Yuichi Kawasaki
Outside Director @ Fringe81
Tokyo, Japan
Yuichi Kawasaki is a seed investor at Fringe81 in Tokyo focused on Apps and Finance. Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Yuichi Kawasaki invests in
Stages Yuichi Kawasaki invests in
Countries Yuichi Kawasaki invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$45M
- Angel
- $1.4M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 3 (38%)
- Finance 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- CRM 1 (13%)
- Pet 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Angel 2 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Nose ID
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Nose ID is a mobile application designed to monitor and protect pet dogs in the vicinity. | Seed / Nov 05, 2025 | |
Givearth
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Givearth app enable users to make donations just by carrying out their daily shopping and consumption activities. | Seed / Mar 10, 2025 | |
StoryHub
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StoryHub is a powerful all-in-one AI editing assistant designed to help users create high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and at a significantly lower cost. Whether you're drafting blog posts, polishing articles, scripting videos, or refining marketing copy, StoryHub streamlines the entire content creation process with intelligent tools | Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | |
AVA Intelligence
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AVA Intelligence provides AI development, internet service development, and provisioning services. Their services include travel information site that allows searching by travel purpose and conditions, all trip information including sightseeing spots, restaurants, hotels, and activities, and AI offers personalized travel suggestions tailored to theindividual's interests and travel conditions. | $848.2K / Oct 29, 2024 | |
Blankr
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Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event. | $1M / Seed / Aug 07, 2024 | |
Perpetuals.com (Formerly Earlyworks)
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Early Works is a Next-generation blockchain technology that realizes high speed, high scalability, and high security. | $1.7M / Angel / Apr 30, 2020 | |
G-Next
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G NEXT is an Information Technology based company. | $45.4M / Seed / Oct 09, 2019 | |
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G-Next
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G NEXT is an Information Technology based company. | $1.4M / Angel |
Co-Investors
About Fringe81
Fringe81 is a Tokyo-based company engaged in internet-related business. Fringe81 operates in internet advertisement and human resources technology. Fringe's advertisement business comprise three services. The advertising agency service is involved in the sale of internet advertisements. The media growth service provides support for smartphonemedia to monetize via advertisement. The solution service provides software to help advertisers efficiently plan and execute advertisements. Fringe also operates in the human resources technology space with a product named Unipos to help build a culture of recognition and reward employees through peer bonus.
Fringe81 Contacts
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Outside Director
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Yuzuru Tanaka
CEO
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Hiroyuki Yamada
Auditor
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Shigeyuki Kawamoto
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
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Takashi Kawasaki
Board of Directors CFO
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FAQ
What does Yuichi Kawasaki invest in?
Yuichi Kawasaki invests primarily in Apps, Finance and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Yuichi Kawasaki's check size?
Yuichi Kawasaki typically joins rounds of $1M–$45M at Seed and $1.4M–$26M 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 Yuichi Kawasaki participates in.
When did Yuichi Kawasaki last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yuichi Kawasaki closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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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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