Tokyo Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Takuro Wakabayashi
Investor
Investor @cinemacraft, @technostar • Studied at @insead-1
Hiro Maeda
Investor
Managing Partner of BEENOS - A Tokyo-based investment program. - http://beenos.com
http://hiromaeda.com
Salil Pradhan
Investor
Venture Partner, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners
John Stokes
Investor
Co-Founder of early stage VC, @real-ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.
Shogo Kawada
Investor
Co-founder of DeNA
Ikuo C. Hiraishi
Investor
Startup Accelerator. President & CEO of SunBridge Global Ventures Inc. Co-founder of Interscope Inc.(sold to @yahoo JAPAN), also WebCrew Inc.(listed TSE).
Christine Tsai
Investor
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co
Eiji Araki
Investor
#4 employee and Board member of GREE, founder and SVP of its US branch, GREE International. Product leader having Engineering background.
I-Freek
Investor
Established in 2000. A listed company. Focus on providing mobile contents to consumer, apps, email decoration, e-commerce. Offices in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Singapore.
Yeh Eduardo
Co-founder/CEO at @selvz. Co-Founder/CEO @iPing/MrWakeup (acquired by eCal); Investor/Advisor @Conatus Energia (Brazil)
http://mrwakeup.tumblr.com/
Hitoshi Kawanabe
Investor
Specialized in technologies. Investment and incubation, product management, and engineering.
Tomoya Sasaki
Investor
デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab
Akira Kitamura
Investor
Representative of Japan venture research
Partner of Sun Bridge Global Ventures
Angel activity
salesforce.comJapan founding president
Sun Bridge founders
Masahiko Honma
Investor
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
Akio Tanaka
Kengo Ito
Investor
Kenichi Muto
Investor
Owner of MUTO CORPORATION in Tokyo Japan. We have been exporting various Japanese products to the company and individuals around the world.
Yusuke Murata
Investor
General partner & Co-founder of @incubate-fund, social and mobile apps- focused venture fund in Japan.
Keisuke Wada
General Partner & Co-Founder of IncubateFund. Focus on Asia/Japan/Mobile. Woked at CyberAgent,Inc
Ted Yamamoto
Investor
General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital
Chad Iverson
Investor
Tokyo based equities investor, 13 years with Capital Group
Elaine Huang Crawford
CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard
Jonathan Hewitt
Investor
UK origins, Physics / Electronics, BSc & FCA, 20+ years in Japan. Founding member $1bn+ sporting goods business. On board with LUXSTACK, its what retail needs
Ryotaro Nakayama(Naka)
CyberAgent Crowd Funding, inc.
Martin Konrad
Investor
Founder at @design Royale (acquired dec'12). Founder at @drumo
Oleg Zuravljov
Investor
Toda Yasuhiro
Investor
Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.
Nicolas Loeillot
Investor
CEO of LM3LABS • Technology management roles @accenture, @nortel-networks @gartner • Engineering + MBA education.
Tetsuya "Terry" Hayashiguchi
Investor
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
Takeshi Ebihara
Investor
Venture Capitalist in Asia