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.