# Shintaro Tabata

> Shintaro Tabata is a seed investor at Line (Tokyo) backing Sharing Economy and Audio. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Line](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/line-corporation)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Aug 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shintarotabata

Shintaro Tabata is a seed investor at Line in Tokyo focused on Sharing Economy and Audio. Shintaro Tabata - Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales @ Line

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sharing Economy | 2 | 67% |
| Audio | 1 | 33% |
| Content | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Tourism | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carstay | Carstay Comfortable Overnight in car or tentdo itCar tripWith guests who want to enjoy. | $7.1M | Seed | Aug 03, 2020 |  |
| Telework | Telework is a multi-location workspace that utilizes vacant seats and rooms. |  | Angel | Jun 05, 2020 |  |
| Voicy | Voicy is a mobile platform that recruits both media personalities and news organizations, the entertainers read the news so users can get the latest info from favorite voices. As it enters the age of IoT, interfaces have begun to evolve into seamless forms, such as AR, that allow to access information without stopping daily lives, but in this era,it has focused on the ear. |  | Series A | Mar 26, 2019 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABC Dream Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abc-dreamventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaiax](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaiax-japan) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lifetime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifetime-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Line

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.

5 contacts available at Line.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jun Masuda | Director CSMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masuda-jun |
| Shintaro Tabata | Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shintaro-tabata |
| Alberto Nicolas Casado | Marketing Manager Latam | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-nicolas-casado |
| Euivin Park | Senior Vice President & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/euivin-park |
| Hanna Lee | China Hong Kong Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanna-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Shintaro Tabata invest in?

Shintaro Tabata invests primarily in Sharing Economy, Audio and Content 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.

### When did Shintaro Tabata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shintaro Tabata closed in Aug 2020. 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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