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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
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Work Experience
2022
General Partner
2022
2011
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
Advisor To The President
2022
Innovation Strategy
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