# Takehiro Shirai

> Takehiro Shirai is a startup investor at IT-Farm (Tokyo). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IT-Farm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/it-farm)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takehiro-shirai-0b19181/

Takehiro Shirai is a startup investor at IT-Farm in Tokyo. Mr. Shirai is one of the initial members of IT-Farm. He has been vital to the success of portfolios companies in managing their development and customer projects, and has been making critical technology assessments for other IT-Farm investment opportunities. Prior to IT-Farm, he was a general partner at Aisys, where he acted as the technologyevangelist for silicon valley startups entering the Japanese market. For six years, he designed microprocessors at Intel, and in 1995 he was one of the two founding members of MetaSoftware-Japan.

## About IT-Farm

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

5 contacts available at IT-Farm.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Nguyen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-nguyen |
| Morio Kurosaki | Founder & President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morio-kurosaki |
| Shinya Kasuga | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shinya-kasuga |
| Takashi Mukaibayashi | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-mukaibayashi |
| Takehiro Shirai | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takehiro-shirai |

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