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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

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

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

Investor Education Japan investments
Hidetoshi Takano 4
Robert Huang 3
Kotaro Chiba 3
Tatsuo Sakamoto 2
Kiyoshi Ayabe 2
Mamoru Taniya 2
Narita Shuzo 2
Shintaro Yamada 2
Shigeru Urushibara 1
Mitch Kapor 1
Wensceslao Casares 1
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa 1
Tetsuro Kouda 1
Toru Shimada 1
Shuuichi Wada 1
Ayataro Nakagawa 1
Makoto Takano 1
Daisuke Takanashi 1
Masao Ito 1
Noguchi Keito 1
Sagehashi Yuki 1
Yoshitsune Ido 1
Joshua Schachter 1
Dai Tamesue 1
Ryosuke Matsumoto 1
Takato Hiroshi 1
Masahiro Kotosaka 1
Jun Ogawa 1
Sumiya Einosuke 1
Kato Yorihiko 1
Musashi Suzuki 1
Gaku Nakamura 1
Ryuji Terada 1
Yusuke Ando 1
Mikio Yamano 1
Kengo Suzuki 1
Ken Fuse 1
Junshin Kawasaki 1
Suzuki Yuto 1
Seiya Koide 1
Daisuke Yamashita 1
Yoichi Aso 1
Hikaru Kashida 1
Etsuji Otsuka 1
Cheng Tao 1
Naoki Yamada 1
Hiroaki Kitano 1
Keisuke Honda 1
Tetsuro Yoshimatsu 1
Alex Zubillaga 1

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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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Robert Huang
Angel · San Diego, California, United States

Mr. Huang founded SYNNEX in 1980 and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Prior to this, Mr. Huang was the International Sales Manager at Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyushyu University, Japan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. inManagement Science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, Language Learning
  • Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.
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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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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel

Tatsuo Sakamoto is a Head of Sales, Japan at MOLOCO. He Attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Content, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
  • Cloudbase — Cloudbase is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud services and management.
  • Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.
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Kiyoshi Ayabe
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Ayabe is the President and Founder of KIYO Learning.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Education, E-Learning
  • Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.
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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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Narita Shuzo
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Task Management, Content, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
  • MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Finance, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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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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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
  • Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
  • Flow Laboratories — Buildings are getting smarter except water. Current water management methods are painfully manual and lead to over $10B in annual water damage losses. Our first solution automates water data collection and reporting. This not only improves operational efficiency but also dramatically reduces water damage exposures.
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Wensceslao Casares
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Brazil, Chile, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

  • Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
  • Pago Rural — Pago Rural is an inclusive lend and pay platform, specially designed for underserved farmers and distributors (most of them SMEs). Originally it emerged as a concrete response to the growing financial needs of agriculture and supports the growth and sustainability of producers in the long term.With Pago Rural, the agricultural producer canfinance the purchase of their inputs such as seeds, agrochemicals, fertilizers and others, in a simple, agile, and safe way. We improve the efficiency and operating margins of the entire value chain, integrating technology and structured financial products, aligning incentives, and offering a winning solution for farmers and suppliers. Pago Rural was established in 2014 and is based in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Content
  • Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Penmark — Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will.
  • NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
  • Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
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Tetsuro Kouda
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuro Kouda was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture in 1985.After graduating from Sasebo National College of Technology, Kouda was admitted to the University of Tsukuba for systems engineering.After graduation, Kouda was hired by Accenture to work in management consultation. Kouda worked with electrical manufacturing in major companies,high-tech business strategy, marketing, and IT consultation. Upon retirement, Kouda and Shiota co-founded Akatsuki.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
  • Whomor — Whomor is a Tokyo-based company that delivers illustrations for social games.
  • Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
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Toru Shimada
Angel

Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Task Management, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
  • Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Shuuichi Wada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shuuichi Wada - CTO @ alu Japan

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Investment focus

  • Reservations, Content, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftie — Craftie is an lesson reservation service.
  • HACK JPN — HACK JPN is a company that transforms imagination into creativity and builds a natural tomorrow.
  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
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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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Makoto Takano
Angel

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Sports, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

  • BeatFit — BeatFit is a fitness-tech startup based in Japan.
  • PROGRIT — PROGRIT is an English-related media management company.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel

Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • SNS, Content, Finance
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • VCook — VCook is a website for posting recipes that offer vegan food. They give users the ability to search for and save vegan recipes on VCook. They post and share vegan recipes with everyone.
  • Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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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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Noguchi Keito
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes

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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Content
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
  • Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
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Sagehashi Yuki
Angel

Sagehashi Yuki

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Investment focus

  • Content, FinTech, Finance
  • Angel, Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • DariaMe — DariaMe is a web media planning, development and operation, planning and production of various contents, online consultation service.
  • BrainCat — BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms. It has developed a social fund service “Gojo”. BrainCat was established on June 29, 2016.
  • Kepple — Kepple Accounting is a start-up accounting and tax services.
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Yoshitsune Ido
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitsune Ido

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Robotics, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • BionicM — BionicM develops high-performance robot prostheses that enhance mobility for people with disabilities.BionicM has been conducting research on innovative technologies since 2015 at the University of Tokyo's Information Systems Engineering Laboratory (JSK) under the guidance of Professor Inaba and utilizing the world's most advancedrobotics research. In 2016, we were adopted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as part of "Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology" (START), and in 2018, the company was established as a joint-stock company.
  • AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
  • Kisui Tech — Kisui Tech is an agricultural AI robotics company that help farmers for farming.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
  • Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.
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Dai Tamesue
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Dai Tamesue is the Chief Marketing Officer of Miekuru.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Sports, Health Care
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
  • SAMURAI Security
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Ryosuke Matsumoto
Angel · Minato, Chiba, Japan

Ryosuke Matsumoto is the Founder / CEO at Kankak. Ryosuke Matsumoto attended Chuo University.

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Investment focus

  • Art, Software, Reservations
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • 6curry — 6curry is a brand that creates a new community around “curry”, one of the world's best Japanese foods. The concept is to mix many people and ideas like curry made by mixing various ingredients and spices. Original menu development, weekly events are held in the central kitchen, open only to members. We design and produce communication bornfrom food, such as event catering for over 500 people and communication proposals within the company.
  • TRiCERA — TRiCERA is a contemporary art global platform management company.
  • Vivid Garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
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Takato Hiroshi
Angel

Takato Hiroshi - CEO @ M0mentum

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Legal, Beauty
  • Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • JAPAN HEALTHCARE — Japan Healthcare is a healthcare start-up that works on the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-friendly preventive medicine . Japan Healthcare Build a preventive system for musculoskeletal diseases with environmentally-improving preventive medicine.
  • Japan Healthcare Info — Japan Healthcase Info locates english-speaking doctors for you and makes appointments
  • Legal Technology Japan — Legal Technology is into development of cloud-based research tool called 'Legal Library' using legal books.
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Masahiro Kotosaka
Angel

Masahiro Kotosaka is an Associate Professor at Keio University and an Associate Fellow of The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is an expert in Internationalization strategy and early stage business development, and advisor to several global start-up companies. Before moving to Keio, he was an associate professor ofmultinational management at Ritsumeikan University, a teaching & research associate at the University of Oxford, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company based in Frankfurt and Tokyo. As a practitioner, he worked for strategy/marketing projects with sixteen client organizations across nine industries and nine countries and spent four years running three profitable IT/Retail businesses before joining McKinsey. He graduated from the University of Oxford with D.Phil. (Ph.D) in Management Studies and MSc in Management Research with Distinction.

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Fashion
  • Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
  • One Nova — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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Jun Ogawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Qurate Inc. (Japan) — Plan, create and manage all your content, across all your channels with all your teams. Try for free now.
  • Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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Sumiya Einosuke
Angel

Sumiya Einosuke

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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Education, Logistics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • TRUNK — TRUNK is an Information site for internship and business training company
  • TRUNK — TRUNK is a provider of Information service industry,advertising agency business and design business.
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Kato Yorihiko
Angel

Kato Yorihiko is a Founder and Director at Bitbank.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Education, Agriculture
  • Seed
  • Japan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Langrich — LangRich blends AI powered practice with real human coaching for multilingual communication skills. A global platform trusted by enterprises, offering personal guidance at scale.
  • Agribuddy — Management of agricultural support application "AGRIBUDDY".
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Musashi Suzuki
Angel

