# Jun Ogawa

> Jun Ogawa is a seed investor at Pixie Dust Technologies (Tokyo) backing Software and Education. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pixie Dust Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pixie-dust-technologies)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junogawa
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/s2000ogawa

Jun Ogawa is a seed investor at Pixie Dust Technologies in Tokyo focused on Software and Education. Jun Ogawa is the Managing Director at Pixie Dust Technologies. He was a former Country Manager at Kaizen Platform.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Education | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| CMS | 1 | 25% |
| PaaS | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qurate Inc. (Japan) | Qurate is “Air traffic control for content operations”, a Content Strategy Platform which gives marketers a 360 view of every piece of content, on all channels (social, web, email, ads and more) in the organization. It works for single project brands or multi-brand companies and agencies. | $20.3M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| Kakedas | Kakedas specializes in the development and operation of web services. |  |  | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| noFRAME schools | noFRAME schools is an EdTech startup is a mission to reinvent a textbook. |  | Angel | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Best Beer Japan | Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 31, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NOW Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/now-inc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Daiwa Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiwa-corporate-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FGN ABBA Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fgn-abba-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pixie Dust Technologies

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.

5 contacts available at Pixie Dust Technologies.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akiko Hamada | Outside Corporate Auditors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akiko-hamada |
| Hoshi Takayuki | CTO / Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoshi-takayuki |
| Jun Ogawa | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-ogawa-98ac |
| Michiharu Yamamoto | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michiharu-yamamoto |
| Seiichi Koike | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seiichi-koike |

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## FAQ

### What does Jun Ogawa invest in?

Jun Ogawa invests primarily in Software, Education and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jun Ogawa's check size?

Jun Ogawa typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$20M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jun Ogawa participates in.

### When did Jun Ogawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jun Ogawa closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 4 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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