# Yu Akasaka

> Yu Akasaka is a seed investor at Eureka (Tokyo) backing Content and Food and Beverage. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Eureka](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eureka-inc-)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuakasaka
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/yuakasaka
- Website: https://x.com/yuakasaka
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yuakasaka

Yu Akasaka is a seed investor at Eureka in Tokyo focused on Content and Food and Beverage. During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$43M |
| Angel | $425k–$7.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Content | 7 | 17% |
| Food and Beverage | 7 | 17% |
| Internet | 6 | 15% |
| Apps | 5 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 46% |
| Angel | 10 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 15% |
| Series A | 4 | 10% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 35 | 85% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Now Do | Now Do provides online growth revolution platform. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Vitalogue Health | Vitalogue Health is a hormone testing service intended to provide access to hormones and medical care. They allow users to self-check the physical condition for pregnancy and how hormones affect it, whether the symptoms are related to menopause, and provide personalized test results, commented on by physicians. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| RE | RE specializes in smartphone application design and development. | $7.9M |  | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| MOSH | MOSH is end-to-end, entirely digital healthcare platform for prescribing and delivering medicines direct to consumers. | $42.5M | Series A | Oct 16, 2020 |  |
| MOSH Japan | MOSH is a web page creation services for individual business owners. | $42.5M | Series A | Oct 16, 2020 |  |
| Recipio | Recipio is an receipt management platform specialized in providing digital receipt solution. Their innovative digital receipt solution and breakthrough receipt-scanning technology. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Recipio Japan | Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Tebiki | Tebiki is a company which is Development of on-site support system for industries. | $2.8M | Seed | Sep 15, 2020 |  |
| BLAST Japan | BLAST, Inc. operates as a media company. BLAST, Inc. produce news and interviews on topics like career, fashion, lifestyle, and social justice issues. | $471.8K | Seed | Sep 08, 2020 |  |
| Paytner | Paytner is providing services to support freelance people's funding. The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation whereproblems such as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANOBAKA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kvp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DBJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbj-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CyberAgent Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyberagent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [East Japan Railway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-japan-railway) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Eureka

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Eureka is a social matchmaking service that connects similar individuals using social diagnostics. Eureka was founded by Jun Nishikawa and Yu Akasaka in November 2008 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

4 contacts available at Eureka.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jun Nishikawa | Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-nishikawa |
| Yu Akasaka | Co-founder Representative Director CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yu-akasaka |
| Andrew Badham | Finance Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-badham |
| Yuichi Nakamura | Director CPO / CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuichi-nakamura-8aa7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Yu Akasaka invest in?

Yu Akasaka invests primarily in Content, Food and Beverage and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yu Akasaka's check size?

Yu Akasaka typically joins rounds of $1M–$43M at Seed and $425k–$7.4M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yu Akasaka participates in.

### When did Yu Akasaka last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yu Akasaka closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 41 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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