Katsumasa Niki
Advisor @ SoftBank
Katsumasa Niki is a seed investor at SoftBank focused on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care. Through investment activities in the information industry field, we are constantly working on the theme of expanding corporate value. Until 2016, he is in charge of investment projects at various stages both in Japan and overseas, as the investment manager of SOFTBANK Group. In addition to Vodafone Japanese corporation and Sprint large-scale M& A, he was involved in investing in overseas technology companies and start-ups such as Aldebaran Robotics, Grab, Coupang, and was a director at Renren, Supercell, Grab, Gunho Online Entertainment, Jeannie etc. It was. In addition, he has served as an investment committee member at several domestic and overseas VCs, and served as a director of Mistletoe Venture Partners Co., Ltd. even at present, he has been using his experience to provide startup support from various angles.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Katsumasa Niki invests in
Stages Katsumasa Niki invests in
Countries Katsumasa Niki invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (28%)
- Health Care 3 (17%)
- Information Technology 3 (17%)
- Medical 2 (11%)
- Robotics 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (50%)
- Series A 4 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Convertible Note 1 (6%)
Country
- Japan 8 (44%)
- United States 2 (11%)
- Kenya 1 (6%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (6%)
Investments
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RevolKa
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RevolKa manufactures bio-products pharmaceuticals intended to serve the healthcare sector. | $1.5M / Series A / May 20, 2025 | |
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RevolKa
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RevolKa manufactures bio-products pharmaceuticals intended to serve the healthcare sector. | $690.2K / Series A / Aug 29, 2024 | |
Owner's
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Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization. | $7.5M / Series A / Nov 29, 2023 | |
Carnot
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LLM, Autonomous Agent | $614.5K / Pre-Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | |
Tane
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Tané is a "Crypto Builders Incubator". We intend to contribute to the crypto/Web3 ecosystem by leveraging the experience and expertise gained from developing and investing in web businesses and applications. | $8M / Seed / Jan 27, 2023 | |
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Owner's
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Owner's is a group of professionals who are close to the wishes of corporate owners and support their realization. | $1.4M / Seed / Jan 13, 2023 | |
Cocon
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GMO Cyber Security is a software company that specializes in the field of vulnerability diagnosis for applications. It simulates web and cloud service attacks, visualizes attack risks such as personal information leaks and system hijacking, and assesses security resilience. Look into whether there are any security flaws in Android/iOS apps.There are two types of plans: a light plan for only dynamic analysis and a full plan for investigating down to the source code level. In cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, a high-performance scanning tool detects issues such as malware, OS and software vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. | $18.7M / Convertible Note / Dec 08, 2020 | |
Kea
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Kea empowers restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers. Its product, Kea Voice, takes orders over the phone at a high level of efficiency and consistency so that restaurants can focus on making delicious food.Launched in 2018, Kea is one of the fastest-growing companies on a course to change the wayrestaurants operate. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $10M / Series A / Nov 20, 2020 | |
Medmain
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Medmain's mission is to create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere, anytime. We are tackling these challenges with our product, PidPort's, deep learning-powered pathology analysis and digital telepathology consultation platform. | $10.4M / Series A / Aug 24, 2020 | |
New Innovations
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New Innovations company is offering a snuggling service to many people who support Japan's “high quality”. AI and robots do not take away the job, but robots support the work that is accomplished without the involvement of people, and many working people are aiming for the future to create a more humanoid life. With the problem of lack oftalent, it was difficult to reflect technology on OFF Line until now, trying to provide robots in the “food and drink” and “retail” industry, CEKAI's first demand forecast AI unmanned cafeThe robot “√C” was developed. √C is not “looking for coffee that suits me”, but instead realizes “coffee is perfect for me” with demand forecasting AI. Today, people who drink coffee are choosing their favorite cafe, canned coffee, convenience store coffee, etc., according to their taste needs, SPEED needs, and hospitality needs. The company developed the service as a new choice of coffee, and in the future, the perfect coffee according to the taste preferences, busy, physical condition and mood of the day., which aims to provide. In July 2019, the company receives a third party quota increase of 70 million yen from Zashid Capital and DEEPCORE. From August 1, 2019, with the cooperation of Nankai Electric Railway, “√C” will be installed at Namba Station/Namba Skyo, and demonstration experiments will begin. | $1.6M / Seed / Jun 24, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About SoftBank
SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet telecommunications, and digital television products. It is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation focused on broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses. The company operatesthrough four segments.The mobile communications segment provides mobile communications services, produces and distributes online games for smartphones and other devices, offers mobile broadband services, provides supply chain solutions, handset protection, and insurance, buy-back and trade-in services, omnichannel solutions, and financial services, and sells mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, and SoftBank smartphones. The Sprint segment offers mobile and fixed-line voice and data transmission services for individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and sells mobile devices and accessories. The fixed-line telecommunications segment offers telecom services such as fixed-line telephone and data communications services to corporate customers and broadband services to individual customers. The internet segment is engaged in the operation of the Yahoo! Japan portal, the sale of internet advertising, the operation of e-commerce sites, the provision of membership services, the sale and marketing of data centers, the provision of online automobile-related information, and the operation of the internet affiliate system.SoftBank also generates and sells electricity from renewable energy sources; provides payment processing, invoice collections, and computation services for businesses; distributes video, voice, and data content via media; operates the IT information site ITmedia; provides solutions and services for online businesses; and operates online games and software downloads. Additionally, it is involved in the ownership of professional baseball teams, the operation of baseball games, the management and maintenance of baseball stadiums and other sports facilities, and the procurement of funds by issuing preferred securities.
SoftBank Contacts
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Andrew Kovacs
Global Head of Communications
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Gary Ginsberg
Global Head of Communications
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Hideyuki Tsukuda
Senior Vice President & CTO
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Kimikazu Kato
Data Scientist
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Kunihiro Fujinaga
Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of Enterprise Unit
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What does Katsumasa Niki invest in?
Katsumasa Niki invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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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When did Katsumasa Niki last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Katsumasa Niki closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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