# Yu Hirayama

> Yu Hirayama is a startup investor at Dentsu Ventures. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dentsu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentsu-ventures)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yu-hirayama-18111210b

Yu Hirayama is a startup investor at Dentsu Ventures. Joined Dentsu in 2010, and as part of the Corporate Strategy Division, was involved in executing Dentsu’s acquisition of the Aegis Group and establishing “Dentsu 2017 and Beyond.” Before joining Dentsu he belonged to an advisory group at a securities company, where he engaged in advisory tasks assisting clients in the telecom, media, and technologyindustries with acquisition, mergers, capital and business alliance, and restructuring.Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo, then the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.

## About Dentsu Ventures

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Dentsu. It specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments. It prefers to invest in the marketing and communication business sectors in the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.

5 contacts available at Dentsu Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daiji Horibe | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiji-horibe |
| Daisuke Takemori | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisuke-takemori |
| Katsuyuki Hasegawa | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katsuyuki-kevin-hasegawa |
| Kotaro Sasamoto | Managing Partner & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotaro-sasamoto |
| Yu Hirayama | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yu-hirayama |

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