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  Hiroshi Takasawa
  Hiroshi Takasawa

  President of the Investment Company
  Managing Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

  
  Hiroshi is a Managing Executive Officer of Rakuten and President of the Investment Company. He is responsible for Rakuten Capital, managing various investments including those of Rakuten Ventures, FinTech Fund, Global EC Fund and Mobility Investments. Hiroshi joined Rakuten in 2005 and established Rakuten Strategic Partners, a private equity investment platform with which he actively engaged in venture investments, buyout investments and other M&A-related transactions. Hiroshi has also held a number of executive and key positions such as President of Rakuten Securities Holdings, Chairman of Rakuten Investment Management and President of Rakuten Life Insurance.
  Prior to joining Rakuten, Hiroshi worked at Nomura Securities Co., Ltd, Nomura Securities International (NY) and GMAC Commercial Mortgage Japan, Inc.,managing various investments and financial products. He is a member of the Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals.
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  Saemin Ahn

  Rakuten Ventures
  Saemin Ahn

  Managing Partner, Rakuten Ventures
  Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

  
  Saemin is Managing Partner at Rakuten Ventures, a post he has held since the fund’s inception in 2013. Saemin invests in diverse verticals such as advertising technology, artificial intelligence and on-demand business around the world. Some of his investments include Carousell, Pocketmath and Algorithmia.
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  Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel

  FinTech Fund/Mobility Investments
  Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel

  Managing Partner, Rakuten FinTech Fund/Mobility Investments
  Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

  
  Oskar is the Managing Partner in charge of the FinTech Fund and Mobility Investments. He has led multiple investments in the fintech space and ride sharing, including Lyft, Cabify and Careem. Oskar serves as a board member for Cabify and Careem.
  Prior to joining Rakuten, Oskar had extensive experience in the financial industry, including in investment banking and capital markets while at J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch, and in private equity and retail financial services in North America and Europe.
  Oskar earned his BA at ICADE in Spain and MBA at Harvard Business School.

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  Hiromichi Aoki

  Rakuten Capital
  Hiromichi Aoki

  General Manager, Rakuten Capital

  
  Hiromichi is General Manager in charge of strategy and planning of Rakuten Capital.
  Prior to joining Rakuten, Hiromichi had extensive experience in investment banking, private equity and asset management at Nomura in New York, Tokyo, London and Hong Kong.
  Hiromichi earned BA in Commercial Science at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan
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  Takuya Hosomura

  Rakuten Capital
  Takuya Hosomura

  Business Development Manager, Rakuten Capital

  He is responsible for partnerships between portfolio companies and Rakuten group companies as well as its investment activities, also leading open innovation initiatives across Rakuten. Prior to joining Rakuten, at Sumitomo Corporation, he worked for multiple investment/divestiture activities and the business developments for the subsidiaries in the European automotive industry, including work experiences in Europe.
  Earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Waseda University and an MBA from Bond University.
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  Hogil Doh

  Rakuten Ventures
  Hogil Doh

  Investment Manager, Rakuten Ventures

  
  Hogil is currently an Investment Manager at Rakuten Ventures and is responsible for its investment activities inside and outside Japan. In this role, he has invested in Go-Jek in Indonesia and “from scratch” in Japan. Prior to joining Rakuten Ventures, Hogil oversaw KPI management, marketing strategy and partnership planning within the Marketing Department of Rakuten’s domestic e-commerce business. Hogil spent the first five years of his professional career in Rakuten’s Corporate Development Department, where he led multiple key cross-border and domestic M&A transactions and venture capital related investments – including the acquisitions of Ebates and Kobo, the AirAsia Japan joint venture establishment, and a minority investment in Pinterest.
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  Aditya Swarup

  Rakuten Ventures
  Aditya Swarup

  Principal, Rakuten Ventures

  
  Adit is a Principal at Rakuten Ventures and is responsible for early-stage investments outside of Japan. He has been with Rakuten Ventures since 2014 and initially managed investments in the U.S. before broadening his focus to include APAC and Europe. Prior to joining Rakuten Ventures, Adit spent a year in Rakuten’s Legal Department and also enjoyed brief stints helping restructure a post-bankruptcy Canadian IT company, advising a South African tire manufacturer on M&A strategy, and a Japanese conglomerate on marketing strategy. He has lived in eight countries across four continents, spending no less than three years in each country, and his interests are far more eclectic than his experiences. Adit holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from McGill University.
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  Regina Ho

