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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

Investor Artificial intelligence Japan investments
Yutaka Matsuo 4
Hidetoshi Takano 3
Masao Ito 3
Hirofumi Miki 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Kiyoshi Nishikawa 2
Kazuomi Kaneto 2
Koki Yabu 2
Takaya Shinozuka 2
Shigeru Urushibara 2
Shuichi Takenaga 2
Tomohito Ebine 2
Ayataro Nakagawa 2
Nobuhiro Ariyasu 2
Matsuo Koichiro 2
Mamoru Taniya 2
Kazuhiro Ishikura 2
Taro Fukuyama 2
Kensuke Furukawa 1
Reimu Sugita 1
Hiroki Nakamura 1
Kazuhiro Fukuda 1
Takeshi Hirano 1
Keisuke Tomimatsu 1
Hirotaka Matsuoka 1
Hiroto Furuhashi 1
Ken Honda 1
Uenoyama Katsuya 1
Atsushi Fukuda 1
Paul Rosenberg 1
Hiroki Kamatsu 1
Takahiro Maeyama 1
Hiroshi Tomishima 1
Shinsuke Mori 1
Kenshin Fujiwara 1
Kensuke Murashima 1
Shogo Kawada 1
Kazuhiro Aoyagi 1
Jan Hung-Tze 1
Cheng Tao 1
Yusuke Ando 1
Kazuhiko Ishikura 1
Joi Ito 1
Masashi Mizunaga 1
Shunsuke Oyu 1
Clément Delangue 1
Justin Waldron 1
Jeff Dean 1
Eric Di Benedetto 1

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Yutaka Matsuo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1997 Graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. In 2002, he completed the doctoral program at the same graduate school. Ph.D. (Engineering) He was a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology since the same year. After working as a visiting researcher at Stanford University in August2005, Associate Professor of Technology Management Strategy, Institute of Research, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2007. Co-Representative, Associate Professor, Global Consumption Intelligence Donation Course, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University. Professor from 2019, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Engineering, Department of Technology Management Strategy. He specializes in artificial intelligence, web mining, big data analytics. The Society of Artificial Intelligence received the Paper Award (2002), the 20th Anniversary Project Award (2006), the Field Innovation Award (2011), and the Merit Award (2013). At the Society of Artificial Intelligence, he has been a student editorial committee and an editorial committee, and vice chair/director since 2010. Chairman of Ethics from 2014 to 2018. Chairman of Japan Deep Learning Association since 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Consulting
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Jizai — Jizai is a provider of artificial intelligence technology, offering AI solutions, software-as-a-service products powered by AI, and robots that utilize AI capabilities for businesses across various industries. The company focuses on generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics, offering customizable AI platforms and automation tools.It also engages in AI consulting and research collaborations.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Masao Ito
Angel

Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Social Media, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
  • Alyaum — Aryaum supports "regional revitalization through NFT" by offering local governments all around the nation hometown tax and tourism NFT solutions.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Internet, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Drones, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Information Technology, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Kiyoshi Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

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Investment focus

  • News, Social Media, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
  • Astroscale — Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
  • TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kazuomi Kaneto
Angel

Kazuomi Kaneto is the Founder & CEO of Dream Project Incubators. He previously worked at Pacifico Energy as a Founder, President & CEO. Kazuomi Kaneto attended Tsinghua University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Music, Energy
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sustainable Lab — SusLab is a data bank that uses AI technology to support SDG and ESG development goals and investments.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Persistent Energy Partners — Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Koki Yabu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Koki Yabu is Founder, President & CEO at Mobcast inc.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Finance, Data Mining
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobcast group — mobcast is a sports entertainment company that operates a mobile entertainment platform for smartphones and feature phones. It supports customers with social game and social media services. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of mobcast Inc.
  • SmartApp Japan — Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones. The company's application uses cryptocurrency technology to offer token issuance, initial coin offering and dApps design support, providing a launchpad for start-up blockchain-related businesses.
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Takaya Shinozuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takaya Shinozuka is the President, CEO, and Founder at Reiwa Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Local, Sports
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • KAUCHE — X Asia creates enjoyable shopping experience.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Shigeru Urushibara
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Urushibara - President & CEO @ UL Systems

