Hirokazu Nagano
Founder, President and CEO, @ ANOBAKA
Tokyo, Japan
Hirokazu Nagano is a seed investor at ANOBAKA in Tokyo focused on Internet and Software. Soon after joining KLab Inc., Hirokazu Nagano worked his way up through the B2B solutions field to become leader of the New Business Development Group in the President’s Office. He was heavily involved with the creation of KLab Ventures, founded in December 2011, and was promoted to the Board of Directors. He was named President and CEO of thecompany in April of the following year, where he oversaw investments made in 17 companies. When KLab Venture Partners was founded in October 2015, he was selected to lead the company as President and CEO.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Hirokazu Nagano invests in
Stages Hirokazu Nagano invests in
Countries Hirokazu Nagano invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Task Management 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Toys 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- Japan 7 (88%)
- United States 1 (13%)
Investments
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| With the vision of "Let's increase happy parent-child time," Torana Inc. provides a rental subscription service, "Toysub! a rental subscription service that delivers toys optimized for infants and toddlers as they grow, in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, "Toysub!" serves approximately 15,000 households. Based on data fromover 400,000 toy evaluations and over 100,000 toy planning sessions, we have established engineering and operations to select and deliver the best toys for children's growth. | $961.4K / Series A / Dec 07, 2020 | ||
| Autify is an AI-focused company that offers software testing solutions to address the challenges associated with automation testing. The company's flagship product, Autify No Code, empowers anyone to create automated end-to-end tests for their applications. Additionally, Autify's new product, Zenes, aims to simplify the process ofcreating new software tests through AI, allowing customers to work directly with the company's AI agent to generate tests from product documents. | $510K / Pre-Seed / Jul 31, 2017 | ||
| Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers. | $21.3M / Seed / Jul 26, 2017 | ||
| Sider is a developer and provider of code review tool intended to analyze and identify non-standard codes, security flaws, and bugs.The company's product helps engineering teams maximize productivity by automatically analyzing every pull request against custom per-project rulesets, as well as general best practices, enabling users to improveproductivity while reducing the total time spent on product development. | $1.9M / Series A / Apr 04, 2017 | ||
| AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise. | Seed / Feb 20, 2017 | ||
| Omnis is an e-commerce platform that specializes in and sells new forms of fashion items. | Series A / Jan 30, 2017 | ||
| Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan. | Seed / Jan 22, 2017 | ||
| Dricos develops HealthServer which produce supplement drinks. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 12, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About ANOBAKA
ANOBAKA is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm with rich group resources to add value to seed-stage startups. ANOBAKA actively invests in and supports startups aiming to be a global leader in the innovative Internet business and promising to greatly grow up in the future. ANOBAKA's investment focuses on fledgling seed-stage startups. Inaddition to investment financing, ANOBAKA provides founders with a variety of business support such as development consulting by our engineers, sales support, and international marketing support.
ANOBAKA Contacts
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Asuka Kasai
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Daisuke Urushiyama
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Hirokazu Nagano
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Hiroki Oda
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Hiroshi Mihayashi
Partner
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What does Hirokazu Nagano invest in?
Hirokazu Nagano invests primarily in Internet, Software and Task Management startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Hirokazu Nagano closed in Dec 2020. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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