Prior: Equity Proprietary Trader @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch
B.A. & B.S.E. @university-of-pennsylvania
(complete later)
http://blog.julien.cayzac.name/
Co-Founder/COO/General Counsel of Global EduGate • Worked as IP lawyer at @the-coca-cola-company • Studied at @georgetown-university, @university-of-maryland-college-park
http://careeradviceforasians.wordpress.com
Founder @diggerlab • Worked at @microsoft-research, @tokyo-institute-of-technology-1 • Studied at @waseda, @chalmers-institute-of-technology
Teach for America Alumni, Princeton '11, UC Denver '13
http://blog.jimijackson.com
Experienced Early Stage Ventures Manager and Consultant
TBD
Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC
CEO Pido inc.
CEO of @net8. I met the internet in 1995 at the first. In that time i worked for JustNet that was ISP of Justsytem corp. Then found own company in 1999.
5 years realtime trading systems in C++, 3 years development platforms and algorithmic trading in Python. Excellent communicator, enthusiastic learner.
Worked at @morgan-stanley @pwc @credit-suisse @bnp-paribas • Studied at @london-school-of-economics • Member of MENSA • Speaks four different languages
Co-founder of @10sec.
see my profile in linkedin
Corporate Lawyer, Government Relations Consultant, and Business Development Specialist with deep working knowledge of the tech sectors in US, Europe, and Asia.
Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.
Founder & CEO @makemoji, Co-Founder @quickfra-me, Investor RealVu, Founder Saving Power (RIP); @bentley-university University BS 2009
https://www.facebook.com/tylercolebreton
NUS School of Computing, Interface Redesign @ TripAdvisor, Best Project (E-Business Capstone), human language maestro, failed first startup @ 20
http://db.tt/HTl8G7gK
Co-founder & Chairman of Ticketstreet, online marketplace of Sports/Concert/Thertre tickets in Japan. Serial entrepreneur, Angel investor.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/taro_akebono/
Worked at @linklaters, @freshfields-bruckhaus-deringer • Studied at @insead-1
Worked at @goldman-sachs • Studied at University of Pennsylvania
Founder @fishbonn, FishBonn • Worked at @j-drive-communications • Studied at @boston-university
Founder @coffeebreak • Worked at @stumbleupon, @microsoft • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university
Statistician/Data mining specialist with Ph.D. in econometrics and computational macroeconomics. Also, full stack Rails developer.
Founder @securo, @instatrip
Founder and developer of Cumiki. Ph.D student at University of Tokyo department of Economics. I'm a developer of Node, Rails, and iOS.
http://ryooopan.tumblr.com
Invested in number of internet startups
Banker
Driven junior full-stack web developer coming out of General Assembly's immersive program. Graduate of @middlebury-college College and @sarah-lawrence-college College.
Owner & CIO of @skyavy, INC.
http://iketani.skyavy.com
Economics student at Emory University; Prior experiences in real estate, and accounting in a non-profit company.
Founder Combinator. Strong business background(Sansan).
Started my carrier as a management consultant, and then moved to DeNA co. ltd., as the head of HR. Now I manage the Game BU as a board member of DeNA.
Mid to expert level Rails programmer.
Developer of Increments, ex-Kamado CTO(acquired by mixi)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/camelmasa/
Angel • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley
Consultant of iOS and Android App Tracking.
Knowledge of Japanese mobile market and culture.
Founder @bitcellar
Chicago Booth MBA, Monterrey Tech Computer Engineer, work experience in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Founder of Otsumu Inc.
Jouy en Josas
Sport marketing planner at ad agency. Strong relationship with Japanese Olympic Committee, and other national federations.
Founder Skimtoon and LVC Investment, Specialize in Financial analysis and operations Studied at @university-of-waterloo
神奈川生まれ・US育ち/一橋大学経済学部/音楽雑食家/ギター弾き/SydneyMarathon2010完走(4h34m)/road bike(Anchor RNC3)で九州1周1,000kmの旅/Shoot Boxing
Representative Director & CEO of White Knight Capital and Global Educational Partners
Worked at @rakuten, @metaps • Studied at @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
http://blog.rishabhmhjn.me
Professional advertising producer and project manager with creativity, strategic thinking and multiple focus.
Founder Mystar-Japan Business Solutions • Studied at @keio-university
http://satoshitaniguchi.com
CTO of Postmore. Lifelong programmer. Dev experience from teamLab inc. (4 years). Studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology(2007).
