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Ayuki Shirakawa Ayuki Shirakawa

Venture

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined JAFCO in April 2020. He is in charge of identifying portfolio companies, executing investments and providing post-investment support for seed and early-stage startups at the Venture Investment Division. He executes investments in a variety of areas, including entertainment, content, commerce, SaaS, defense, security, sustainability and cryptocurrency. He is responsible for “JAFCO SEED,” an event for seed-stage entrepreneurs.

Despite my lack of experience, I realized the value of ego and emotion while working on this job. The more you rationally push your logic, the closer you will get to a mediocre answer based on the greatest common divisor. I believe that α exists only in the "determination and will" of a founder and a capitalist who pushed the logic to its limit, and I would like to invest while pursuing “what is the real value?” and create “memories that will remain in history.”