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Investment focus

  • Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, Video
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecbo cloak — Ecbo cloak is a sharing service that connects "persons who want to store luggage with shops with space to store luggage. Instead of coin lockers, you can pre-order places online online and store your luggage in the open space of stores of various types of business.
  • Space Walker — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
  • SingulaNet — SingulaNet Ltd provides a total solution using cutting-edge blockchain services.
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Shuichi Takenaga
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takenaga Shuuichi is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Financial Services, Management Consulting
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • Tagpic — Tagpic offers influencer marketing targeting services such as influencer casting, SNS branding, and talent production.
  • H&H Group Japan — H&H Holdingsis a Professional Services company.
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Tomohito Ebine
Angel · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomohito Ebine is non-executive Director at Owls Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Consulting, Home Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
  • CAREER BIJIN — Career bijin is a total support company.
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel

2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
  • For you — For you is a comprehensive Advertising agency business specializing in SNS.
  • SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • Finovo — Finovo specializes in the research, development, operation, and maintenance of cutting-edge accounting and financial software solutions.
  • Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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Matsuo Koichiro
Angel

Matsuo Koichiro - Director @ Kokopelli

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Investment focus

  • Robotics, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Kokopelli — Kokopelli is a Fintech start-up company that develops the management support platform "SHARES" for small and medium-sized businesses and the AI ​​loan screening engine "FAI" (* 2) that enhances credit for financial institutions.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Kazuhiro Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiro Ishikura served as the head of the Akatsuki Business Management Department in 2013 and as a corporate auditor of Akatsuki in 2014, contributing to the company's listing on the TSE Mothers and TSE 1st sections. Appointed 3minute CFO in 2015, engaged in business start-up and organizational design, and succeeded in large-scale M & Adeal with Glee. After leaving the company, he became a WARC director in November 2018. Certified public accountant.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Taro Fukuyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Taro Fukuyama is Co-Founder and CEO of Fond.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Oway — Join thousands that ship freight instantly with Oway's rideshare freight platform and save up to 50% on your shipping. Pickups in just 1 hour, delivered overnight with insurance and tracking included on all shipments.
  • Vybe — Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps.
  • Bolna — Bolna offers voice AI agents that transforms business to qualify leads, boost sales, automate customer support, and streamline recruitment.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Content, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Reimu Sugita
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

More than 5 years professional firm experience as a consultant with strong focus on healthcare industry Proven track records in top-tier strategic consulting firm with broad experience of Japanese/global pharmaceutical and hospital projects As an ophthalmologist, has clinical perspective as well as business perspective and can incorporate bothon solving issues in healthcare industry

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Marketing, Elder Care
  • Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • 3Sunny — 3Sunny is a company which helps in solve medical care issues so that everyone can feel at ease. The company solves the problems of people in the field while utilizing technology, and create a reliable society that will eventually reach the desired end. 3Sunny was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
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Hiroki Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

After joining DENTSU, I initially produced only banner advertising, but it is expected to be active, and I will be able to work on a number of digital campaigns. In 2011, he became independent and founded PARTY with four members. Cannes Lions Young Competition, Japan's Cyber Division, 2nd place in the world. He has received more than 250advertising awards in Japan and abroad. Recent masterpieces include Lady Gaga's life-size hearing aids “GAGADOLL”, “UNIQLO / UT Picks”, “Suntory / Intensive Regain”, “TOYOTA / TOWN”, such as “Shizukita-” all digital campaigns. TOKYO FM Radio “Sawamoto Gonpachi will end soon.” Guest Personality.

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Investment focus

  • Web Design, Software, Content
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Edoga — Edoga is a VR production and education company. Edoga offer services such as "VR training" and "off-site VR".
  • Collectest — Collectest specializes in integrating AI into trading card appraisal procedures that show current market pricing and verify authenticity.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Kazuhiro Fukuda
Angel

Kazuhiro Fukuda is an entrepreneur supporter/angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Illusil — Illusil is a service that makes it easier for anyone to generate slide materials and reduces the amount of time needed to do it. Additionally, presentations can be automatically generated from text input by AI, and over 1,000 design templates can be used to build original slides.
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Takeshi Hirano
Angel

Takeshi Hirano - Auditor (External) @ Morpho

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Aerospace, Machine Learning
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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Keisuke Tomimatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Tomimatsu is the Co-Founder at ABEJA. Keisuke Tomimatsu attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, Big Data, Analytics
  • Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.
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Hirotaka Matsuoka
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Hirotaka Matsuoka is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Consulting, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AIONA — AIONA uses AI to produce high-quality products and provides everyone with access to knowledge.
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Hiroto Furuhashi
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Hiroto Furuhashi