  Rakuten Ventures
  Regina Ho

  Investment Analyst, Rakuten Ventures

  
  Regina is an Analyst at Rakuten Ventures. In this role, she provides analytical and business development support to portfolio companies and contributes to the sourcing and due diligence processes of new investment opportunities.
  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.
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  Tamon Miyata

  Rakuten Ventures
  Tamon Miyata

  Associate, Rakuten Ventures

  
  Tamon is an associate at Rakuten Ventures and is responsible for investment activities inside Japan. Prior to joining Rakuten Ventures, he was in charge of marketing strategy and the planning of online and offline campaigns at the Marketing Department of Rakuten's domestic e-commerce business. For the first three years of his career at Rakuten, he was an application engineer in the Rakuten Travel business.
  Tamon earned his M.Eng. and undergrad degree in architectural engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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  Michael Piechalak

  FinTech Fund/Mobility Investments
  Michael Piechalak

  Principal, Rakuten FinTech Fund/Rakuten Mobility Investments

  
  Michael is a principal at Rakuten Fintech Fund, based in the U.S. He leads investments in international fintech and mobility startups. Including projects within the Corporate Development Department of Rakuten, he has completed over 15 deals since joining the company in 2014. Prior to joining Rakuten, Michael spent over 10 years in private equity and investment banking positions with firms in the U.S. including H.I.G. Capital and Lehman Brothers. Michael earned his MBA at Duke University and his undergrad degree at Northwestern University.
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  Hannah Kim

  FinTech Fund/Mobility Investments
  Hannah Kim

  Senior Associate, Rakuten FinTech Fund/Rakuten Mobility Investments

  
  She is responsible for investments in international fintech and mobility startups.
  Prior to joining Rakuten, she was a senior associate on the TMT team at HSBC and worked on a number of M&A debt financing transactions. Prior experience also includes equity research at JMP Securities, currency risk management/debt analysis for managed funds at KKR & Co L.P, and capital market at Provident Funding.
  Hannah earned her MA at University of Southern California and BA at University of California, Los Angeles.
  Hannah is also a CFA charter holder.
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  Aman Mehta

  FinTech Fund/Mobility Investments
  Aman Mehta

  Investment Analyst, Rakuten FinTech Fund/Rakuten Mobility Investments

  
  Aman is an Investment Analyst for the Fintech Fund and Mobility Investments at Rakuten Capital. Previously he was a part of the Global Strategy and Corporate Development team for Naspers’ Fintech portfolio. Prior experience includes strategic consulting and operations while at McKinsey and Uber, as well as IIM Ahmedabad’s incubator CIIE.
  Aman earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Thapar University in India.
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  Shoichiro Suzuki

  EC Fund
  Shoichiro Suzuki

  General Manager, Rakuten Global EC Fund

  
  Sho is in charge of the Global EC Fund. He joined the CEO Office at Rakuten and founded the Global EC Fund in 2016 after handling several special CEO tasks to make Rakuten into a truly global innovation company. Prior to joining Rakuten, Sho was in charge of new businesses, venture investments and M&A projects at en-japan inc. as head of the CEO Office. Sho is also a serial entrepreneur. One of his founding businesses received multiple M&A offers, including from Rakuten. Sho has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Tokyo.

Carousell

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Classifieds
HQ	Singapore

Carousell is one of Southeast Asia's leading C2C mobile classifieds and e-commerce companies.

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Coda Payments

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Mobile Payments
HQ	Singapore

Coda Pay is an alternative payments platform in Southeast Asia.

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Visenze

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Computer Vision
HQ	Singapore

ViSenze is an artificial intelligence company that develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.

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Algorithmia

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Artificial Intelligence
HQ	USA

Algorithmia operates an algorithm marketplace and offers PaaS solutions to enterprises.

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Send Anywhere

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	File Transfer
HQ	South Korea

Send Anywhere is one of the fastest P2P file transfer solutions to send files of unlimited size anywhere in the world.

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PocketMath

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Advertising Technology
HQ	USA

PocketMath is a demand side platform (DSP) helping advertisers reach users on mobile devices.

