Team

Founder & General Partner​

Tetsu Nakajima

Tetsu is the Founder & General Partner at 15th Rock. He focuses on investing “Human Augmentation” startups including artificial intelligence, robotics, mobility, and healthcare field in Japan, US, Canada, and Europe. Prior to that, he served as Chief Investment Officer at Mistletoe, where he oversaw all investment activities.

He has over 15 years of venture capital investment experience at Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Mistletoe, and 15th Rock, and has successfully exited one IPO and several M&As.

Tetsu began his career at Toshiba, where he worked at Corporate R&D center as a Researcher. He participated in the IEEE802.11n & Wi-Fi Alliance standardization activities.

Tetsu earned a B.S. and M.S. in System control engineering from the Hokkaido University, and earned an MBA from GLOBIS University.

Core Member​s

Tetsu
Nakajima

Tetsu Nakajima

Founder &
General Partner​

Takeshi
Minamoto

Takeshi Minamoto

Founder &
General Partner​

Hiroki
Nakajima

Hiroki Nakajima

Principal

Takuya
Umeda

Takuya Umeda

Venture Partner

Yu
Shimazu

Yu Shimazu

PR & Community Mgr

Advisor​s

Taizo Son

Kimiyuki Suda

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

Satoshi Shimmyo