# Takeshi Sonoda

> Takeshi Sonoda is a startup investor at BizReach. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BizReach](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bizreach)
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Takeshi Sonoda is a startup investor at BizReach.

## About BizReach

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Launch pad for a wide array of HR Tech services, which has focused on revolutionizing the world’s second largest Japanese HR services industry thru technology enabled business models. BizReach: Japan's premier online career networking service, which has transformed the Japanese business community in allowing career-driven executives tofreely share and directly connect with talent-seeking employers and recruiters.Often referred to as the “LinkedIn of Japan” in the HR industry, the service has allowed over half a million executives to explore their career options by sharing their resume information in a closed online database shared amongst only employers and recruiters. The service has disrupted the executive search (recruitment) market by becoming a cloud-based talent sourcing platform for employers to recruit and hire business executives directly. CareerTrek: The service was built on the needs of BizReach clients (employers) wanting to recruit and hire “young” professionals (20s and early 30s) more efficiently thru direct sourcing methods. Hence, the service is branded and targeted to become an online career networking service connecting young professional jobseekers and employers. Together with BizReach, the 2 cloud-based talent sourcing platforms deliver similar results to what Linkedin delivers to enterprise clients outside of Japan. An added feature of CareerTrek due to its focus on a younger audience is its recommendation engine, which supports jobseekers in not only proactively finding jobs that they think fit them, but being introduced to positions that other similar users find interesting. Stanby: Stanby is a job search engine, which aggregates job postings from hundreds of third-party job sites. This “Google for Jobs” service enables jobseekers to search from over 4 million jobs posted online from all over the country in just one search. Stanby ATS is a service provided to employers, and is a cloud-based applicant tracking system for employers, and is free to use. Employers can create job postings, source applicants and track applicants, together functioning as a central platform for all recruitment efforts. Stanby thrives to bring every job opening to the online world, and become the largest original source of hiring information.

5 contacts available at BizReach.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edahiro Ken | Executive Officer CSO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edahiro-ken |
| Julian M. Rice | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-m-rice |
| Soichiro Swimmy Minami | Founder & Representative Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swimmy-minami |
| Susato Risako | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susato-risako |
| Takeshi Sonoda | CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takeshi-sonoda |

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