# Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa

> Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa is a seed investor at FAN Communications backing Media and Entertainment. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FAN Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-communications)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasuyoshi-yanagisawa-5a820870

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa is a seed investor at FAN Communications in Tokyo focused on Media and Entertainment and Food and Beverage. Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.4M–$41M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Media and Entertainment | 4 | 40% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 30% |
| Content | 2 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| Hotel | 1 | 10% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 40% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NoSchool | NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free. |  | Seed | Apr 20, 2020 |  |
| Posiwill | Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type. |  |  | Nov 19, 2019 |  |
| Penmark | Penmark is a timetable management application that may also be used as a course management tool. The company's platform offers courses based on lesson data and lesson reviews that are unique to each university. Additionally, the in-class talk room generated for each class allows students to communicate with others who are taking the sameclass, allowing college students to take on challenges by thoroughly confronting each student and providing support that respects the individual's will. | $8.2M | Seed | Nov 06, 2019 |  |
| viviane | viviane is running Japan's best video streaming guide, 1Screen. |  |  | Mar 04, 2019 |  |
| Maruyoshi Center | Maruyoshi Center is a food distribution business that also runs restaurants and supermarkets. They offer groceries and perishable goods. It establishes a business where customers may buy food to take away and eat elsewhere. Food purchased through a business transaction with a company that is not a restaurant is referred to as retail food. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 04, 2019 |  |
| DanceNow | DanceNow is developing a studio business, services for instructors, and dance-related businesses. They offer lesson matching, studio management efficiency support, and peripheral support services. It also provides remote dance lesson system development services. |  | Seed | Nov 28, 2018 |  |
| Clear | Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE". | $10.6M |  | Oct 31, 2018 |  |
| Clear | Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE". |  |  | Oct 31, 2018 |  |
| BULK HOMME | BULK HOMME is a men's skincare brand that provides products with solid evidence that have both instantaneous value and long-term value. Its products include an array of facial cleanser, lotion, and emulsions that are created through repeated research and development without compromising on men's bare skin that enables men to access abrand that fulfills their basic daily skincare needs.BULK HOMME was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $41.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| Mewcket | Mewcket creating a new platform for AI scientists, globally. On the platform, they can challenge many AI competitions. Companies, our clients can get contact them and make sure their skills. Mewcket (ミューケット), fka ハチキュ, is a job search & reading platform for engineers, enabling a job candidate to review articles & information on ITcompanies, startups, and products; and learning the candidate's preferences. | $4.4M | Seed | Aug 15, 2017 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Agaroot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agaroot) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DMM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dmm-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FAN Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-communications) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-ventures-e328) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [STRIVE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FAN Communications

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

FANCOMI aims to become the world’s largest performance marketing ad network corporate group. We build ad networks that bring an performance marketing advertising model to advertisers, affiliate site application developers (media), and consumers, resulting in the largest and most optimized “Win-Win-Win” relationships.their ad networks bringcontinued benefits such as the optimization of marketing costs for the advertiser, maximized income for affiliate site application developers (media), and the reduction of costs and improved quality of service to consumers.they are the worlds largest corporate group that makes ad networks committed to effective advertisements, and will create new added value in the cycle of production, sales, consumption that is changing with the Internet, and thereby contribute to society.

5 contacts available at FAN Communications.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Satoshi Hotano | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/satoshi-hotano |
| Shin Nakano | Operating officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shin-nakano-4844 |
| Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yanagisawa-yasuyoshi |
| Kakimoto Kenji | Auditor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakimoto-kenji |
| Kazusuke Obi | Outside Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazusuke-obi |

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## FAQ

### What does Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa invest in?

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage and Content startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa's check size?

Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$41M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa participates in.

### When did Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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