# Shinichiro Sugiyama

> Shinichiro Sugiyama is a seed investor at FAN Communications backing Recruiting and Wedding. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FAN Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-communications)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2019
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sinsgym

Shinichiro Sugiyama is a seed investor at FAN Communications focused on Recruiting and Wedding. After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $7.8M–$8.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recruiting | 2 | 67% |
| Wedding | 1 | 33% |
| Home Decor | 1 | 33% |
| Home Services | 1 | 33% |
| Career Planning | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carat | Service development and operation to make people shine | $8.7M | Seed | May 16, 2019 |  |
| MonooQ | MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space. | $3.4M | Angel | Feb 12, 2019 |  |
| REXIT | REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society. | $7.8M | Seed | Dec 12, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 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 Shinichiro Sugiyama invest in?

Shinichiro Sugiyama invests primarily in Recruiting, Wedding and Home Decor startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Shinichiro Sugiyama's check size?

Shinichiro Sugiyama typically joins rounds of $7.8M–$8.7M 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 Shinichiro Sugiyama participates in.

### When did Shinichiro Sugiyama last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shinichiro Sugiyama closed in May 2019. Shizune tracks 3 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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