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Masana Takahashi

Founder at Singa Company Services / Jidobox / M2Insights. Seasoned consultant specialised in growth strategy & finance

Singapore

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2014

    Jidobox is a boutique accounting/finance consulting firm. ref http://jidobox.com/ Our clients are mainly Seed /Series A / Series B startups and startup investors (e.g. venture capitals). We provides: 1 - Accounting services for statutory requirements 2 - Management accounting services such as KPI setup, monthly consolidated financial statements 3 - Secretarial services for startups (e.g. preference share issuance, share swap scheme execution, stock option matters) 4 - Part-time CFO services: Financial due-diligence support, Investor communications, cashflow management, budgeting and projection, financial strategy Our aim is to be entrepreneurs' partner in financial management. We do regard clients' success as the most important. Let us know if such issues are high in priority but you have no expertise and/or time for them. We are ready to help you.

  • Founder, Managing Director

    2014

    Singa Company Service caters accounting, corporate secretarial services for Japanese clients. We provide full-range of services essential in incorporation and maintaining companies. - Company incorporation services - Consultation in accounting, tax and grants in Singapore - Secretarial Services (e.g. filing changes of companies' particulars) - Accounting & Tax filing services - Pass application (e.g. EP, DP, LTVP) - Migration consulting (support for Japanese moving to Singapore)

Project Ocean Co. Ltd

2013

  • Partner, Asian Affairs

    2013

    -Dealing with cross border M&A project and fund-rising mainly between Japanese company and Southeast Asian company

2004 - 2012

  • Manager

    2008 - 2012

    •Led a seven-consultant sales team for 5 years and provided consultations on human resource development and management skill training program to 20+ Japanese major companies •Conducted a project for establishing a new joint-venture in Shanghai for 5 month. Especially in financial and legal issues, devised revenue/profit forecast, cash planning, regulatory adaptation and formation of the company •Instructed 700+ businesspeople yearly in problem solving and accounting over 5 years

  • Senior Associate

    2006 - 2008

    •Doubled the sales from a marquee client, one of the largest electronics companies •Acquired several completely new projects: E.g. personnel assessment of middle manager applicants(100+) in order to select human resources to be promoted in FMCG company

  • Associate

    2004 - 2006

  • IPO underwriter

    2001 - 2004

    •Provided consultations to 15+ private companies on the listing process and successfully completed Initial Public Offerings for three companies, whose total market value reached $600 million •Devised a comprehensive capital plan, including planning financial scheme of IPO, financing prior to IPO, and proposing shareholder composition, and estimated the values of stocks of private limited companies •Developed clients’ management accounting processes and KPI and designed IR report contents