Co-founder at FitnessCubed. UChicago alum. ChicagoBooth MBA admit. Health, Energy, Art.
Product Designer. Passionate about digital tech.
Worked @sony. Founder @commerce-labs-1 @innerclan . B.Tech @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
http://rohittaneja.quora.com
CEO at CFN Services, Studied @university-of-massachusetts-amherst, @american-university
I am an extremely energetic person who wants more and more out of life. I love my work, my family & my friends and also like meeting new people.
Founder NZBCX • Worked at @hsbc, @nomura • Studied at @victoria-university-of-wellington, @deakin-university
Deep telco and clean tech experience. Founding board member at Azteq Mobile. Founding EVP of Smart Grid Services at Sliver Spring Networks. CSO at Vodafone.
Founder of @olio.me. Founder @skyavy, Inc (US). Founder @skyavy Group, co.ltd (Japan). Founder @jmarket-com (sold).
http://sorato.me
Wesleyan Bioinformatics, PM@Gilt Groupe Japan, Analtytically Driven PM
https://m.giltcity.jp
National Account Manager, Canada Consumer Sales and Marketing at AMD
Asia Pacific entrepreneur and investor. Passionate about people who push the edge everyday. A decade working with the most valuable retail brands.
E.I.R @ beenos.
Regional Sales Manager
Internship at startup in Japan. I do HTML, CSS, jQuery, and PHP. I am major in international business. Looking for a job in San francisco.
CEO & Founder @nous
Prior: Asia Electronic Trading Strat and Product Mgr at @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch, also @deutsche-bank, @ubs, @imperial-college-london-1
http://hontoblog.wordpress.com/author/hontoblog/
Co-Founder of @porter-sail. Ideated and executed global digital strategies for brands like Food Network and Masterchef. Barnard College graduate in Economics.
Founder @tabego • Worked at @gree-international-inc, @wizcorp
Significant Experience in IT Ops, LiveOPS, IT Support, and Customer Support.
Harvard Econ, Business Analyst at Rakuten's ecommerce unit with posts in business planning, marketing analysis, and business intelligence.
Bringing the world together one meal at a time.
http://blog.eatwith.com/
Co-Founder of @ikkyotech. Strong international financial business experience in Asia/NY/London at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities.
Creator@[vivify-it, medibeep, IdeaAte, JFDI ] •Worked at @barclays-capital •Studied at @iit •published researcher •imaginative, good with tech, word & design
Los Angeles / Tokyo • Startup and Big Data Enthusiast • Quant Analyst & Engineer @raytheon • Previously @nasa-jpl • BS, MBA, MSBA
Expert software engineer who is also good at designing high-end yet simple clean easy-to-use software. Worked in Silicon Valley and Japan.
Founder @unltd-fm • @startupbus Europe '13 • Worked at @ez-systems • Studied at @efrei
14 years of programming experience in many languages, on many platforms, from mobile apps to scalable backend systems. Significant infrastructure & sysops exp.
Working on @appsocially. Love Arc.
http://mgiken.com/blog
A full-stack software engineer, currently located in Tokyo.
yes
Masahiko Inada is a Founder & CEO at kabuku Inc., a leading startup relating making things in Japan.
iOS Developer for 2 years. I made 1 game app on AppStore. Now making 1 Parse connected app. Keio univ. CS B3 in Japan. Worked at tekunodo inc. for 1 year.
Founded two companies in Japan
Bilingual Project Manager
iOS + node.js/golang + Ops, launched http://getirkit.com/ http://jsdo.it/ http://photobag.in/
http://maaash.jp/
Designer,launched 3 apps for Apple store
Working in a one of the top mystery shopping company as Project manager( International PM, PM Japan, Premium Brands Relation Manager).
recruiting, including headhunting, web producer
PhD student. Entrepreneur and researcher in digital health. Co-founder @ Mindfulnets. Crowd-funding now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLEPBRP4j1k
http://blog.mindfulnets.co/category/english/
Japan.
Two decades, marketing, strategy, m&a, deals in b. Actually knows what "wa" means.
Rode the 9.0 no hands.
MS Electrical Engineering - @national-university-of-singapore
project manager and system analyst based in Japan. Running projects on a short deadline. Passionate about the strong feedback culture and UX. Enjoys innovating.
Founder Cumiki
PhD student at University of Tokyo; Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Worked at IBM and Portugal Telecom
Founder/Engineer @tadaku • Studied at @university-of-massachusetts-amherst • Bostonian abroad
Designer turned entrepreneur turned angel investor. Co-founder of LELO (sold), co-founder of Dreamler, founder of Criterion Investments.
