Yoshikazu Tanaka
Angel Investor @ GREE Ventures
Yoshikazu Tanaka is a seed investor at GREE Ventures focused on Apps and Gaming. Yoshikazu Tanaka founded GREE in December 2004, and serves as the company's founder and chief executive officer. Before founding GREE, he previously worked at So-net Entertainment Corporation and Rakuten, Inc. While at Rakuten, Inc., he started developing SNS GREE in his spare time. This project became GREE.Tanaka earned abachelor's degree in Law from Nihon University in 1999.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Yoshikazu Tanaka invests in
Stages Yoshikazu Tanaka invests in
Countries Yoshikazu Tanaka invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$1.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 1 (33%)
- Gaming 1 (33%)
- Sports 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
- Marketing 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Since its establishment in 2018, the company has been operating and broadcasting esports tournaments with the mission of making esports the best entertainment in the universe. We mainly run official tournaments and large-scale tournaments for various titles such as CoD Mobile, CoDBOCW, ApexLegends, VALORANT, and Knives out. We are also developing avoice chat application called “VOLBOX” to solve the issues raised by many esports players. | $1.1M / Seed / Apr 13, 2021 | ||
| Appify Technologies operates a no-code development service that enables users to create personal e-commerce applications. | $1.9M / Seed / Oct 12, 2020 | ||
| See all 3 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About GREE Ventures
GREE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups.
GREE Ventures Contacts
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Aikawa Shintaro
Chief Executive Officer
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What does Yoshikazu Tanaka invest in?
Yoshikazu Tanaka invests primarily in Apps, Gaming and Sports startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Yoshikazu Tanaka's check size?
Yoshikazu Tanaka typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.9M 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 Yoshikazu Tanaka participates in.
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When did Yoshikazu Tanaka last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yoshikazu Tanaka closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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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