Toshi Otani

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Location:

Silicon Valley

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Investment Focus & Current Projects

Toshi invests in software/SaaS companies in AI, cloud, infrastructure and robotics with an enterprise focus. He also leads Translink’s activities supporting portfolio companies with their customers and partners, primarily in Japan.

Professional Journey

Before co-founding Translink, Toshi was Senior Vice President of Everypath, where he led business development and served as General Manager for Japan. Prior to Everypath, Toshi was President of Hikari Tsushin’s VC operation, where he managed the U.S. investment team in Palo Alto. Toshi led Hikari Tsushin’s investments in successful companies such as WebEx (ACQ: Cisco) and SiRF (SIRF). Toshi started his career at Mitsubishi Corporation, the world’s largest trade and investment firm, where he spent 10 years in various operating roles engaged with companies such as PTC (NAS).

Education

MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University.

Passion

Away from work, Toshi is an active soccer player, an aspiring golfer, an accomplished skier, and enjoys spending time outdoors.

Portfolio

Vertical:

Consumer

Stage:

Seed

College admission counseling

Active

Main

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Mobility

Automotive

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Series B

MATTER is a technology innovation start-up guided by its vision to be the most dynamic company driving India to a sustainable future.

Active

Affiliate

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Enterprise

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Series A

Cloud-based product data management tool that helps companies manage product sustainability, cost, and compliance

Active

Main

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Consumer

Digital Health

Stage:

Series A

Health and wellness mobile app developer

Active

Main

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Robotics

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Series B

Leading provider of vision software for logistics robots,

Active

Main

Vertical:

Enterprise

Stage:

Series A

Comprehensive cloud simulation solution targeting high performance computing (HPC) workloads

Active

Main

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AI

Enterprise

Stage:

Series A

Tokyo-based R&D company creating a new kind of foundation models based on nature-inspired intelligence.

Active

Main

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Enterprise

Stage:

Series A

Unified marketing analytics platform combining all point solutions

Active

Main

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Enterprise

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Series A

Cloud-based, BYOD solution for the mobile workspace

Active

Main

Alumni Investments

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Series C

Acquired by Axway

Leading mobile application development platform

Series C

Main

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Series B

Acquired by Cisco

Hybrid cloud-application migration and management solutions

Series B

Main

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Series B

Acquired by Dropbox

Mobile productivity solution to provide Office applications and collaboration functionality

Series B

Main

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Series C

Acquired by Uber

Location Based Service (LBS) Platform

Series C

Main

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Series B

Wirelessly Enable Memory Card and Service

Series B

Main

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Series C

Provides cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot solution that addresses material handling and data collection

Series C

Affiliate

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Series D

Acquired by Thales

Big Data analytics solution for service providers

Series D

Main

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Stage:

Series A

Acquired by DataDirect Networks (DDN)

Open source software storage solution based on Open Solaris/ZFS

Series A

Main

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Series B

Acquired by Google

Leading social media marketing platform

Series B

Main

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