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Founder Institute Mentors

Japan Fall 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

Abdellah Aouf

Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM

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

Arcui Usoara

Founder/CEO, Iaculus

Atsushi Hamada

Co-founder and CEO, Aeru.me, Inc

Benjamin Joffe

Founder & CEO, Plus Eight Star

Boonho Koh

Incubation Manager , Tsucrea Co., Ltd.

Cedric Wagrez

VP, ML Tech & Japan AI, TaskUs

Chiamin Lai

Managing Partner, UB Ventures

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Chris Foltz

Entrepreneur In Residence, Founder Institute + Responsible Solutions Ltd + IRG 100 CMO's & Change Agents

Christoph Sollich

Christoph Sollich - The Pitch Doctor, The Pitch Doctor

Conrad Kimball

CEO, ADU.Works

Daniel Maggs

CEO & Co-Founder, Bisu

Darren Menabney

Lead, Global Employee Engagement, Ricoh Company

Donald Soo ドナルド•ソー

FI Mentor

Dr. Mayank Singh

Co-founder, CEO , Impute Inc.

Ed Thompson

Marketing Consultant / Founder, Concept Design I/O

Erdinc Ekinci

Managing Director, Founder Institute Korea & Japan

Evan Burkosky

Co-founder & CRO , kimaru.ai

Fion Lee-Madan

Technical Co-Founder, COO and Customer Success, Fairly AI Inc.

Fion Lee Madan

Technical Co-Founder, COO and Customer Success, Fairly AI

Fujiyo Ishiguro

ＣＥＯ, Netyear Group Corp.

Fumiaki Koizumi

CEO, Fumiaki Koizumi & Associates

Fuminori Gunji

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

Haruka Takamori

Investment Manager, STRIVE

Hideki Fukui 福井英毅

CFO, ARTE Corporation

Hideki Takita

CEO, Bliss Cline Co.,Ltd.

Hideki Suzuki

CEO , TSUCREA Co., Ltd.

Hirokazu Nagano

CEO, KLab Venture Partners株式会社

Hiroshi Nishikawa

Representative Director, Solve AI

Hiroyuki Anno

Co-Founder and CEO, DELIGHT Global Inc.

Ikuo Hiraishi

CEO, SunBridge Global Ventures Inc.

Jack Huang

Managing Partner, Dreamhub Ventures

Jad Tarifi

CEO & Co-founder, Integral AI

Jared Campion

Founder & CEO, Dream Drive

Jatin Kataria

Founder & MD, InMeSta + JK Venture Studio

Jay Onda

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

Jay Ashcroft

Founder, Growth Engine Consulting

Jeffrey Paine

Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore

Jeni Chang

Founder | Investor | Mentor, .

Jerry Chi

Head of Japan, Stability AI

Jet Son Tan

Director of Product & Technology, AVANT Corporation

Jin Tanaka

Director of Investment | Resident Mentor, DEEPCORE | 500 Global

Jinho Jang

Founder , Agoras Inc. - CodeFriends.net

Joe Hug

Professor, Professional University of Information and Management for Innovation

John Kirch

Director, Ichigo Asia K.K.

John Kojiro Moriwaka

CEO, Silicon Valley Ventures

John Y. Sasaki

Principal / Attorney-at-Law, JSV Foreign Law Office

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

Kei Watanabe

Co-founder, Glasp Inc.

Keigo Namiki

Co-founder, COO/CFO, BizDev Dojo

Ken Sobajima

Founder & CEO , Tomorrow Access LLC

Ken Covey

Investment Manager, QXLV

Kenji Sadamoto

Founder, CEO, Heart Forever Co. Ltd.

Kenta Izumi | 泉　健太

FI Mentor

Kevin Leung

CEO, Muku Labs

Kevin Brockland

Founder & Managing Partner, Indelible Ventures:

Khalil Maaouni

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

Kim Yongho

Co-Founder and CEO, STRA Co., Ltd.

Kiyotake Sugita

Founder, KLAR株式会社

Kiyoyuki Suzuki

CEO, Advanced Media, Inc.

Kohei Noda

Director/Global Tech BD/Start-up investor, Mentor/Stanford LEAD alumni, Distinguished Scholar, Hakuhodo DY Holdings

Kojiro Seto

Startup Advisor, bTANK LLC

Kota Fujinuma

Lawyer, Kobayashi Yugeta Law Office

Krishan Caldwell

Senior Software Engineer, Kraken Technologies

Leo Ma

Founder, EO Studio Japan, EO Studio

Lu Dong

Founder and CEO, TakeMe Co.,Ltd.

