# Rinji Aoki

> Rinji Aoki is a Series B investor at And Factory (Setagaya) backing SNS and Marketing. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [And Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/and-factory)
- Location: Setagaya, Japan
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rinji.aoki

Rinji Aoki is a Series B investor at And Factory in Setagaya focused on SNS and Marketing. Rinji Aoki - President and Representative Director @ And Factory

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SNS | 1 | 100% |
| Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AIQ | AIQ uses technology to investigate human possibilities. It uses profiling AI to analyze market insights and acquire potential customers with high LTV. | $10.7M | Series B | Mar 09, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Deep30](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deep30) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hakuhodo DY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakuodo-dy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hokkaido Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hokkaido-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mizuho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mizuho-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Shoko Chukin Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shoko-chukin-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smbc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About And Factory

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

And factory is a smartphone business company that works on different service applications centered on the smartphone business. It develops applications that connect users and services at and factory, which challenges the possibilities of smartphones. The company mainly develops tool-based apps, game capture board apps, and manga apps.

5 contacts available at And Factory.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rinji Aoki | President and Representative Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rinji-aoki |
| Ikuo Ishida | Executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ikuo-ishida |
| Mitsuhisa Toya | Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsuhisa-toya |
| Ohara Takamasa | Chairman/President/Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ohara-takamasa |
| Okada Ryo | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okada-ryo |

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## FAQ

### What does Rinji Aoki invest in?

Rinji Aoki invests primarily in SNS, Marketing and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series B 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 Rinji Aoki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rinji Aoki closed in Mar 2020. 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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