# Katsumasa Niki

> Katsumasa Niki is a seed investor at SoftBank backing Artificial Intelligence and Health Care. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SoftBank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank)
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katsumasa-niki-6879631/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 38% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 19% |
| Medical | 2 | 13% |
| Robotics | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 8 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Kenya | 1 | 6% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RevolKa | RevolKa manufactures bio-products pharmaceuticals intended to serve the healthcare sector. | $1.5M | Series A | May 20, 2025 |  |
| RevolKa | RevolKa manufactures bio-products pharmaceuticals intended to serve the healthcare sector. | $690.2K | Series A | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Owner's | 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 | LLM, Autonomous Agent | $614.5K | Pre-Seed | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Tane | 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 |  |
| Owner's | 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 |  |
| Omneky | Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $3M | Seed | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Cocon | Cocon engages in the cybersecurity and AI/ automation business..The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $276.5M | Convertible Note | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| kea | 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 | 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. | $152.1M | Series A | Aug 24, 2020 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [D3](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d3-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Heartland Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartland-ventures-17cc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mitsubishi UFJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsubishi-ufj-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Streamlined](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/streamlined-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Superangel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/superangel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About SoftBank

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

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.

5 contacts available at SoftBank.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Kovacs | Global Head of Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kovacs |
| Gary Ginsberg | Global Head of Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-ginsberg |
| Makizono Keiichi | Executive Officer & CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makizono-keiichi |
| Akshay Naheta | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshay-naheta |
| Eric Gan | Executive Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-gan |

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## FAQ

### 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 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Katsumasa Niki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Katsumasa Niki closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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