Yusuke Asakura

Yusuke Asakura General Information

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Mr. Yusuke Asakura is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Tokyo Founders Fund. He is also a Founder and serves as Partner at Animal Spirits. Mr. Asakura served as President at I Mercury Capital. He serves as Co-Founder at Signifiant Inc. He served as Outside Director at Raksul. He served as Advisor at Scrum Ventures. He served as Advisor at Scrum Ventures. He is a Co-Founder of Signifian. He served as an Advisor at Neural Pocket. He serves as a Board Member at Relux. Previously, he served as a Chie Executive Officer & President at Naked Technology. He served as a Board Member at Relux. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He is also co-founder of the Tokyo Founders Fund, an angel network composed of eight entrepreneurs, which invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startup companies globally. Prior to coming to the US, Asakaura was the CEO of mixi, a public company that runs a Social Networking Service in Japan. Prior to mixing, he was the founder and CEO of a mobile tech startup, Naked Technology. He earned his bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Tokyo in 2007.