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Shigeru Sumitomo

Management of Business & Industry Innovation Companies (Portfolio Worker and Investor)

Tokyo, Tokyo

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Representative Director (Founder), Present

    2011

    Cross Border Business Development Advisory for Sustainable Transformation (SX) http://conselux.co.jp/

  • Chairman and Board Director (Co-founder), Present

    2014

    Digital Service Startup Studio for Japanese large Corporations, based on "reverse" acceleration method (Reverse Hack) https://curations.co.jp/

  • Partner and Board Director (Co-founder), Present

    2017

    The first "Industry" Accelerator in Japan https://sundred.co.jp/

  • External Consulting Partner (via Conselux), Present

    2021

    $1B+ AUM venture capital firm that supports a growing community of visionary entrepreneurs. https://www.hofvc.com/

  • Senior Advsor, Present

    2017

    Early~Late stage Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital http://www.ffg-venture.co.jp/

  • Investment Committee member, Present

    2019

    Accelerator and Seed stage Venture Capital https://gxpartners.vc/

2021

  • Charter Member (Japan), Present

    2021

    TiE is the largest non-profit organization that connects the entire entrepreneurship ecosystem from early stage entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, professionals at leading corporations, venture capital, angel investors, thought leaders among others. https://tie.org/

  • Board Director (Co-founder), Present

    2023

    We are working on the mass production of atmospheric water production equipment by combining Indian and Japanese technologies.

  • Mentor@Faster Capital, Present

    2020

    An Incubator also invests in Startups from early stage (seed funding) on co-funding basis. https://fastercapital.com/

2022 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2023

    ThinkNature's strengths are the group of researchers with outstanding achievements and the largest Global Biodiversity Big Data in Japan. Its mission is "Nature Transformation of the future society". https://think-nature.jp/en https://think-nature.jp/en