# Hirokazu Kitahara

> Hirokazu Kitahara is a seed investor at Archetype Ventures backing Chemical and Finance. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://jp.linkedin.com/in/hirokazukitahara/ja-jp
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hirok427
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hirokazu.kitahara

Hirokazu Kitahara is a seed investor at Archetype Ventures focused on Chemical and Finance. Hirokazu Kitahara is the Partner at Archetype Ventures Inc.. Hirokazu Kitahara attended University of Southern California.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chemical | 2 | 40% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |
| Accounting | 1 | 20% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 20% |
| Service Industry | 1 | 20% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Superworm | Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 31, 2025 |  |
| Diggle | DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast. | $12M | Series B | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Resilire | The management service for Supply-chain risks. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Sotas | Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers. | $2.3M | Seed | Feb 14, 2024 |  |
| Sotas | Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers. | $785K | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Samurai Incubate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samurai-incubate) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Delight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delight-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [All Star SAAS Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-star-saas-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Archetype Ventures

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Archetype Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in B2B Tech seed and early stage venture investments.

5 contacts available at Archetype Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kyohei Mukaigawa | Partner and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyohei-mukaigawa |
| Hirokazu Kitahara | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hirokazu-kitahara |
| Jun Nakajima | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-nakajima |
| Jun Onodera | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-onodera |
| Kurumi Fujii | Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kurumi-fujii |

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## FAQ

### What does Hirokazu Kitahara invest in?

Hirokazu Kitahara invests primarily in Chemical, Finance and Accounting startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hirokazu Kitahara last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hirokazu Kitahara closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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