# Tetsuya Sanada

> Tetsuya Sanada is a seed investor at SOICO backing Data Storage. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: SOICO
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tetsuya-sanada-26b85b64/?originalSubdomain=jp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tetsuya.sanada

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.

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Data Storage | 1 | 100% |
| File Sharing | 1 | 100% |
| Software Engineering | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NonEntropy Japan | NonEntropy Japan is a tech company that provides distributed data storage service that utilizes IPFS technology. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About SOICO

VC Fund



1 contacts available at SOICO.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tetsuya Sanada | Executive chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tetsuya-sanada |

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## FAQ

### 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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### When did Tetsuya Sanada last invest?

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