# Yusuke Sato

> Yusuke Sato is a seed investor at hey Japan backing Internet, Content and Software. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [hey Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hey-japan)
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://jp.linkedin.com/in/usksato
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Usksato
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usksato

Yusuke Sato is a seed investor at hey Japan focused on Internet and Content. Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$41M |
| Angel | $320k–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 10 | 17% |
| Content | 9 | 15% |
| Software | 8 | 14% |
| Food and Beverage | 6 | 10% |
| Travel | 5 | 8% |

94 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 44% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 24% |
| Angel | 9 | 15% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 52 | 88% |
| Indonesia | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Driver Technologies | Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands. | $3.7M | Series A | Mar 28, 2025 |  |
| Kaimak | Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates. | $460.7K | Venture - Series Unknown | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Meetscare | Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo. | $2.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 06, 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 |  |
| AirX | AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. |  | Angel | May 27, 2020 |  |
| Luup | Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Mellia | Mellia is a beauty company that provides cosmetics, body care products, and supplements. | $1.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 30, 2020 |  |
| ONE CAREER | ONE CAREER is a management of web media "ONE CAREER",Implementation of recruiting events and Recruiting consulting. |  |  | Oct 23, 2019 |  |
| 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. |  | Angel | Sep 26, 2019 |  |
| Wellday | Eliminates dissatisfaction, anxiety, misfortune, etc. “Misfortune”, and aims to realize in the world where all people can work while imagining the future positively, Japan's first employ SuccessThe platform “Well” is provided. The service is a service that analyzes data of communication tools such as Slack normally used by AI, and allows youto objectively see employee condition and organizational issues. | $8.3M | Seed | Aug 22, 2019 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANRI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anri) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Vector](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vector-inc-) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [NOW Japan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/now-inc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Skyland Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skyland-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [YJ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yj-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About hey Japan

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

hey is aiming to support economic development driven by fun and was born through the management integration

5 contacts available at hey Japan.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ayana Tsukahara | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayana-tsukahara |
| Saito Kentaro | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saito-kentaro |
| Samata Naoko | CEO and VP, People Experience | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samata-naoko |
| Tsukahara Fumina | CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsukahara-fumina |
| Yusuke Sato | President and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yusuke-sato |

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## FAQ

### What does Yusuke Sato invest in?

Yusuke Sato invests primarily in Internet, Content and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yusuke Sato's check size?

Yusuke Sato typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$41M at Seed and $320k–$43M 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 Yusuke Sato participates in.

### When did Yusuke Sato last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yusuke Sato closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 59 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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