# Yuzuru Honda

> Yuzuru Honda is a seed investor at FreakOut Holdings backing Information Technology and SNS. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FreakOut Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freakout)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/yuzuru-honda/b/424/726
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usedhonda

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$5.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |
| SNS | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Recruiting | 2 | 13% |
| Career Planning | 2 | 13% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Angel | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 9 | 60% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 13% |
| Singapore | 2 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ForCreators | ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers. |  | Angel | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| IVA | IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Tyms | Tyms Africa provides AI-powered financial tools for SMEs and startups by automating the process of bookkeeping, accounting, invoicing, bank reconciliation and financial reporting. We are able to lower the rate at which businesses lose money due to poor cash flow management and inadequate bank reconciliation. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2023 |  |
| NodeFlair | Career Transparency for the Tech Community (think Glassdoor for Tech Talents)NodeFlair's vision is to be a career recommendation engine for the 25M tech talents globally. We aim to help companies hire the best tech talents with our recruitment products and services.Today, >20% of Tech talents in Singapore make better career decisionsusing our verified career data. We are best known for our payslip-verified salary data. |  | Angel | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| AGRI SMILE | AGRI SMILE employs technology to create sustainable agriculture, communities, and production areas. It promotes agricultural industry development by combining software as a tool for accumulating and inheriting technology with science, which creates new technology based on accumulated data. They seeks to establish a cultivation system that is inharmony with the environment and the region, allowing agricultural workers to live a rich life both financially and spiritually. | $5.7M | Seed | Jan 23, 2020 |  |
| Rensource Energy | Rensource is a new type of energy company built as a financial services business.Rensource offers a turnkey business opportunity that allows qualifying companies throughout Nigeria and West Africa to start selling Power-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) to their customers. Rensource generates electricity using small solar-hybrid systems that are installedin the premises of the final customer. At the heart of Rensource lies an internal “bank”: a balance sheet financing the solar-hybrid systems, and a credit operation underwriting and servicing the monthly collections from final customers. Rensource´s mission is to make Nigeria the first country in the world relying predominantly on distributed renewables-based power generation. | $20M | Series A | Dec 18, 2019 |  |
| Meily | Meily is Creating a base for the minds of people who struggle with appearance. |  |  | Jan 18, 2019 |  |
| Sunblaze | sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time. | $2.8M | Seed | Feb 04, 2018 |  |
| Sunblaze | sunblaze is a android-based smartphone users begin to experience stability issues after one to two years of use. For example, their device may get slower or they encounter unexpected app crashes. These stability issues also lead to security vulnerabilities.SUNBLAZE OS features essential functions only, meaning it does not have any unnecessaryfunctions. This allows the system to be more stable and secure, and users are able to use it for a longer period of time. | $2.8M |  | Jan 26, 2018 |  |
| CAMPFIRE | Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people. | $283K |  | Jun 14, 2016 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CRE Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/africa-angels-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel round](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-round) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brain-Too-Free Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brain-too-free-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [De Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/de-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FreakOut Holdings

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

FreakOut is a marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms. Its products include DMP that is used to analyze data; and demand-side platform (DSP), a platform for real-time ad inventory transactions in internet advertising. The company also offers RTB (real-time biting), to analyze the web browsing information of a user;FreakOut DSP which is used to collect marketing information; and FreakOut DMP, a DMP corresponding to the smartphone and PC to optimize digital marketing.FreakOut, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

5 contacts available at FreakOut Holdings.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yuzuru Honda | Founder & Global CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuzuru-honda |
| Akashi Nobuyuki | Executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akashi-nobuyuki |
| Keiji Tokiyoshi | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiji-tokiyoshi |
| Koji Mizoguchi | Executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/koji-mizoguchi |
| Kotaro Yokoyama | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kotaro-yokoyama |

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## FAQ

### What does Yuzuru Honda invest in?

Yuzuru Honda invests primarily in Information Technology, SNS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Yuzuru Honda's check size?

Yuzuru Honda typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$5.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yuzuru Honda participates in.

### When did Yuzuru Honda last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yuzuru Honda closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 15 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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