# Kiyoshi Nishikawa

> Kiyoshi Nishikawa is a seed investor in Tokyo backing News, Social Media and Big Data. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2018
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kiyonishikawa
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KiyoshiNishikawa

Kiyoshi Nishikawa is a seed investor in Tokyo focused on News and Social Media. After working at KDD Corporation （Currently known as KDDI Corporation）, Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept” and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $680k–$2.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| News | 3 | 25% |
| Social Media | 3 | 25% |
| Big Data | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 7 | 58% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TECHFUND | TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $17M |  | Jul 17, 2018 |  |
| PoliPoli | PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies. | $1.2M | Seed | May 21, 2018 |  |
| Astroscale | Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies,international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space. | $7.7M | Series A | Feb 23, 2015 |  |
| TECHFUND | TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $2.8M | Seed | Nov 11, 2014 |  |
| LeapMind | LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things into the “Deep Learning of Things (DoT).” While improving the accuracy of neural network models, we are researching and developing our own innovative algorithms that can reduce the computational complexity of deeplearning to use within a small computing environment. We also conduct research on original chip architectures that can efficiently implement deep neural networks on a circuit with low power and limited memory. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2014 |  |
| FlyData | FlyData Inc. is a SaaS data migration company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. We enable easy management of the data load process to the cloud, allowing customers to move large data sets seamlessly, securely and continuously to existing data warehouses. Our mission is to allow our customers to focus on their core business while we handle thereal-time data processing. | $925K |  | Jun 01, 2013 |  |
| JX Press | The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations.FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.Bloomberg - This Media Startup Is Beating the Competition With a Newsroom Run by Robots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-27/the-airline-geek-trying-to-build-a-media-giant-with-no-reporters |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2013 |  |
| FlyData | FlyData Inc. is a SaaS data migration company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. We enable easy management of the data load process to the cloud, allowing customers to move large data sets seamlessly, securely and continuously to existing data warehouses. Our mission is to allow our customers to focus on their core business while we handle thereal-time data processing. | $925K | Seed | Jun 01, 2013 |  |
| Socialwire | Socialwire offers news wire services for proofreadng press releases, selecting media, releasing contents, and investigating and reporting the releasing results.The company also provides rental office services. | $7.5M |  | Nov 21, 2012 |  |
| Tokyo Otaku Mode | Tokyo Otaku Mode™ (TOM) delivers the latest news on Japanese anime, manga, games, and more through its Facebook page, which is loved by over 10 million fans, as well as its website, Tokyo Otaku Mode. TOM's mission is to be the world's premier source for the latest on Japanese pop culture.TOM also actively supports and promotes topcreators on Tokyo Otaku Mode, bringing their works to a worldwide audience. Starting with English translation support for creators' works and rofiles, TOM also features creators' works on its Facebook page, produces international portfolios for creators, conducts creator interviews, exhibits at overseas events, sells otaku goods to overseas customers, and more. With the inclusion of its e-commerce site, TOM aims to close the gap between Japan's otaku goods and worldwide otaku fans, being a place where such goods are readily accessible to otaku fans all over the world. |  | Seed | Jul 30, 2012 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archetype Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetype-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UNITED](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-inc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Asteria](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asteria-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-ventures-e328) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Japan Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/japan-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mistletoe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mistletoe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kiyoshi Nishikawa invest in?

Kiyoshi Nishikawa invests primarily in News, Social Media and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kiyoshi Nishikawa's check size?

Kiyoshi Nishikawa typically joins rounds of $680k–$2.8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kiyoshi Nishikawa participates in.

### When did Kiyoshi Nishikawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kiyoshi Nishikawa closed in Jul 2018. Shizune tracks 12 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.

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