Boards, Angel & VC Investments - 2018

List of External Boards (Alphabetical Order)

• Idein - “Enabling Software to Utilize Any Physical-World Data”

List of Angel Investments (Alphabetical Order)

• Diarkis - “Massive Multiplayer Applications For All”
• Immerss - “Live commerce lives here”
• Lazuli - “Organize & Democratize Product Data”
• Republi9 - Tokyo Vegan Gyoza - “Happiness in a Wrap”
• Rill Data - “Operational analytics made easy”

List of Funds (Alphabetical Order)

• BeeNext II & All Start SaaS Fund
• Chiba Dojo II
• OSS Capital I
• Sierra Ventures XII
• XTC Fund I

Investment Thesis

I’m not an investor in general, but ocassionally invest for people I’d like to work with. I often invest with my business partner Hiro Yoshikawa to maximize our values.

1. Team

I much prefer the company who has multiple founders, knowing how hard it is to build a great company.

2. Areas of Interests

• B2B, I don’t understand B2C.
• My focuses / specialities are Data, SaaS and Customer Experience.
• I can not help CDP (Customer Data Platform) and Marketing Data Analytics company due to non-compete with Treasure Data, Inc.

3. Global Disribution

I’d like to help companies who’s solution can be distributed globally, not locally.

4. Check Size

My usual check size is 25k-50k USD for the angel investments, and 250k-500k USD for the funds.

5. Stage

I prefer to help at the pre-revenue stage. The company with $10m+ valuation is not very attractive for me, given my check size.

My/Our Value

I/We can share failures and pitfalls to avoid, based on my experience of building a global $100m ARR B2B SaaS business - Treasure Data.