# Yoko Okano

> Yoko Okano is a seed investor at First Row Partners backing Health Care and Health Insurance. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [First Row Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-row-partners)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: May 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/yokookano

Yoko Okano is a seed investor at First Row Partners in Seattle focused on Health Care and Health Insurance. Yoko Okano is the Founding Partner at First Row. She attended Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Health Insurance | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decent | Decent offers more affordable healthcare by aligning incentives to improve health, reduce costs, and put members at the center of their care. | $8M | Seed | May 18, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Core Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/core-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRCM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/CRCM) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fenwick & West](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenwick-west) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Healthy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maverick Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maverick-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maverick Ventures Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maverick-ventures-israel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About First Row Partners

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Co-founded by Yoko Okano and Minda Brusse, First Row Partners funds early stage startups ready for a big leap forward. We invest in solving meaningful human problems with technology and typically focus on software. We seek answers to two primary questions 1. How are societal shifts affecting the way people approach and perform paid work? 2.When, how and where are people buying what they value?

3 contacts available at First Row Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Danna Redmond | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danna-redmond |
| Minda Brusse | Co-Founder + Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minda-brusse |
| Yoko Okano | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoko-okano |

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## FAQ

### What does Yoko Okano invest in?

Yoko Okano invests primarily in Health Care and Health Insurance startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yoko Okano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yoko Okano closed in May 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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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