Link and Motivation
VC Fund
Chuo, Japan
Link and Motivation is a VC fund in Chuo focused on Internet and B2B. Link and Motivation Inc. provides consulting services in Japan. It offers consulting services that transform business organizations through motivation engineering and management, and entry management services.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Link and Motivation invests in
Stages Link and Motivation invests in
Countries Link and Motivation invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (22%)
- B2B 1 (11%)
- MOOC 1 (11%)
- SaaS 1 (11%)
- FinTech 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series C 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Hideki Sakashita
President & CEO
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President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hiroyuki Kitsuu
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Honda Yutaka
Audit & Supervisory
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Audit & Supervisory | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kimura Eiichi
External auditor (part-time)
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External auditor (part-time) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ozasa Yoshihisa
Executive Chairman
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Executive Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEO CAREER is a human resources and technology company specialized in media operations and recruitment consulting. | $41.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 03, 2020 | ||
| UniFa is the developer of LookMee, an AI and IoT-powered healthcare solution for tracking kindergarteners' physical and mental growth. The system consists of LookMee Nap Check, an IoT sensor that aims to secure a baby's naptime; LookMee thermometer, which measures and monitors the baby's body temperature; and LookMee Photo, acommunication and photo-sharing service that collects data from children at kindergarten to give parents a better idea of their child's well-being | $32M / Series C / Sep 27, 2019 | ||
| DataX Co is a company behind an integrated digital marketing platform called B->Dash. | $94.1M / Private Equity / Aug 06, 2019 | ||
| Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $17M / Series B / Jun 29, 2018 | ||
| Gojo was founded to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world beginning with the developing countries. Gojo encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Its long-term goal is to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services for 100+ million unserved and underserved people in50+ countries by 2030. Five and half years since their establishment, they work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India with 3,400+ employees, serving more than 570,000 women who are also mothers. | $39.4M / Series B / Feb 23, 2018 | ||
| Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives tofreely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information. | $37.7M / Series A / Mar 29, 2016 | ||
| Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost. | $33.7M / Series C / Feb 17, 2015 | ||
| Schoo is a Tokyo-based MOOC (massive open online course) startup providing livestreamed lectures on the internet. | $48.2M / Seed / Feb 10, 2015 | ||
| NEO CAREER is a human resources and technology company specialized in media operations and recruitment consulting. | $113.4M / Dec 12, 2014 |
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FAQ
What does Link and Motivation invest in?
Link and Motivation invests primarily in Internet, B2B and MOOC startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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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Who are the partners at Link and Motivation?
The team at Link and Motivation includes Hideki Sakashita (President & CEO), Hiroyuki Kitsuu (Director) and Honda Yutaka (Audit & Supervisory). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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