# Morio Kurosaki

> Morio Kurosaki is a seed investor at IT-Farm (Tokyo) backing Artificial Intelligence and Gaming. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IT-Farm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/it-farm)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morio-kurosaki-30043543/

Morio Kurosaki is a seed investor at IT-Farm in Tokyo focused on Artificial Intelligence and Gaming. Morio Kurosaki started his business carrier at Intel Japan where he contributed to promote Intel as the worldfs largest semiconductor company. He is the founder of Aisys Corporation. The company has been supporting Silicon Valley start-ups in entering Japanese market since 1988. To incubate startup companies, he provides hands-on support on allphases of establishing operations such as strategic partnerships with Japanese company, hiring local management team, business development, etc. He has an incomparable network in both Japanese IT industries and executives in Silicon Valley. In 1999, he founded IT-Farm as one of very few hands-on type venture capital in Japan. He is also a member of ARM Asia Pacific Advisor Group, and board-member of public companies in Japan currently.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Gaming | 1 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 2 | 40% |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EMobi | EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Address | ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices. | $645.1K | Series A | Jan 31, 2020 |  |
| Ezra AI | Ezra has created a new way to screen for cancer using full-body MRI technology assisted by Artificial Intelligence. The company's first AI, developed to assist radiologists when interpreting MRI images of the prostate, is an FDA-cleared software as a medical device. | $4M | Seed | Nov 15, 2018 |  |
| Ubitus | Established in 2013. The headquarter is located in Tokyo. Supported by R&D center in Taipei. Ubitus is a technology leader in deploying cloud-enabled rich media services, offers major game companies and telcos the world’s best cloud gaming solution. With the same innovative GameCloud technology, Ubitus is able to stream metaverse content onmulti-devices for platform operators and digital content developers. |  | Series A |  |  |
| Global Equipment Services | Global Equipment Services specializes in production processing and test equipment design, volume manufacturing, and global services for the semiconductor and electronics product manufacturing industry. It is a venture funded US corporation founded in 2006 to provide high quality, low cost outsourced service solutions to the high tech equipmentmarkets throughout US and Asia.Its services include design, manufacturing, repair, Upgrades, testing, training, RMA, and Customer Service. GES cater to predominantly the global high-tech sector in semiconductor equipment, solar, Flat Panel Display and Medical Systems. |  |  |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Darwin Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-venture-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SIIF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siif) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Future](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-future) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About IT-Farm

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

5 contacts available at IT-Farm.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Nguyen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-nguyen |
| Morio Kurosaki | Founder & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morio-kurosaki |
| Shinya Kasuga | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shinya-kasuga |
| Takashi Mukaibayashi | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-mukaibayashi |
| Takehiro Shirai | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takehiro-shirai |

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## FAQ

### What does Morio Kurosaki invest in?

Morio Kurosaki invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Morio Kurosaki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Morio Kurosaki closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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