# Yutaka Shibata

> Yutaka Shibata is a Series B investor at JR East Start Up backing Internet of Things. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [JR East Start Up](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jr-east-start-up)
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yutaka-shibata-8759b0118

Yutaka Shibata is a Series B investor at JR East Start Up in Tokyo focused on Internet of Things and Information Technology. Yutaka Shibata

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet of Things | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 23% |
| PaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Cooking | 2 | 15% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 38% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 11 | 85% |
| United States | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ugo | UGO is creating future avatar robots and a platform that connects the administration of multiple robots to achieve the ''fusion of humans and robots,'' or ''collaboration with robots to perform employment that used to be performed only by humans. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Yuime | Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services. | $5.2M | Series B | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| EMobi | EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Yadokari | Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services. | $2.1M | Series B | May 07, 2024 |  |
| MODE | MODE provides a scalable data infrastructure that collects data from the physical world to help businesses improve their operations. With its sensor gateway solution, MODE can connect a company's sensors and equipment, plus funnel that data into the cloud all within a few days. | $8.8M | Series B | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| MODE | With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants. | $8.8M | Series B | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| Lineside Marugoto | Lineside Marugoto is a lineside rehabilitation company that entails converting derelict houses along railway lines into hotel rooms and treating the entire lineside neighborhood as a hotel. |  | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Petokoto | Petokoto is a pet wellness company that creates and sells fresh food, runs pet media, and keeps pets happy. It is suitable to become an information source that combines accuracy, completeness, and updateability by utilizing the collective knowledge of experts both inside and outside the company and demonstrating their respective expertise. Thecompany aims to develop a world where pets can be loved as family members. |  | Series B | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Metro Weather | Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas. | $5.6M | Series A | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| ARK | ARK specializes in the research, development, and manufacturing of land-based aquaculture equipment for sustainable fish farming. |  | Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Daiichi Jitsugyo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daiichi-jitsugyo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Darwin Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darwin-venture-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UntroD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-tech-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SBI Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-investment-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aqua Clara Lemon Gas Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aqua-clara-lemon-gas-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About JR East Start Up

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

JR East Startup Program is a program operated by East Japan Railway that provides incubator and accelerator services to startups in Japan. The firm was founded in February 2018 and is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

1 contacts available at JR East Start Up.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yutaka Shibata | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yutaka-shibata |

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## FAQ

### What does Yutaka Shibata invest in?

Yutaka Shibata invests primarily in Internet of Things, Information Technology and PaaS startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yutaka Shibata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yutaka Shibata closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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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