Kotaro Chiba
Representative Partner @ Drone Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Kotaro Chiba is a seed investor at Drone Fund in Tokyo focused on Apps and Internet. Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
- Total investments:
- 65
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Kotaro Chiba invests in
Stages Kotaro Chiba invests in
Countries Kotaro Chiba invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $195k–$16M
- Series A
- $841k–$14M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.5M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 7 (11%)
- Internet 7 (11%)
- Information Technology 7 (11%)
- Drones 6 (9%)
- Travel 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (37%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (17%)
- Series A 9 (14%)
- Angel 6 (9%)
- Series B 3 (5%)
Country
- Japan 51 (78%)
- United States 2 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world. | $20.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 30, 2020 | ||
| Liberaware is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company. | $2.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 30, 2020 | ||
| Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $3.3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2020 | ||
| SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members. | $13.9M / Series A / Sep 30, 2019 | ||
| ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society. | Angel / Jul 30, 2019 | ||
| MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies . | Seed / Apr 24, 2019 | ||
| Liberaware is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 24, 2019 | ||
| Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations, the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from favorite voices. As it enters the age of IoT, interfaces have begun to evolve into seamless forms, such as AR, that allow to access information without stopping daily lives, but in this era,it has focused on the ear. | $1.1M / Series A / Mar 26, 2019 | ||
| Alp is a customer management and recurring billing system for all of subscription business. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| Lovegraph (Love graph), photographer to accompany a couple of their dating, is a service that leaves two people talking to are wearing and natural smile in the photo. Photos of the natural appearance of two people at a time when you do not leave the only two people of memories in its own birds and photo booth, which takes you decorate morememories. Anniversary is not also recommended to surprise wedding movies and lover as well. Couples like, of course, they also offer a request from your couple-like and family-like. | $1.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 06, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Drone Fund
Drone Fund is a venture capital firm that provides supports in IP strategy, innovative planning, and drone policy. It offers capital investment and financing and aims to create a Drone Ecosystem where LPs and startups can benefit from membership within the Drone Fund.
Drone Fund Contacts
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Soki Enzo Ohmae
Representative Partner, Co-Founder
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Daichi Funanami
CFO
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Kotaro Chiba
Representative Partner
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Kotaro Chiba
Representative Partner
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Takahashi Shintaro
Chief Public Policy Officer
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FAQ
What does Kotaro Chiba invest in?
Kotaro Chiba invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 65 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kotaro Chiba's check size?
Kotaro Chiba typically joins rounds of $195k–$16M at Seed, $841k–$14M at Series A and $1.5M–$13M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kotaro Chiba participates in.
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When did Kotaro Chiba last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kotaro Chiba closed in Jun 2020. Shizune tracks 65 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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