Hiro Yoshikawa

General Partner

2022 - Current

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.

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