# Shin Iwata

> Shin Iwata is a pre-seed investor at MIRAISE (Tokyo) backing CMS, PaaS and Banking. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MIRAISE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miraise)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siwata/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/siwata
- Website: https://www.miraise.vc/en/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/siwata

Shin Iwata is a pre-seed investor at MIRAISE in Tokyo focused on CMS and PaaS. Shin is CEO and Managing Partner at MIRAISE. Shin is uniquely positioned to support engineer-founders in Japan with his deep technical experience as a former developer as well as his operational experience as CEO of Skype Japan K.K. and as a Partner at Atomico for several years. Shin received his Bachelor's degree from Keio University inphysics. Kauffman Fellow from Class 20.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CMS | 1 | 25% |
| PaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Marketing | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GIG-A | GIG-A is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking services that allow customers to manage their finances. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Qurate Inc. (Japan) | Qurate is “Air traffic control for content operations”, a Content Strategy Platform which gives marketers a 360 view of every piece of content, on all channels (social, web, email, ads and more) in the organization. It works for single project brands or multi-brand companies and agencies. | $9.7M | Pre-Seed | May 08, 2017 |  |
| Gengo | Gengo’s unique platform consists of a diverse and growing community of more than 18,000 qualified translators from 114 countries working across 37 languages and 64 language pairs. The professional human translation platform represents a huge leap in quality compared to machine translation, while enjoying faster delivery times than traditionalservice providers. Through its web offering and open API, Gengo enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily connect with a global audience at scale. Clients and partners include JTB, TripAdvisor, BuzzFeed, Rakuten and Vestiaire Collective; a more complete list can be found at https://gengo.com/customers/Founded in 2008, Gengo is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an office in Silicon Valley.To learn more about Gengo, visit www.gengo.com | $12M | Series B | Apr 22, 2013 |  |
| Smile Score | SMILE SCORE is an emotional communication tool that finds happy and sad. |  | Corporate Round |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Daiwa Corporate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiwa-corporate-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FINOLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finolab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [inclusion japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inclusion-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Infocomm Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infocomm-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IRIS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iris-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MIRAISE

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

MIRAISE makes seed VC investments in early-stage software startups launched by programmers and engineers.

1 contacts available at MIRAISE.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shin Iwata | Managing Partner & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shin-iwata |

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## FAQ

### What does Shin Iwata invest in?

Shin Iwata invests primarily in CMS, PaaS and Banking startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Shin Iwata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shin Iwata closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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