# Taihei Kobayashi

> Taihei Kobayashi is a seed investor at Sun Asterisk backing Software and Logistics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sun Asterisk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sun-asterisk)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Taihei Kobayashi is a seed investor at Sun Asterisk focused on Software and Logistics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Logistics | 1 | 100% |
| Craft Beer | 1 | 100% |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Best Beer Japan | Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018. | $608.9K | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Digital Hollywood University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-hollywood-university) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Headline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/headlinevc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NBC Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nbc-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Oryzarai Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oryzarai-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PE&HR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pe-hr-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sun Asterisk

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Sun Asterisk provides digital creative studio business promoting industrial digitalization.

3 contacts available at Sun Asterisk.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Umeda Takuya | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/umeda-takuya |
| Taihei Kobayashi | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taihei-kobayashi |
| Takakura Kenichi | Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takakura-kenichi |

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## FAQ

### What does Taihei Kobayashi invest in?

Taihei Kobayashi invests primarily in Software, Logistics and Craft Beer 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 Taihei Kobayashi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Taihei Kobayashi closed in Feb 2022. 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?

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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