Investment Group
General Partner
Investment Group
General Partner
Jiro joined GB in 2006. As General Partner, he is in charge of forming CVC funds and developing their operation strategies, as well as supporting portfolio startups in co-creating businesses. He also focuses on examining whether to invest in IT startups by leveraging his IPO experience.
At Digital Design, Jiro researched the company's original compressed data transfer technology and obtained an international patent. He led planning, development, sales, and maintenance of the communications middleware product that leveraged the technology. As the person in charge of this business area, he contributed to IPO of the company on NASDAQ Japan. After the IPO, he drove alliance with Japanese and overseas companies while expanding the licensing business through successively commercializing database application and security software.