D4V (Design for Ventures)
d4v.com Direct investor
D4V is a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in Japanese consumer and enterprise technology startups from seed to Series A. It partners with IDEO to provide design-focused, hands-on support to portfolio companies.
D4V (Design for Ventures) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in consumer, enterprise technology, digital disruption and new lifestyles and cultures. 40 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“From seed to Series A, we invest in early stage Japanese consumer and enterprise startups across multiple industries.”
— D4V (Design for Ventures), own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Japan
- Sectors
- consumer, enterprise technology, digital disruption, new lifestyles and cultures, financial tools and wellbeing, lifelong learning and empowerment, personal and public health
- Founded
- 2016
- Portfolio
- 40 companies
Team, as D4V (Design for Ventures) publishes it
- Tom Kelley Founder
- Makoto Takano Founder & CEO
- Kengo Ito Founder
- Mamoru Taniya Founder
- Davide Agnelli Founder
- Asumi Ota Partner
- Fumiaki Nagase Partner
- Mikiya Endo Principal
- Yoko Maki Senior Marketing Manager
- Aya Hanyu Director of Operations
- Ryo Takahashi Design Specialist
- Mai Miyamoto Controller
Names and roles exactly as listed on d4v.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page D4V (Design for Ventures) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://d4v.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, description, founded, portfolio_count, status
- https://d4v.com/portfoliosectors
- https://d4v.com/teampeople
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