Ken Asada
Partner, Head of Japan @ Salesforce Ventures
Tokyo, Japan
Ken Asada is a Partner and Head of Japan at Salesforce Ventures. He attended London Business School and Keio University.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Ken Asada invests in
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Countries Ken Asada invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (45%)
- B2B 3 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- Apps 2 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (36%)
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Country
- Japan 9 (82%)
- United States 2 (18%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| The management service for Supply-chain risks. | $10.9M / Series B / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| RevComm develops AI-powered voice analytics software that helps organizations analyze and improve business conversations. Its MiiTel platform supports phone calls, web conferences, face-to-face meetings, and contact center interactions by converting voice data into insights for communication, sales, and operational analysis. The company alsoprovides tools for call management, meeting analysis, and voice data management. | $20.5M / Series B / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++ | $10M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics. | $9.6M / Series B / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| MarqVision helps global brands remove counterfeits from online marketplaces. | $48M / Series B / Sep 15, 2025 | ||
| Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development. | $3.5M / Series A / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| QueryPie solves the problem of dispersed and chaotic management of enterprise-wide data access to cloud data environments. With an all-in-one solution, users can now simplify data privacy regulations while streamlining access management, reducing costs, and increasing security. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2024 | ||
| Receptionist is a media firm that offers consulting and operational services to creates opportunities to update business communication. | Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies. | $1.5M / Series A / Jun 17, 2022 | ||
| Autoro is a customer business automation company with web auto robot. Autoro combines browser automation, application programming interface linkage, and machine learning, and Autoro automatically completes tasks. They automate office tasks for businesses, including report preparation, accounting, document preparation, and more. | $5.2M / Series A / May 13, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures provides venture capital funding and growth support for enterprise software companies. The firm invests globally across a range of sectors including cloud infrastructure, security, AI, data and infrastructure platforms, and industry-specific applications. It supports companies from seed stage through growth rounds, offeringfinancial backing along with connections to enterprise customers and integration opportunities within a wider cloud ecosystem. Salesforce Ventures also aims to help its portfolio firms through strategic introductions, feedback, and access to network resources to support development and market entry.
Salesforce Ventures Contacts
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Ken Asada
Partner, Head of Japan
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Alexandra Makreas
Head of Marketing and Communications
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Claudine Emeott
Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
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Emily Zhao
Principal
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John Somorjai
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
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What does Ken Asada invest in?
Ken Asada invests primarily in Software, B2B and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Ken Asada last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ken Asada closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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