Global Brain

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998, specializing in early-stage investments across various sectors, including e-commerce, software, gaming, media, IoT, education, entertainment, and fintech. The firm has expanded its investment activities to the US and Asia, targeting series A-stage technology companies. Since its inception, Global Brain has invested in approximately 30 companies, achieving seven initial public offerings and seven mergers and acquisitions. The firm supports its portfolio companies by providing not only capital but also strategic guidance, partnerships, and team-building resources to help them reach their milestones. Global Brain is particularly adept in e-commerce, operating a platform called EC-PLANET, which encompasses several group companies, including a large online sports goods store and a logistics firm offering comprehensive fulfillment services. This network, along with Global Brain's connections to established Japanese companies, facilitates market entry for US and Asian businesses into Japan.

Kaori Akiba

Principal, Corporate Management Group

Tatsunori Arai

Director, Investment Group

Megumi Asatsuma

Corporate Management Group, Director

Anjani Bansal

Partner, India Office Representative

Brooke Beers

Partner

Takuji Chida

Director, Investment Groups

Hogil Doh

General Partner, Investment Group

Thomas Duong

Principal

Brian Flucht

Partner and Head, US Division

Daisuke Furukawa

Venture Partner

Hajime Furuya

Venture Partner

Kenji Hayashi

Principal, Investment Group

Shohei Hayashi

Partner

Harue Hayashi

Partner and Vice Chief Fund Management Officer

Yosuke Hirai

Director

Joopyo Hong

Partner Investment Group

Naoki Horie

Principal, Investment Group

Jang Hyeokjin

Principal, Investment Group

Shohei Ichimiya

Partner, US Office

Nozomu Ikuta

Principal

Kotona Inaida

Director, Fund Management Group

Tomoaki Ishikure

Investment Group Partner

Yoshinari Ito

Venture Partner

Yuki Ito

Director

Hiroyuki Izumi

Partner, Investment Group

Ken Kajii

General Partner, Investment Group

Naoki Kamimaeda

Partner and Europe Division Head

Masaru Kaneshiro

Principal

Daisuke Kashiro

Partner, Investment Group

Kirin Kato

Principal

Takashi Kato

Partner, San Francisco Office Representative

Masaya Kawakami

Partner

Hiroyuki Kawamoto

Principal

Ko Kawaragi

Director

Maiko Kayata

Principal

ByeongJin Kim

Principal, Fund Management Group

Jungyong Kim

Principal, Investment Group

Riichiro Kimura Ph.D

Director, Investment Group

Kenta Kitsuka

General Partner

Issei Kokubu

Principal, Investment Group

Yoshiomi Kubota

Principal

Jinya Kurita

Director

KyungHun Lee

Partner, South Korea Office Representative

YingQi Liang(Joy)

