Takahiro Hasunama

Senior Investment Manager

2022

Senior Investment Manager

2022

Investor

2015

Hometeam transforms the in-home care and aging experience by providing clients with personalized care planning, expert caregiver matching, custom mobile technology, and proactive case management to improve older adults’ health and well-being while giving their families peace of mind.

Investor

2015

Fishbrain is a global social network and mobile app for Sport Fishing. Fishbrain anglers have logged over 750,000 catches. And on any given day, Fishbrain lets you choose from over 1.7 million fishing locations worldwide. With all the new fishing information that keeps rolling in from our anglers, our engineers crunch the numbers to make the world’s best data-driven fishing recommendations.

Investor

2016

With over 600,000 connections and growing, Alignable is the social network for local businesses to generate trusted referrals. Active in over 8,000 communities, business owners have the opportunity to connect, message, co-promote, and generate new business through word-of-mouth marketing. Unlike traditional social networks where users connect with hundreds or thousands of people, Alignable members build a personalized core network of industry peers who align with their goals, needs and target customer base. Since trust is what drives the local business community, Alignable members also benefit from a variety of daily discussions and active Q&A forums, exclusively consisting of fellow business owners. Alignable is available on both desktop and mobile app.

Investor

2016

ShipBob saves businesses time and money on their fulfillment by aggregating FedEx, UPS, and USPS shipments. For the cost you currently pay for shipping or less; we will pick-up, professionally package, ship, and track your fulfillment. Pickup and packaging are free. No contracts.

Investor

2016

Brickwork is the first scalable SaaS platform for retailers to create a seamless customer path between online and store shopping. While 90% of sales still occur in physical stores, over 65% of customers start their path to purchase online. Brickwork enables retailers to fully integrate their physical stores into their online presence and empower local teams with new digital marketing and customer service tools to engage customers to enter stores with greater intent to purchase. The Brickwork platform includes features around services & appointments, events & promotions, and associates & stylists, all delivered to the customer via immersive store pages and widgets embedded within e-commerce.

Corporate Development

2019 - 2022

Corp Dev/Biz Dev

2017 - 2019

Recruit Sumai Company owns the largest online housing media called "SUUMO", equivalent to Zillow(US), REA Groups(AUS) and Zoopla(UK).

VP

2015 - 2017

Recruit Strategic Partners is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings. Having built innovative IT companies from the ground up, our passion for supporting visionaries to thrive in the global market comes from our own experiences as entrepreneurs. Investors in: -99designs: https://99designs.com/ -Align Commerce: https://aligncommerce.com/ -Alignable: https://www.alignable.com/ -Bench: https://bench.co/ -Blacklane: https://www.blacklane.com/en -Brickwork: http://www.brickworksoftware.com/ -Chartboost: https://www.chartboost.com/ -Fitmob (Exit to Classpass) -Conversica: https://www.conversica.com/ -DataRobot: https://www.datarobot.com/ -directly: https://www.directly.com/ -DocuSign: https://www.docusign.com/ -Fishbrain: http://fishbrain.com/ -Hometeam: https://www.hometeamcare.com/ -Kabbage: https://www.kabbage.com/ -LeadGenius: https://www.leadgenius.com/ -noom: https://www.noom.com/ -Peek: https://www.peek.com/ -Rent The Runway: https://www.renttherunway.com/ -Savioke: http://www.savioke.com/ -ShipBob: https://www.shipbob.com/ -soucery: http://getsourcery.com/ -sprinklr: https://www.sprinklr.com/ -Teleborder (Exit to TriNet) -Tradeshift: http://tradeshift.com/ -Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/ -Ustream (Exit to IBM) -Zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/ -ZenBanx:http://www.zenbanx.com/#start

Principal(US & Europe)

2013 - 2015

Recruit Strategic Partners is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings. Having built innovative IT companies from the ground up, our passion for supporting visionaries to thrive in the global market comes from our own experiences as entrepreneurs. Responsible for strategic investment in US, Europe including Turkey and Israel.