# Yuri Namikawa

> Yuri Namikawa is a seed investor at Expa (San Francisco) backing Wellness and Travel. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ynamikawa/

Yuri Namikawa is an associate at Norwest Venture Partners. Her role is focused on early to late stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest, with an emphasis on consumer Internet.Prior to joining Norwest, Yuri was a business operations associate at Udemy, where she worked closely with the CEO and in financial and strategicplanning. In this role, she also helped to improve the operating model to support the company’s rapid growth, drove analysis to assist teams in regular tracking and goaling of KPIs, participated in multiple product development cycles, and collaborated cross-functionally with senior leaders in management for presenting updates to the board of directors.Before Udemy, Yuri was a technology investment banking analyst in Morgan Stanley’s Equity Capital Markets group. In this role, she advised technology companies on raising capital in public and private markets, with select deal experience including IPOs and follow-ons for Square, Fitbit, Pure Storage, Atlassian, and Tesla.Yuri holds a bachelor of science in management science & engineering from Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.9M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $3M–$7.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wellness | 2 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Fitness | 1 | 13% |
| Women's | 1 | 13% |
| Robotics | 1 | 13% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mecka AI | Mecka AI is a data infrastructure company that builds large scale human datasets and tools to train and deploy AI and robotics systems. | $8M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Kickoff | Kickoff is Transform your fitness & diet with 1-on-1 remote personal training via text, live video, & app. | $7M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Seven Starling | Seven Starling is a digital clinic uniquely focused on treatment for perinatal mental health conditions like postpartum depression and anxiety. Through a combination of individualized therapy, peer support, and medication, its evidence-based care model is backed by research that shows that 90% of patients will feel better within 3 months. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Wander | Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander is a startup that builds infrastructure to experience the world. The company was founded by John Andrew Entwistle. | $7.3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2021 |  |
| Wander | Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander is a startup that builds infrastructure to experience the world. The company was founded by John Andrew Entwistle. | $7.3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2021 |  |
| smartrr | Smartrr delivers a full-service, premium subscription solution for growing D-to-C brands. |  | Seed | Nov 13, 2020 |  |
| smartrr | Smartrr delivers a full-service, premium subscription solution for growing D-to-C brands. | $7.3M | Seed | Nov 13, 2020 |  |
| Kickoff | Kickoff is Transform your fitness & diet with 1-on-1 remote personal training via text, live video, & app. | $3M | Pre-Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adapt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adapt-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Neo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-innovation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Advection Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advection-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Authentic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/authentic-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CapitalX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitalx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Expa

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Expa is a startup studio and venture fund designed for entrepreneurs to create and launch new companies.Started in 2013 by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, Expa is a team of experienced founders and entrepreneurs dedicated to identifying the next big idea and partnering with the future generation of leaders to build great companies. Our partnershave founded or led some of the most valuable and well-known companies including Uber, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare, StumbleUpon, AddThis, MetroLyrics, and Envoy. Expa has raised $350 million from a number of investors including Expa Founder/CEO Garrett Camp and other LPs.

5 contacts available at Expa.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Clark | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-clark-6e49 |
| Fabio Giolito | Designer-In-Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabio-giolito |
| Yuri Namikawa | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuri-namikawa |
| David Clark | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-clark-4ecf |
| Garrett Camp | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garrett-camp |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Yuri Namikawa invest in?

Yuri Namikawa invests primarily in Wellness, Travel and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yuri Namikawa's check size?

Yuri Namikawa typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$8M at Seed and $3M–$7.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yuri Namikawa participates in.

### When did Yuri Namikawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yuri Namikawa closed in Aug 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.

### 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co