Akinori "Aki" Koto

Foster City, California United States

Partner

Technology / Software / Internet

Aki is a partner at WiL where he works with startups and large Japanese corporations closely. WiL raised $300M from top-tier Japanese corporations with the promise to bring the open innovation to them by working with startups in the form of strategic investment, incubation and spin-out. WiL act as like a corporate venture capitalist backed by 10 Japanese industry representing companies, but WiL itself is also like a startup to create the new business based on the technology shelved in LP's R&D division. Prior to WiL, Aki was in charge of early stage investment for Digital Garage focused on social, advertisement and payment vertical. Aki has worked with Twitter, Path, Kiip, HighlightCam...