# Nobutake Suzuki

> Nobutake Suzuki is a Series B investor at MUFG Innovation Partners backing FinTech. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MUFG Innovation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mufg-innovation-partners)
- Location: Otemachi, Japan
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nsuzuki
- Website: http://www.ip.mufg.jp/?lang=en

Nobutake Suzuki is a Series B investor at MUFG Innovation Partners in Otemachi focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Nobutake Suzuki is President and CEO of MUFG Innovation Partners, a corporate venture capital of MUFG Group, the largest financial institution in Japan. He has 17 years carrier as a venture capitalist with broad experiences in all aspects of financing, IT and business strategy. He has direct experience working with Japanese and US bankingbusinesses and venture capital.Prior to joining Global Brain, Nobutake was the VP of EC Business Department at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. He specialises in financial and business due diligence, competitive analysis and mergers and acquisitions.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 22% |
| Finance | 3 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 11% |
| Automotive | 2 | 11% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Series C | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 4 | 22% |
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 11% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 6% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Broom | Broom provides access for dealers in automotives to get short-term loans by putting their car inventories up as collateral. | $24.9M | Series A | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Broom | Broom provides access for dealers in automotives to get short-term loans by putting their car inventories up as collateral. | $10M | Seed | Mar 13, 2023 |  |
| Broom | Broom provides access for dealers in automotives to get short-term loans by putting their car inventories up as collateral. | $10M | Seed | Dec 02, 2022 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. | $170M | Series D | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| READYFOR | READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on. | $9.1M | Series B | Mar 29, 2021 |  |
| Investree | Investree is a B2B marketplace lending platform for SMEs that is fully licensed by Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK) for both conventional and Shariah businesses. Investree is based in Indonesia but has grown its regional footprint in Thailand and soon to be in the Philippines. Investree's mission as marketplace is to usetechnology and data to provide small businesses with access to working capital solutions from retail and institutional lenders.Established in October 2015, Investree focuses on a B2B acquisition model to drive origination of SME borrowers. These include strong partnerships with ecosystems to drive origination, enhance verification and reduce cost of acquisition. These include strategic partnerships such as e-procurement platforms, payment gateway providers to source potential SME while accessing its digital footprint through the ecosystem to enhance the business process and customer experience. Led by a solid team of seasoned professionals from the financial industry with a team of 175 employees across the region Investree, by August 2019 has facilitated over USD 230 mio since inception, providing access to more than 1000 SMEs , while maintaining a robust and healthy asset quality. |  | Series C | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. | $50M | Series C | Dec 11, 2019 |  |
| Carsome | Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. |  | Series C | Nov 01, 2019 |  |
| Securitize | Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-basedmarketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings. |  | Convertible Note | Sep 01, 2019 |  |
| Symphony Communication Services | Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform. Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of allsizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo. | $165M | Series E | Jun 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [KDDI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kddi) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Openspace Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openspace-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BonAngels Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bon-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BRI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bri-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Catcha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catcha-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About MUFG Innovation Partners

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.

2 contacts available at MUFG Innovation Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nobutake Suzuki | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nobutake-suzuki |
| Mayank Shiromani | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayank-shiromani |

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## FAQ

### What does Nobutake Suzuki invest in?

Nobutake Suzuki invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nobutake Suzuki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nobutake Suzuki closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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