Toshi Otani
Co-Founder and Managing Director @ Translink Capital
Palo Alto, United States
Toshi Otani is a Series B investor at Translink Capital in Palo Alto focused on Software and Analytics. Toshi Otani is based out of Silicon Valley, California, and is the co-founder and managing director of TransLink Capital. Toshi previously worked at Everypath as a senior vice president. Toshi Otani attended Stanford Business School.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
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Industries Toshi Otani invests in
Stages Toshi Otani invests in
Countries Toshi Otani invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $4M–$23M
- Series B
- $10M–$33M
- Series C
- $3M–$53M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (21%)
- Analytics 5 (13%)
- Cloud Computing 5 (13%)
- Mobile 4 (11%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (26%)
- Series C 8 (21%)
- Series A 6 (16%)
- Series D 3 (8%)
- Series E 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 17 (45%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Matter strives to change the electric ecosystem and alter electric mobility by developing integrated solutions and leveraging the latest tech. It offers the technology stack MatterEnergy, MatterEntel, MatterDrive, MatterLink, and MatterX. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $70.4M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively. | $23M / Series A / Jul 10, 2025 | ||
| Plus One Robotics develops a parcel-handling robotics platform for logistics applications. Plus One's intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for the Global 100's leading logistics and e-commerce companies. Plus One's AI-powered software determines the precise movement of millions ofSKUs in routine tasks like sortation and depalletizing. Plus One focuses on logistics application development and logistics robot deployment for material handling tasks in warehouses and distribution centers. | $53.4M / Series C / Mar 06, 2023 | ||
| Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $18M / Series A / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Plus One Robotics develops a parcel-handling robotics platform for logistics applications. Plus One's intelligent solutions combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy to pick parcels for the Global 100's leading logistics and e-commerce companies. Plus One's AI-powered software determines the precise movement of millions ofSKUs in routine tasks like sortation and depalletizing. Plus One focuses on logistics application development and logistics robot deployment for material handling tasks in warehouses and distribution centers. | $33M / Series B / Apr 27, 2021 | ||
| Eclypsium protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. | $13M / Series B / Oct 01, 2020 | ||
| Fetch Robotics is a San Jose, Calif.-based industrial robotics startup that develops and manufactures collaborative, autonomous mobile robot solutions for the warehousing and logistical markets. It takes takes advantage of its deep robotics expertise to provide reliable and safe collaborative AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) solutions for twocommercial applications: material handling and data collection.Fetch Robotics is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup founded in 2014. | $46M / Series C / Jul 23, 2019 | ||
| Omniscience Corporation provides underwriting automation and risk intelligence. | $11M / Series A / May 22, 2019 | ||
| Omniscience Corporation provides underwriting automation and risk intelligence. | Series A / May 20, 2019 | ||
| See all 38 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Translink Capital
Translink Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies. It partners with U.S. entrepreneurs and leverages relationships with strategic Asian companies to support its portfolio investments. The firm focuses on venture investments and strategic connections between U.S. startups and Asian corporate partners.
Translink Capital Contacts
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DC Cheng
Venture Partner
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Eric Hsia
Managing Director
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Manabu Ando
Partner
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Tomohiro Uchida
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Brian Tomogane
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FAQ
What does Toshi Otani invest in?
Toshi Otani invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Toshi Otani invest in?
Toshi Otani typically joins rounds of $4M–$23M at Series A, $10M–$33M at Series B and $3M–$53M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Toshi Otani's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Toshi Otani took part in.
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When did Toshi Otani last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Toshi Otani closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 38 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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