# Ken Asada

> Ken Asada is a Series A investor at Salesforce Ventures (Tokyo) backing Software and B2B. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenasada

Ken Asada is a Partner and Head of Japan at Salesforce Ventures. He attended London Business School and Keio University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| B2B | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Apps | 2 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 8 | 80% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RevComm | 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 | 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 | 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 | MarqVision helps global brands remove counterfeits from online marketplaces. | $48M | Series B | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| Recustomer | 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 AI | 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 | Receptionist is a media firm that offers consulting and operational services to creates opportunities to update business communication. |  |  | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| Knowledge Work | Knowledge Work specializes in the development and sales of software for companies. | $1.5M | Series A | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| Autoro | 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 |  |
| FLUX | FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered. | $37.7M | Series C |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coral Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coral-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shinsei Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shinsei-corporate-investment-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SMBC-GB Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-gb-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOMPO Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sompo-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumitomo-mitsui-trust-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Salesforce Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Salesforce Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ken Asada | Partner, Head of Japan | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-asada |
| Alexandra Makreas | Head of Marketing and Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexa-makreas |
| Claudine Emeott | Partner, Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claudine-emeott |
| Emily Zhao | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-zhao-da74 |
| John Somorjai | Executive Vice President, Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-somorjai |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Ken Asada invest in?

Ken Asada invests primarily in Software, B2B and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ken Asada last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ken Asada closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co