Ikuo Hiraishi

Co-Founder

Tokyo, Japan25 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded multiple successful startups and VC funds.
  • Established a global startup platform connecting investors and entrepreneurs.
  • Professor in Japan's first Entrepreneurship department.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Startup Ecosystem Expert with a focus on entrepreneurship and global innovation.

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EntrepreneurStart-upsVenture CapitalManagement ConsultingResearchInnovation ManagementBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipInvestmentsEnglishBusiness PlanningAngel InvestingBusiness DevelopmentMergers & AcquisitionsInternational Business

About

Serial Entrepreneur and Startup Accelerator based in Tokyo. When I co-founded SunBridge Global Ventures, also co-founded a global startup platform "Innovation Weekend" in order to provide opportunities to make pitches to investors, to connect them with same stage startups and seed stage focused investors in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin and Tokyo. July 1st 2017, I reactivated DreamVision to finish "Unfinished Homework" before "a Best-Before Date" of my life is expired.

Experience

Goglobal catalyst (ggc)

Co-Founder/CEO

Jan 2025Jun 2025 · 5 mos · Singapore · Remote

  • We’re the Catalyst for change & global innovation. Co-Founder matching, Japan Entry, and helping Japanese startups go global.

Infarm - indoor urban farming japan 株式会社

Liquidator

May 2023Mar 2024 · 10 mos · Tokyo, Japan · Hybrid

  • Co-founded 9 companies so far. One IPO and One M&A Exit. Established 3 small VC funds, and over 10 direct investments. One of my portfolio, Infarm, has become a Unicorn. AnyRoad has backed by a16z and BlackRock. I'm also aProfessor at the Entrepreneurship department of Musashino University in Tokyo.

Musashino university

Professor

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs · Tokyo, Japan · Hybrid

  • I have been appointed as a professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship, the first department in Japan to focus on "Entrepreneurship." I'm very honored.

Infarm - indoor urban farming japan inc.

Managing Director

Feb 2020Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Shubuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  • Originated out of Berlin, but now, Infarm has expanded into 8 countries so far. And Infarm is launching in Tokyo pretty soon. Infarm GmbH is one of the DreamVision portfolios companies. And we've established the Japan legal entity, and I've become the Representative Director.

Sunbridge global ventures inc.

President & CEO

Jan 2012Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Tokyo

  • A Seed Accelerator based in Tokyo & Silicon Valley, has invested in I.T. related startups capable to be global players.
  • I co-founded a global startup platform "Innovation Weekend" in order to provide opportunities to make pitches to investors, to get connected with same stage startups, and to connect them with startups and investors in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin and Tokyo.
  • July 1st 2017, I reactivated DreamVision to finish "Unfinished Homework" before "a Best-Before Date" of my life is expired.

Hosei business school of innovation management

Visiting Professor

Apr 2011Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • http://www.im.i.hosei.ac.jp/index.html

Sunbridge corporation

Tokyo Officer, Global Venture Habitat

Mar 2011Dec 2011 · 9 mos

  • Create and develop ecosystem of startups in order to discover and cultivate young entrepreneurs who challenge to be a global player utilizing the habitats in Silicon Valley, Osaka and Tokyo.

Imio corporation

External Director

Jan 2007Mar 2015 · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Planning and production of Football as our original brand SFIDA,
  • which means Challenge, by the Fare-trade from Pakistan.

Dreamvision inc.

Co-Founder

Mar 2006Present · 20 yrs 1 mo · Tokyo Japan

  • Taken over the 2 VC funds focused on seed-early stage startups from SunBridge Global Ventures which I co-founded in January 2012.
  • Based on the vision of DreamVision, "Building a Global Community that encourages people.", I'm going to establish a "Global Startup Village" in the central part of Tokyo in order to connect the Startup Ecosystem in Tokyo to the world and make Tokyo a Global Startup Hub.
  • My life has been in the "Changes & Innovation".

Razona inc.

External Director

Feb 2006Oct 2025 · 19 yrs 8 mos · Tokyo, Japan · On-site

  • Established in 1996 as a Website production by Yuya Okamura.

Interscope inc.

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

Jan 2000Jan 2006 · 6 yrs

  • After the acquisition by Yahoo! JAPAN, merged with Info-Plant Corporation which was in the same industry and had become Yahoo! Value Insight Inc. And then, consolidated by Macromill Corporation (TYO Stock Exchange 3730) which is the leading company in the same industry at August 2010.

Education

Tokai University

Bachelor of Arts (BA) — Public Relations and information sociology

Jan 1982Jan 1986

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