# Mikihiro Yasuda

> Mikihiro Yasuda is a seed investor at Hike Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hike Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hike-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikihiroyasuda
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mikihiro_yasuda
- Website: https://x.com/mikihiro_yasuda

Mikihiro Yasuda is a seed investor at Hike Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Mikihiro Yasuda is the Founding Partner at Hike Ventures. He attended McGill University from 2008 to 2010.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 67% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Mexico | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salmon Labs | Salmon is the AI engine for enterprise growth teams to autonomously accelerate revenue generation by providing real-time, accurate prospect insights at scale. The company helps the growth function – revenue ops, marketing/sales ops, pipeline expansion – quickly and accurately source, verify, and qualify their prospects. | $2.6M | Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Truewind | Truewind is an IT company that provides AI-powered bookkeeping and finance software. | $13M | Series A | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Nextnet | Nextnet is a Silicon Valley Venture-backed Generative AI technology startup. Our mission is to organize and integrate the world’s biomedical knowledge and make it accessible. | $1.3M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| MLtwist | MLtwist is a Data as a Service platform that helps bring models to production with the best quality twice as fast at half the cost. MLtwist's platform alleviates the tremendous pressure on data scientists and handles platform selection, platform connectivity, and everything in between— resulting in companies going from unclassified unlabeledmessy data to high quality, well organized, labeled classified data incredibly quickly. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| YPC Technologies | YPC Technologies is a Montreal based startup in food robotics with the vision to make good food more accessible. They are doing this by bringing small scale robotic automation to the cooking processes. Their food kiosks can prepare gourmet food at low cost with great consistency. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Greentoe | Greentoe is a revolution in online shopping. And it's remarkably easy. All you do is "name your price" for the product you want to buy - then Greentoe will automatically check with our vast network of certified retailers to see who is willing to meet that price. The first retailer to agree to your price gets the sale. It's thateasy! | $1M | Seed | Oct 16, 2014 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AIN Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/academy-investor-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pathlight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exponent-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forward Deployed Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-deployed) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hike Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Hike Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

2 contacts available at Hike Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mikihiro Yasuda | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mikihiro-yasuda |
| Takahiro Shoji | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takahiro-shoji |

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## FAQ

### What does Mikihiro Yasuda invest in?

Mikihiro Yasuda invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mikihiro Yasuda last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mikihiro Yasuda closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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