Kohroh Kobayashi

Eight Roads Ventures Japan is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of FIL Ltd. founded in 2008. Eight Roads Ventures Japan is headquartered in Tokyo.

Part of Accenture Plc, Accenture Japan Ltd. is a Japanese company that provides strategic and operational consulting services. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 1962.

MPower Partners GP Ltd. (MPower Partners) is headquartered in Japan. The firm is founded in 2020 by Kathy Matsui.

Candee, Inc. engages in online video production, talent management and advertising agency. It was founded by Kazuki Furugishi on February 23, 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Catamaran Bio, Inc. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in Delaware.

DNX Ventures LLC (DNX Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an office in San Mateo, California.

STRIVE, Inc. (STRIVE) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of GREE, Inc. (TYO: 3632). STRIVE, Inc. is headquartered in Tokyo with additional office in Singapore. The firm was founded in 2011 by Amano Yusuke.

JEPLAN, Inc. provides recycling solutions. It develops recycling technologies and infrastructures for waste materials. It also designs projects for formation of a sustainable recycling-oriented society. The company was founded by Michihiko Iwamoto and Takao Masaki in January 2007 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

SmartNews, Inc. develops news aggregation smartphone applications. It designs, develops, and operates a Japanese aggregation and reading application. Its software application curates news information from tweets on twitter and the gives user’s current articles. It enables users to download articles and read them offline. The company was founded by Kaisei Hamamoto and Ken Suzuki on June 15, 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Astellas Venture Management LLC (Astellas Venture Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cleave Biosciences, Inc. engages in the development of cancer drug products. The company was founded by Raymond J. Deshaies, Seth Cohen, Francesco Parlati, Peter A. Thompson and Laura K. Shawver in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Shift Asia Co. Ltd. is a Vietnamese company that specializes in software testing and development services. The private company's focus is on providing high-quality services to their clients. Osamu Suzuki has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

Taiho Ventures LLC (Taiho Ventures) is a venture and private equity subsidiary of Taiho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Park Square Capital LLP (Park Square Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Robin Doumar. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citibank (China) Co., Ltd. is a financial institution based in Beijing, China. The Chinese company provides a range of financial services including credit cards, debit cards, deposits, housing loans, insurance, and investment management. Citibank (China) Co. offers credit card installment payment services and provides tips on safe credit card usage. The company also offers structured investment products that use a variety of financial instruments for investment and provide 100%% principal protection at maturity. Citibank (China) Co. was founded in 2007, and the CEO is Yu Hua Lin.

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (Broker) (Mizuho Securities-Broker) is the brokerage division of Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd., ultimately owned by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411; NYSE: MFG) in Japan. The firm was originally founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Tokyo with a network of offices throughout Japan as well as overseas representation through Mizuho entities or strategic partners (in Great Britain, Switzerland, the US, Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and India). Mizuho Securities-Broker provides enhanced equity and fixed income execution services for their clients who includes private individuals in Japan, domestic and foreign institutions, non-financial companies, financial institutions and public corporations in the securities and investment banking fields.

Asset Management One International Ltd. (AMOI) is the Great Britain-based asset management subsidiary of Asset Management One Co. Ltd. in Japan. Formerly known as DIAM International Ltd. (UK), the firm was founded in 1997 and changed their name to Asset Management One International Ltd. in 2016. Headquartered in London, AMOI provides Asian and global investment strategies to institutional and corporate investors across the EMEA region.

HFT Investment Management Co., Ltd. (HFT) is an independent asset management firm which was founded in 2003 as a joint venture between Fortis Investments Asia (now BNP Paribas Investment Partners) and Haitong Securities, following a strategic alliance agreement signed in 2001. The firm was formerly known as Fortis Haitong Investment Management Co., Ltd. and changed their name to HFT Investment Management Co., Ltd. in 2010. Headquartered in Shanghai, HFT manages mutual and institutional funds for retail and institutional investors in China including corporate pension schemes. They also service foreign investors such as European pension funds through the firm's Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor portfolios.

Fairy Devices, Inc. is a Japanese technology company that specializes in developing wearable devices that combine LTE, camera, microphone, and speaker functionalities. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2007. The company's flagship product, Linklet, allows users to share what they see in real-time with a hands-free interface and collaborate with friends and experts through one-to-many communication. Fairy Devices focuses on developing advanced voice dialogue systems and connected worker solutions to achieve digital transformation in various fields. Masato Fujino has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

Mobile Internet Capital, Inc. (MCI) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1999. Mobile Internet Capital, Inc. is headquartered in Tokyo.

Redona Therapeutics, Inc.operates as a biotechnology company focused on the modulation of non- RNA (ncRNA) function to treat cancer and other human diseases. It uses small molecules to modulate expression levels of oncogenes and other proteins of significance in disease. The company was founded by George Daley, Richard Gregory, Frank Slack, and Piotr Sliz and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

United Immunity Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that specializes in pipeline nano technology and immunity fusion technology, specifically in the field of cancer immunotherapy. The company is based in Tsu, Japan and was founded in 2017 by Naozumi Harada, who has been the CEO since then. The company's diverse products, including "nano immunotherapy," have shown promising clinical results and research in the treatment of sex cancer. The company is currently recruiting a researcher in the cancer immunotherapy field to analyze the action mechanism of nanotechnology applied cancer evaluation and drug evaluation using immunological methods. The company's focus is on the development of treatment for the cause of cold tumor type cancer through the understanding of tumor-associated macrophages.

Saisei Ventures LLC (Saisei Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Jonathan Yeh in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pykus Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of a dissolvable intraocular surgical device. It offers novel polymer that provides retinal tamponade. The company was founded by James Stefater and Tomasz Stryjewski and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Baristride Group KK provides information technology, web application development, and consulting services. It also involves in infrastructure network construction, agriculture, mobile contents, and airports and aviation related consulting. The company was founded in December 200 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Systemi KK engages in the system consulting business. It also engages in the development and design of operating system for finance, manufacturing, sales and distribution. The company was founded in August 1998 and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.

Athlete Planning Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company founded in 2003 that specializes in hiring athletic students. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan and has subsidiaries in Japan. The company provides support through various tools such as employment navigation, events, and new graduate programs.

Scala Partners, Inc. (Scala Partners) is a private equity and venture capital subsidiary of Scala, Inc. founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

PLUBE KK engages in the operation of EC site which trades trading cards. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Scala Communications, Inc. provides web solutions and services. It also offers advance software developments. Its products include LaCoon and Satori. The company was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Scala, Inc. (Japan), NewsWatch, Inc. provides online news source processing and distribution services. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. NewsWatch was acquired by Scala, Inc. (Japan) from Z Holdings Corp. on November 30, 2010 for $5.48 million.