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Top 35 Travel Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Japan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Japan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Travel Angel Investors in Japan in May 2026

Investor Travel Japan investments
Yusuke Sato 4
Kotaro Chiba 4
Kotaro Chiba 4
Hideto Fujino 3
Yu Akasaka 2
Kiyohiro Sugashita 2
Kensuke Furukawa 2
Ken Takayama 2
Yukihiro Yoshida 2
Paul Kuo 2
Koya Arikawa 1
Mamoru Taniya 1
Sachin Bhatia 1
Masanori Sugiyama 1
Ryuji Nakatake 1
Jun Nishikawa 1
Yusuke Mitsumoto 1
Prashant Kirtane 1
Shingo Kawai 1
Yoshihiro Oo 1
Hisashi Itoh 1
Otomi Tomohiro 1
Shoji Miyata 1
Hirofumi Miki 1
Yuichi Kawasaki 1
Takeyuki Aritomi 1
Rahul Garg 1
Masatsugu Shidachi 1
John Tan 1
Dan Neary 1
Yu Yamaoka 1
Michimasa Naka 1
Hidetoshi Takano 1
Tsunezawa Kahoko 1
Soichiro Kawai 1

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Yusuke Sato
Angel

Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder of Pulit.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Internet, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
  • 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.
  • Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Information Technology, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Drones, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Hideto Fujino
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hideto Fujino - President, Cheif Investment Officer @ Rheos

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Reservations, Real Estate
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HOMMA — Inspired Modern Living. Homes to elevate healthy urban lifestyles. Design. Build. Technology.
  • Address — ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.
  • Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
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Yu Akasaka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Food and Beverage, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Australia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
  • Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
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Kiyohiro Sugashita
Angel

Mr. Sugashita joined Polaris as Advisor in May 2011. He is Director and CEO of Sugashita Partners, Ltd since 1998 and provides consulting services to financial institutions and ventures in and outside of Japan. Prior to that position, he was CEO of Lazard Japan Asset Management from 1991 to 1998. His business career also includes positions at DaiwaSecurities and Merrill Lynch Securities, Tokyo Branch. On the academic front, Mr. Sugashita received a BA in Economics from Ritsumeikan University and since 2009 is Special Advisor for the Dean of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Investment focus

  • Marketing, Travel, Reservations
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • G-Next — G NEXT is an Information Technology based company.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".

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Investment focus

  • Content, SNS, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
  • Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.
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Ken Takayama
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Takayama - External Audit & Supervisory @ Media Do

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Investment focus

  • Reservations, Travel, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • SakeWiz — SakeWiz is an App to enjoy, buy and record sake located in Tokyo
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Yukihiro Yoshida
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yukihiro Yoshida is managing director at POL.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Reservations, SNS
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Paul Kuo
Angel

Paul Kuo - Director - Board of Directors @ Tamecco

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Investment focus

  • Reservations, Travel, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
  • Fun Group — Hello! We are Fun Group (formally Tabinaka) and we are Japan's first Travel and Leisure startup offering unique tours and experiences. We currently offer experiences in 7 different locations globally.
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Koya Arikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Koya Arikawa is the Representative Director and Founder at Hotspring.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Media and Entertainment, SNS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Tanp — Gracia is an EC business and media business that provides coloring precious moments and enriching human connections.
  • Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Mamoru Taniya
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Content, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
  • abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
  • RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.
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Sachin Bhatia
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India

Sachin Bhatia - CEO & Co-founder @ Bulbulshop

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Tourism, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • myHQ — Explore range of myHQ Workspaces & office solutions, including fully furnished managed offices, affordable coworking spaces, day passes, virtual office and meeting room options. Find your perfect workspaces with myHQ.
  • Lio — Lio lets businesses calculate, tabulate, and organize tasks such as creating to-do lists, wedding registries, and class schedules. The product can be used by home businesses, solo business owners, farmers, doctors, and small to medium businesses, among others.
  • STAGE — India's #1 platform for Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri & Gujarati movies and web series. Watch 2,000+ titles in HD. Start streaming free today.
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Masanori Sugiyama
Angel

