# Keiichi Onishi

> Keiichi Onishi is a seed investor at Yamaha Motor Ventures backing AgTech and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Yamaha Motor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yamaha-motor-ventures-laboratory-silicon-valley)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kei-onishi-3a060539/
- Website: https://www.yamahamotor.vc/team/kei-onishi

Keiichi Onishi is a seed investor at Yamaha Motor Ventures focused on AgTech and FinTech. Kei Onishi is the CEO and Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Ventures. He previously led Yamaha Motor Group's global digital transformation efforts, focusing on digital marketing and data analytics. Kei has also worked on Yamaha's corporate venture capital activities in areas such as AI, Robotics, and Connectivity, along with developingIoT business as a spin-off company from Yamaha Motor. Earlier in his career, he worked as a manufacturing engineer in Southeast Asia. He has earned MS in engineering from Nagoya University, and MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Lending | 1 | 33% |
| Consumer | 1 | 33% |
| GreenTech | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foundation Alloy | Foundation Alloy leverage advanced materials technology to design novel alloys optimized for additive manufacturing. | $7.5M | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Andes | Andes empowers microbes to enable positive action against climate change. | $15M | Series A | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Momnt | Momnt is a provider of modern lending solutions for businesses to offer affordable, low-friction finance at the moment of need. Their API-based platforms use alternative data sources and machine learning and artificial intelligence-informed decision engines to present real-time loan offers tailored to each individual borrower, all while remainingcompliant with the banking industry's current regulatory structure. | $9.5M | Series B | Sep 07, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accelr8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelr8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [America’s Frontier Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/america-s-frontier-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cavallo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavallo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TruStage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmfg-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [El Cap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/el-cap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Yamaha Motor Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies that have product and customer validation.Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was founded in 2015 by Hiro Saijou and is headquartered in PaloAlto, California, United States.

5 contacts available at Yamaha Motor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anish Patel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-patel-2 |
| Keiichi Onishi | CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kei-onishi-e048 |
| Nolan Paul | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nolan-paul |
| Rebecca Woodcock | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebecca-woodcock |
| Sean Simpson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-simpson |

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## FAQ

### What does Keiichi Onishi invest in?

Keiichi Onishi invests primarily in AgTech, FinTech and Lending startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Keiichi Onishi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Keiichi Onishi closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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