About
A restless entrepreneur, Tetsuya Sanada founded several companies across a variety of fields while still a college student at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1989, he started up a content provider based on voice and fax using Dial Q2, a premium-rate telephone number service also touted as the predecessor of the popular i-mode mobile internet service. 1997 saw Sanada joining the company ACCESS, where he contributed to i-mode's initial design, in addition to browser development. In 1998, he created CYBIRD, a company focused on various mobile media, of which he was the Vice President and CTO. Come 2000, Sanada set up yet another company, this time to serve as a mobile software R&D branch for CYBIRD, known as KLab (called "K Laboratory" at the time). Sanada maintained the position of KLab CEO until he was promoted Director and Chairman in March 2019.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 125 investors hold the Executive chairman role in VCSift. Tetsuya Sanada is one of them.
- • 2,068 investors are based in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
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