# Takeru Hiki

> Takeru Hiki is a seed investor at Welby (Tokyo) backing Beauty and Health Care. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Welby](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/welby)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takeru-hiki-0119a06/

Takeru Hiki is a seed investor at Welby in Tokyo focused on Beauty and Health Care. Takeru Hiki - Founder & CEO @ Welby

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beauty | 2 | 100% |
| Health Care | 2 | 100% |
| Task Management | 2 | 100% |
| SNS | 1 | 50% |
| Medical | 1 | 50% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rehasaku | Rehasaku is a service that uses technology to support both medical professionals, such as physiotherapists and judo rehabilitation practitioners, and patients. | $1M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| MedPeer | MedPeer operates as a community site for doctors. MedPeer is a recruitment agency collective registration service.MedPeer operation of "MedPeer," a collective intelligence service/ community website for physicians. |  | Angel |  |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Welby

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Welby offers patients and to their family a digital tools helping medical treatment and prevention of progression of disease. The company co-develops and co-provides digital services with pharmaceuticals, medical device companies, governments along with patients and health care professionals.

1 contacts available at Welby.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Takeru Hiki | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takeru-hiki |

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## FAQ

### What does Takeru Hiki invest in?

Takeru Hiki invests primarily in Beauty, Health Care and Task Management startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Takeru Hiki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Takeru Hiki closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 2 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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