Map of the local innovation industry.
 Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
             CEO of addlight Inc. / Director of some Japanese start-ups / Angel Investor
          
          
          
             デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab
          
          
          
             Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.
          
          
          
             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
          
          
          
             Internet entrpreneur + Angel. Founded Sublime IP. Managed Australia's first ISP; >20 years Internet experience. @insead-1 MBA. IP Attorney
          
          
          
             Founder of MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of @zynga Japan; Created @zynga's core game framework; Investor in @heyday, @pixelapse, @hipmunk
          
          http://www.amitt.com
          
             Co-founder of DeNA
          
          
          
             CEO @zendrive. Making Driving A Rewarding Experience. Marketing, Product & Strategy @android, @facebook @boston-consulting-group
          
          
          
             Founder @zynga 
          
          
          
             Based in Japan
          
          
          
             Former tech/media banker at GS,MS in Tokyo, a VC in Hong Kong turned seed,early stage investor based in NYC.
          
          
          
             Advising early stage startups globally as Trailnavi, Inc. (Founded in April, 2013) Invested in  @twitter, @path and etc. when I worked at Digital Garage.
          
          
          
             Partner and CFO
          
          
          
             CEO @anyroad • Cognitive Neuroscience at @berkeley • Founded KAIS International School in Tokyo. Founder of the Mirai Institute and Midori.so.
          
          
          
             Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo  • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel
          
          
          
             Head APAC SMB Acquisition Mktg, @google
PAST:
Global Finance Lead b2b Mktg, @google
Head Finance & Operations, @svox (acquired by Nuance)
          
          
          
             Co-Founder of @rimnet-k-k, @mysql K.K., @redrobot-k-k; Worked at News Corporation, NTT DoCoMo R&D, @mysql and Sun.
          
          
          
             Founder and CEO @remotus  @nobot
          
          
          
             CEO and co-Founder of Gengo
          
          http://robertlaing.com
          
             Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures 
          
          
          
             Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.
          
          
          
             Angel Investor, Advisor, C-level Executive with 20 years of Media experience in print and digital platforms. Currently CEO at SheKnows.com
          
          
          
             Co-Founder & CTO: @social-rewards, Inc., Screen Rewards
Founder & CEO: Global Micro Solutions, Inc.
Founder & Chairman: GMS Japan, Inc.
          
          
          
             An angel investor with a business development and investment banking background in the US and Japan.
          
          
          
             Founder @cirius-technology, @cirius-technologies-usa 
COO/CFO of the Marketing Solution Company at Yahoo! JAPAN.
          
          
          
             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.//  
          
          
          
             I.T. Bureau Chief at Fuji Television (Japanese Biggest TV station)
          
          
          
             Management Sensei ◦ Infrastructure Samurai ◦ Analytics Otaku ◦ Architecture Ninja.  1st programming job at 14.  Effective in teams of 4 to 10,000.
          
          
          
             Founder Original Stitch, @startforce • Worked at @splashtop • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley
          
          
          
             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 at Denno-tai (Mobile Search Engine, Acquired by YahooJP)
Senior Planner at Dentsu.
Founder & CEO at Distant Drums inc.
          
          
          
             Co-Founder & CTO of: 
Exco Financial Services, including Paidy.com, Aqush.com and MyCredit.jp. 
Wavecell, Global SMS aggregator.
Nozara, research & investment.
          
          
          
             CIO at @yahoo Japan.  Advisory at Softbank mobile. Founder & President at P.I.M. (Acquired by YahooJP in 2000)
          
          
          
             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.
          
          
          
             CEO of @six-apart. Founder and investor of @connectfree-k-k, @ikumore. Investor of @say-media. Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @university-of-tokyo
          
          
          
             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/
          
             Established in 2000. A listed company. Focus on providing mobile contents to consumer, apps, email decoration, e-commerce. Offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Singapore.
          
          
          
             Branding consultant as well as investment advisor (US-based strategic micro fund and others). Also entrepreneur of two startups as well.
          
          
          
             Investor @30k • Investor @airhelp • Investor @trekbooking.com  •Studied at @rutgers-university-newark, @iscte-lisboa
          
          
          
             Serial Entrepreneur,Changemaker, Go-to-market strategist.
          
          
          
             CEO @marono-media-k-k
          
          
          
             Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.
          
          
          
             Founded Unoh Inc. (sold to Zynga), then founded Mercari, Inc.
          
          
          
             #4 employee and Board member of GREE, founder and SVP of its US branch, GREE International. Product leader having Engineering background.
          
          
          
             Founder at @design Royale (acquired dec'12). Founder at @drumo
          
          
          
             Investor&Fundraiser @masdar, Banker @credit-suisse-first-boston-csfb & Techie @merrill-lynch; 
MIT Sloan MBA '08, Undergrad LSE '01; born, raised & from Tokyo
          
          
          
             CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard
          
          
          
             CEO of LM3LABS • Technology management roles @accenture, @nortel-networks @gartner • Engineering + MBA education. 
          
          
          
             Founded @imobile-inc, @ehealthcare-inc. Owner @imobile, President @ehealthcare, Brand Manager @procter-gamble
          
          
          
             Founder of @asiajin.com, English blog media on Japanese web/IT.
          
          http://asiajin.com/blog/
          
             Representative of Japan venture research 
Partner of Sun Bridge Global Ventures
Angel activity 
salesforce.comJapan founding president 
Sun Bridge founders
          
          
          
             Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
          
          
          
             
          
          
          
             Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group
          
          
          
             Designer turned entrepreneur turned angel investor. Co-founder of LELO (sold), co-founder of Dreamler, founder of Criterion Investments.  
          
          
          
             Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.
          
          
          
             Investor in @marono-media-k-k, @myfdb.
          
          
          
             Founded GaiaX (IPOed at 2006), then joined Pixta.
          
          
          
             
          
          
          
             Red Brick Ventures is an incubation and acceleration platform dedicated to unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of Japan. 
          
          
          
             ex-Partner at Accenture. ex-Partner at Heidrick&Struggles.
          
          
          
             tech vs design
          
          
          
             Invested in number of internet startups
          
          
          
             Snowboarding at Zao, Hakuba, Kagura. Love iPhone, Android, Tokyo Tower, Kobe, Izu, Stockholm, swimming, Chopin, Bunin, Paris vu par....
          
          
          
             Investor in @recman.
          
          
          
             Business angel 
          
          
          
             Investor in @vanten-holdings.
          
          
          
             Founder of @cybridge, @cybridge Mobile. Investor in @axion, @fan-appli, @soratobu, @predge, @pa-corp. Team member of @cybridge.
          
          http://yuki.blog.cybridge.jp/
          
             personal investor. early investor in guardtime