Daisuke Minamide

About

An active early stage focus investor. With over 15 years experience in the mobile industry, Daisuke is currently serving as a Managing Partner at CyberAgent Ventures U.S.(CAV U.S.) He's investing in potential global start-ups with strong passion and sturdy strategy to change the world. Daisuke is playing a role as a gateway for the startups to Asian countries leveraging CAV's broad network around Asia. Previously worked for NTT DOCOMO, a leading mobile carrier in Japan, as a start-up relations manager and marketer help DOCOMO find and collaborate with start-ups around the world, and succeeded in deals with Evernote, Flipboard, Qik/Skype, and so on. In parallel Daisuke contributed to start-ups' business development in Japan, such as Evernote, Hilightcam, and Muzy. As a venture capitalist at DOCOMO Capital based in Palo Alto, Daisuke lead the fist venture round of Evernote in 2009 and engaged as a board observer. He was also on board of GCT Semiconductor and actively played a role as

Investment Focus

Stages

seed

Location

San Francisco, US