# Takashi Uemura > Takashi Uemura is a seed investor at ALBERT backing Consulting and Internet. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [ALBERT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-2) - Total investments: 5 - Last investment: May 2023 - Lead investor: 40% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takashi-uemura-88a61124 - Website: https://x.com/ALBERTJapan Takashi Uemura is a seed investor at ALBERT focused on Consulting and Internet. Takashi Uemura is the President & co-founder at ALBERT .Graduated from Waseda University in 2003. In the same year, he joined Accenture and gained experience as a strategy consultant. In 2005, he founded ALBERT Co., Ltd., with AI and data science at the core, and became President and Representative Director. In 2015, the company listed ALBERTon the TSE Mothers market and subsequently formed a capital and business alliance with Toyota, Tokio Marine, and others. Since the foundation of ALBERT, we have established connections with various universities and research institutions in Japan, and nurtured it into an organization with more than 100 scientists and AI engineers. In this activity, he became aware of the issues in Japan's industry-academia collaboration and became aware of the issues, and founded epiST in 2019. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Consulting | 3 | 60% | | Internet | 2 | 40% | | Information Technology | 2 | 40% | | AgTech | 1 | 20% | | Content | 1 | 20% | 16 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 2 | 40% | | Funding Round | 1 | 20% | | Debt Financing | 1 | 20% | | Corporate Round | 1 | 20% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Closer Robotics | Closer Robotics is an AI and robotics startup that specializes in Software-Led Robot Development. The company excels in miniaturizing and streamlining robotics technologies. Closer provides compact robots designed for a range of grab and place operations. Among its offerings are Palletizing Robots, which automate challenging stacking tasks withoutrequiring system expertise, and PickPacker Robots, which facilitate the picking of small sachets from a larger bulk pile. | $745.7K | Seed | May 10, 2023 | | | Oryzae | Oryzae attempts to alleviate social challenges through ancient Japanese fermenting processes. | | Debt Financing | Jan 31, 2023 | | | Acompany | Acompany provides products and consulting development related to secret computing. | | Seed | Apr 06, 2020 | | | Quastella | Quastella develops quality control technologies for cell-based manufacturing and life science applications. The company provides systems for analyzing, recording, and managing cellular data using image-based evaluation methods. Its technology supports the construction and utilization of cell-related datasets, monitoring of cell states, comparisonof historical records, and quantitative assessment of cell quality. The company serves organizations engaged in biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and related research and industrial activities. | | | | | | Evixar | Evixar provides an Automatic Content Recognition technology “Evixar ACR” that identifies and analyzes sound content.It offers ACR technology and systems are provided in a software development kit form that provides access to a library of software that helps the users to develop content recognition applications and utilities. Our technology isapplied second screen services, interactive TV systems, broadcast monitoring, subtitle casting, audience measurement, copyright filtering.Evixar also provides an Acoustic Communication solution “Another Track(R)” which is acoustic communication technology making use of “watermark” audio signals in a frequency range inaudible to the human ear. Emanating from speakers in stadiums, theaters, and other such venues, these signals are recognized by smart devices, such as smartphones or wearables. They control the output of the multi-language text or AR display on the devices, timed to the progress of the play or other event taking place in the venue.The text or AR display occurs within 0.1 seconds, enabling real-time distribution in theaters or other live venues. Since data can be delivered even in an environment lacking electric waves, or to devices in airplane mode, and without the need for special audio equipment, the technology is readily implemented in theaters. | | Corporate Round | | | 5 of 5 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Deepcore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepcore) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About ALBERT VC Fund 1 contacts available at ALBERT. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Takashi Uemura | President and Representative Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-uemura | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Takashi Uemura invest in? Takashi Uemura invests primarily in Consulting, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 5 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 Uemura last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Takashi Uemura closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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