Maaike Doyer

Founder, Epic Angels

Mahesh Kasar

SVP, Head of Sales - APAC / 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

Masahiro Samejima

Founding Partner, UCHIDA & SAMEJIMA LAW FIRM

Masaru Nagura

General Manager, CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)

Masayuki Koike

CEO, Arise Co,ltd.

Masumi Shimafuji

Co-Founder and CEO, xRsion Inc.

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.

Min Myat Swan Pyae

Co-Founder, Juncture

Motohide Takeda

Exective Director, TKD.Institute

Motoi Nakazato

取締役, 株式会社リブセンス

Naoko Kurosawa

Senior Manager, TSUCREA Co., Ltd.

Naotake Murayama

Head of Global Operations, SplitX

Narimasa Makino

Manager, SunBridge Global Ventures Inc.

Nidhi Banthia Mehta

Founder & Catalyst , Self Achievers

Niklas Karvonen

Community Director, Nordic Innovation House - Tokyo

Noriya Tarutani

Director of Innovation Division, JETRO / J-Startup Affairs

Noriyuki Nihira

VP of Sales, APAC / Area Sales Director, Japan, Imint Vidhance / Neonode

Paloma Lecheta

Regional Director - LatAm, Founder Institute

Paul Ashton

Head of Global Sales, Giftee

Pina (Yoichiro) Hirano

CEO, Asteria Corporation

Raphael Hodé

CEO, Design Director, nowthen

Rebecca Chai

Ventures Associate, Plug and Play Japan

Reisa Matsuda

Community Manager, Google Japan

Roger Do

Co-Founder, QSearch

Ryan Micheletti

Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute

Ryoichi Kaneko

Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Ryousuke Okinume

CEO, POTESTA

Ryusuke Murao

Branding Specialist / Best-selling writer, STARBRAND Co.,Ltd.

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sasha Kaverina

Partnerships & Growth, Le Wagon Tokyo

Satoshi Okuda

CEO, Primestyle

Satoshi Okuda

CEO, Primestyle Co.,Ltd.

Satoshi Nunokawa

Associate , Incubate Fund

Schyler Alexandra Cole

Managing Director, Qrea8iv Venture Studio

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.

Shuji Honjo

FI Mentor

So Saito

Founder, So & Sato Law Offices

Steve Monaghan

General Partner, Finmirai

Tadashi Takaoka

FI Mentor

Taisuke Alex Odajima

CEO, EDGEof INNOVATION, LLC

Takaaki Ono

Co-Founder, BlueCircle, LLC

Takahiro Hayashi

CEO, HEROZ

Takanari Hayama

CEO, http://www.igel.co.jp/index.html.ja

Takeru Ohe

Founder, T. Ohe & Associates

Takeshi Ebihara

General Partner, Rebright Partners / Batavia Incubator

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

Tatsuya Kato

Chairman of the Boards & Co-Founder, Mido Holdings Ltd.

Tatsuya Zenbutsu

FI Mentor

Tetsuo Iwasaki

Chairman,Founder, 株式会社IIOSS

Tetsuya Noguchi

CEO, i-mobile

Theodore Kee

Founder, The Elect Advisory

Timothy Connor

Chief Executive Officer, Synnovate

Todor Panev

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

Tom Moss

CEO, Skydio APAC

Tomohiro Miyake

CEO, ClubT

Tomohiro Murata

CFO, Voyagin

Tomohiro Uchida

Partner, Translink Capital

Tomoyuki Iwanaga

Founder, CEO , Global Innovation Consulting Inc

Toshio Furuta

CEO, Clair law firm

Toshiro Uno

CEO, xone-consulting

Tyson Batino

Founder 創業者, Scaling Your Company

Xinmei Cai

Engineering Director, Google Japan

Yamato Sasagawa

Investor, World Innovation Lab (WiL)

Yasuchika Wakayama

CEO, Breakpoint

Yoichi Morimoto

Founder & CEO , 88 howard

Yoichi Ito

Dean of entrepreneurship dept., Musashino Univ.

Yoshihiro Kidachi

President, BOIDSCraft Corporation

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

Yu Hosaka

Lawyer, NEXAGE Law Office

Yuichi Terada

Founder & President , Hiyoura Lab

Yuji Tanabe

Co-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

Yusuke Kohno

CEO, JITSUBO Co., Ltd.

Yuto Saiki

Founder & CEO , Outlier, Inc.

Yves Lehmann

Mr., if21

Zak Murase

Managing Director, Pacific Sky Partners

井出啓介

Partner, The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

諭（Satoshi) 石川（Ishikawa)

CEO, Transaction Inc.

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