Our Team
Meet Our Highly-Skilled, Diverse, Results-Driven Team
We are multilingual, international, and experienced. We have the expertise to help you build a great company.
Hiroyuki Murai
Hiroyuki Murai
Background
Hiroyuki’s has extensive experience in building and growing online businesses and is regarded as a visionary leader within Recruit. He ascribes to a servant leadership management style and inspires the professionals around him to live up to their full potential. He has spent more than five years living in ASEAN countries and travels around the world giving talks to entrepreneurs and investors.
Shingo Kato
Shingo Kato
Background
With a background in software engineering and AI research, Shingo’s area of expertise is AI, IoT, and Robotics.
He has also worked as a system engineer and, for seven years, was in technical sales, selling collaboration software such as Lotus Notes.
Portfolio
Conversica
Dashbot
DataRobot
Element
Fortella
Lawgeex
Layer
Nymi
Plenty
Savioke
ShoCard
Starship Technolgoies
Hitoshi Matsuda
Hitoshi Matsuda
Background
Hitoshi invests in the Asia market and helps to develop companies’ Japan market entry strategy. He was responsible for establishing a joint venture with the ANA Group. He has also engaged in business development and finance management as a vice president and CEO.
Portfolio
Youngrok Kim
Youngrok Kim
Background
Youngrok’s main focus is on blockchain technology. He has worked for ARCH Venture Partners in Chicago as a consultant. He started his professional career as a server engineer at Goldman Sachs where, for six years, he managed technology infrastructure and workplace technologies. He majored in computer science at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and earned his MBA degree at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Portfolio
Kevin Yangyang Wu
Kevin Yangyang Wu
Background
Kevin’s main focus is on fintech. He is passionate about meeting entrepreneurs with the vision to build a great product that solves real-life problem and improves people’s lives — and helping them succeed. He is also leading the technical due deligence group in Recruit.
Portfolio
Hironori Onoue
Hironori Onoue
Background
Hironori focuses on investments in fintech, AI and machine learning (ML), and blockchain in the Asia market, and he is responsible for technical due deligence. During his time at Recruit, he has also launched web services as a software as an engineer and, as a research engineer, led ML projects to adapt ML models for group companies. Prior to joining Recruit, he was a software engineer and business consultant at a startup.
Portfolio
Yuki Tanaka
Yuki Tanaka
Background
Yuki’s areas of specialization are the blockchain industry and the Israeli market. He has a background in engineering and entreprenuership, and before joining Recruit Strategic Partners, he worked as a technical lead overseeing multiple products within Recruit Group. He has also worked as an application engineer at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for settlement and clearance systems, as well as CEO and CTO at several startups.
Portfolio
Gen Ukegawa
Gen Ukegawa
Background
Gen supports startups as they develop in the Japan market and he excels at helping businesses create connections and strengthen their network.
He has been a product manager for location data platform and worked as a marketing consultant for Recruit Group.
Yuki “Newki” Tanaka
Yuki “Newki” Tanaka
Background
Yuki’s focus is on blockchain technology. He has also worked in Japan as a software engineer and a sales engineer. He has a deep interest in practical applications for blockchain.
Shizuka Nishida
Shizuka Nishida
Nan Nan
Nan Nan
Background
Nan Nan is responsible for pre-investment due diligence, post-investment
management, and the management of CVC Funds.
Silu Hu
Silu Hu
Takahito Ozawa
Takahito Ozawa
Yoshie Sugawara