Tomoko Namba
Managing Partners @ Delight Ventures
Japan
Tomoko Namba is a member of the board and Founder of DeNA. Namba served as the company’s CEO since its founding in 1999 until June 2011. Prior to founding DeNA, she was a partner at McKinsey & Co. She obtained an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1990.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Tomoko Namba invests in
Stages Tomoko Namba invests in
Countries Tomoko Namba invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (21%)
- Medical 2 (11%)
- Computer 2 (11%)
- Agriculture 2 (11%)
- Health Care 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (47%)
- Series A 6 (32%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- Japan 15 (79%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| We make aging beautiful. Voxela improves QOL and profitability of those eldercare businesses for a sustainable society. | Series A / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike. | $3.3M / Series A / Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Asterminds has created the AI listening agent "InTake" to address the structural problem of "information intake." | $696.9K / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Cosomil develops early diagnostic drugs for diseases and provides research and development support to healthcare companies. | Series A / Feb 06, 2026 | ||
| Dishwill produces farm-fresh ingredients for plant-based foods at its plant factories, and also specializes in food processing. | Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Ocean is a technology-driven company dedicated to promoting digital transformation in the tax-free and retail shopping sectors. By developing innovative digital platforms and integrated solutions, the company streamlines tax refund processes and enhances the overall shopping experience for international travelers and retailers alike. | Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| OSHIAI is an AI chat software that lets you communicate with your favorite idol's "Ai" avatar, which represents their hobbies, preferences, and speaking style. | $473.2K / Seed / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| Zaimo's AI-driven SaaS budget planning and management software sounds like AI integration can bring significant advantages in automating tasks like tracking expenses, forecasting future spending patterns, and offering personalized budgeting suggestions. | $648.7K / Seed / Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| OptQC commercializes cutting-edge optical quantum computing technologies developed by the Furusawa-Endo Laboratory. Because optical quantum computers are more scalable than superconducting and other quantum computing implementations, OptQC's optical quantum computers should reach this scale. They also have benefits like faster processing andreduced power consumption, which makes optical quantum computers a possible long-term pinnacle of quantum technology. | $4.2M / Seed / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services. | $6.6M / Series A / Nov 20, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Delight Ventures
Delight Ventures is a venture capital firm that thoroughly reduces the hurdles of entrepreneurship in Japan and supports entrepreneurs in the world. Entrepreneurship is taken as a natural career path, and we aim to be a society where both successful and unsuccessful people can continue to take on challenges.
Delight Ventures Contacts
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Bando Ryo
Principal
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Tomoko Namba
Managing Partners
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Watanabe Dai
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Tomoko Namba invest in?
Tomoko Namba invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Medical and Computer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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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The most recent investment recorded for Tomoko Namba closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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