Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Professor based in Tokyo. Since the late 1990s, completed one of each IPO and M&A Exit, and one failure. The portfolio includes Infarm, a Vertical Farming startup, became a Unicorn but ended up in bankruptcy. AnyRoad, based in San Francisco, backed by a16z. ModuleQ, an AI startup deployed in Microsoft and backed by the London Stock Exchange Group. Peatix is the most successful social ticketing platform in Japan. And four Japanese portfolios have gone public so far.
In January 2025, established GoGlobal Catalyst in Singapore to build a Co-Founder Matching platform connecting Japanese and foreign founders.

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