Tokyo Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Craig Mod
Investor
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/
Takayuki Miyauchi
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer and Engineer of @sassor. He has been working on Interaction designer.
Robert Laing
Investor
CEO and co-Founder of Gengo
http://robertlaing.com
Shinji Asada
Investor
Director, ITOCHU Technology Ventures.
http://www.asada23.com/
Satoshi Sugie
Co-Founder & CEO @whill , @smile-park, @500startups • Worked at @nissan-motors • Studied at @ritsumeikan-asia-pacific-university, @nanjing University（China）
Denny Britz
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
Sunny Tsang
Co-founder of @anyperk. co-founded @goood-company, which was acquired. co-founded AppDorks. Designer.
Dmitri Tcherbadji
Artist, Founder @artsocket @eureka-1 @hechnr-business-engines-inc-1
http://knowledgeandanticipation.tumblr.com
Tomoya Konishi
co-founder of Increments.
Brandon Woo
Investor
Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
Masa Nakatsu
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
Maurio Leon Guerrero
Product Design. UI. Director of Product Design @zendesk
https://www.vizify.com/maurio
Shu Uesugi
Hacker @edsurge
http://medium.com/@chibicode
Atsushi Nagase
Owner, Software engineer of @LittleApps Inc.
http://ngsdev.org/
Franky Chung
CTO of @language-cloud
Barbara Lippe
Founder. Art Director. Launched mobile app Area Now.
Game industry conference planner. Worked @ startups in Tokyo & Vienna. Speaker @ MIT, GDC, Gamescom. PhD.
Calvin Chun-yu Chan
Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com
Federico Bucchi
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
Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko
EPITECH CS, full-stack web nerd with a focus on front-end development and UI/UX design. Co-founded LocalRepublic.
http://roadtocairns.com/
Justin Clune
MS from Todai, BS from Berkeley. Studied IT management and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Pirate be me native tongue.
Takahiro Inoue
Designer,launched 3 apps for Apple store
Kelvin Tay
NUS School of Computing, Interface Redesign @ TripAdvisor, Best Project (E-Business Capstone), human language maestro, failed first startup @ 20
http://db.tt/HTl8G7gK
Graham Bowkett
Established Graphic Designer with a strong multimedia background and a varied portfolio.
Lance Quejada
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
Andreas Hofmann
Project Manager and Marketing Associate at @marono-media-k-k
University of Bern MBA 2008
Susumu Kato
Worked at @recruit, @recruit Holdings • Studied at @keio-university
Hidenari Aizawa
CEO, Founder
Jérôme Sénaillat
Form/Function. Tokyo/Paris.
Erick Mazer Yamashita
Charles Ovink
Lead on @pelikan-projects, United Nations international project management system
Ved Kamat
Multilingual, MBA graduate, Innovation and new business development consultant, emerging markets strategy
Simon Dennett
Product Designer @ Cerego Japan. Soup to nuts product guy. Strategy to deploy. Team leader, user experience architect, front end dev, visual designer, nice guy!
Barry Lachapelle
Designer with 12 years experience currently at IDEO Tokyo. Love to chat about ideas.
http://www.barrylachapelle.com
Jimi Jackson
http://blog.jimijackson.com
Hideyuki Shoda
Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC
Yuichi Ohori
Web Designer, Illustrator
Joseph Zammit
Digital Front End Designer/Developer with over 8 years experience
Yuichi Akimoto
lead front-end engineer. I launched 7 seccessfull social games.
Joshua S Lundquist
Hope to start a digital music music (DTP) & graphic / web design school for kids in Tokyo
http://www.anincrediblewasteoftime.com
Laurence Bowen
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.
Kazuki Otsuka
Founder of @thinkx-inc
http://kazukiotsuka.wordpress.com/
Eric Sato
10 Year Expatriate - Bilingual Digital Marketing Professional. Natural leader. SEO SEM CMS Data-Driven, Innovator, User/Customer-first mentality.
Massimo Marolda
Xiang Wu
Nothing
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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
Hiroki Sato
Developer / UX Designer.
Daichi Sakota
Freelance user experience designer / user interface designer. Worked at Yahoo Japan (2008-2012)
http://blog.daichisakota.com
Yusuke Ohsaki
ibrahim güvendikler
industrial designer
I offer innovation product designs and ideas by creativity that is changeable to profit based on "new".
George Arriola
Founder, President & COO @monohm. Global UX & Product Design for @sony on PlayStation 4 / Xperia / 4K. @apple led OSX / iOS UX frameworks for HTML5. Autodidact.
Andrew Cameron
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
Trent McBride
Founder of Tadaku. Australian designer based in Tokyo, working globally.