Principal, Investment Group

Chukaku Lin

Principal

Atsushi Matsuda

Venture Partner

Akira Matsumoto

Principal, Investment Group

Natsumi Matsuoka

Principal

Hiroshi Mihayashi

Principal

Tomoko Minagawa

Director, Investment Group

Ai Minamizaki

Principal, Investment Group

Shigeru Mitarai

Principal

Kazuhiko Miyama

General Partner

Shuhei Mori

Principal

Seiichiro Mukai

Director

Satoko Murata

Principal, Investment Group

Kohtaro Nagawa

Director, Investment Group

Tasuke Nakagawa

Partner / M&A

Mitsutaka Nakao

Principal, Investment Group

Shien Nakayama

Director, Investment Group

Yuya Namiki

Director

Ying Jian Ng

Director, Investment Group

Daisuke Nishida

Partner, Investment Group

Akiko Noguchi

Director, Corporate Management Group

Rina Obi

Investment Director

Sho Ohtani

Principal, Investment Group

Tetsui Okada

Director, Investments Group

Mayu Okamoto

Principal

Akane Okuyama

Director

Shingo Otaki

Partner, Investment Group

Naoki Sadakuni

Venture Partner

Enen Sai

Principal, Fund Management Group

Kazuki Sakuragawa

Partner and Editor in Chief, Corporate Management Group

Masumi Sato

Principal

Naoki Sato

Principal, Investment Group

Tomoki Sekiguchi

Principal

Rie Shibata

Director, Fund Management Group

Takeru Shigemura

Director

Miku Shimamura

Principal

Hiroshi Shimazu

Managing Director

Masamune Shin

General Partner, Investment Group

Ayu Shinoyama

CFO and Board Member

Chisa Shinsakaue

Director

Divyansh Singh

Principal

Hiroto Sorita

Director, Investment Group

Sachiko Sugiura

Principal

Yusuke Suzuki

Partner

Kazumo Tachibana

Director

Mana Takabayashi

Director, Investment Group

Hiroki Takai

Director, Investment Group London Office

Toko Takao

Principal

Hideyuki Tanaka

Principal

Marika Tazaki

Partner

Hirotaka Togashi

Director, Investment Group

Haruka Tsujii

Principal

Atsushi Ueda

Principal, Investment Group

Takuya Ukai

Principal, Investment Group

Tetsuya Urimoto

Director, Investment Group

Noriko Usui

Partner and Chief Fund Management Officer

Keita Washizu

Principal

Hirokazu Watanabe

Partner

Keita Wazhizu

Principal, Investment Group

Masao Yamada

Senior Partner, Investment Groups

Kazunori Yamaguchi

Partner, Investment Group

Ryozo Yamamoto

Partner, Investment Group

Michiko Yamazaki

Principal, Investment Group

Isao Yasuda

Senior Partner

Takuro Yoda

Principal, Investment Group

Sayaka Yoshino

Director

Miku Yoshio

Partner, Investment Group

Yasuhiko Yurimoto

Founder and President and CEO & Board Member

Miyazawa Yusuke

Venture Partner

Lusheng Zou

Director, Investment Group

Past deals in Outdoor Advertising

HOKUTO

Series C in 2022
HOKUTO is an Information providing service about job offers.

HOKUTO

Series C in 2020
HOKUTO is an Information providing service about job offers.

One Media

Venture Round in 2019
One Media, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in visual storytelling through animated messages. The company focuses on transforming messages into engaging video content, managing the entire process in-house. This includes video distribution, viewing data analysis, and creative planning and production. By integrating these services, One Media aims to deliver video content that provides unique value to its clients.

Raksul

Series D in 2016
Raksul Inc. provides printing services in Japan. It prints newspaper folding products, station stage posters, business cards, cards, business materials, greeting cards, signs/displays, designing on PC online, posts, flyers, posters, tickets, fans, slips, eating/store tools, direct mails, print brochures/catalogs, postcards, files and folders, flags, desktop POPs, novelties/goods, TV commercials, fold brochures, envelopes, seals and stickers, curtains/goodwill products, calendars, and new year's cards. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Every

Venture Round in 2016
Movie Media Business ,Talent Management Business ,Advertisement Business.

YouAppi

Series B in 2016
YouAppi Inc. specializes in mobile advertisement serving technology, focusing on customer acquisition and retention for mobile brands. The company offers a comprehensive growth marketing platform known as OneRun, which integrates video advertisements into user acquisition campaigns, and ReAppi, a programmatic retargeting solution that aids marketers and app developers in enhancing app retention. YouAppi’s services utilize machine learning and proprietary algorithms to analyze mobile content consumption patterns of over two billion users, converting data into valuable customer insights. Additionally, the company provides a Software Development Kit to facilitate rewarded videos for publishers and app developers, along with managed solutions that optimize mobile media buying. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, YouAppi has a global presence with operations in various countries across Asia, Europe, and North America, including China, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom.

