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San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - China - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Aerospace (& Defense)
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - New York - Boston - Austin - Denver - London - Miami - Seattle - Milan, Italy - U.S.A. - Japan - Canada
Aerospace (& Defense) • Consumer
Most Interested In
autonomous vehicles, machine learning, robotics, manufacturing automation, modeling & simulation, energy storage, advanced materials, space
Not Interested In
advertising, agtech, biotech, fashion, health IT, pharmaceuticals, CRM, payments
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Israel - Japan
Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Not Interested In
I only invest in hardware/full-stack companies.
Shibuya Kanagawa Japan, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Aerospace (& Defense) • Productivity
Kenji Kasahara is the Founder, Corporate Officer and Chairman at Mixi Group. When Kenji Kasahara was a university student in 1997, he was greatly inspired by the IT business case studies he studied in seminars and the rise of online businesses in Silicon Valley. Sensing an opportunity, he started a recruitment website called "Find Job!" in November 1997. In June 1999, he incorporated the company and became its representative director. Following that, he launched the social networking service "mixi" in February 2004. In February 2006, the company name was changed to "mixi, Inc." and it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers market in September of the same year. Kasahara was made chairman of the board of directors in June 2013.
Japan - Tokyo Japan - California - U.S.A., U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • Energy • CleanTech • Aerospace (& Defense)
Mari Murata is the Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Iemo. She is a serial entrepreneur, previously one of the first hires by Japanese Internet giant CyberAgent. Prior to launching Iemo, she founded a startup called Control Plus in 2005 and subsequently sold its social game development business to Japanese gaming company Gumi. Murata joined the management board of DeNA as an operating officer.
- Louisville Kentucky - New York New York - Los Angeles California - New York United S, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Aerospace (& Defense) • Mobile • Consumer • Industrials
William Mapother is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Slated. He is also an angel investor. He also serves as General Partner at Nulu Bridgestone and President at Swing Fil
San Francisco California - Tokyo, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Mobility • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Hardware Club is community-based venture firm dedicated to hardware startups. The firm helps startups scale globally by providing financing and support on manufacturing and distribution. It was founded in 2014.