# Taro Masunaga

> Taro Masunaga is a startup investor at Astellas Venture Management. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Astellas Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astellas-venture-management)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taro-masunaga-41840270

Taro Masunaga is a startup investor at Astellas Venture Management. Dr. Masunaga joined Astellas Venture Management in Oct 2013. He has more than 25 years experience of drug discovery research from target discovery to development mainly in Immunology area including transplantation and autoimmune. From 2007 to 2012, he served as associate director to start up the Astellas Research Institute of America (ARIA)which is engaging early drug discovery (target identification, Hit/Lead generation and therapeutic strategy) in transplantation. Prior to joining AVM, he worked as a head of Advanced Drug Discovery (ADD) group in Pharmacology Research Laboratories taking a responsibility for early drug discovery of small molecules for every single focused therapeutic area, Urology, Oncology, Immunology, CNS, Kidney diseases and Frontier diseases.

## About Astellas Venture Management

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Astellas Venture Management is a California-based financial organization that targets investments in the biotechnology sector.

5 contacts available at Astellas Venture Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ken Shimokawa | Senior Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-shimokawa |
| Takashi Futami | Associate Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takashi-futami |
| Takatoshi Soga | Associate Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takatoshi-soga |
| Taro Masunaga | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taro-masunaga |
| Kenji Yasukawa | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenji-yasukawa |

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