Business Development @99jobs • Consultant• Worked at @playstation, @Citgroup. Italian-Brazilian, USA resident. I love doing exciting international projects.
Artist, programmer, columnist, translator etc. Worked at @ibm, @sun-microsystems • Studied at @kyoto-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/akipponn3
CEO, Founder
Form/Function. Tokyo/Paris.
Worked at @aiesec, @nidec-corporation • Studied at @tokyo-university
http://tkmsd0821.blogspot.com/
Founder sen-ya, @man-ya • Studied at @berklee-college-of-music
Awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship issued by the Japanese government for research in Japan. Received a master degree in Engineer form Tokyo unviersity.
http://realintelligence.net
Worked at @recruit, @recruit Holdings • Studied at @keio-university
Founder POYNTER
Founder and CTO of @liine • Worked at @vantrix • Studied at @university-of-montreal • Maker of things
Self-motivated, strategically-focused Marketing and Product Management Professional with over ten years of financial sector experience.
Working at I&G Partners, Inc.
Founder @kyoto-u-com • Worked at @recruit, @bebit • Studied at Kyoto
Founder of @cybridge, @cybridge Mobile. Investor in @axion, @fan-appli, @soratobu, @predge, @pa-corp. Team member of @cybridge.
http://yuki.blog.cybridge.jp/
Founder @mystar-japan-business-solutions-1 • Worked at @gembiosoft • Studied at @universidad-politecnica-de-valencia
Production engineer for high-performance sportscars. Strong mechanical and industrial engineering background. Passionate about cars and driving.
Somewhere on the creative design side of things
Assistant Director now at GDK International Company Limited. Deans list of Northeastern University in Economics/Business Administration.
PhD in Robotics (Tokyo Tech). Startup geek.
http://startuplife.asia
Project Development and Execution Wizard
Worked at @samurai-incubate-1
Canadian English teacher in Japan and foreign culture correspondent, promotor of Japanese culture amongst foreigners.
Designer with 12 years experience currently at IDEO Tokyo. Love to chat about ideas.
http://www.barrylachapelle.com
Rails programmer, Sales, New bussiness developer, Launched 2 facebook app
Visionary, Entrepreneur and Investor
Software engineer with experience writing Python, Node.js, and Go as well as functional programming languages such as Racket.
http://shawnps.net
Experienced Ruby on Rails programmer. Business, analytics and finance background. Previously worked at @pnc-capital-markets.
http://www.diasks2.com
Founder @makamaka
http://blogs.bizmakoto.jp/kazunobuseto/
Founder @tier5 • Worked at @google, @microsoft • B.S./M.S @johns-hopkins-university
Co-founder COO of Molcure, Co-founder CEO of Mashroom, Founder of iDEFIX
Co-Founder @beestripe. Analytics Consultant for @microsoft, T-Mobile, Home Depot, Alaska Air. Founded Speekit which serves language learners in 176 countries.
Launched 4 successful Android apps and 3 successful iOS apps. Worked at aitia.
Excellent in versatility
http://www.nedielka.com
Worked at @jafco • Studied at @kyoto-university
Account Manager at Vision Consulting
Vision Consulting Services K.K. primarily supports multinational IT firms with Japan offices.
Founder of Ednity. Ednity is a collaborative learning platform for classrooms.
http://hackinsight.com/
Founder @metroworks-crowd-sourcing-engine-japan, Japan Travel KK • Worked at @eds
Product Designer @ Cerego Japan. Soup to nuts product guy. Strategy to deploy. Team leader, user experience architect, front end dev, visual designer, nice guy!
CEO of @beartail. Student at @tsukuba-university university. Worked at big computer magazine companies as a technical writer and founded smartphone news web media.
Veteran software engineer with a BS in Physics. Experience with building and managing teams of engineers, setting up efficient workflows and processes.
let's go surprise the world.
http://sakurakoaoyama.com
Worked at @re-al-sandbox
Master student at SJTU; now research intern of NII, Japan.
http://engcube.com
Entrepreneur & software developer. Founded Bell Standard, Inc. Created over 750 apps for the iTunes Store.
Tokyo, Japan-based marketer, entrepreneur, tea aficionado and outdoorsman.
http://jonclemons.com/blog
CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.
Intrigued by all aspects of marketing and promotion. Loving events and spreading a message. Currently exploring the world to absorb as much as I can in it.
