University of Oxford

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

King's College London

At Tres Alchemix, we specialise in unraveling the complexity of the human body by harnessing the combined power of quantum-level chemical calculations and multi-omics AI. Our platforms provide highly accurate predictions of molecular behaviour, including chemical-protein interactions, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, offering unparalleled insights into the complex dynamics of drugs within the body. This cutting-edge technology forms the foundation of our way towards a holistic in silico human model, which will enable us to explore the root causes of various diseases and drive the development of novel therapeutics.

WASEDA University Ventures (WUV)

Member, Board of Directors, Tres Alchemix Co.Ltd.

WASEDA University Ventures (WUV) is established with the primary objective of creating businesses and industries that contribute to human society's evolution, well-being, and sustainability. WUV will build new companies that utilise "the practical application of scholarship", one of WASEDA University's founding principles. WUV aims to become a world-class deep tech venture capital firm.

General Partner

Waseda University

Advisor to the Office of the President

Capex, Inc. is developing life-partner AI application.

UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

Member, Board of Directors, Capex, Inc.

VividQ is a deep tech software company with world-leading expertise in 3D holography. Our expert engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists out of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and St Andrews have solved key technology barriers in the adoption of holographic display for mass commercial application.

Member, Board of Directors, VIVIDQ LIMITED

ROBOTICS OMNI SOLUTIONS: Robotics solutions for OMNI Channel and Supply Chain.
ROMS, Inc. help solve the problem of aging society and labor scarcity in an innovative and responsible way by providing user friendly robotics solutions for OMNI Channel. Our focus is to deliver functional platform that include robotics store utilizing AI. We create a perfect OMNI Channel platform to help Retailers approach their customers in a most convenient way.

Member, Board of Directors, ROMS, Inc. 

SWAT is a shared mobility technology company in Singapore that routes vehicles optimally to offer the highest utilization rates and service levels. SWAT was one of the technology providers for the Land Transport Authority (LTA)’s on-demand public bus trials from December 2018 to June 2019 and is working with the ComfortDelGro Group to extend this shared mobility technology to other bus and taxi service fleets in Singapore and overseas. The first on-demand bus service overseas has already been launched in North West Sydney in New South Wales (NSW), Australia through ComfortDelGro’s wholly-owned subsidiary, ComfortDelGro Corporation Australia (NSW). The service provides first and last mile connection to the new Sydney Metro. More routes are expected to follow.

Member, Board of Directors, SWAT Mobility Pte. Ltd.

Tier IV was founded in December 2015 by Dr. Shinpei Kato,currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo, to develop a fully-autonomous self-driving platform based on the open source fully-autonomous self-driving software “Autoware” which he created while he was teaching at Nagoya University,

Board Observer, Tier IV, Inc.

Evie.ai is an AI platform for the intelligent enterprise.

Member, Board of Directors, Forty Two Labs Private Ltd. (Evie.ai)

ACSL is a spin-out from Chiba University in Japan. ACSL utilizes the world leading autonomous controls research and technologies developed at by the laboratory of Professor. Kenzo Nonami at Chiba University since 1998. ACSL is engaged in the R&D, manufacturing, sales and building solutions for industrial drone applications. ACSL made its IPO in December 2018 (6232:TYO).

Member, Board of Directors, Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd. ( IPO in Dec 2018 - 6232:TYO)

Locix develops revolutionary solutions to uniquely capture spatial, visual and sensor data to provide contextual awareness to buildings, homes and connected devices - digitizing the physical world. Combined with advanced data analytics, Locix solutions enable actionable insights for automated decision making. Based in Silicon Valley, Locix is backed by leading venture and strategic investors including ID Ventures, University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Murata Manufacturing, NTT Docomo Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, iRobot, Yaskawa Information Systems, Yaskawa Electric, and Acer Ventures.

Member, Board of Directors, Locix, Inc. 

Fyusion's interests lie in positively impacting the world through intelligent robotic technologies. Its core team consists of world experts with PhDs in Robotics, 3D/Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, who bring together decades of cumulative experience in their fields. The team has been at the forefront of academic research and has a long track record in open source software development in 3D Computer Vision and Robotics. Their software contributions are heavily used around the globe in both academia and industry, and have become de facto standards in Computer Vision, particularly for tasks like Object Recognition and 3D Modeling.

