# Matsumoto Yoji

> Matsumoto Yoji is a seed investor at FAN Communications backing Rental and Sports. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FAN Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-communications)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Matsumoto Yoji is a seed investor at FAN Communications focused on Rental and Sports. Matsumoto Yoji - Vice President @ FAN Communications

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rental | 1 | 100% |
| Sports | 1 | 100% |
| Video Editing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DanceNow | DanceNow is developing a studio business, services for instructors, and dance-related businesses. They offer lesson matching, studio management efficiency support, and peripheral support services. It also provides remote dance lesson system development services. |  | Seed | Nov 28, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About FAN Communications

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

FANCOMI aims to become the world’s largest performance marketing ad network corporate group. We build ad networks that bring an performance marketing advertising model to advertisers, affiliate site application developers (media), and consumers, resulting in the largest and most optimized “Win-Win-Win” relationships.their ad networks bringcontinued benefits such as the optimization of marketing costs for the advertiser, maximized income for affiliate site application developers (media), and the reduction of costs and improved quality of service to consumers.they are the worlds largest corporate group that makes ad networks committed to effective advertisements, and will create new added value in the cycle of production, sales, consumption that is changing with the Internet, and thereby contribute to society.

5 contacts available at FAN Communications.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Satoshi Hotano | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satoshi-hotano |
| Shin Nakano | Operating officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shin-nakano-4844 |
| Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yanagisawa-yasuyoshi |
| Kakimoto Kenji | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakimoto-kenji |
| Kazusuke Obi | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazusuke-obi |

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## FAQ

### What does Matsumoto Yoji invest in?

Matsumoto Yoji invests primarily in Rental, Sports and Video Editing 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 Matsumoto Yoji last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matsumoto Yoji closed in Nov 2018. 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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