Masa Nishikawa

Kanematsu Ventures 

Kanematsu is a 10B+ Japanese corporate company and aids startups in energy, consumer hardware, and safety. Masa speaks at notable conferences such as SXSW.

Jason Derleth

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts

Jason heads Nasa's venture arm. He graduated MIT and received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for Exploration Systems Architecture Study. 

Jasper Bos

Merck Ventures

Jasper is the head of Merck's venture arm. He is looking for new innovations in quantum computing, ML predictive analysis, and novel technologies in foodtech. 

Sherman Li

Softbank 

Sherman is one of the partners at Softbank in search of AI projects within the Asia and EU division. Softbank's investments run from Uber and Slack to Boston Dynamics.

Torrance Carroll

Hack Fund V

Torrance is a partner of Hack Fund V, a publicly traded venture firm. He led Wework Labs and created the first stop-motion animation at the Charles M. Shulz museum.

Yoriko Koike

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Yoriko Koike is the governor of Tokyo and runs Invest Tokyo with Accenture. Her goal is to make Tokyo a Smart City for Olympics 2020.

Jim Simmons

Caltech Angels

Jim is the co-chair of Caltech angels and leads his own firm at Simmons Godspeed Ventures. He is a passionate entrepreneur VC in the semiconductor, watertech and VR/AR consumer space.

Manan Mehta

Unshackled Ventures

Manan is a founding partner and aa Bruin and  ran marketing for ed-tech startup Kno (acq. by Intel 2013) that raised over $90M of funding .

Masato Yamamoto

All Nippon Airways 

Masato is the head of ANA ventures and partner at WiL's Lab. He seeks the flying car  companies that define urban air mobility.

Taka Machinaga

Takenaka Corporation

Takenaka Corporation is the world's largest R&D research institute in robotics. It offers robotics a safe space to test out their construction robots. 

Shoichi Tanida

Mitsubishi 

Shoichi is the VP of Mitsubishi Ventures, a 42B+ firm holding stake in Lawson, Uniqlo, and Muji. He seeks startups with simplicity and purpose. 

Bruce Cleveland

Wildcat VC

Bruce is a founding partner of Wildcat VC and author of Traversing the Traction Gap. Prev. at Interwest Partners and Westpoint.

Brad Feld

Foundry Group

Brad is the founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, and authored Venture Deals, and its free course. He led investments in Modular and Misty.

Bryan Rosenblatt

Craft Ventures

Bryan was the head of growth of both Reddit and Twitter before joining on at Craft Ventures. He led investments in  robotics as CafeX and SpaceX.

Zeryab Moussaoui

Airbus Group Inc.

Zeryab heads Airbus Group's research. He graduated from the top in Paris at Sorbonne and is seeking progressions robotic aviation and swarm robotics.

Scott Amyx

Amyx Ventures

Scott is part of the Forbes Technology Council and runs his own firm, Amyx Ventures.. He is a prominent TedX speaker and is at the front lines of IoT and AI.

Pedro Espinoza

Espinoza Ventures

Pedro is an accomplished Tedx speaker, author, and investor in robotic platforms such as Kiwibot. He was featured on the Hispanic Shark Tank, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and  World Patent Office.

Sunil Nagaraj

Ubiquity VC

Sunil is the founding partner of Ubiquity and previously as Bessember Venture Partners. He graduated from Harvard and seeks lightweight startups in RPA software.

Miho Greenberg

Japan Society of Northern California

Miho is the COO of USA Japan. Prev. she was with MIT Labs, with Toshiba, Subaru, Phillips and manages relations with Japanese Consulate. 

Magnus Carlsson

Ikea Head of Design

Magnus is a world renown head of cost product design at Ikea and a published author in strategic sourcing and company management. He featured at Parsons for design.

Tomohiro Uchida

Hitachi 

Hitachi is known for scaling startups in the robotics and AI space. They are looking for the next wave of RPA software and robotics that serves a consumer and social good.

Roger Royse

Royse Law

Roger is the founder of Royse Law Firm, works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to multinationals and is on the top 500 lawyers list. 

Barry Sakakibara

Nissay

Barry is the deputy head of innovation of US Research and Development at Nippon Life Global. They are the largest corporate insurance in Japan.

Kazuki Ebusatani

Ezaki Glico 

Kazuki is the head of  the venture arm for Ezaki Glico, the company famous for Pocky, the famous Japanese snacks in Anime. They love super cute, super edible food products.

Yannick Henriette

Compiler VC

Yannick leads Compiler VC. Prev. exited entrepreneur and Morgan Stanley. He seeks hardware and software startups by trade. 

Shawn Xu

Floodgate VC

Shawn is a senior associate, previously a managing partner at the Dorm Room and Bessemer. He is a Wharton grad and led over 27 investments.

Chris Abshire

Toyota AI Ventures

Chris is an investor at Toyota AI  and previously at Fenox venture capital. He seeks robotics and AI adding value to construction and mobility industries.

Mark Linao

Akatsuki Ventures  

Mark is a CVC at Akatsuki, Entertainment, prev. at Candela and Technicolor Ventures. He is a Bruin with a Masters in materials science and MBA.

Atul Singh 

Fair Observer

Atul is a notable lawyer and lecturer in geopolitcal risk via World Bank, Washington D.C., TEDx and universities. He is an Oxford PPE and Wharton grad with connections to Parliament.

Akemi Koda

Stanford Angels

Akemi is a notable angel investor with Stanford and Band of Angels. She seeks startups in the AR/VR space, and notably led business development with top corproates in Japan.

Russel Brand

MIT Angels

Russell is notably of first investors in Founders Institute and Kickstarter. He co-chairs of MIT angels which focuses on industry agnostic hardware. 

Randy Wiggins

Princeton Angels

Randolph is the co-chair of Princeton Alumni. He is a lawyer and invests in consumer food and health startups.

Brandon Levene

Xoogle Angels

Brandon is the head of Google Applied Intelligence project (Chronicle) in cybersecurity. He previously published in research in Palo Alto Networks.

Kiyoko Osone

UCLA Ventures

Kiyoko's network spans UCLA ventures, key players on Wallstreet, Chamber of commerce and Japan. She is building her first bot with Homebrew.

James Skelley

JSTech Law

James is an engineer and prominent IP lawyer in the valley specializing in robotics and medical devices. He previously was at Perkins Coie, and his network spans MIT CSAIL, DARPA, and Cairo. He aids startups in his portfolio of patent law.