# Keith Yuki Isobe

> Keith Yuki Isobe is a seed investor at DG VENTURES backing Apps, Software and Big Data. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DG VENTURES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dg-incubation)
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-yuki-isobe
- Website: https://genieegroup.com/who-we-are/

Keith Yuki Isobe is an Investor, Managing Director and Member of the IC Board at DG VENTURES (AUM 600m USD).Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Geniee International Group, President and COO at Adstars and President Director at Geniee Technology Indonesia (TSE6562 A Member of SoftBank Group). Prior to that, he wasCo-Founder of Medically, Board Director and CFO of MEDCARE (exited, acquired by M3), a Next-Unicorn HealthcareTech and Co-Founder and Board Director of Waseda M&A Partners, a Startup Programmatic M&As. Contact Email Addresses: yuki-isobe@garage.co.jp (DG VENTURES)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$4.3M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$16M |
| Series C | $15M–$300M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 5 | 25% |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Big Data | 3 | 15% |
| Advertising | 3 | 15% |
| SaaS | 2 | 10% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Series C | 5 | 25% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 50% |
| Japan | 6 | 30% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Uganda | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Giftpack | Giftpack's AI-powered solution simplifies the corporate gifting process and amplifies the impact of personalized gifts. We're crafting memorable touchpoints by sending personalized gifts selected out of a curated pool of 3 million options with just one click. Our AI technology efficiently analyzes each recipient's social media,cultural background, and digital footprint to customize gift options at scale. We take care of generating, ordering, and shipping gifts worldwide. We're transforming the way people build authentic business relationships by sending smarter gifts faster with gifting CRM. | $4.3M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Parasol | Parasol builds next-generation blockchain-enabled applications and launches modern networks for financial institutions. | $2M | Seed | Jan 13, 2023 |  |
| oVice | oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of maximizing effective online communication, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. It features customization that can change thelayout to match the theme of the user's usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more.It can be used as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, or even a space for parties.oVice was conceptualized by its founder, Sae Hyung Jung, as he strived to create a platform to reconnect his divided team through the COVID pandemic. | $15.8M | Series A | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Copado | Copado is the DevOps platform enabling the world's largest digital transformations on Salesforce. Copado accelerates digital transformation projects by automating the release process, increasing developer productivity, and maximizing return on cloud investments. Copado DevOps 360™ includes Value Planning, Continuous Delivery, AutomatedTesting, and Compliance. | $140M | Series C | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Luup | 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. | $11.4M | Series B | Aug 17, 2021 |  |
| Vivino | Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $155M | Series D | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| MX Technologies | MX is a fintech data company that aims to connect people with their financial data in a way that automates their money experience. It enables fintech and all financial institutions with aggregating, enhancing, analyzing, presenting, and acting on financial data. MX enables banks and credit unions to achieve record-breaking growth by winning theircompetitor's most profitable account holders. As one of the fastest-growing fintech providers, MX drives customer-centric banking relationships by gathering and providing data upon which online and mobile banking partners and financial institutions can create and deliver next-generation banking applications and solutions.Founded in 2010, MX delivers data aggregation, data cleansing, auto-categorization, classification, money management, custom API, data analytics, marketing, UI, and more. In addition, MX offers an extensive array of client services, ranging from training to custom marketing services. MX currently partners with more than 600 financial institutions and more than 30 digital, online, and mobile banking providers — designating MX as a proven powerhouse in the fintech space. | $300M | Series C | Jan 13, 2021 |  |
| Anipos | Anipos is an application that allows you to easily claim pet insurance. |  | Seed | Mar 23, 2020 |  |
| Helium | Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage. | $15M | Series C | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| Cloudian | Cloudian is a file and object storage company specializing in S3 object storage in the data center. It turns information into insight with an infinitely scalable platform that consolidates, manages, and protects enterprise data. Cloudian Enterprise Object Storage brings cloud technology and economics to the data center with uncompromising datadurability, intuitive management tools, and the industry’s most compatible S3 API.Cloudian and its ecosystem partners help Global 1000 customers simplify unstructured data management today while preparing for the data demands of AI and machine learning tomorrow. | $94M | Series E | Aug 29, 2018 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Digital Garage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-ga) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Harmony Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harmony-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DG VENTURES

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

DG VENTURES is the Leading Venture Capital with AUM 700m USD (Asset Under Management is over 70 Billion JPY as of March 2022) | Keith Yuki Isobe, Managing Director & Member of the Board IC, Email: yuki-isobe@garage.co.jp). Track Records: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coinbase, airbnb, Indie Semiconductor, GrubMarket, udemy, THREDUP, INTERCOM,Lime, gojek...etc. Providing partnerships for entrepreneurs building innovations.

1 contacts available at DG VENTURES.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keith Yuki Isobe | Managing Director & Member of the IC Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isobe-yuki |

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## FAQ

### What does Keith Yuki Isobe invest in?

Keith Yuki Isobe invests primarily in Apps, Software and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Keith Yuki Isobe's check size?

Keith Yuki Isobe typically joins rounds of $2M–$4.3M at Seed, $8.5M–$16M at Series A and $15M–$300M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Keith Yuki Isobe participates in.

### When did Keith Yuki Isobe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Keith Yuki Isobe closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 20 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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