Eyeota

Series A in 2016
Eyeota Pte Ltd is an audience technology platform that specializes in providing audience data to advertisers, publishers, and data suppliers across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in major cities such as Berlin, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, and New York, Eyeota enables clients to effectively reach their target online audiences, reducing campaign inefficiencies and enhancing monetization strategies. The company's technology collects, analyzes, and activates audience data, allowing organizations to make informed business decisions and improve their marketing approaches. By offering distinct and comprehensive audience insights, Eyeota helps brands connect with their audiences and maximize revenue potential.

MtGox.us

Seed Round in 2015
Logly is a demand-side platform that allows advertisers to distribute ads efficiently based on their unique technology that combines the context analysis of a website and the behavioral analysis of visitors.

Logly

Corporate Round in 2015
Logly, Inc. is a technology company based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in advertising and media technology. Founded in 2006, Logly operates several key platforms, including Logly Lift, which delivers corporate content to users through effective media and brand recognition strategies. The company also offers Loyalfarm, an audience training tool designed to analyze user engagement and encourage repeat visits, and Zenback, a widget that gathers information about articles from various online sources. Logly primarily serves advertisers and distributors, providing them with innovative solutions to enhance their marketing efforts and connect with their target audiences more effectively.

Logly

Venture Round in 2015
Logly, Inc. is a technology company based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in advertising and media technology. Founded in 2006, Logly operates several key platforms, including Logly Lift, which delivers corporate content to users through effective media and brand recognition strategies. The company also offers Loyalfarm, an audience training tool designed to analyze user engagement and encourage repeat visits, and Zenback, a widget that gathers information about articles from various online sources. Logly primarily serves advertisers and distributors, providing them with innovative solutions to enhance their marketing efforts and connect with their target audiences more effectively.

Eyeota

Venture Round in 2015
Eyeota Pte Ltd is an audience technology platform that specializes in providing audience data to advertisers, publishers, and data suppliers across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in major cities such as Berlin, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, and New York, Eyeota enables clients to effectively reach their target online audiences, reducing campaign inefficiencies and enhancing monetization strategies. The company's technology collects, analyzes, and activates audience data, allowing organizations to make informed business decisions and improve their marketing approaches. By offering distinct and comprehensive audience insights, Eyeota helps brands connect with their audiences and maximize revenue potential.

Fronto

Series B in 2015
Fronto is the world’s first mobile lock screen media, which displays curated articles, hot new apps and deals & promos to mobile users through the everyday lock screen in a perfectly seamless way. By simply waking up your phone, you can read trending articles, earn rewards, download coupons, learn new promotional deals. Our first product, Cashslide, was launched in Korea in Nov 2012, and it now has 14 mil users, 2.5 mil DAU and 150 mil PV, which makes it as the most preferred mobile ad channel among local advertisers. In Jul 2013, just 8 months after the launch, we successfully raised $4 mil in Series-A funding. In Apr 2015, we raised $14 mil in Series-B funding. We launched Fronto in the US in May 2014 and hit #1 in New Top Free in Lifestyle. We are looking for experienced mobile media professionals. Join us as a founding member of Fronto based in the SF Bay Area. We are redesigning everyday mobile experience. For more details, visit www.fronto.co and check our app here bit.ly/1ocOJKg

Plucky

Venture Round in 2015
Plucky is a platform and Managed Service that empowers advertisers to better understand business metrics associated with customer segments, and measure risk for acquisition budgets. Managed service includes an agency-style managing performance marketing campaigns for startups

Raksul

Series C in 2015
Raksul Inc. provides printing services in Japan. It prints newspaper folding products, station stage posters, business cards, cards, business materials, greeting cards, signs/displays, designing on PC online, posts, flyers, posters, tickets, fans, slips, eating/store tools, direct mails, print brochures/catalogs, postcards, files and folders, flags, desktop POPs, novelties/goods, TV commercials, fold brochures, envelopes, seals and stickers, curtains/goodwill products, calendars, and new year's cards. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Tapjoy

