Tetsuya Sanada
Executive chairman @ SOICO
Tokyo, Japan
Tetsuya Sanada is a seed investor at SOICO in Tokyo focused on Data Storage and File Sharing. A restless entrepreneur, Tetsuya Sanada founded several companies across a variety of fields while still a college student at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1989, he started up a content provider based on voice and fax using Dial Q2, a premium-rate telephone number service also touted as the predecessor of the popular i-mode mobile internet service.1997 saw Sanada joining the company ACCESS, where he contributed to i-mode's initial design, in addition to browser development. In 1998, he created CYBIRD, a company focused on various mobile media, of which he was the Vice President and CTO. Come 2000, Sanada set up yet another company, this time to serve as a mobile software R&D branch for CYBIRD, known as KLab (called "K Laboratory" at the time). Sanada maintained the position of KLab CEO until he was promoted Director and Chairman in March 2019.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Tetsuya Sanada invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Data Storage 1 (100%)
- File Sharing 1 (100%)
- Software Engineering 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
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NonEntropy Japan
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NonEntropy Japan is a tech company that provides distributed data storage service that utilizes IPFS technology. | $1.3M / Seed / Apr 08, 2021 |
About SOICO
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Tetsuya Sanada
Executive chairman
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What does Tetsuya Sanada invest in?
Tetsuya Sanada invests primarily in Data Storage, File Sharing and Software Engineering startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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