Member, Board of Directors, Fyusion, Inc. (Acquired by Cox Automotive in December 2020)

Nabiq, Inc. proves high quality wireless broadband services for business in Japan. Combining existing fixed broad band networks with Nabiq's proprietary cloud based Wi-Fi management technologies, Nabiq enables secure and device agnostics wireless access through Nabiq's unique one-stop, packaged turn-key cloud-based platform. Nabiq enables SMEs, hotels and retail shops to keep increasing smartphones, tablets and any smart devices connected to their self-manged secure networks through Nabiq's cloud based platform. In October 2018, Nabiq was acquired by JTOWER INC.

Member, Board of Directors, Nabiq, Inc. (Acquired by JTOWER INC.in October 2018)

Acted as an Expert Member for the Innovation Creation Subcommittee, The Information and Communications Policy Committee, Information and Communications Council at Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan. - On January 18, 2013, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) submitted an inquiry on the “State of the Policy for Information and Communications Technology toward Creation of Innovation” to the Information and Communications Council (Chairman: Atsutoshi Nishida, Chairman of the Board of Director, Toshiba Corporation).

Expert Member, Information and Communications Council of Min. of Internal Affairs and Communications

Mujin, Inc. was founded in 2011 to develop automation solutions for industrial robots in order simplify factory automation and increase worldwide manufacturing productivity. With Mujin Controller’s innovative solution will dramatically improve the existing expensive and complicated industrial robot programming process as well as the efficiency and usability of those robots. Mujin made MBO in February 2019.  See project Board Member, Mujin, Inc. (MBO in February 2019) .

Member, Board of Directors, Mujin, Inc. (MBO in February 2019) 

Ciespace Corporation is an emerging software technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Ciespace enables CAE solution providers to bring cloud-based solutions to market faster, delivering an innovative Platform as a Service (PaaS). In April 2015, Ciespace's technology assets were acquired by ESI Group for Cloud based CAE modeling.

Member, Board of Directors, Ciespace Corporation (Acquired by ESI Group In April 2015) 

Naked Technology provided software platform services based on web technologies to bring innovation into media, contents and social communication fields. In September 2011, Naked Technology was acquired by mixi, Inc. - the Japan's leading Social Networking Service company.

Member, Board of Directors, Naked Technology, Inc. (Acquired by mixi, Inc. In September 2011) 

Phyzios Inc. was founded in January 2009, as a start-up software company out of The University of Tokyo, applying physics simulation technologies to entertainment. In February 2013, Phyzios was acquired by Google.

Member, Board of Directors, Phyzios, Inc. (Acquired by Google In February 2013)

UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo in Japan. At UTEC, we pioneer frontiers to solve global issues of humankind, 
by bringing capital, talent and knowledge, around science and technology.  UTEC has been managing approximately $494M in 4 funds since 2004.

Partner & Board Member

Seconded to FeliCa Pocket Marketing, Inc., a joint venture between Sony Corp, Gourmet Navigator Inc, Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP), Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Tanseisha Co Ltd.  The company aims to promote the use of "FeliCa Pocket" contactless IC card that incorporates diverse functions such as point card, coupons, membership, payment and stamp rally capabilities.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Senior Manager, 1st Sales Dept., FeliCa Pocket Marketing, Inc.

Manager in charge of new card business development through $190M investment in a Japanese credit card company, Central Finance Co., Ltd. at  the Corporate Development Division of Mitsui.

Manager, Corporate Development Division

Tokyo Office (July 2003 - September 2007)
    Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, Inc. / MVC Corp.    

New York Office (April 2001 - July 2003)
     Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, Inc.

Investment Partner, Mitsui Ventures

Venture Capital Investment from MCVP Fund I.

Manager, Private Equity Department, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.  New  York HQ.

Seconded from Mitsui as Deputy General Manager of Investment Dept. III  at Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

Deputy General Manager, Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

In charge of Venture Capital Investments, at New Business & Technology Development Dept.

Corporate Planning Division

Accounting, Tax and Project Finance related works for the Heavy Machinery Division. Steel Plant exports projects in the US, Mexico, Turkey, India etc.

Ted Yamamoto