# Yoichi Aso

> Yoichi Aso is a seed investor at Alphadrive backing E-Commerce, Apparel and Content. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alphadrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphadrive)
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoichiaso/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/asou401
- Website: https://x.com/asou401
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asou401

Yoichi Aso is a seed investor at Alphadrive focused on E-Commerce and Apparel. Yoichi Aso is the President and CEO at Alpha Drive.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $726k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Apparel | 1 | 9% |
| Content | 1 | 9% |
| Cooking | 1 | 9% |
| Organic | 1 | 9% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Angel | 3 | 27% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HANAMII | HANAMII is a creative and marketing company that offers digital marketing, branding, business support services, and social media marketing. |  | Angel | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| Monogusa | Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $12.2M | Series C | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Oohmatch | 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 | Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books. | $880.7K | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| AlgaleX | 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 |  |
| Monogusa | Monoxer is a Information Technology. | $15.9M | Series B | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Kamado | 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 | 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 |  |
| CoCooking | 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 |  |
| Sally127 | Sally127 provide promotional support services and consulting services that can be utilized on e-commerce sites for apparel companies. |  | Angel | Oct 25, 2019 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Brain Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-brain-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [World Innovation Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wil) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accord Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accord-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ANA Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ana-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beyond Next Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-next-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chiba Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chiba-dojo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alphadrive

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Alphadrive is an incubation platform, acceleration, Consulting, internal entrepreneurial support media,Chihousousei.A private incubation platform specializing in the development of internal new business, internal entrepreneurs talent development program, Kenshu program with new business development skills, internal entrepreneursWe offer awakeningmethods,

3 contacts available at Alphadrive.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Furukawa Hisashi | Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/furukawa-hisashi |
| Hirao Joji | Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hirao-joji |
| Yoichi Aso | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoichi-aso |

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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 is Yoichi Aso's check size?

Yoichi Aso typically joins rounds of $726k–$1.7M 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 Yoichi Aso participates in.

### 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 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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