Yusuke Asakura

Japan Japan

Signifiant Inc. - Co-Founder

Technology / Software / Internet

Yusuke Asakura is the founder of Tokyo Founders Fund, an angel network composed of eight entrepreneurs, which invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups globally. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Before it, Yusuke was the CEO of mixi, a public company which runs the largest Social Networking Service in Japan. At mixi, he led turnaround strategy by diversification of its business and increased its market cap from $200M to $4B in one year. Before mixi, he was the founder and CEO of Naked Technology, mobile tech startup, which was acquired by mixi. Before Naked Technology, Yusuke was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.