Norio Kozuka

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a privately-held investment management firm now structured as a family office, but which was once a hedge fund manager. The firm was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in New York City. SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations (Open Society) – a private funder of independent groups that works for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.

Laszlo Systems is a leading provider of Rich Unified Internet Applications for consumers and business. Its web-based platform in erges email, voice and massaging with social networking and real-time collaboration experience for consumers. Laszlo Webtop has been adopted and deployed by many of the tyre-1 service providers to provide subscribers with engaging personal portals for unifying and managing information, collaboration and communication on the web. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company provides training and support for OpenLaszlo and offers its own commercially licensed digital life applications such as Laszlo Mail and OpenLaszlo. Laszlo Systems was founded in October 2000 by David Tempkin.

Aethon, Inc. develops and deploys autonomous mobile robots and robotic transit systems. It offers a mobile robotic platform that enables hospitals to automate the delivery and retrieval process across different functions-including medications, supplies, meals, linen, and waste removal. The company was founded by Henry F. Thorne in 1997 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Palamida, Inc. develops open source software. It enables stakeholders from development, legal and security to collaborate to maximize development productivity thru widespread use of open source and other third party software while minimizing the risk of IP infringement and security vulnerabilities. The firm's enterprise edition is based on patented search and filtering technology and designed specifically to address the challenge of identifying complete or partial matches between a target software project and known open source and other third party software. The company was founded by Ray Waldin, Jeffrey Luszcz, and Theresa Bui Friday in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Change Healthcare Engagement Solutions, Inc. provides healthcare cost transparency solutions. It offers Healthcare Transparency Index that shows medical procedures with high costs and price variances. The firm’s solutions enable consumers to better understand and utilize their healthcare benefits; make informed healthcare purchasing decisions based on quality, cost, and convenience; and manage out-of-pocket responsibility and realize savings. Its solutions also enable users to engage alerts that show savings opportunities, and help take advantage of company health and wellness programs; educate health plan enrollees; and leverage investment with third-party decision support tools. The company was founded by Christopher Parks in 2007 and is headquartered Nashville, TN.

goBalto, Inc. provides cloud-based clinical trials software solutions. It offers activate, a purpose built software as service application that enables sponsors, contract research organization, and sites to get studies started in the shortest time possible, and analyze that enables team members and partners to interact with the data, run ad-hoc reports, and create data visualizations across multiple trials as part of customer monitoring strategy. The company was founded by Jae Chung in October 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

Change Healthcare Practice Management Solutions, Inc. sells practice management software and other technical services. The company was founded by Patrick Hampson in 1995 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of IQVIA, Inc., Cambridge Pharma Consultancy, Inc. provides international consulting and advisory services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The company is based in New York, NY. Cambridge Pharma Consultancy was acquired by IQVIA, Inc. on December 17, 2001.

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. manufactures organic and industrial chemicals. It provides coating materials, latexes, pharmaceutical and food additives, explosives, photopolymers and platemaking systems, separation and ion-exchange membranes, cling film, storage bags, plastic film, sheet, and foam. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. engages in the business investment, project development and management and capital goods leasing and technology transfer services. The firm conducts sales, exports, imports, and offshore trades in the areas of iron & steel products, mineral & metal resources, infrastructure projects, mobility business, chemicals, energy, foods & retail, consumer service business, and others, while providing general services for retailing, information and communications, technical support, transportation, logistics and financing. The company was founded by Douglas J. Jacobs in 1966 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Ltd is a private Equity/venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

University of Tokyo Edge Capital Co Ltd (UTEC) is an independent venture capital firm with headquarters in Japan. UTEC was founded in 2004 and has an office in Tokyo, Japan.

Cubs Rainbow, Inc. is a holding company engaged in the development of advanced 3D digital modeling and analysis solutions for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and government markets. The company was founded by Kenji Shimada in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Rakuten Group, Inc., LinkShare Japan KK develops websites and Internet advertisements and provides Internet survey, web trafficking, and related services. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Phyzios, Inc. is a holding company that develops applications for iOS devices using particle-based physics simulation technologies. Its game applications encompass Battleship Craft, UKIYOE-Woodcut-, Little Piyo's Friend, Chop Off Wire, and Sandbox. The company was founded by Kentaro Suto on January 30, 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ContinuumRx, Inc. provides home infusion services for healthcare. It offers patient, physician, payer and specialty drug manufacturer services. The firm partners with healthcare systems and their providers to improve post acute-care coordination and care management, to help reduce gaps in patient care, to enhance the overall patient experience, and to help their provider partners improve their overall financial performance. It also provides home infusion therapies and services to patients each month and supports them in their care and recovery through all phases of the healthcare continuum. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

MUJIN, Inc. engages in programming autonomous multi-joint robot software. Its products include MUJIN Controller, Pick Worker, Teach Worker, Pendant, and 3D Vision System. The company was founded by Issei Takino and Rosen Diankov on July 6, 2011 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Remiges Ventures Inc. (Remiges Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Taro Inaba. It is headquartered in Cambridge, United States.

Kicker Ventures (Kicker Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Masashi Kiyomine. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Carbide Ventures Management, LLC (Carbide Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in founded in 2021. The firm is headquartered in California, United States.

Treasure Data, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based analytics services. It offers solutions including automotive, retail and consumer packaged goods, internet of things, and entertainment. Its product is enterprise customer data platforms that allows to view various data across different channels. The company was founded by Hironobu Yoshikawa, Kazuki Ohta and Sadayuki Furuhashi in June 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.