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Ryo Kikuchi, Founder of ZeBrand A visionary by nature, Ryo Kikuchi embarked on his entrepreneurial journey at Morisawa, the leading typeface foundry in Japan, where he acted as Chief Innovation Director and developed expertise in new business development, customer acquisitions, and intrapreneurship. His drive and passion led him to form MORISAWA BRAND NEW LAB in 2017, an internal team dedicated to exploring new and emerging ideas that inform and challenge the current state of the font industry. His most current brainchild is ZeBrand, a web-based branding tool and the first of its kind. As its director and founder, Ryo has led his team from product conception to development, eventually launching and revealing the new product at SXSW in 2019. Ryo holds an MBA from NUCB Business School in addition to spending time at the Rhode Island School of Design as a research fellow with John Maeda in the US and the EDHEC Business School in France. He has recently been featured in various media outle
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- • 1,305 investors hold the Chief Executive Officer role in VCSift. Ryo Kikuchi is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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