Hiro Yoshikawa

Chairman of the Board of Directors
2021
Separated from Arm to operate as an independent company again, now as a part of SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio. Recently closed the $234M equity round and appointed Kaz, my co-founder/CTO to be the new CEO for even bigger outcomes.
Board Director
2020 - 2021
Founder & CEO
2011 - 2020
Founder and CEO. Acquired by Arm in August 2018. It’s the biggest ever cash acquisition by Arm.

2022

2018 - 2020

VP & GM, Data Business Unit
2018 - 2020
Joined through acquisition and continued leading the business

2007 - 2011

Principal
2007 - 2011
At Mitsui & Co. Venture Parners/MVC Corporation, a corporate VC Arm of Mitsui & Co., invested in mobile, enterprise software, ad tech and semiconductor companies Executed/Involved with investments: SmartSignal (aq'd by GE), OpenX, Virident (aq'd by Western Digital), Beceem Communications (aq'd by Broadcom), Ruckus Wireless (NYSE:RKUS), LocationLabs (aq'd by NYSE: AVG), SenSage (aq'd by Nasdaq:KEYW) and Synacor (Nasdaq:SYNC).

2008 - 2009

Collaborative Researcher
2008 - 2009
Corporate sponsored by Mitsui, Science Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development program by the Division of University Corporate Relations.

2001 - 2007

Learning Service Trainer & Examiner => Sales Engineer => Business Development
2001 - 2007
THE open source company

GP at Carbide Ventures / Founder & Chairman at Treasure Data