Kotaro Chiba Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 48

  • Portfolio
  • 32

  • Exits
  • 14

Exits

Kotaro Chiba General Information

Description

Mr. Kotaro Chiba serves as Co-Founder & Managing Director at Drone Fund. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Drone Fund. He is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer & General Partner at Chiba Dojo. He serves as Board Member at Prodrone, ALI Technologies and Aeronext. He Co-Founded and served as Executive Director at COLOPL. he joined Recruit Co., Ltd. After working at Cybird Co., Ltd. and K Laboratory Co., Ltd., he joined COLOPL Inc. in 2009 and became its vice president in December of the same year. He was in charge of human resources such as recruitment and human resource development, and after the company's IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in 2012 and its listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2014, he retired in July 2016. While being an angel investor (individual investment in more than 60 startups and more than 40 VC funds) in the Internet and real tech industries both in Japan and overseas, he founded "Drone Fund" in June 2017. He serves as the founder and representative partner. He became a visiting professor at Keio University SFC in April 2019. In July of the same year, he founded "Chiba Dojo Fund," Japan's first entrepreneur community venture capital. In April 2021, he became an outside director of "PONO CAPITAL," a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and in August, it went public on the US NASDAQ. Owner and airline pilot of Japan's first HondaJet.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Kamakura
  • Japan

Kotaro Chiba Investments (48)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Kaminashi 29-Mar-2023 Later Stage VC Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
GMO Cyber Security 08-Dec-2020 Network Management Software Generating Revenue
Luup 30-Jul-2020 Automotive Generating Revenue
Aidemy 03-Feb-2020 Educational Software Profitable
ALI Technologies 28-Nov-2019 Other Hardware Generating Revenue
Fowd 26-Jun-2019 Entertainment Software Out of Business
mi-6 24-Apr-2019 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Alp 01-Mar-2019 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Lovegraph 07-Jan-2019 Early Stage VC Other Services (B2C Non-Financial) Generating Revenue
Panair 26-Dec-2018 Later Stage VC Other Energy Services Generating Revenue

Kotaro Chiba Exits (14)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Aidemy 23-Jun-2023 IPO
Fowd 12-Apr-2023
Cover Corporation 27-Mar-2023
ALI Technologies 04-Feb-2023
Lovegraph 22-Mar-2022
GMO Cyber Security 24-Jan-2022
Minacolor 22-Oct-2021
WealthNavi 22-Dec-2020
Neural Group 20-Aug-2020 IPO
Valu (Financial Software) 31-Mar-2020 Out of Business

Kotaro Chiba Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

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Kotaro Chiba Co-Investors (6)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
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Kotaro Chiba FAQs

  • Who is Kotaro Chiba?

    Kotaro Chiba is an angel Investor who has made 48 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Kotaro Chiba?

    Kotaro Chiba is an angel investor.

  • What does Kotaro Chiba do?

    As an angel investor, Kotaro Chiba invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has Kotaro Chiba invested in?

    Kotaro Chiba has made numerous investments in companies like Kaminashi, GMO Cyber Security, and Luup within the Business/Productivity Software, Network Management Software, and Automotive industries.

  • What has Kotaro Chiba invested in recently?

    Kotaro Chiba's latest investment was on 29-Mar-2023 in Kaminashi, a company within the Business/Productivity Software industry.

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