Seed Round in 2014
Tapjoy is a mobile engagement and monetization platform that provides services to advertisers and app developers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a suite of rewarded advertising options, including video and rich media ads, designed to enhance brand performance. Tapjoy's technology is integrated into over 15,000 mobile applications, reaching approximately 520 million monthly active users. The platform enables app developers to effectively acquire and monetize users while helping advertisers target specific consumer segments through predictive analytics. Recognized for its impact, Tapjoy's Interplay ads have been shown to deliver significant lifts in brand metrics. The company collaborates with Fortune 500 brands and leading app developers to drive user engagement and revenue growth.

Raksul

Series B in 2014
Raksul Inc. provides printing services in Japan. It prints newspaper folding products, station stage posters, business cards, cards, business materials, greeting cards, signs/displays, designing on PC online, posts, flyers, posters, tickets, fans, slips, eating/store tools, direct mails, print brochures/catalogs, postcards, files and folders, flags, desktop POPs, novelties/goods, TV commercials, fold brochures, envelopes, seals and stickers, curtains/goodwill products, calendars, and new year's cards. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

iRidge

Series A in 2013
iRidge is a company focused on providing online-to-offline (O2O) solutions through the development and management of internet services. One of its key offerings is popinfo, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to deliver location-based information to users via their smart devices. This service utilizes GPS and Wi-Fi technology to identify users' locations, enabling the dissemination of relevant information to those near specific shops. In addition to popinfo, iRidge is involved in O2O application development, big data analysis, position information marketing, and creating AI speaker skills, all aimed at enhancing next-generation O2O solutions.

Supership

Venture Round in 2013
Supership continuously develops optimized ad platform products and provides them to advertisers and publishers because they demand only the best advertising solutions. The most important thing for advertisers is a platform that can analyze data and achieve results through optimized promotions. Our platform offers a number of demand side solutions, such as, 「AppVador's Video Ad Network」 and 「ScaleOut DSP」 that targets users with precision based on advertiser goals, a DMP that contains a wealth of data which makes data-driven marketing a reality, a SSP(「Ad Generation」) that is highly valued for generating revenue, especially in the app business. The combination of these products provides our customers with a total advertising solution that can meet a wide range of digital marketing needs.

Supership

Funding Round in 2013
Supership continuously develops optimized ad platform products and provides them to advertisers and publishers because they demand only the best advertising solutions. The most important thing for advertisers is a platform that can analyze data and achieve results through optimized promotions. Our platform offers a number of demand side solutions, such as, 「AppVador's Video Ad Network」 and 「ScaleOut DSP」 that targets users with precision based on advertiser goals, a DMP that contains a wealth of data which makes data-driven marketing a reality, a SSP(「Ad Generation」) that is highly valued for generating revenue, especially in the app business. The combination of these products provides our customers with a total advertising solution that can meet a wide range of digital marketing needs.

iRidge

Series A in 2013
iRidge is a company focused on providing online-to-offline (O2O) solutions through the development and management of internet services. One of its key offerings is popinfo, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to deliver location-based information to users via their smart devices. This service utilizes GPS and Wi-Fi technology to identify users' locations, enabling the dissemination of relevant information to those near specific shops. In addition to popinfo, iRidge is involved in O2O application development, big data analysis, position information marketing, and creating AI speaker skills, all aimed at enhancing next-generation O2O solutions.

Jimoty

Venture Round in 2012
Jimoty is a classified advertisement platform that attracts approximately 9 million users each month. It allows individuals to post and browse listings for a variety of purposes, including buying and selling second-hand goods, announcing events, recruiting for jobs or members, and sharing real estate information. The site is designed to facilitate easy access to classified ads, offering a simple and organized format for users to find and share information relevant to their needs. Through its user-friendly interface, Jimoty serves as a valuable resource for communities seeking to connect over goods, services, and opportunities.

