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Jonathan M. Hayashi

Founder & CEO at BACKSEAT

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Jonathan is a multi-lingual venture capitalist and entrepreneur with engineering and banking background. 【Multi-lingual Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur with Engineering and Finance background.】 - - Grew up in China and Japan. Double major of Optical Engineering and Financial Economics at University of Rochester in New York. I'm fluent in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Cantonese. - - After college, I joined one of the top 3 investment banks in Japan, and later on started my VC career in one of the largest venture capital firms in Japan, SBI Investment. I invested in 16 companies, sat on the board of 6 companies, and executed 2 exits with capital gain of about USD 13M. In 2019, I was selected to be on Forbes Midas List. - - I moved to Taiwan and joined Cornerstone Ventures, where I started to look at much earlier stage. In early 2021 I joined Infinity Ventures (now Headline Asia), where I invest in early stage startups in Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. More recently, we set up

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