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Individual Investor

Hiroaki Kitano

Overview

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Number of Portfolio Companies 8
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
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Senior Executive Vice President and CTO at Sony Group Corporation and President & CEO at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.. He attended Waseda University.

Personal Investments

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Number of Investments 8
Hiroaki Kitano has made 8 investments. Their latest investment was Angel Round - AnotherBall on
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Jobs

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Number of Current Jobs 4
Number of Past Jobs 1
Hiroaki Kitano has 4 current jobs including Special Counsel at Monocla, Outside Director at Genequest, and SVP at SoftBank Mobile. Additionally, Hiroaki Kitano has had 1 past job as the COO at Yahoo! Japan.
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Board and Advisor Roles

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Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
Hiroaki Kitano holds 2 board and advisor roles as Advisor at Cinnamon AI and Outside Director at Crowd Bank.

Education

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Hiroaki Kitano studied at International Christian University.

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•May 16, 2023
AnotherBall raised
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from Hiroaki Kitano and 12 other investors
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Funding Round•Sep 30, 2022
GPx raised
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from D4V and 4 other investors
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Funding Round•Oct 30, 2019
Epistra raised
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from Hiroaki Kitano
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Funding Round•Jun 13, 2019
SmarTrial raised
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from Hiroaki Kitano and Tomihisa Kamada
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Funding Round•May 25, 2018
Integriculture raised
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from A-Five and 5 other investors
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Funding Round•Aug 22, 2017
Genomelink raised
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from 500 Global and 5 other investors
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News•Aug 22, 2017
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Funding Round•Aug 24, 2015
FiNC Technologies raised
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from Etsuko Okajima and 5 other investors
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