# Masato Shibata

> Masato Shibata is a seed investor at Jiraffe (Tokyo) backing SNS, Content and Social Media. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jiraffe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jiraffe)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Masato Shibata is a seed investor at Jiraffe in Tokyo focused on SNS and Content. Masato Shibata

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SNS | 1 | 100% |
| Content | 1 | 100% |
| Social Media | 1 | 100% |
| Web Browsers | 1 | 100% |
| Online Portals | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jiraffe | jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management. | $5.8M | Seed | Oct 13, 2015 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TLM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tlm) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jiraffe

VC Fund · Shinjuku, Japan

jiraffe focusses on Internet service planning, development, and management.

5 contacts available at Jiraffe.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shunsuke Sasaki | Executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shunsuke-sasaki |
| Takeshi Kaneko | Outside director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaneko-takeshi |
| Masato Shibata | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masato-shibata |
| Motoki Nakai | Director and CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motoki-nakai |
| Teruaki ASO | Representative Director / Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/teruaki-aso |

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## FAQ

### What does Masato Shibata invest in?

Masato Shibata invests primarily in SNS, Content and Social Media startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Masato Shibata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Masato Shibata closed in Oct 2015. Shizune tracks 1 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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