International founders who don’t speak fluent Japanese often find it challenging to find local investors or advisors who can support their fund raising journey.

To bridge this gap, we are hosting this casual meetup that connects English speaking ventures capitalists and community builders to international founder or pre-founder.

This meet up will start with reverse pitch from venture capitalists and community builders, followed by networking with free drinks and light snacks.

International founder or pre-founder will be able to learn about the investment policy of multiple local VC and exchange benificial information with other entrepreneurs.

Agenda
18:00 - 18:10 Opening by Plug and Play
18:10 - 18:40 Reverse Speech
18:40 - 20:00 Net Working

Reverse pitch speaker:
(VC)
Shizen Capital - Matthew Romaine
Techstars - Yuki Shirato
UTEC - Kiran Mysore
Antler - Florian Geier
Incubate Fund - Laura Suzuki
Plug and Play Japan - Rebecca Chai
(Founders Community builder)
Tokyo AI - IIya Kulyatin
Founders Institute - Erdinc Ekinci
Japan Venture Acadamy - Aimi Komeya
Who should join us:
Founder or pre-founder, community builders, VC, CVC
※ Japanese founders who wish to expand network with international founders or practice pitch in English are also welcomed!
Fee
Free of charge (approval required)

About the orgnizer
Plug and Play is an early stage VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with more than 2000+ portfolios (40+ Unicorn).
With our new Japan Fund lauched in April 2025, we aim to support more Japan based startups go global through seed~series A investment.