Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Partner at WiL, a venture capitalist to bridge US and Japan, ex-Digital Garage.
Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.
http://christinetsai.co
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.
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.
Early stage venture capital. Focus in consumer media, mobile and EC. Expert in US-Japan cross border biz dev and investments.
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
Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure
Principal at ZenShin Capital, MS&E at @stanford-university 2015, @stanford-university BASES
Venture Capitalist and Partner at Global Brain Corp.
Co-Founder of early stage VC, @real-ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.
Startup Accelerator. President & CEO of SunBridge Global Ventures Inc. Co-founder of Interscope Inc.(sold to @yahoo JAPAN), also WebCrew Inc.(listed TSE).
Managing Director at Draper Nexus
President of KLab Ventures
http://koukokuno.tumblr.com/
VC @ DeNA, Founding CEO @ STORYS.JP, Former J.P. Morgan
Principal at DGIncubation. I do early stage investment on behalf of Digital Garage.
デジタルガレージ/DGインキュベーション/OpenNetworkLab
Managing Partner at Strive Capital (fka Kii Capital)
http://ngpedro.tumblr.com
Investor in @groupon, @playhaven, Pulse (alphonso Labs), @yume, @angieslist, @kaufda-de, @myfab-com, @experteer, Friendbuy, @xango, @9flats, @sapato, @fastlane, @teamo...
Investor in 500 Startups (Fund), @zazzle.
Specialized in technologies. Investment and incubation, product management, and engineering.
General Partner & Co-Founder of IncubateFund. Focus on Asia/Japan/Mobile. Woked at CyberAgent,Inc
Former TechCrunch Japan editor.
Retired after experienced in investment bank, insurance and accounting firm.
Venture Capitalist in Asia
E.I.R @ beenos.
Investor, KLab Ventures.
VC at @nvcc • Investor @flutterscape, @spline-network
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
Investor in @marono-media-k-k, @myfdb.
General partner at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital
Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures
Representative of Japan venture research
Partner of Sun Bridge Global Ventures
Angel activity
salesforce.comJapan founding president
Sun Bridge founders
Invested in number of internet startups
Investor: @pinterest, @500startups , @ahalife, @viber ; Founder:; Advisor: @adaptics; Investment/biz role at R Group, @credit-suisse, @ibm; MBA/MS at MIT
Investor in @nobot, @share0, @bukupe, @anydoor, @social-recruting, @fanbook, @whyteboard, @i-c-cruise, @nagisa, @rei-frontier, @miew, @trippieace, @bluenote, @frybridge...