Kotaro Chiba

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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.