Our team is dedicated to scouting
investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea - Japan
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Startups
South San Francisco - San Francisco Bay Area - Tokyo, U.S.A. - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Online Social
Most Interested In
SaaS, IoT, A.I, Marketplaces
Not Interested In
Games, adtech
Japan, U.S.A. - Japan
Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Advertising • AR/VR • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
James Riney serves as Partner and Head at 500 Startups. He also is an Angel Investor.He also serves as Partner at 500 Kobe Pre-Accelerator. He also co-founded the "Medium.com of Japan" before covering venture investments for DeNA, based in Tokyo. He now heads the 500 Startups Japan fund.
Louisville/Jefferson County - Kentucky, U.S.A.
BioTech • AgroTech • CleanTech • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Very early stage companies with scientific or technical founders.
Not Interested In
Series A and beyond.
Palo Alto, U.S.A. - Japan
Businesses Solutions • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social
Yusuke Asakura is a Co-Founder at Tokyo Founders Fund. He serves as Board Member at Relux. Previously, he Co-Founded and served as President at Naked Technology. Heis a Visiting Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He is also co-founder of Tokyo Founders Fund, an angel network composed of eight entrepreneurs, which invests in pre-seed and seed stage startup companies globally. Prior to coming to the US, Asakaura was the CEO of mixi, a public company which runs the largest Social Networking Service in Japan. At mixi, he led turnaround strategy by diversification of its business and increased its market cap from $200M to $4B in one year. Prior to mixi, he was the founder and CEO of mobile tech startup, Naked Technology. The company was acquired by mixi in 2011. Asakura earned his bachelors degree in Law from the University of Tokyo in 2007.
Tokyo, U.S.A. - Japan - Canada
BioTech • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • DeepTech • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Founder & General Partner at 15th rock ventures