# Akihiko Tokuhisa

> Akihiko Tokuhisa is a Series A investor at Hakuhodo DY Ventures backing Retail and Big Data. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hakuhodo DY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakuodo-dy-ventures)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atok98/

Akihiko Tokuhisa is a Series A investor at Hakuhodo DY Ventures in Tokyo focused on Retail and Big Data. Akihiko Tokuhisa is senior managing director and chief marketing officer for Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC). He is responsible for R&D and open innovation. Joined DAC in 2001 before JASDAQ listing, while leading ad technology development and business development as chief technology officer, he promoted venture capital investment in Albertetc. In 2011, he established Platform One, a strategic subsidiary, and served as the first president. He also worked as an outside director of TSE listed company members and others. As an executive officer of Hakuhodo DY Holdings from 2019, he oversees both of strategic investment and technology of the entire group.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Marketing | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wunderbar | Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services. | $3.5M | Series A | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Favy | Favy is a platform that enables businesses such as restaurants and beauty salons to launch subscription services. | $4.1M | Series C | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| MOSH Japan | MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners. | $42.5M | Series A | Oct 16, 2020 |  |
| Flow Solutions | Flow Solutions develops an AI-powered platform to provide alternatives to retail businesses. Their platform uses and integrates data acquired from retail analytic tools to give retail executives. They provide IoT and retail data sources for data communication across retail chains while using AI to enable data-centric decision-making. | $21.3M | Seed | Sep 23, 2019 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Deepcore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepcore) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NOW Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/now-inc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SBI Shinsei Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-shinsei-corporate-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accord Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accord-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Darwin Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-venture-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hakuhodo DY Ventures

VC Fund · Minato, Japan

Hakuhodo DY Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm.

2 contacts available at Hakuhodo DY Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akihiko Tokuhisa | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akihiko-tokuhisa |
| Hironori Takeda | Managing Partner / COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hironori-takeda |

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## FAQ

### What does Akihiko Tokuhisa invest in?

Akihiko Tokuhisa invests primarily in Retail, Big Data and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Akihiko Tokuhisa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Akihiko Tokuhisa closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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