He graduated from Kansai University in 1988. He was enrolled in Ljoma while he was in college. 2002 Vice President of Practice (now index lights). In 2004, he became president of zappallas. Listed on the TSE Mothers in the second year of his appointment, and in 2010 he was listed in part of the TSE. In 2011 he became the CEO of enish. Listed on apart of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thereafter, he served as outside directors such as Nikkatsu and JibannetHD.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Web Design
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
  • STUDIO — The easiest and quickest way to build your beautiful portfolio website, landing page or anything. No code. All creative freedom.
  • STUDIO Japan — STUDIO is a development and operation of the next-generation design tool.
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Ryuji Nakatake
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ryuji Nakatake - CEO @ Teambox

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Tourism, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Matcha — MATCHA is a web magazine for travelers to Japan. It covers 9 languages: Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, 한국어, ภาษาไทย, Indonesian, Việt Nam, etc.
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Jun Nishikawa
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Nishikawa - Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO @ Eureka

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Mobile, Content
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
  • Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
  • Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.
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Yusuke Mitsumoto
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Mitsumoto is the founder of Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Consulting, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Series C
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • UPWARDS — UPWARDS develop and operate the “cloud loan” loan platform for individuals.
  • CrowdLoan — CrowdLoan is a platform that connects financial institutions and individuals with smooth loans.
  • Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Prashant Kirtane
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Prashant Kirtane - Co-Founder & CEO @ Travelstop

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Finance, Tourism
  • Seed
  • India, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Hiree — Recruiters can find jobseekers available at short notice and reduce the hiring time. myNoticePeriod.com hosts profiles of jobseekers that are available to join in less than 90 days! myNoticePeriod.com allows jobseekers to get competitive job offers. After receiving their first offer, jobseekers use myNoticePeriod to get better offers from otheremployers.
  • Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
  • Kredivo Group — FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lendingspace.
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Shingo Kawai
Angel

Shingo Kawai

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Transportation
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Yoshihiro Oo
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Yoshihiro Oo is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Internet
  • Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
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Hisashi Itoh
Angel

Hisashi Itoh

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Monokabu — Monokabu is a site where people can buy and sell new products at a price you decide. It specialises in sneakers.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Otomi Tomohiro
Angel

Otomi Tomohiro - CEO @ Tyrus

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Travel, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • CUICIN — Quickin is changing the travel experience with the digital transformation.
  • HANOWA — HANAWA is a matching platform between freelance dental hygienists and dental clinics.
  • Magic Shields — Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products.
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Shoji Miyata
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shoji Miyata is the CEO of SmartHR.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Software, Transportation
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investment in the past 12 months

After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Content, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
  • Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
  • Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
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Yuichi Kawasaki
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Yuichi Kawasaki Prior joining SmartNews, I was COO at mixi, Founder & CEO at kamado, Executive Vice President at Hatena. I started my career at Cisco Systems G.K.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, Finance, Security
  • Angel, Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
  • earlyworks — Earlyworks Co., Ltd. provides blockchain technology solutions. The Company develops hybrid blockchain product that is fast and secure. Earlyworks offers software and system development, consulting, and security solution services.
  • AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.
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Takeyuki Aritomi
Angel

Takeyuki Aritomi

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Transportation
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Rahul Garg
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Rahul brings in 10+ years of experience in technology industry in Product Management, Strategy and Sales Operations. He is currently working as Head of Search Solutions, APAC at Google where he has been responsible for bringing the latest search advertising solutions to the market. Before this, he led setting up the Sales Strategy and Operationsfor the $XBillion Display business at Google making it the fastest growing Display region in Google. Prior to Google he worked with Conexant, Motorola (Freescale) and Ittiam Systems - where he led the Product management and strategy for Wireless and Voice systems. He holds 16 US patents in the area of algorithm and systems design. Rahul completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and MBA from ISB - where he received the highest award of Scholar of Excellence for being the topper in the batch.Read more: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/rahul-garg-2#ixzz2RMHGEoszFollow us: @crunchbase on Twitter | crunchbase on Facebook

