Scrum Ventures
scrum.vc Direct investor
Scrum Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Tokyo that invests in early-stage startups, focusing on emerging technologies and providing access to the Japanese ecosystem. It also operates Scrum Studio, a platform connecting startups with Japanese corporations for co-creation and innovation.
Scrum Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in AI, robotics, climate tech and mobility. 150 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back ambitious early-stage founders building category-defining technologies across industries.”
— Scrum Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- US, Japan
- Sectors
- AI, robotics, climate tech, mobility, healthcare, deeptech, sports & entertainment
- Portfolio
- 150 companies
Team, as Scrum Ventures publishes it
- Tak Miyata Founder and General Partner
- Kazuhiro Kiyoshige General Partner
- Ryan Mendoza Partner
- Michael Matsumura Partner
- Michael Proman Partner
- Masami Takahashi General Partner and Executive Chairman
- Shinya Uematsu SVP of Strategy
- Saori Utsunomiya Director of Co-Creation
- Michael Yan Partner & Head of Technical Investments
- Karl Albrecht Controller
- Akira Hagiwara Senior Analyst
- Ryo Hayashima Director of Portfolio Growth
Names and roles exactly as listed on scrum.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 42 co-investors found.
- Ackermans & van Haaren 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Alpine Space Ventures Management GMBH 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Ananda Impact Ventures 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Climate KIC 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Egeria 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Global Cleantech Capital 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Hitachi Ventures GmbH 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- PAI Partners 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Teamworthy Group LLC 1 shared company: recruitee.com
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: apptronik.com
and 32 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Scrum Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://scrum.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, status
- https://scrum.vc/investment/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, portfolio_count
- https://scrum.vc/team/people
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Record 1075 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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