Work
Head of AI Builders’ Community
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AI-focused hackathons
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The community events
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Founder dinners
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My work focuses on creating high-trust, high-signal spaces
where people don’t just network — they collaborate, learn, and build.


AI Hack Night - Let’s build AI Agents
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
AI Hack Night is a hands-on mini hack event for builders, PMs, designers, and innovators to explore AI agents and the technologies around them through rapid prototyping.​​

Humans, AI, and Robots:
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Global robotics founders and researchers will share real stories, insights, and ideas about how humans and intelligent machines can co-exist and grow together.

Go To Global Market: How We Can Go To The U.S. Market?
Thursday, November 20, 2025
How can startups successfully enter the U.S. market from Japan?
What are the real challenges founders face when going global — from business culture to cybersecurity and investor relations?
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Go Global From Japan
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
This panel talk will bring together Japanese startup founders who already have global clients. They will share their challenges, pain points, and lessons learned from expanding beyond Japan. In addition, investors will provide practical advice and perspectives on how startups can successfully go global.
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Rising Strong: AI Women Founders
Thursday, March 6, 2025
What: Panel talk session - AI startup founders who have pivoting experience and VCs’ voice
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​Why: Because we need resilience and challenge splits to foster the great startup and startup ecosystem
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Schedule:
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​Panel 1: AI startup founders - 15 minutes
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Panel 2. VCs - 15 minutes

Techstars Tokyo Demo Day 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 (As an organizing member)​
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David Cohen, CEO and Founder, Techstars​
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Kevin Lin, Co-Founder & CEO of Metatheory, Co-Founder and former COO of Twitch
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Kun Gao, Co-Founder of Forge and GGWP, Co-Founder and former CEO of Crunchyroll
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Barry O'Neill (EIR), Partner of Value Create Ventures
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Tom Moss (EIR), CEO of Vital Signals
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Elizabeth Yin, GP of Hustle Fund
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Noriya Tarutani, Head of JETRO Startup
Podcast — AI Founders’ Mindset
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AI Founders’ Mindset is a podcast featuring honest conversations
with AI founders, builders, investors, and ecosystem leaders. -
We talk about how people actually build, sell, and scale —
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🎧 100,000+ listeners worldwide


How Startups Are Hiring Smarter: MAPPA’s AI and Big Data Solution

Why Japan’s Robots Aren’t Dominating the World? : Yuki Shirato

2 Hours Faster, Millions Saved: SoranoAI’s Secret - Ayako Kawano 1

The Wasabi Crisis: Why 99% in America Is Fake - Shun Sano 1

How BDev Ventures Invested in 80 Startups in 3 Years- Keshia Theobald-van Gent BDev Ventures 1

150 Investments in 5 years:
Neal Sales-Griffin
TechStars

From 55 “Failed” Episodes to $23M Raised: The Pitch Story Josh Muccio

Alchemist Accelerator’s Global Vision for Japan: Laurent Rains 1
Working with Startups & Corporations
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My work often sits at the intersection of:
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Community building
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Founder programs & events
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Content & ecosystem storytelling
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Japan ↔ U.S. market collaboration


Hacknight
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Client: Daytona
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My role: Chief organizer (Project management, Product marketing, Sales, Marketing, people management, budget management, venue negotiation, creation for their contents
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December 2025
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Outcome: Organized a hackathon got 120 applicants, Over 230 K engagement by all social medias (My podcast channel, LinkedIn, instagram posts)

Promotion video creation, social media marketing
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BytePlus (ByteDace)
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My role: Contents creator to promote their new products, LinkedIn posts about how I use BytePlus Seedream 4.0
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November 2025
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Outcome: Got over 30K engagement via my social medias, 20K Likes, 20K downloaded via my unique link
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Clients: Techstars Tokyo​
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My role: Digital marketing, member of the Demo Day organizing team, Delegation, sales activity to invite people to come to the Demo Day
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August -Nobember 2025
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Outcome: Digital marketing - 2 short videos for their portfolio companies got average over 5K viewers, for the Demo Day, we got over 500 applicants to attend it.

Panel talk event
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Client: Google for Startups
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My role: Chief organizer (Project management, Marketing, people management, budget management, venue negotiation, creation for their contents
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August 2024
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Outcome: Got 120 applicants, Over 24K engagement by all social medias (My podcast channel, LinkedIn, instagram posts)

Pitch and Talk event
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Clients: Freepik SF
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My role: Video creation for their social media, sales activity to invite participants
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Outcome: over 80 participants, 10K engagements via my social medias​

Y Combinator founders to promote VapiCon
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Clients: Vapi (YC)
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My role: A member of the c0-organizing, sales activity to invite participants
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Outcome: over 60 participants​
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Judge
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Clients: SF City Government/GobTech
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My role: Judge at their pitch contest, sales activity to invite participants
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October 2024
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Outcome: over 800 participants, 100K engagements via our social medias
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Founder Round Table
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Clients: Alchemist accelerator SF
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My role: Startup scouting for their talk event, Video creation for their social media, sales activity to invite participants
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July, 2025
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Outcome: Got 4 speakers who are founder social good/retaed to Japanese startup, over 80 participants, 10K engagements via my social medias

Founder retreat trip, Promotion video
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Client: Refined Robotics
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My role: Chief organizer, creative director
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January 2025
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Outcome: 7 founders participated for our trip, had some workshops to foster the founders' mindset, got over 5K engagement via my social medias
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Promotion video creation, social media marketing
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Antler Japan
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My role: Interviewed the partner of Antler Japan
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February 2024
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Outcome: Got over 1.5K engagement via my social medias, 500 Likes, 20K+ applicants for the new cohort in 2025



