Chihiro Asano
Outside Director @ SOUSEI Technology
Tokyo, Japan
Chihiro Asano is a seed investor at SOUSEI Technology in Tokyo focused on Content and FinTech. Chief Technology Officer at Money Forward.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Chihiro Asano invests in
Stages Chihiro Asano invests in
Countries Chihiro Asano invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$14M
- Angel
- $733k–$3.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Content 2 (29%)
- FinTech 2 (29%)
- Financial Services 2 (29%)
- Apps 1 (14%)
- Legal 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Angel 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Country
- Japan 5 (71%)
- United States 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Luup
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Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $3.3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2020 | |
Issues
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Issues provides development and management of web service issues that solve the problems. | $3.2M / Angel / Dec 02, 2019 | |
HERP
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HERP is a recruitment management platform. | $63.6M / Series A / Aug 19, 2019 | |
Stayway
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Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site. | Seed / Jan 30, 2019 | |
Alpaca
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Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $3M / Seed / Oct 24, 2018 | |
Money Forward
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Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter. | $14.2M / Seed / Mar 01, 2013 | |
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Money Forward
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Money Forward provides online personal accounting for individuals, allowing them to easily manage their daily expenses by integrating with their bank passbooks and credit purchase history with information scraped from their web bank and credit accounts. The service is also available for desktop, as well as iOS and Android platforms. The companyalso announced that it will launch a cloud-based accounting service for individual and corporate users, and it will also start publishing an online newsletter. | $733K / Angel / Sep 28, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About SOUSEI Technology
SOUSEI Technology is a information technology & services company.
SOUSEI Technology Contacts
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Chihiro Asano
Outside Director
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Jin Wuwei
Outside Director CFO
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Nomura Kazumasa
CEO
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Takaya Matsui
Director COO
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FAQ
What does Chihiro Asano invest in?
Chihiro Asano invests primarily in Content, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Chihiro Asano's check size?
Chihiro Asano typically joins rounds of $3M–$14M at Seed and $733k–$3.2M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chihiro Asano participates in.
When did Chihiro Asano last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chihiro Asano closed in Mar 2020. Shizune tracks 7 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?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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