Kotaro Chiba Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Professionals
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1

- Investments
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48
- Portfolio
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32
- Exits
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14

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
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- Kamakura
- Japan
Kotaro Chiba Investments (48)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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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 |
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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
Kotaro Chiba Co-Investors (6)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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500 Global | 1 |
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BEENEXT Capital Management |
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Chiba Dojo |
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Coral Capital |
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Japan Finance Corporation |
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Kotaro Chiba FAQs
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Who is Kotaro Chiba?
Kotaro Chiba is an angel Investor who has made 48 investments.
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What kind of investor is Kotaro Chiba?
Kotaro Chiba is an angel investor.
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What does Kotaro Chiba do?
As an angel investor, Kotaro Chiba invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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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.
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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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