Musashi Suzuki is a professional soccer player for Consadole Sapporo.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Employment, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
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Gaku Nakamura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Gaku Nakamura - Co-Founder and CEO @ RareJob

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Investment focus

  • Sports, Education, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
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Ryuji Terada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ryuji Terada is the Partner at Persol Innovation Fund. Ryuji Terada attended Shimonoseki City University.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Consulting, Human Resources
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Funova — Funova is a consulting company.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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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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Mikio Yamano
Angel

Mikio Yamano is a Chairman and CEO of Yamano Beauty Mate Group Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Employment, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
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Kengo Suzuki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kengo Suzuki is the Co-Founder of Glocalink Singapore. Kengo attended The University of Tokyo.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, Service Industry
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonJapan — MoonJapan is an educational impact startup that offers a variety of programs and thorough assistance.
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Ken Fuse
Angel

Ken Fuse is a Representative Director at Letters Co., Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Employment, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • LOGZ Group — LOGZ Group offers employment support for people with disabilities.
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Junshin Kawasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Junshin Kawasaki - Director @ LEVIAS

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Infrastructure
  • Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Kakedas — Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services.
  • noFRAME schools — noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook.
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Suzuki Yuto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Suzuki Yuto

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Social, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Gab — Gab is a company that works to solve social problems as well as develops and markets ethical products.
  • Aidemy — Aidemy is a web service where you can learn AI programming online.
  • Bizibl Technologies — Bizibl Technologies provides SaaS services for recruitment events.
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Seiya Koide
Angel

After experiencing CG designer, freelance, image director etc, joined KLab Corporation as an art director in May 2012. Business promotion and management skills are appreciated, and he joined the creative department manager in 1 year of joining the company and as the youngest executive officer in April 2014. In March 2015 he served concurrently asmarketing director and organized management of several divisions, he was active in a wide range of scenes. We are also focusing on developing creative events for new graduates and planning creative events for regular graduates and giving lectures for students. FiNC led the overall branding and service design while operating the organization as CCO Creative Director.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Communities, Graphic Design
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
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Daisuke Yamashita
Angel

Daisuke Yamashita - CEO @ Next Innovation

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Internet, Education
  • Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Next Innovation — Next Innovation is an online consulting provider for health care.
  • Next Innovation — Next Innovation is an investment firm that focuses on the education sector.
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Yoichi Aso
Angel

Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apparel, Digital Media
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamado — Kamado is a publisher of magazines. They offer products that include artist articles, colomn article series, and web magazines.
  • Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
  • Log build — Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform.
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Hikaru Kashida
Angel

Hikaru Kashida is a data scientist and is currently working at Mercari Inc., Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Consulting, E-Learning, Communities
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • rocketa — Rocketa is a news curation and social media platform.
  • alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
  • Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.
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Etsuji Otsuka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Etsuji Otsuka - Co-founder and CIO @ TRUIM Partners

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Training
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Coursebase — Coursebase is a developer of a learning management system used in providing training through an enterprise web application. It delivers and manages all types of training that help to automate course registration, grading of assignments, email reminders, surveys, and reports for online and in-person training courses that enable clients to createcourses and assign tests for their employees.
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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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Naoki Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Naoki Yamada

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.
  • Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
  • THE APP BASE Inc — THE APP BASE Inc is a design firm that provides its clients with web and mobile services. Founded in 2012, the firm also operates co-working spaces.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Angel

Hiroaki Kitano is the SVP at Softbank Mobile. He attended Waseda University.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Epistra — Epistra accelerates research and development in life sciences.
  • Activaid — Activaid owns and operates a social data platform for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It allows patients to support and exchange information within the patient community with the same disease; provide information necessary for new drug development and matching to clinical trials that suits them; and improve medical treatment. YasuakiHasebe founded Activaid in 2018. It has its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.
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Keisuke Honda
Angel · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Genopets — Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
  • Freecracy — FreeC a platform that connects millions of employers and job seekers by utilizing intelligent matching technology that is powered by AI.
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Tetsuro Yoshimatsu
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuro Yoshimatsu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of istyle.

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Investment focus

  • Legal, Sales, Biofuel
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Coconala — Coconala operates a website to buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. It provides a broad range of services for sellers including fortune-telling, relieving mental anguish, illustration, design, consultation for hobbies, and travel destinations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Japan.
  • Fermenstation — Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
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