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Apps, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, Singapore, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • StockGro — Get expert stock market insights from SEBI-Registered Analysts on StockGro. Make informed investments with trusted advice. Join Today!
  • Onsite — Onsite is the #1 construction management software & ERP used by 10,000+ companies in India, UAE & globally. Manage projects, materials, labor & finances in one system.
  • Purple Style Labs — Purple Style Labs is an IIT-Bombay graduate and ex-banker with Deutsche. It aspires to be the biggest fashion house of India managing multiple designer brands in the premium, luxury as well as affordable retail segment.
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Masatsugu Shidachi
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masatsugu Shidachi is Executive Vice President & Head of Data & Science Solutions Group at Yahoo! JAPAN.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Tourism, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Matcha — MATCHA is a web magazine for travelers to Japan. It covers 9 languages: Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, 한국어, ภาษาไทย, Indonesian, Việt Nam, etc.
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John Tan
Angel

John Tan - Founder @ Controlled Commodity

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
  • Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
  • Rocket Academy — Selective and comprehensive online software engineering bootcamp in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Dan Neary
Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Dan Neary is a Vice President of Asia Pacific at Meta. He attended DePaul University.

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Investment focus

  • News, Events, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • e27 — e27 is Asia's largest Tech media platform. We cover the latest news on emerging and disruptive businesses across the region. e27 also organizes world-class events like Echelon.
  • Voyagin — Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace in Asia with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia. Its website features over 1,800 things to do including tickets to museums and shows, cultural activities, romantic dinners, adventure experiences, and private guides bookable in English, Japanese, andChinese in over 50 destinations in Asia, in advance or in destination via its mobile optimized website. The Voyagin team believes that "travel in Asia is broken." Guests end up sightseeing because unique experiences are hard to find and insecure to book; hosts end up spending time and money on websites which are hard to update and mostly out of date. They also believe that an "experience is more than just an activity; it's about meeting people, trying something new and seeing the world from a different perspective." In hopes to differentiate themselves, they traveled around Asia to find and curate the best experiences and hosts.Launched in 2012, Voyagin provides a trusted platform for tours and activities providers (hosts) in Asia to list their experiences; its team of community managers work with each host to curate their activities both online and during the experience, ensuring their quality. Backed by its 100% satisfaction guarantee, multilingual customer support, and verified reviews from actual guests, Voyagin is the best place for travelers visiting Asia to discover and book their next local experience.Voyagin was founded in 2011 as FindJPN, a marketplace for authentic activities in Japan. FindJPN changed its name to Voyagin in December 2012 when they expanded into Asia.
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Yu Yamaoka
Angel

Yu Yamaoka

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Transportation
  • Seed
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Somewhere — Somewhere is engaged in the travel and transportation business.
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Michimasa Naka
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Michimasa Naka is a member of the Board Of Directors of istyle.inc. He is an experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.

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Investment focus

  • Reservations, Travel, Employment
  • Seed, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Dofa — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
  • Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
  • Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
  • Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
  • ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
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Tsunezawa Kahoko
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tsunezawa Kahoko

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Investment focus

  • Shopping, Apps, Travel
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Menew — Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
  • Valise — Valise provides insider access & unique experiences to the modern day internationalist. A perfect jump start to who & what is hot in creative capitals. At its core is the Valise Society - a global private members association for innovative leaders of the creative class.
  • Valise — Valise is a women's travel service platform.
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Mobile Apps, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
  • Back Dooor — Back Dooor is an app that provides 1on1 chatting services with favorite player of the users.
  • SPeak — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
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