Business development manager for Pacific Asia region • Founder of French web magazine • Self starter and challenger
Founder of ZenClerk. We help e-commerce websites to close sales. Wanna surprise the world!
Studied and worked in France, England and USA. Worked for different startups in San Francisco,London and Lyon.Now willing to discover the working world of Tokyo
Supported Overseas Launches of 3 Japan Technology SME's through executive coaching, technical communication and business strategy
Developed a distributed telephony/voice-trading platform at IFS. Strong C++ and linux background.
http://nishantjr.github.io
A native of Australia, Nick Pollock relocated to Japan in 1997, where he worked as a Recruitment Consultant with ACCESS Japan.
http://nickpollocktmcjapan.wordpress.com/
PHP/Drupal web developer; 7+ years professional experience from California to Tokyo; currently in Boise. ObjC/Ruby too. Looking for additional contract work.
Working experiences in various jobs such as import/export, marketing, licensing, foods, translator, negotiator and etc.
Web developer extraordinaire, Scrum master, Telecommute consultant (US Citizen)
Investor in @marono-media-k-k, @myfdb.
Business and Japanese Studies graduate with international start-up content management experience.
Charles' Pribyl's research, the first ever to use fMRI to map the brain of consumers, was featured in the NY Times, and in the bestseller ‘Human Sigma.’
Worked at KPMG as an audit associate.
Co-founder/COO of Oarket Inc. in Japan. We are planning to move our office to CA, USA. Studied at University of Tokyo.
Red Brick Ventures is an incubation and acceleration platform dedicated to unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of Japan.
Sales Operations. Startup obsessed. ScrumMaster in training. Currently @GiltGroupeJapan
Asia-based marketing and product management consultant.
Ecommerce & Business Analyst
Digital Marketing Lead @ Reach7. Responsible for growth across all digital channels. SEO/SEM, Social, Content Marketing, Lead Generation
personal investor. early investor in guardtime
Web Developer
ex-startup founder & CEO: AHO Corporation(former @netaten-inc
Full stack enthusiast, with experiences into low level Kernel hacking and efficient API development, motivated to lead Startups to success.
Modelcase, Inc. CEO
http://www.modelcase.info/
Team member of @marketgeek.
http://keketter.tumblr.com/
VarioSecure Networks, Founder, took Internet security business public. PSINet, engineered Japan's 1st ISP; managed acquisitions of Asia's 7 leading ISPs.
Official character of Mystar-Japan. Created in 2010.
Founded GaiaX (IPOed at 2006), then joined Pixta.
DivX, MoblMedia, Computer Science at UCSD
Co-founder/CEO of Oarket Inc. Planning to move office to CA, USA. Studied at @tokyo Metropolitan. International retail background (Tribox Inc., a puzzle shop)
Founder of Placie. Worked at GREE, Autodesk, Alias|wavefront. Developer and Product Manager. GLOBIS MBA. Computer Science BS at University of Aizu.
http://hiroyukihaga.blogspot.jp/
Director of @entsure. Pro Go player. World Rank #1. Won 35 Championships (15 major int'l titles). Over 40 million fans in Asia (China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan).
MS in Computer engineering, launched a webapp called Goodmoove, published in an international journal, looking for a challenge!
Software engineer, Founder of Init, Lover of puzzles and challenges.
I am a User Interface Designer and a hybrid one, a sweeper, who knows how to craft pixels and enjoy cranking codes at the same time.
http://voidnothings.com
Vacant is the pioneer of pop-up retailing, providing real estate and turnkey solutions for short term retail since 1999.
Co-Founder, CEO of @shiroube - The marketplace linking travelers with local residents to enable users to freely seek micro local guides. - http://shiroube.com/
COO,CFO of @cafeworx-inc
Worked at @mixi-inc
Growth Hack
A Software Engineering professional with 15 years experience of both Software Engineering teams, and customer-facing Consultancy Services
Studied International Economics and currently working as an International Exhibition Organizer at Reed Exhibition; good at project planning and excution.
Web Designer, Illustrator
Founder Beauty Bento Box
Server Administrator, Network and Security Operations Specialist.
