Hiro Yoshikawa
General Partner at Carbide Ventures
Hiro Yoshikawa
General Partner at Carbide Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Carbide Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups
Chairman of the Board of Directors
2021
Separated from Arm to operate as an independent company again, now as a part of SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio. Recently closed the $234M equity round and appointed Kaz, my co-founder/CTO to be the new CEO for even bigger outcomes.
Board Director
2020 - 2021
Founder & CEO
2011 - 2020
Founder and CEO. Acquired by Arm in August 2018. It’s the biggest ever cash acquisition by Arm.
Treasure Data is a software development company that develops a cloud-based data analytics platform for data management.
Raised $288,050,000.00 from SoftBank and Carbide Ventures.
Advisor To The President
2022
Innovation Strategy
VP & GM, Data Business Unit
2018 - 2020
Joined through acquisition and continued leading the business
Principal
2007 - 2011
At Mitsui & Co. Venture Parners/MVC Corporation, a corporate VC Arm of Mitsui & Co., invested in mobile, enterprise software, ad tech and semiconductor companies Executed/Involved with investments: SmartSignal (aq'd by GE), OpenX, Virident (aq'd by Western Digital), Beceem Communications (aq'd by Broadcom), Ruckus Wireless (NYSE:RKUS), LocationLabs (aq'd by NYSE: AVG), SenSage (aq'd by Nasdaq:KEYW) and Synacor (Nasdaq:SYNC).
Collaborative Researcher
2008 - 2009
Corporate sponsored by Mitsui, Science Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development program by the Division of University Corporate Relations.
Learning Service Trainer & Examiner => Sales Engineer => Business Development
2001 - 2007
THE open source company
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open source software solutions.