# Ryota Matsuzaki

> Ryota Matsuzaki is a seed investor at Kibidango, Inc. (Tokyo) backing Marketing and Finance. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kibidango, Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kibidango-inc)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Ryota Matsuzaki is a seed investor at Kibidango, Inc. in Tokyo focused on Marketing and Finance. Ryota Matsuzaki - CEO and Founder @ Kibidango, Inc.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 3 | 38% |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| Advertising | 2 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 4 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MV.Health | MV.Health is an award-winning leader in Women's & Men's Health devices. Their doctor-designed products adapt to the user's anatomy & deliver targeted vibrations to promote pelvic comfort, support natural lubrication, encourage penile blood-flow & enhance overall intimate health. MV's FSA/HSA eligible deviceshave won over 60 international awards including Red Dot, iF Design & Design Week. Backed by science & documented in 15 peer-reviewed journal papers, MV devices are recommended by leading doctors in US, UK & Europe and have improved the lives of over 200,000 users worldwide. | $1.5M | Angel | Jan 01, 2017 |  |
| HCVC | HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events. |  |  | Sep 22, 2015 |  |
| Skimlinks | Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform, supporting publishers’ creation of a new revenue stream that allows them to be less dependent on advertising. Commerce can contribute as much as a quarter of publishers’ overall revenue. Skimlinks technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive throughmonetized product links in commerce-related content. These links generate revenue when clicked on by readers who go on to make a purchase as a result. In its platform, Skimlinks offers a growing suite of innovative solutions designed to increase the number of clicks and earnings per click of commerce-related content. It also aggregates access for publishers to over 60 affiliate networks, enabling them to earn commission from 27,000 merchants around the world instantly. Annual ecommerce transactions in Skimlinks’ network totalled $1 billion in 2017. Clients include over half of the top 100 US & UK publishers by revenue including Conde Nast, Hearst, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Trinity Mirror, MailOnline, and more. |  |  | Apr 22, 2013 |  |
| Tokyo Otaku Mode | Tokyo Otaku Mode™ (TOM) delivers the latest news on Japanese anime, manga, games, and more through its Facebook page, which is loved by over 10 million fans, as well as its website, Tokyo Otaku Mode. TOM's mission is to be the world's premier source for the latest on Japanese pop culture.TOM also actively supports and promotes topcreators on Tokyo Otaku Mode, bringing their works to a worldwide audience. Starting with English translation support for creators' works and rofiles, TOM also features creators' works on its Facebook page, produces international portfolios for creators, conducts creator interviews, exhibits at overseas events, sells otaku goods to overseas customers, and more. With the inclusion of its e-commerce site, TOM aims to close the gap between Japan's otaku goods and worldwide otaku fans, being a place where such goods are readily accessible to otaku fans all over the world. |  | Seed | Jul 30, 2012 |  |
| Paidy | Paidy is a software platform that allows consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration.Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them eachmonth in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases. |  | Series A | Mar 05, 2012 |  |
| DemandMarkets | DemandMarkets is a marketing business company that provides focus on SEO and marketing SaaS development and was, and marketing solutions. It is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise SEO and content marketing platform with customers from a variety of organizations and roles around the world. Recent changes in themarketing industry, and even the role that marketers have to play, represent a constant change in the data and insight needs of their users. | $14.2M | Seed | Nov 16, 2011 |  |
| CrowdWorks | CrowdWorks is one of the biggest crowdsourcing services and growing rapidly in Japan. Registered developers/designers can apply to more than 70 kinds of projects/tasks, from development of iPhone(iOS) and Android Apps, to website and logo designs.CrowdWorks is used by over 25,000 companies, including Japanese ministries andpublicly traded companies.They offer new work style to 130,000 users. CrowdWorks won IVS Launch Pad 2012 Spring.Trusted by Nikkei Business Publications Inc., CrowdWorks was selected as one of the influential 100 companies that will improve Japan in the next generation.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. |  | Angel | Nov 01, 2011 |  |
| DemandSphere | DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users.Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 01, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [C4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daphni](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daphni) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elkstone Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkstone-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forum Foundry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forum-foundry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kibidango, Inc.

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Kibidango, Inc..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ryota Matsuzaki | CEO and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryota-matsuzaki |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryota Matsuzaki invest in?

Ryota Matsuzaki invests primarily in Marketing, Finance and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ryota Matsuzaki's check size?

Ryota Matsuzaki typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$14M 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 Ryota Matsuzaki participates in.

### When did Ryota Matsuzaki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryota Matsuzaki closed in Jan 2017. Shizune tracks 8 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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