GENIEE

Seed Round in 2011
A member of SoftBank Group, GENIEE (TSE6562) is a public global AdTech/MarTech company listed in Tokyo stock exchange market. Geniee helps to maximize your Ad Revenue with High-end Technology. As a member of SoftBank Group, GENIEE and SoftBank Group are working closely together to lead the Digital Advertising and Marketing Technology and the further Global Expansion.

Retailigence

Series A in 2011
Retailigence Corporation is a hyperlocal marketing platform that focuses on converting online consumers into offline buyers by utilizing real-time inventory data from retailers. Founded in 2009 and based in Redwood City, California, the company provides a mobile advertising solution that enhances the shopping experience by delivering location-based user interactions through various digital advertising mediums. Its products include the adPOP Engine, which integrates data into programmatic advertising, and a mobile application that displays local store-level product availability. Retailigence serves a diverse clientele, including advertising solutions providers, application developers, marketing agencies, and brick-and-mortar retailers across the United States. The company operates as a subsidiary of ShopAdvisor, Inc. and has established a strategic partnership with Gimbal, Inc.

Stipple

Seed Round in 2010
Stipple is an internet technology company based in San Francisco that specializes in enhancing the visual web by transforming digital images into interactive experiences. Its innovative marketing technology stack detects and identifies content within images, allowing advertisers and publishers to incorporate interactive and curated content seamlessly. Stipple's platform enables native advertising solutions and fosters organic connections to commerce, thereby driving discovery, engagement, and customer loyalty. The technology offers unique image analytics and advertising capabilities without the need for widgets or embed codes, making it scalable across the web. Stipple is backed by prominent investors, including Floodgate and Kleiner Perkins.

Retailigence

Seed Round in 2010
Retailigence Corporation is a hyperlocal marketing platform that focuses on converting online consumers into offline buyers by utilizing real-time inventory data from retailers. Founded in 2009 and based in Redwood City, California, the company provides a mobile advertising solution that enhances the shopping experience by delivering location-based user interactions through various digital advertising mediums. Its products include the adPOP Engine, which integrates data into programmatic advertising, and a mobile application that displays local store-level product availability. Retailigence serves a diverse clientele, including advertising solutions providers, application developers, marketing agencies, and brick-and-mortar retailers across the United States. The company operates as a subsidiary of ShopAdvisor, Inc. and has established a strategic partnership with Gimbal, Inc.

Tri-Stage

Seed Round in 2007
Tri-Stage is a direct marketing support company based in Japan, recognized as a pioneer in the industry. The firm specializes in offering comprehensive marketing services to enhance mail-order sales for its clients. Utilizing various media channels, including television and the Internet, Tri-Stage assists marketing companies in acquiring customers and promoting products and services effectively. The company’s extensive experience and proven track record enable it to provide high-quality solutions that support the entire customer management process, ultimately contributing to the success of its clients in the competitive market.

Tri-Stage

Angel Round in 2006
Tri-Stage is a direct marketing support company based in Japan, recognized as a pioneer in the industry. The firm specializes in offering comprehensive marketing services to enhance mail-order sales for its clients. Utilizing various media channels, including television and the Internet, Tri-Stage assists marketing companies in acquiring customers and promoting products and services effectively. The company’s extensive experience and proven track record enable it to provide high-quality solutions that support the entire customer management process, ultimately contributing to the success of its clients in the competitive market.

Tri-Stage

Angel Round in 2006
Tri-Stage is a direct marketing support company based in Japan, recognized as a pioneer in the industry. The firm specializes in offering comprehensive marketing services to enhance mail-order sales for its clients. Utilizing various media channels, including television and the Internet, Tri-Stage assists marketing companies in acquiring customers and promoting products and services effectively. The company’s extensive experience and proven track record enable it to provide high-quality solutions that support the entire customer management process, ultimately contributing to the success of its clients in the competitive market.
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