I graduated from Hanoi University Of Technology for a year. I am working as server side developer in a game development company. I am looking for a chance to work and touch with new and high technology with more challenge
Founder The Manx Entertainment Group, @conceptuous • Studied at @southern-cross-university
One of first investors of Wiztango, over 13 years of experience in investment banking
Project Manager and Marketing Associate at @marono-media-k-k
University of Bern MBA 2008
Founder Tokyo Incubator @luxstack; sold 1st startup to @monster-worldwide; platform & app lead for Softbank, @yahoo-japan, @fujitsu; enterprise R&D for @adidas
Founder of @thinkx-inc
http://kazukiotsuka.wordpress.com/
Multilingual, MBA graduate, Innovation and new business development consultant, emerging markets strategy
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Established Graphic Designer with a strong multimedia background and a varied portfolio.
Interested in business in VietNam
UI/UX designer @sttir-inc
http://www.sansan.com/blog/en/
French EMLyon business school student. Interested in the ways businesses emerge, connect with people and make things that matter.
Mobile Developer at Step-In with strong designer background
Studied at @tsukuba-university
Generalist; Has passion on R&D; Mix creative and engineering skills;
Worked at @regal-farms-llc-1
worked with some of the biggest companys in Australia ANZ, MYOB to name a few and designed 5 apps in the app store and 3 non-customer facing apps lanched.
General Instrument, OpenTV, Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors, Juniper Networks; based in Tokyo, Japan
Programmer. Ph.D. in C.S. from @okayama-university University.
BS in CSE, Generalist with back-end as main, Launch 5 online social game including one iOS/Android Native app, Work at GREE Japan.
UK origins, Physics / Electronics, BSc & FCA, 20+ years in Japan. Founding member $1bn+ sporting goods business. On board with LUXSTACK, its what retail needs
Software Engineer, advanced knowledge in Java and various web technologies, also competent in front-end development
http://www.marounbaydoun.com/
finished graduate school in Japan (MA)
then studied at Parsons School of Design
CEO of @miracoro. Master of pharmacy. worked at parexel international, dispensing pharmacy.
Director - Asia Pacific Securities, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers
CEO @invest-diva
http://forexdiva.com/
Project Manager and Computer Engineer
Investor in @recman.
Founder of Tadaku. Australian designer based in Tokyo, working globally.
Internationally minded and experienced Sales, Marketing, HR and creative thinker with bundles of energy and positivity.
Founder, Amazing Grace K.K.
B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.
Founder Byus
Smart city and social innovation consultant in Asia
株式会社ヒューマンダイン。『AirIntern(エア・インターン)』をつくっています。Tiny punk. Dance like Jagger. Sing like Lennon. Work like dog. Founded Humandyne inc. Crafted http://t.co/TCYwQfsJvC
楽しみですね
New Business Development Manager specialized in Asian markets • Worked at @ernst-and-young • Studied at @university-of-hyogo
Exploring posibilities and looking forward to be a part of a tech startup in Tokyo
CyberAgent Crowd Funding, inc.
Founder @miklr
Working at IDC Frontier as Engineer.
http://nushu123.blogspot.jp/
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10 Year Expatriate - Bilingual Digital Marketing Professional. Natural leader. SEO SEM CMS Data-Driven, Innovator, User/Customer-first mentality.
Famous Labs
http://famouslabs.tumblr.com/
Skilled infra engineer and architect. UNIX and web development.
Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.
Owner of MUTO CORPORATION in Tokyo Japan. We have been exporting various Japanese products to the company and individuals around the world.
I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me!
More 14 years of experience developing solutions in telephony and web.
PhD of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Students at Padjadjaran University, Nanza University. In learning about technologies and mobile development environment.
Business development/strategic partnership manager for Skype and BlackBerry; Seasoned product manager; Excellent technology sales/spokesperson
Founder MoreTrax
Founder, President & COO @monohm. Global UX & Product Design for @sony on PlayStation 4 / Xperia / 4K. @apple led OSX / iOS UX frameworks for HTML5. Autodidact.
MBA with Information Systems, Project Development, created a small organisation
Ruby Developer at @quipper, worked at @paperboy-co and @livedoor-com.
http://blog.kyanny.me/
I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me! You can download my resume from here ( http://tinyurl.com/ocy48ob )
http://jeyum2.blogspot.com
research software engineer and system administrator
Senior Java developer. 2 Msc. IT degrees. Spring certified developer. Worked across multiple industries; Proficient with DBs and HTML5 & CSS3.
Launched 2 android applications, made Linux Device Driver at Sony Mobile.
Enthusiast, passionate about new tech and wearable devices. Founder @mmt-and-co, @syncbiz-pte-ltd • Worked at @77hz-ltd
http://masarusuzuki.tumblr.com/
Tokyo-based Project Manager at major internet company
Software Engineer
Indra Sonny Wicaksono Twitter Account
5 new start up at Japan from scratch. 2 re-built Japan office and business development. 2 own businesses creation. 1 pure start up at US.
Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.
Cft Gobelins, i worked at marathon media, tms, neomis, satelight,bones, madhouse, a1pictures and as cofounder at ankama japan. Actually i founded my own company:Yapiko-animation
Worked at Capgemini
Social Media Rock Star
Experience with range of technologies. Proficient in C++, PHP, SQL, Shell, JavaScript, Python and quick to learn. Creator of Linux distribution 'noop linux'.
ex-Partner at Accenture. ex-Partner at Heidrick&Struggles.
Digital Front End Designer/Developer with over 8 years experience
lead front-end engineer. I launched 7 seccessfull social games.
Yoshihide Takeda
9-4-701 Sanbancho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan 102-0075 Phone +81 3 5226 5752
[email protected] Age: 43 Nationality: American
CAREER SUMMARY
10+ years managerial experience in IT industry - PMP Cerified Project Manager with prove
CEO @partner-of-stars. Overseas Sales Department @hitachi.
Highly motivated Systems Administrator who worked on the Telecommunications industry since 2001 for Starmedia Network and France Telecom defining, installing, administering and troubleshooting *nix systems and the services running on top of them. Addition
A Managing Partner of TMC Japan, Karl Caldeira focuses on developing the firm’s and search and recruitment techniques.
http://karlcaldeira.tumblr.com/
Hope to start a digital music music (DTP) & graphic / web design school for kids in Tokyo
http://www.anincrediblewasteoftime.com
World class engineer with 20 years of experience.
Worked at CERN, UBS, Walt Disney, Colt, Agency.com amongst others.
https://dazdaztech.wordpress.com/
General manager and R&D engineer at SiliconStudio, Tokyo, Japan. Worked at a Startup in the Silicon Valley now bought by Microsoft.
My career has been around computer infrastructure for the Financial Industry. I own http://limitedsecurities.com and a co-founded http://ubirates.com
Business angel
Founder Ashamed
JS, go, Clojure
Founder @tabego
Owner Muchacho Clothing. Founded 2007. Worked at Macquarie Bank, JP Morgan, Citco Fund Services. We are a swim and streetwear brand based in Sydney, Australia
Founder & CEO of STELLATO Inc. / Chief Engineer / Architect / iPhone, Android App development company / Objective-C / Cocos2d / Unity / Perl / Python
http://poccori.com/blog/wp
Founder @lelele
Co founder of Yappa Games, Co founder of @yomoola. MA from University of Hertfordshire. Strong business background. Worked at IGG.
http://www.facebook.com/Yomoola
industrial designer
I offer innovation product designs and ideas by creativity that is changeable to profit based on "new".
Worked at @nec-biglobe
大学生 経営デザイン 大野研 経シス 基幹 AGE 学院 和光 埼玉 茨城
Presidet & CEO at @rivertime-entertainment Inc.
Creative at @dentsu Inc.
Film Director with @radical.media
Web designer since middle school, primarily work on independent gaming sites
http://retrylevel.com
Freelance user experience designer / user interface designer. Worked at Yahoo Japan (2008-2012)
http://blog.daichisakota.com
COO of Increments,the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch.Open Network Lab is one of the most famous incubation in japan.Worked at Rakuten.
New Business Creator
I am a freelance web designer. I specialise in front-end web design, HTML & CSS.
Sales, Finance, and Entrepreneurship!
Developer / UX Designer.
Founder of IGL-Art Inc. Film Producer, Director, Writer. Mainly make samurai movies.
Fincap Investments is a venture capital fund also present in seed financing. We support entrepreneurs and provide capital, business experience and contacts.
http://embryocap.over-blog.com
Founder of @myndpage. Fond of programming, linguistics and neurology. 1st freelance programming job at 18 for @novonordisk Laboratories. Graduated from Epitech.
Freelance Ruby on rails developer.
worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com
Snowboarding at Zao, Hakuba, Kagura. Love iPhone, Android, Tokyo Tower, Kobe, Izu, Stockholm, swimming, Chopin, Bunin, Paris vu par....
tech vs design
Founder, CEO, Hobby Fisherman
Founded first paid Internet content site in Japan.
Built core software for Namco, Nifty, AOL, Sonet, BIglobe, Visa, VeriSIgn...
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Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit
Investor in @vanten-holdings.
Co founder of @mashroom-fm.
@mashroom-fm help people playing instruments at home and participate in virtual jam session and practice with others.