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OneSignal

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Push Notifications
HQ	USA

OneSignal is a multi-platform push notifcation service.

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AdsNative

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Advertising Technology
HQ	USA

AdsNative helps modern publishers monetize their advertising inventory.

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Epic!

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Digital Content
HQ	USA

Epic! provides an unlimited selection of eBooks for children that can be instantly discovered, read and shared with friends.

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Run Dexter

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Messaging Automation
HQ	USA

Dexter is a platform for brands and businesses to easily create and manage chatbots.

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Go-Jek

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Ride Sharing
HQ	Indonesia

Go-Jek is an Indonesian hyperlocal transport, logistics and payments startup.

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MakeLeaps

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Enterprise Software
HQ	Japan

MakeLeaps is the leading provider of SaaS online invoicing software for SMEs in Japan.

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from scratch

Fund	Rakuten Ventures
Sector	Digital Marketing
HQ	Japan

Data technology company developing a one-stop marketing cloud platform, b->dash, which helps clients achieve acquisition, integration and utilization of big data in the marketing domain.

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Currency Cloud

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Remittance/Payments
HQ	UK

Currency Cloud is a payments automation platform designed to remit cross boarder payments through API.

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WePay

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Payments
HQ	USA

WePay is a payments provider focused solely on meeting the needs of online platforms that need to settle money between their users.
Acquired by J.P.Morgan

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Insikt

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Lending
HQ	USA

Insikt is a white label loan origination and investing platform that enables any brand to lend to its customers and any accredited investor to invest in consumer loan.

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BlueVine

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Lending
HQ	USA

BlueVine is a provider of online working capital financing to small businesses.

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Acorns

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Asset Mgmt.
HQ	USA

Acorns in a provider of a robo advisory service that allows individuals to round up their purchases and automatically invest the change.

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Azimo

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Remittance
HQ	UK

Azimo is an online international money transfer platform designed to provide a better way to transfer money around the world.

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Upstart

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Lending
HQ	USA

Upstart is an online lending marketplace that provides personal loans using predictive models to determine creditworthiness of borrowers.

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Kreditech

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Lending
HQ	Germany

Kreditech's technology identifies and scores individuals online, decides and instantly pays out loans to customers in emerging markets, based on many data points.

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Everledger

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Blockchain
HQ	UK

Everledger provides an immutable ledger for diamond ownership and related transaction history verification.

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Folio

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Asset Mgmt.
HQ	Japan

Folio is a next generation on-line trading platform in both passive (robo-advisor) and active (thematic investment) asset managements.

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Simplesurance

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	InsurTech
HQ	Germany

Simplesurance's platform allows cross selling of product insurance directly at the point of sale in EC.

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dacadoo

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Healthcare
HQ	Switzerland

dacadoo offers leading digital solutions for companies as well as for corporate health promotion and wellness.

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PremFina

Fund	Rakuten FinTech Fund
Sector	Insurtech
HQ	UK

PremFina empowers brokers to maximise control over customer relationships through own-branded premium finance software and financing options.

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Genesis Healthcare

Fund	Rakuten Global EC Fund
Sector	Genetic Analysis
HQ	Japan

Genesis Healthcare is genetic analyzing company, offering DtoC DNA testing service "GeneLife", with the biggest database in Japan.

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airweave

Fund	Rakuten Global EC Fund
Sector	Bedding
HQ	Japan

Manufacture and sale of mattress pads, mattress and other bedding

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Lyft

Fund	Rakuten Mobility Investments
Sector	Ride-Sharing
HQ	USA

Lyft is a peer-to-peer transportation platform that connects passengers who need rides with drivers willing to provide rides using their own personal vehicles.

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Cabify

Fund	Rakuten Mobility Investments
Sector	Ride Sharing
HQ	Spain

Cabify is a ride sharing app that operates in Spain and Latin America in 10 countries and more than 25 cities.

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Careem

Fund	Rakuten Mobility Investments
Sector	Ride Sharing
HQ	UAE

Careem is an app-based car service that connects people to rides at the tap of a button, started in Dubai and has since grown to 22 cities across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

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Glovo

Fund	Rakuten Mobility Investments
Sector	On-demand delivery service
HQ	Spain

Glovo is a Barcelona based on-demand delivery service connecting customers with independent local couriers to have products delivered in less than 60 minutes.

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