# Nishio Kentaro

> Nishio Kentaro is a seed investor at Gunosy (Tokyo) backing Information Technology and Shoes. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gunosy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gunosy)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kentaronishio
- Website: https://x.com/kentaronishio
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oppo240

Nishio Kentaro is a seed investor at Gunosy in Tokyo focused on Information Technology and Shoes. Nishio Kentaro is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President at Game8.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $926k–$6.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 50% |
| Shoes | 1 | 17% |
| AgTech | 1 | 17% |
| Retail | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Morght | Morght is an information technology service company. | $925.6K | Seed | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| YOUTRUST | YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change. | $1M | Seed | Feb 28, 2020 |  |
| Cloud Franchise | Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants. |  | Seed | Feb 26, 2020 |  |
| AGRI SMILE | AGRI SMILE employs technology to create sustainable agriculture, communities, and production areas. It promotes agricultural industry development by combining software as a tool for accumulating and inheriting technology with science, which creates new technology based on accumulated data. They seeks to establish a cultivation system that is inharmony with the environment and the region, allowing agricultural workers to live a rich life both financially and spiritually. | $5.7M | Seed | Jan 23, 2020 |  |
| Brhino | Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. |  | Seed | May 23, 2019 |  |
| Monokabu | Monokabu is a site where people can buy and sell new products at a price you decide. It specialises in sneakers. | $6.4M | Seed | Apr 24, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TLM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tlm) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [W ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/w-ventures-5f08) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Delight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delight-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [STRIVE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ANOBAKA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kvp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Gunosy

VC Fund · Minato, Japan

Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news. The application finds its news from multiple web sources and presents them according to how hot the topic is. Gunosy’s features include categorized tabs; the ability to customize the categories that users need to follow and create theirown personal magazine; instant access to a wide variety of news; and push notifications to remind users of news updates.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Japan.

5 contacts available at Gunosy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nishio Kentaro | Executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nishio-kentaro |
| Tetsuya Nagashima | Director COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tetsuya-nagashima |
| Yuya Taketani | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taketani-yuya |
| Chiba Hisayoshi | Operating officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chiba-hisayoshi |
| Hiroki Teshima | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroki-teshima |

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## FAQ

### What does Nishio Kentaro invest in?

Nishio Kentaro invests primarily in Information Technology, Shoes and AgTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nishio Kentaro's check size?

Nishio Kentaro typically joins rounds of $926k–$6.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nishio Kentaro participates in.

### When did Nishio Kentaro last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nishio Kentaro closed in Apr 2021. 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?

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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