# Takashi Hayashida

> Takashi Hayashida is a seed investor at Emurgo ventures backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emurgo ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emurgo-ventures)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takashi-hayashida-32338289/?originalSubdomain=sg

Takashi Hayashida is a Managing Partner at EMURGO Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 4 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 25% |
| Music | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZOTH | ZOTH brings Secured & Stable yield from emerging markets for defi investors |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Synergetics.AI | Synergetics.ai's AgentWorks is an Agentic AI Platform for the Enterprise AI Development, Testing and Deployment. AgentWorks includes AgentTalk which is a patented Agent to Agent Communication Protocol. |  | Seed | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Gaia | GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes. | $10M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| YOAKE Entertainment | YOAKE Entertainment is a music studio that specializes in the planning, production, and development of entertainment content. | $1.3M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 25, 2025 |  |
| SONEX | SONEX is an AI-powered decentralized exchange (DEX) built on top of the Soneium ecosystem. It is dedicated to providing a secure, efficient, and user-friendly cryptocurrency trading experience. | $1M | Seed | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| double jump.tokyo | double jump.tokyo Is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming and entertainment sector. | $10.4M | Series D | Aug 28, 2024 |  |
| ZOTH | ZOTH brings Secured & Stable yield from emerging markets for defi investors | $4M | Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Magic Square | Magic Square (founded 2021) is a unified, integrated, interoperable space for users to discover and experience community-vetted crypto apps, and for crypto app developers to market and monetize their best applications.The Magic Store is the fundamental element of the Magic Square project. Within the Magic Store, there are multiple workingelements that dictate the communication between many moving parts.OverviewMagic Square is a multifaceted system that covers all the UX bases: The Magic Store guides users to discover the highest quality crypto apps with built-in integrated DeFi. Users sign in to all of their apps with one SSI secured Magic Connect leading to their personalized Magic Spaces: where crypto-app experiences begin and end. Users and Creators discuss and collaborate in a dedicated Magic Community space.The Magic Square interface includes three main components: The Magic Store, Magic Spaces, and Magic Connect. Each of these serves a di!erent function for the three groups who use the platform: crypto application users (Users), crypto application developers (Creators), and new community validators (Validators).Each of these groups plays a unique role in the Magic Store interface, with a unique set of actions and responsibilities. Users must enter the system and obtain a secure persona with their secure Magic Connect login credentials. Creators must successfully deploy apps to be validated by the Validators, who vote on the new apps entering the ecosystem. |  |  |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Absolute Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/absolute-digital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AstraX Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astrax-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baboon.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baboon-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bing Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bing-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Emurgo ventures

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

EMURGO Ventures is a venture capital initiative of Emurgo that promotes and finances Cardano blockchain startups and middleware development.

1 contacts available at Emurgo ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Takashi Hayashida | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-hayashida-b660 |

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## FAQ

### What does Takashi Hayashida invest in?

Takashi Hayashida invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Music startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Takashi Hayashida last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Takashi Hayashida closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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