# Satoshi Hotano

> Satoshi Hotano is a seed investor at FAN Communications backing Marketing and Digital Marketing. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FAN Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-communications)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Satoshi Hotano is a seed investor at FAN Communications focused on Marketing and Digital Marketing. Satoshi Hotano - Outside Director @ FAN Communications

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Digital Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |
| Media and Entertainment | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SMN | Their mission is to provide the solutions to the clients with essential value by sharpen the analytical skills and technical strength.Since beginning of the 21 century, the cost of the analyzing the data greatly reduced, and now you can process in real time much better. Reflecting such progress in technology, the importance of these"real-time utilization of large-scale data" has been growing more and more in various fields. They will continue to provide various solutions with essential value by focusing utilization of massive data in real time, and embarking on new technology progressively. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2013 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About FAN Communications

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

FANCOMI aims to become the world’s largest performance marketing ad network corporate group. We build ad networks that bring an performance marketing advertising model to advertisers, affiliate site application developers (media), and consumers, resulting in the largest and most optimized “Win-Win-Win” relationships.their ad networks bringcontinued benefits such as the optimization of marketing costs for the advertiser, maximized income for affiliate site application developers (media), and the reduction of costs and improved quality of service to consumers.they are the worlds largest corporate group that makes ad networks committed to effective advertisements, and will create new added value in the cycle of production, sales, consumption that is changing with the Internet, and thereby contribute to society.

5 contacts available at FAN Communications.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Satoshi Hotano | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satoshi-hotano |
| Shin Nakano | Operating officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shin-nakano-4844 |
| Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yanagisawa-yasuyoshi |
| Kakimoto Kenji | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakimoto-kenji |
| Kazusuke Obi | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazusuke-obi |

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## FAQ

### What does Satoshi Hotano invest in?

Satoshi Hotano invests primarily in Marketing, Digital Marketing and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed 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 Satoshi Hotano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Satoshi Hotano closed in Oct 2013. 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?

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