Yoichi Aso
Angel Investor @ First Light Capital
Yoichi Aso is a seed investor at First Light Capital focused on E-Commerce and Apparel. Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Yoichi Aso invests in
Stages Yoichi Aso invests in
Countries Yoichi Aso invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $726k–$1.7M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $813k–$4.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (18%)
- Apparel 1 (9%)
- Content 1 (9%)
- Cooking 1 (9%)
- Organic 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (27%)
- Angel 3 (27%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (27%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| HANAMII is a creative and marketing company that offers digital marketing, branding, business support services, and social media marketing. | Angel / Mar 01, 2026 | ||
| Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $12.2M / Series C / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Oohmatch is an advertising company that specializes in marketing products and businesses through outdoor promotions and publicity. | $813.4K / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 05, 2025 | ||
| Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books. | $880.7K / Seed / Mar 13, 2024 | ||
| AlgaleX is a food technology and biotechnology company that develops AI-powered algae fermentation technology to produce sustainable food ingredients, nutritional compounds, and bioproducts. The company leverages proprietary AI-driven cultivation and fermentation systems to convert underutilized food byproducts into high-value microalgae rich innutrients such as DHA, umami compounds, and other functional ingredients. Its mission is to build a circular bioeconomy by reducing food waste while providing sustainable alternatives to marine- and animal-derived ingredients.The company's core technology is Touji-24, an AI-powered algae cultivation and fermentation control system that automates and optimizes microalgae production. Using proprietary fermentation processes and food byproducts such as awamori lees, AlgaleX cultivates algae that can be used to produce Umamo, a plant-based ingredient combining seafood-like umami flavor with high concentrations of DHA. This approach reduces reliance on wild-caught fish as a source of omega-3 fatty acids while upcycling food industry byproducts into valuable nutritional ingredients. | $1.7M / Seed / Oct 25, 2023 | ||
| Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $15.9M / Series B / Dec 21, 2021 | ||
| Kamado is a publisher of magazines. They offer products that include artist articles, colomn article series, and web magazines. | Angel / May 31, 2021 | ||
| Log build offers a new form of on-site management that enables productivity improvement and real-time visualization and sharing of on-site information through on-site management robots and VR software. The company provides AI development, VR development, construction site construction management robot, cloud site management, and construction siteplatform. | $726K / Seed / Apr 05, 2021 | ||
| Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 05, 2020 | ||
| CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 13, 2020 | ||
| See all 11 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About First Light Capital
First Light Capital is venture capital firm.
First Light Capital Contacts
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Chiamin Lai
Managing Partner
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Ayaka Suzuki
Investment Associate
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Osamu Iwasawa
President, Founder and CEO
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Riho Mashima
Principal
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FAQ
What does Yoichi Aso invest in?
Yoichi Aso invests primarily in E-Commerce, Apparel and Content startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Yoichi Aso invest in?
Yoichi Aso typically joins rounds of $726k–$1.7M at Seed and $813k–$4.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Yoichi Aso's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Yoichi Aso took part in.
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When did Yoichi Aso last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yoichi Aso closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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