People
Meet 675 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Tokyo's tech scene.
Batara Eto
Co-founder mixi • Co-founder @east-ventures
Tom Callaghan
Co-founded M3 (TSE:2413). Created world's most successful pharma-to-physician online marketing channel. Transformed $2M startup capital into $1B market cap.
Tadaaki Kimura (Tad)
CEO of addlight Inc. / Director of some Japanese start-ups / Angel Investor
Ryo Umezawa
Love Tech, Mobile & Startups
Ryota Matsuzaki
Former corp dev / online marketing executive at @rakuten.
Akinori Shibuya
Invest on behalf of Recruit to @translink-capital, DCM, and 500 Startups.
Mike Uesugi
Co-Founder & CTO: @social-rewards, Inc., Screen Rewards Founder & CEO: Global Micro Solutions, Inc. Founder & Chairman: GMS Japan, Inc.
Jeffrey Char
Serial entrepreneur. CEO at J-Seed Ventures and Chief Mentor at @venture-generation, a Tokyo-based venture community.
Sean Bonner
Misanthropologist
Casey Grooms
Co-Founder @pocketmath, • Studied Economics/Math at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1
Sascha Konietzke
Mobile, web & cloud enthusiast. Webmaster at VC-funded startup with 15. Former IT Consulting + Web Ops at HP. Previous mobile startup experience. iOS developer.
Ian Wilson
Japan Market Entry Manager and Senior AI Developer at Skimlinks (User Intent and Text understanding), Founder of @expressi (emotional relevance), @emotion-ai. Co Founded @zukool (machine learning / recommendation). BSc Artificial Intelligence.
Bora Savas
Investment partner at Netprice.com, serial entrepreneur. EIR at Beenos.com My previous startup (cloudshop.jp) is acquired by Aucfan.com which is Japan's largest product-price data analysis company.
Daniele Beccari
Owner Beccari Consulting - Product Strategy, Innovation, Startups. VP at Isango! (sold to TUI). Head of Global Products at Amadeus. R&D at HP. INSEAD. Dad. I liked Gopher.
Hilo Iketani
CEO at E-Fi Entreprenuer. Independent Marketing Consultant and CMO for start-ups. Strong Business Background. Looking for a job.
Nobuhiro Seki
CEO of @six-apart. Founder and investor of @connectfree-k-k, @ikumore. Investor of @say-media. Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university, @university-of-tokyo
Yu Shinohara
Co-Founder and CEO @amazinglife, Japan Country manager @dropmysite, Previous Founder and CEO @everconnect.
Nobutake Suzuki
Venture Capitalist and Partner at Global Brain Corp.
Mikaal Abdulla
I am the co founder & CEO of 8 Securities. My journey has taken me through Silicon Valley, New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and now Tokyo.
Neil Warlicht
Dutchy that grew up in Europe, spent a decade in Tokyo and now in SF. Starting team member of recruitment firm Wahl & Case and Partner at Red Brick Ventures.
Shinji Asada
Director, ITOCHU Technology Ventures.
Hadrien Raffalli
Founder @cottontracks • Worked at @demand-media • Studied at @hec-paris, @telecom-paristech
Yusuke Murata
General partner & Co-founder of @incubate-fund, social and mobile apps- focused venture fund in Japan.
Ben Lam
Based in Japan