# Hiroaki Okahashi

> Hiroaki Okahashi is a seed investor at Miyako Capital backing Medical and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Miyako Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miyako-capital)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Hiroaki Okahashi is a seed investor at Miyako Capital focused on Medical and Artificial Intelligence. Engaged in venture company promotion, industry-academia collaboration measures, etc., such as planning revisions to the Investment Limited Partnership Law, related financial legislation, tax system, and company legislation at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. After managing multiple venture companies, he is engaged in investmentdevelopment and management support for domestic and overseas venture companies at major financial institution VCs.Graduated from Faculty of Economics , University of Tokyo Master of Business Administration (MBA),Kyoto University Researcher, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kyoto University Member, "Study Group on Ventures from Universities" Member, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism i-Construction Promotion Consortium Planning Committee Member Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA) ) Member of Industry-Academia Collaboration Subcommittee

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| Fuel | 1 | 14% |
| Sales | 1 | 14% |
| Energy | 1 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peds3 | Peds3 is a digital healthcare platform that specializes in the research and development of pediatric medicine and maternal and child health fields. | $750.5K | Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Innovative Space Carrier | Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Esa | Esa offers plastic waste recycling, and also the development and distribution of plastic products | $664.1K | Seed | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| LocationMind | LocationMind is an IT company that provides human flow analysis, IoT solutions, and security for positioning signals. Through AI analysis of location information and big data, they provide end-to-end services to customers in a variety of fields. A position critical to the advancement of next-generation technology. They have independently developedmultiple AI models that specialize in people flow to make predictions for the near future, in addition to analyzing people flow in the past. | $5.4M | Series B | Jan 17, 2024 |  |
| Galdieria | Galdieria Co., Ltd. offers Bio-fuel, CleanTech, new energy, biomass, bio-chemical, energy related services. | $3.7M | Series B | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Helpfeel | Helpfeel develops software for AI-powered search, knowledge management, and information sharing. Its products include Helpfeel for customer support search, Cosense for team knowledge management, and Gyazo for capturing and organizing screenshots and other content. | $4.3M | Series C | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| ALGO ARTIS | ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics. | $4.8M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Bridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-bridge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DeNA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dena) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Energy & Environment Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-environment-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [K4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k4-ventures-8a86) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kansai Electric Power](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kansai-electric-power) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Miyako Capital

VC Fund · Kyoto, Japan

Miyako Capital is the venture capital that manages Kyoto University 2nd Venture Fund (KUVF). The company was founded in 2013 and based in Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan. Investment fields are: 1) Life Science, Biotechnology: Drug creation, regenerative medicine, medical beauty equipment, medical services.2) Agri-Food: Industrialization,agricultural and fishery products growth-promoting technology, specified health food, health food.3) Environment, Energy: Alternative energy, and related technologies.4) IT, Electronics: Web, mobile related devices and application, telecommunication technology, security, consumer and business oriented application, mechatronic, robot.5) New services utilizing state-of-art technology.Investment stages: Primary investment stages are initial-growth stages of seed and early. However, we aim at all growth stages and make investment in post-IPO portfolio companies as well as public companies that are related with Kyoto University.

5 contacts available at Miyako Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| He Rui | Principle | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-he-rui |
| Hiroaki Okahashi | Co-Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroaki-okahashi-ccc1 |
| Junko Sugaya | Director and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/junko-sugaya |
| Satoshi Yamaguchi | Co-Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satoshi-yamaguchi-b294 |
| Sunny Sugaya | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunny-sugaya |

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## FAQ

### What does Hiroaki Okahashi invest in?

Hiroaki Okahashi invests primarily in Medical, Artificial Intelligence and Fuel startups, most often at Seed and Series B 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.

### When did Hiroaki Okahashi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hiroaki Okahashi closed in Oct 2024. 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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