Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Internet entrpreneur + Angel. Founded Sublime IP. Managed Australia's first ISP; >20 years Internet experience. @insead-1 MBA. IP Attorney
Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel
Founder @zynga
Based in Japan
CEO @zendrive. Making Driving A Rewarding Experience. Marketing, Product & Strategy @android, @facebook @boston-consulting-group
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 MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of @zynga Japan; Created @zynga's core game framework; Investor in @heyday, @pixelapse, @hipmunk
http://www.amitt.com
CEO of addlight Inc. / Director of some Japanese start-ups / Angel Investor
Founder of @division-films, @w4, Hydra, Investor in Path, Playsino, Titan Gaming, @evertune, @mp3-com, @net2phone
Co-Founder of @rimnet-k-k, @mysql K.K., @redrobot-k-k; Worked at News Corporation, NTT DoCoMo R&D, @mysql and Sun.
CEO @anyroad • Cognitive Neuroscience at @berkeley • Founded KAIS International School in Tokyo. Founder of the Mirai Institute and Midori.so.
Advising early stage startups globally as Trailnavi, Inc. (Founded in April, 2013) Invested in @twitter, @path and etc. when I worked at Digital Garage.
Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.
Former tech/media banker at GS,MS in Tokyo, a VC in Hong Kong turned seed,early stage investor based in NYC.
Co-founder of DeNA
Partner and CFO
Head APAC SMB Acquisition Mktg, @google
PAST:
Global Finance Lead b2b Mktg, @google
Head Finance & Operations, @svox (acquired by Nuance)
デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab
Just An Indelible Adopter. ex-Investors of a few early birds.
#Angel #i18n #gihyodp #barlog
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Founder Original Stitch, @startforce • Worked at @splashtop • Studied at @university-of-california-berkeley
Co-Founder & CTO of:
Exco Financial Services, including Paidy.com, Aqush.com and MyCredit.jp.
Wavecell, Global SMS aggregator.
Nozara, research & investment.
Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures
CIO at @yahoo Japan. Advisory at Softbank mobile. Founder & President at P.I.M. (Acquired by YahooJP in 2000)
Co-founder at Denno-tai (Mobile Search Engine, Acquired by YahooJP)
Senior Planner at Dentsu.
Founder & CEO at Distant Drums inc.
Co-Founder & CTO: @social-rewards, Inc., Screen Rewards
Founder & CEO: Global Micro Solutions, Inc.
Founder & Chairman: GMS Japan, Inc.
Co-founded M3 (TSE:2413). Created world's most successful pharma-to-physician online marketing channel. Transformed $2M startup capital into $1B market cap.
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.
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.
Founder and CEO @remotus @nobot
CEO of @six-apart. Founder and investor of @connectfree-k-k, @ikumore. Investor of @say-media. Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @university-of-tokyo
Founder @cirius-technology, @cirius-technologies-usa
COO/CFO of the Marketing Solution Company at Yahoo! JAPAN.
I.T. Bureau Chief at Fuji Television (Japanese Biggest TV station)
An angel investor with a business development and investment banking background in the US and Japan.
CEO and co-Founder of Gengo
http://robertlaing.com
Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.
CEO of LM3LABS • Technology management roles @accenture, @nortel-networks @gartner • Engineering + MBA education.
CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard
CEO @marono-media-k-k
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
Founded Unoh Inc. (sold to Zynga), then founded Mercari, Inc.
Founded @imobile-inc, @ehealthcare-inc. Owner @imobile, President @ehealthcare, Brand Manager @procter-gamble
Serial Entrepreneur,Changemaker, Go-to-market strategist.
Investor @30k • Investor @airhelp • Investor @trekbooking.com •Studied at @rutgers-university-newark, @iscte-lisboa
Founder at @design Royale (acquired dec'12). Founder at @drumo
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&Fundraiser @masdar, Banker @credit-suisse-first-boston-csfb & Techie @merrill-lynch;
MIT Sloan MBA '08, Undergrad LSE '01; born, raised & from Tokyo
Veteran TMT investor. Focus on TMT and Education.
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/
#4 employee and Board member of GREE, founder and SVP of its US branch, GREE International. Product leader having Engineering background.
Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
Invested in number of internet startups
Investor in @vanten-holdings.
Investor in @marono-media-k-k, @myfdb.
Founder of @cybridge, @cybridge Mobile. Investor in @axion, @fan-appli, @soratobu, @predge, @pa-corp. Team member of @cybridge.
http://yuki.blog.cybridge.jp/
Red Brick Ventures is an incubation and acceleration platform dedicated to unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of Japan.
Investor in @recman.
Designer turned entrepreneur turned angel investor. Co-founder of LELO (sold), co-founder of Dreamler, founder of Criterion Investments.
Business angel
Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.
tech vs design
Snowboarding at Zao, Hakuba, Kagura. Love iPhone, Android, Tokyo Tower, Kobe, Izu, Stockholm, swimming, Chopin, Bunin, Paris vu par....
personal investor. early investor in guardtime
ex-Partner at Accenture. ex-Partner at Heidrick&Struggles.
Founded GaiaX (IPOed at 2006), then joined Pixta.
Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group