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Ken Honda
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ken Honda

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Agriculture, Business Development
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Chai — Chai empowers small businesses centered on EC. It provides end-to-end e-commerce services that everyone can enjoy and continue to use in order to unlock the great potential of Japan's many small businesses.
  • AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Uenoyama Katsuya
Angel

Uenoyama Katsuya - CEO @ PKSHA Technology

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Software, Advertising
  • Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Babel — Babel is creating meaningful media for users and expanding globally.
  • AppBrew — AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, hair care, and other related products of different brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Neural Pocket — Neural Pocket provides Smart City related services for commercial buildings and urban spaces utilizing AI enabled image recognition technology. The company focuses on business development and co-creation serve its clients. Other applications include solutions for digitalization of factories, warehouses, parking lots and retail stores.
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Atsushi Fukuda
Angel

Atsushi Fukuda is the president of Speedy.

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Investment focus

  • Music, Content Creators, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
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Paul Rosenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Paul Rosenberg is currently the CEO of Def Jam Recordings.

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Investment focus

  • Music, Apps, Logistics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargo — Ara Screens is a digital out of home network solution provider, DOOH smart signage operator, and the world's leading car-top and in-car advertising placement provider for Rideshare & Taxi.
  • SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
  • Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
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Hiroki Kamatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroki Kamatsu

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Investment focus

  • Sales, Analytics, Data Management
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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Takahiro Maeyama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Maeyama

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Professional Services, Information Technology
  • Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Miletos — Miletos is the provider of AI expense scrutiny SaaS services.
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Hiroshi Tomishima
Angel

Hiroshi Tomishima is the President and Founder of Zkyuun Entertainment and an Executive Director at Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Hireroo — HireRoo is an online coding test service that checks the skills of engineers through programming tests. It provides problems that correspond to a wide range of levels, from new graduates to mid-career tech leads, engineering managers, and various occupations. They also provide coding test planning and execution services.
  • Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
  • space data — Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment.
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Shinsuke Mori
Angel

Shinsuke Mori - Joint Researcher and Technical Advisor @ LegalForce Japan

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Investment focus

  • Legal, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • LegalForce — LegalForce is an AI that reduces the workload while improving the accuracy of contract review .
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Kenshin Fujiwara
Angel · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Kenshin is a CEO at Hacarus Inc., a healthcare technology startup based in Kyoto, Japan.He co-founded several tech startups with 2 exits in the past 15 years. His first career started as an engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment and worked on PlayStation development projects. HIs fist startup was acquired by Japanese public company, and thesecond startup was sold to the US company.Born in 1976. He holds a Computer Science degree from California State University. He loves mountain hiking and currently living in Kyoto Japan with his wife and family.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Medical, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Helpfeel — Our vision is to make saving, sharing, and exploring ideas as natural as breathing. On this journey we're humbled to be helping millions around the world from solo makers to university research labs, from gamers to pro designers, and large to small teams like ours.
  • HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
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Kensuke Murashima
Angel

Kensuke Murashima

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Logistics, Marketing
  • Series B, Seed, Series C
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Miibo — miibo is an AI construction platform that allows businesses to develop conversational AI bots for their products and websites.
  • Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
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Shogo Kawada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shogo Kawada is Co-founder and Adviser of DeNA, a global Internet company focused on a social games platform, social games, e-commerce and other Web services for mobile devices and PCs.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Voicy — Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations; the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from their favorite voices.
  • Sunblaze — sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time.
  • Spider Labs — Spider Labs offers solutions to help fight ad fraud and ensure data security.
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Kazuhiro Aoyagi
Angel

Kazuhiro Aoyagi is the Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of Ignition Point Japan. he is also an Outside Director of Synapse Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Task Management, Machine Learning
  • Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Synapse Japan — Synapse is a working with academic partners to improve efficiency through AI.
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Jan Hung-Tze
Angel

