Founder Institute Mentors

Japan 2024

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Japan program below.

Mentors

マスミシマフジ

創設者兼CEO, 株式会社エクシオン

Abe Rezai

Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, H.B. Fuller

Aki Ohashi

Vice President, Evolution Ventures

Alexander De Vore

CEO, 3D Printing

Alexander Uttendorfer

CEO, Liquid Frame

Andrew Shuttleworth

Mentor, Founder Institute

Benjamin Joffe

Founder & CEO, Plus Eight Star

Cedric Wagrez

VP, ML Tech & Japan AI, TaskUs

Chiamin Lai

Managing Partner, UB Ventures

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Christoph Sollich

Christoph Sollich - The Pitch Doctor, The Pitch Doctor

Conrad Kimball

CEO, ADU.Works

Darren Menabney

Lead, Global Employee Engagement, Ricoh Company

Dr. Mayank Singh

Co-founder, CEO , Impute Inc.

Ed Thompson

Marketing Consultant / Founder, Concept Design I/O

Erdinc Ekinci

Co-Director, Founder Institute Korea/Japan, Co-founder, CEO, Openfor.co, inc

Evan Burkosky

Head of Enterprise Digital Marketing, TechnoPro, Inc.

Fuminori Gunji

Business Coach | Startup mentor & investor | Ex-SoftBank | Ex-Startup COO | M&A exit | Trilingual BizDev expert, .

Hideki Suzuki

CEO , TSUCREA Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Nishikawa

Regional Director, Japan, MoBagel

Hiroyuki Anno

Founder and CEO, DELIGHT Inc.

Jad Tarifi

CEO & Co-founder, Integral AI

Jared Campion

Founder & CEO, Dream Drive

Jatin Kataria

Founder & CEO, InMeSta

Jay Onda

Director (Investments) | CVC Advisory Board Member, Marubeni Ventures | National Venture Capital Association

Jay Ashcroft

Founder, Growth Engine Consulting

Jet Son Tan

Director of Product & Technology, AVANT Corporation

John Kirch

Director, Ichigo Asia K.K.

Jordan Fisher

Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Zehitomo

Joshua Flannery

Founder & CEO , Innovation Dojo Japan

Jun Miyazaki

CEO / Mentor, OrangeTechLab

Karin Wellbrock

Mrs. / Partner , Kay Group K.K.

Kei Shimada

Executive | Entrepreneur | Award-winning Innovator | Global Keynote Speaker| Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | EMBA, Liquid One Studio

Ken Sobajima

Founder & CEO , Tomorrow Access LLC

Ken Covey

Investment Manager, QXLV

Khalil Maaouni

Head of Data and Digital, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc.

Kiyotake Sugita

Founder, KLAR K.K.

Kojiro Seto

Startup Advisor, bTANK LLC

Kota Fujinuma

Lawyer, Kobayashi Yugeta Law Office

Krishan Caldwell

General Manager, Japan, Tellus

Lu Dong

Founder and CEO, TakeMe Co.,Ltd.

Maaike Doyer

Founder, Epic Angels

Mahesh Kasar

SVP, Head of Global Partner Alliance and Indirect Channel Sales, Rakuten Symphony

Makihara Arisa

Junior Associate , Anobaka

Mari Nishiyama

Startup Partner Lead, Stripe

Marko Simic

Chief Technology Officer, Ascent Robotics, Inc.

Masafumi Kamishiro

Senior Vice President, Bain Capital

Masaru Nagura

General Manager, CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)

Maximillian Naza

Chief Executive Officer , PasciVite

Michael Sheetal

Founder / CEO, PlayBrain Inc.

Michael Sudano

Senior Robotics Operations Engineer, Woven Planet Holdings

Mikio Kawahara

Chief Investment Officer / Head of Investment and Business Development, UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd.

Naoko Kurosawa

Senior Manager, TSUCREA Co., Ltd.

Naotake Murayama

Head of Global Operations, SplitX

Niklas Karvonen

Community Director, Nordic Innovation House - Tokyo

Noriya Tarutani

Director of Innovation Division, JETRO / J-Startup Affairs

Paloma Lecheta

Regional Director - LatAm, Founder Institute

Raphael Hodé

CEO, Design Director, nowthen

Rebecca Chai

Ventures Associate, Plug and Play Japan

Reisa Matsuda

Community Manager, Google Japan

Roger Do

CEO, QSearch

Ryan Micheletti

Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute

Ryoichi Kaneko

Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sasha Kaverina

Partnerships & Growth, Le Wagon Tokyo

Schyler Alexandra Cole

Associate, Incubate Fund

Sergio Elias Wilson

Foreign Associate, So & Sato Law Firm

Serkan Toto

Founder, CEO, Kantan Games, Inc.

Shigeru Sumitomo

Founder and Representative Director, Conselux Corporation

Shinya Yamamoto

Founder & CEO, Link & Innovation, Inc.

Sho Sato

CEO, LUDiMUS Inc.

So Saito

Founder, So & Sato Law Offices

Steve Monaghan

General Partner, Finmirai

Takaaki Ono

Co-Founder, BlueCircle, LLC

Takeshi Maruyama

President / Chief Marketing Officer, Sekisui Fuller

Taku Furukawa

Founder & Organizer, Tokyo Fabhub

Takujiro Oto

Co-Founder and CEO, Drive Japan Inc.

Tao Romera Martinez

Chief Operating Officer, Soundraw

Taruho Kuroda

Senior Director, R&D Asia-Pacific Hub, LEO Pharma

Theodore Kee

Founder, The Elect Advisory

Todor Panev

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Web Factory, Sigoor, Talnets

Tom Moss

CEO, Skydio APAC

Tomohiro Uchida

Partner, Translink Capital

Tomoyuki Iwanaga

Founder, CEO , Global Innovation Consulting Inc

Tyson Batino

Founder 創業者, Scaling Your Company

Xinmei Cai

Engineering Director, Google Japan

Yamato Sasagawa

Investor, World Innovation Lab (WiL)

Yoichi Morimoto

Founder & CEO , 88 howard

Yoichi Ito

Dean of entrepreneurship dept., Musashino Univ.

Yoshiki Kimura

lawyer , MURATA & WAKATSUKI LAW OFFICES

Yoshimi Shinohara

Founder / CEO, Yokohama Ventures LLC

Yoshiro Tasaka

Director of Global Strategy Division, Shibuya City Government / Shibuya Startup Support

Yuichi Terada

Founder & President , Hiyoura Lab

Yuji Tanabe

Founder and CTO, Aeterlink

Yuki Shirato

Managing Director, Yakumi

Yuki Sato

Co-founder, CEO , Obniz Inc

Yu Li Shein

Co-Director, Founder Institute Korea/Japan, Co-founder, COO, Openfor.co, inc

Yves Lehmann

Mr., if21

Zak Murase

Managing Director, Pacific Sky Partners

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