# Yusaku Maezawa

> Yusaku Maezawa is a seed investor at Zozotown (Mihama) backing Aerospace and Blockchain. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Zozotown](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zozotown)
- Location: Mihama, Japan
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yusaku-maezawa-309540203
- Website: https://x.com/YzYusaku
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573511019448

Yusaku Maezawa is a seed investor at Zozotown in Mihama focused on Aerospace and Blockchain. Yusaku Maezawa is based out of Tokyo and is the Art Collector Entrepreneur and Founder of Zozotown. Yusaku Maezawa attended Waseda Jitsugyo High School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$11M |
| Series C | $2.2M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 2 | 20% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 20% |
| Web3 | 1 | 10% |
| Gaming | 1 | 10% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Series C | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 8 | 80% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JOYCLE | JOYCLE is a waste management company that specializes in trash recycling, disposal, and environmental consulting services. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Space Aviation | Space Aviation is an aerospace company that offers air taxi services, flight training, aircraft sales, and heliport development solutions. | $6.7M | Series A | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Olive Union | Olive Union is an organization that specializes in smart sound algorithms and provides the next-generation hearing solution. It concentrates on hearing interactions and intertwines everyday products with the latest technologies. Its purpose is to combat the two impairments of hearing aids, price, and social perception, and eliminate “hearingimpairment.”It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $3.7M | Series C | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| HashPort | HashPort is a leading solution provider that strives to innovate Japan with block chain technology | $2.2M | Series C | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| WEB3DEV | The WEB3DEV is based on 3 pillars: Community, Education and Building. Community: We created mechanisms with incentives to engage a community of software developers to create exclusive and high quality content about web3 technologies. The community members help each other to enter the web3 space. Our community is organized in pods, each pod for adifferent theme or blockchain. Each pod has a leader, which helps that pod to evolve, promoting growth to the ecosystem and the whole web3dev community. We already have leaders for Ethereum, Cardano, Algorand and Solana. We incentivize those pods, creating bounties and paying individual contributors when they create new content and deliver value.Education: The education platform, created by the community, is the place where everybody effectively learns about blockchain technologies. The courses are didactic self-paced project based learning. We give NFT reward as certificates for students who finish the projects.Building: We find companies that need developers and match our talent community members with maker demands. We build developers team for web3 companies and help these teams to succeed. | $500K | Seed | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Thirdverse | Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan. | $15M | Series C | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| space data | Space Data is based on an algorithm that allows the AI to recognize geospatial data from the Earth and easily assign another Earth in VR. The company is developing an algorithm to automatically generate another "Earth" in virtual space using 3DCG technology by making the AI understand the geospatial information of the Earth by learningthe vast amount of ground observation data available from satellites. They want to create an AI that can reconstruct the "world" in virtual space by learning all kinds of data from this world, such as traffic volume, pedestrian traffic, day and night, four seasons, temperature, plant distribution, and nighttime light intensity. Its goal is to build a future in which everyone has the ability to create their own world (universe) and shape their own destiny without regard for race, gender, appearance, or environment. | $10.6M | Seed | Aug 03, 2022 |  |
| HashPort | HashPort is a leading solution provider that strives to innovate Japan with block chain technology | $4.4M | Series B | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Arigato Bank | Arigato Bank offers financial services, with a focus on solving social issues. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Smart Senkyo | Smart Senkyo offers roaster management services, event management services, activity management services, list management services, and more. They also provide services like preliminary reconciliation, conducting regular support meetings, and more. |  | Seed | Dec 31, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [B Dash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-dash-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beyond Next Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-next-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-dream-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chubu Electric Power](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chubu-electric-power-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [double jump.tokyo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doublejump-tokyo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fenbushi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenbushi-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Zozotown

VC Fund · Mihama, Japan

Zozotown is a Japanese online destination for contemporary fashion and streetwear. It was launched in 2004 by Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese entrepreneur.

4 contacts available at Zozotown.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yusaku Maezawa | Founder and Art Collector Entrepreneur | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yusaku-maezawa |
| Kazari Shin Hirose | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazari-shin-hirose |
| Kotaro Sawada | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotaro-sawada |
| Yanagisawa Takamune | Executive Vice President and CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yanagisawa-takamune |

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## FAQ

### What does Yusaku Maezawa invest in?

Yusaku Maezawa invests primarily in Aerospace, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yusaku Maezawa's check size?

Yusaku Maezawa typically joins rounds of $500k–$11M at Seed and $2.2M–$15M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yusaku Maezawa participates in.

### When did Yusaku Maezawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yusaku Maezawa closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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