A native of Nantou County born in the year 1956, Hung-Tze Jan graduated from the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of PChome Online and also the founder of PChome Publication and Cite Publication.Hung-Tze Jan has over 30 years of experience in the media industry, having worked for United DailyNews, Commercial Times, China Times, Yuan-Liou Publishing, Rock Records, Chinese Television System, Business Weekly, and many more. During the time he served as editor-in-chief for numerous media companies, he planned and edited over thousands of books and periodicals and was the founder of over forty magazines, including PChome and Business Next.In Taiwan, Hung-Tze Jan is an acclaimed writer, opinion leader, filmmaker, editor, and publisher. He is highly respected for his insights on the issues between the socioeconomic environment and the trend towards the internet culture and creativity.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of the Taiwan Internet and E-Commerce Association (TiEA). He has also served as chairman, director, and supervisor for many other associations in the publishing and information industries. In 1997, the People Magazine of Taiwan awarded him the Diamond Award. In 2008, the Government Information Office awarded him the Special Award of the 2nd Golden Vessel Awards for Digital Publishers.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Apps, PaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

  • 91APP — 91APP is a leading omnichannel commerce solution provider in Taiwan, providing brand-own shopping app and websites for retailers.
  • Awoo — Helps businesses connect with customer intentions across the marketing funnel from every possible touchpoint to drive actionable insights
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Cheng Tao
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tao Cheng currently works as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of popIn.

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Investment focus

  • Telecommunications, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Girasol Energy — Girasol Energy is an IoT Platform provides innovative PLC technologies that enable wiser PV Plants.
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Yusuke Ando
Angel · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

YUSUKE ANDO is a Outside Director at hachidori.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Education, Social Media
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • FLIGHTS — FLIGHTS is a multidisciplinary drone services from EC, media, pilot training, consulting, insurance and localization of foreign softwares.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
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Kazuhiko Ishikura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Ishikura is based out of Tokyo, Tokyo and is the Co-Founder and Director of SDF Capital. Kazuhiko previously worked at 3minute Inc. as a Director. Kazuhiko Ishikura attended Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Content, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • WARC — WARC provides hands-on support for business management departments as well as mergers and acquisition advisory services.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Joi Ito
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
  • Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++
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Masashi Mizunaga
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Masashi Mizunaga is the President and CEO of Star Mica Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Recruiting, Social Media, Career Planning
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.
  • HiTalent — HiTalent is a tool that provides career planning services.
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Shunsuke Oyu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Shunsuke Oyu is the co-founder of Connehito Inc. Started an online Q&A platform “mamari” which is the largest platform for moms in Japan. Connehito was acquired by one of the telecom giant KDDI in 2016. Selected as a “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” at consumer technology department. Angel-investing 50+ companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Clément Delangue
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, France, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
  • Doubleword — From research to reality
  • Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.
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Justin Waldron
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
  • Proof of Play — Proof of Play helps you create high-performance, serverless apps and games that can be extended or remixed by anyone.
  • Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
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Jeff Dean
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
  • Onepot.ai — Onepot.ai offers automated synthesis of small molecules from basic building blocks using a unified, end-to-end process. It generates around fifty distinct compounds in a single workflow, eliminating the need for bespoke methods for each target. The platform employs modular couplings, deprotection, and streamlined purification steps to rapidlyassemble structurally diverse molecules. It supports chemistries that produce both sp²- and sp³-rich frameworks, enabling applications across pharmaceutical, materials, and probe development. By leveraging a catch-and-release purification protocol and iterative building-block assembly, Onepot.ai enables efficient production of complex small-molecule libraries.
  • Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
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Eric Di Benedetto
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Private investor at the crossroads of finance & technology: seed, private & public, hedge and other alternatives. Over 30 IPOs and M&A exits in excess of $13 billion in aggregate value...Professional investor in software start-ups for over 25 years, first as a VC, then as a professional angel investor. Specialties include technologyinnovation in financial services, AI and mobile services. Most recent primary focus: disruptive financial technologies with massive impact. Original investor in Lending Club - the world's largest P2P lending marketplace -, Clairmail, now Monitise - the world's leader in mobile banking and mobile money -, Signio, now PayPal - the world's leader in online and mobile payments -, Sentient Technologies - a company seeking to solve the world’s most complex problems through massively scaled artificial intelligence -, etc.Currently, investor in such companies as: Alpaca, Aromyx, Coursekey, Fuzzy, GoShare, GraphWear, Jyve, LeadCrunch, PeerIQ, QMerit, Sentient, Siftery...Please have your project referred and strongly supported by one of my LinkedIn network connections for consideration.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Internet, Developer APIs
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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