Nobuhiro Seki

Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer

2017 - Current

Advisor

2018

Served as Advisor for NYDesigns, an incubator of CUNY, Nob helps entrepreneurs get connected to critical assets such as mentorship, funding and manufacturing resources. Nob is Founder of FabFoundry, who offers a platform for hardware startups that brings bulletproof oversight of manufacturing processes. He also serves as Managing Director for MBC Shisaku Fund, a Kyoto-based VC fund specialized in seed-stage hardware startups. Prior to these hardware-related companies, Nob was an executive at Six Apart, a blogging pioneer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and earned a BS in Metallurgy from The University of Tokyo.

Advisor

2015

President & CEO

2011 - 2015

Nob spins out Six Apart from Say Media to assume Movable Type business and sells itself to Infocom in 2011, and Nob remains Six Apart's Chief officer, and moves its headquarters to New York City to accelerate its business in the media industry.

Executive Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific

2003 - 2011

(Acquired by SAY Media in November 2010) After being a biggest donator to the company's software product, Nob joined Six Apart as Employee #3 and led the company's initial business development activities, which ended up with a $4M sales to the seed-stage startup. Nob then started the Japanese subsidiary as Executive VP and General Manager. He spearheaded the global team of company's flagship product Movable Type. Movable Type was a big success especially in Japan with 50+ employees and 250+ sales partners in a few years. Positioning Movable Type as a corporate web publishing system, Nob evangelized the blog use for business, which made him spend 60% of his time in Tokyo and 40% in San Francisco until the company was acquired by Say Media in 2010.

Board Observer

2017

ADVANCED MOVEMENT TRAINING TO MAXIMIZE SPORT PERFORMANCE

Board Observer

2022

Board Observer

2020

Everykey keeps your passwords in encrypted form so your account info is secure from our end to your end

Advisor

2020

AI-Driven Recruitment Platform for Early Career Professionals

Advisor

2019

Machine Learning; AI; Facial Recognition.

Founding Investor

2010

Founded in December 2010, ConnectFree is a leading company that provides the IoT (Internet of Things) solutions, including secure P2P communication chips manufactured in their fabless laboratory in Taiwan. ConnectFree originally started with a solution that enables Wi-Fi hotspots to offer location-based information to the users of the hotspot. Such information can be managed centrally as well as locally by Wi-Fi hotspot tenants.

Founder & CEO

2001

SyncWorld was founded originally to build a multiplayer mobile role-playing location-based game platform in 2001. Its business plan was selected to represent Carnegie Mellon's business school in 2001 to business plan competitions, fully supported by Professor Emerson and Professor Hajduk. The company did not get significant investment until mid 2003 and the founder Mr. Seki joined a San Francisco-based startup Six Apart. The company gradually transformed its business from the platform builder to a production company for Mr. Seki's editorial work and consultancy, in addition to his angel investment vehicle. As of today, SyncWorld provides editorial services including interviews, consulting work, speeches and workshops on the technology and the business in Japan and in the U.S.