64 Founders in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan founders (64)

Tokyo, Japan founders covers 64 founders on Sakana AI, Aeterlink and Aillis and 58 other companies. The most common sectors are AI Infrastructure (10), SaaS (10) and Fintech (9). The remaining members span Healthtech (8), Climate (4), Robotics (4), Biotech (3), E-commerce (3), Logistics (3), Media (2) and Augmented Reality (AR) Sports & Entertainment (1) and 4 further sectors. Companies represented include AirX, BitFlyer, Boston Medical Sciences, Caguuu, Casy, Cierpa & Company, Clipline, CrestLab, Dataseed, Drug Discovery Gateway Fund LP, Early Works and Enechain, plus 46 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 64
• Companies represented: 61
• Top sector: AI Infrastructure (10 founders)
• Top location: Tokyo, Japan (64 founders)
• Sectors represented: 15

• Abel Dagne — Oasiz
• Akihiro Ueda — Terra Motors
• Andy Rubin — Genki Robotics
• Christian John — Tier IV
• Daisuke Matsumoto — GITAI Japan, Inc.
• David Ha — Sakana AI
• Hayato Takahashi — Clipline
• Hiro Kawashima — H2Corporation
• Hiroki Takeuchi — HashPort
• Hiroshi Kurokawa — The Design of Things / お金のデザイン
• Ian Hogarth — Sakana AI
• Isaac Blankensmith — Early Works
• Jun Sugimoto — Cierpa & Company
• Kanji Noguchi — Orosy
• Keiko Sydenham — Luca Japan
• Kiwamu Tezuka — AirX
• Kiyoshi Seko — Kyoto Fusioneering
• Koji Eguchi — MEDIROM Inc.
• Lennie Sliwinski — Trusted
• Llion Jones — Sakana AI
• Maki Sugimoto — HoloEyes
• Masashi Fukuda — Dataseed
• Masashi Hirose — Nanofiber Quantum Technologies
• Masateru Okamoto — Boston Medical Sciences
• Masayoshi Son — Yahoo! Japan
• Masayuki Nagai — Visual Bank
• Muuto Morikawa — Ginco Co., Ltd.
• Naoki Aoyagi — Newmo
• Naoki Yoshida — meleap, Inc.
• Or Eshed — LayerX
• Paolo Ardoino — BitFlyer
• Reiji Kobayashi — Hakki Africa
• Ren Ito — Sakana AI
• Ryo Iwasa — Aeterlink
• Ryo Nozawa — Enechain
• Ryutaro Kinoshita — VARIETAS
• Sam Liu — Caguuu
• Shinichi Takatori — Kyash
• Sho Okiyama — Aillis
• Shuichi Fujimori — Japan Net Bank
• Shun Okada — Kiviaq
• Simon Sinek — TIS
• Spyridon Mentzas — HiJoJo Partners
• Suguru Kawamoto — Shikomel
• Susumu Hasegawa — Moon-X
• Taejun Shin — Gojo & Company, Inc.
• Takahito Nakahara — Tensegrity Pharma
• Takashi Nakagawa — KAKEHASHI
• Takaya Taguchi — Helical Fusion
• Takeshi Suzuki — FastLabel
• Tatsuya Fujishima — Power Diamond Systems
• Timothy Henry — Haul
• Toly Sherbakov — Casy
• Tomoyuki Fujisawa — Drug Discovery Gateway Fund LP
• Toru Sato — Sonire Therapeutics
• Toshiaki Yamazaki — talent and assessment
• Tsuyoshi Yoshizaki — Logiless
• Yasuhisa Yamazaki — Srush
• Yoshinori Fukushima — STORES
• Yudai Tsuda — Resilire
• Yuki Umetani — Sisuta
• Yuta Bando — CrestLab
• Yutaka Tokushima — Instalimb
• 鈴木 悟史 — スタディスト

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Narrow Tokyo, Japan founders

• Tokyo, Japan · AI Infrastructure (10 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · SaaS (8 founders)
• JAFCO · Tokyo, Japan (8 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · Healthtech (7 founders)
• Pegasus Tech Ventures · Tokyo, Japan (5 founders)
• Anis Uzzaman · Tokyo, Japan (5 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · Fintech (4 founders)
• Carbon Ventures · Tokyo, Japan (4 founders)
• Tsuyoshi Ito · Tokyo, Japan (4 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · Robotics (3 founders)
• David K. Chao · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · E-commerce (3 founders)
• Tae Hea Nahm · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · Logistics (3 founders)
• Kasumi Amemiya · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Junichi Masuda · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Hirogi Nakayama · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Shinichiro Kuge · Tokyo, Japan (3 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan · Biotech (2 founders)

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