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Takaaki Tobaru

Partner at Remiges Ventures

Seattle, Washington

Overview 

Takaaki Tobaru is a Partner at Remiges Ventures in Seattle, Washington, with a background in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. With experience as a Vice President of Corporate Development at Ora, Inc. and Senior Director at Acucela, Tobaru has a strong track record in clinical development, technology transfer, and regulatory affairs within the lifesciences industry.

Work Experience 

Remiges Ventures

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

    Remiges Ventures is one of the most active cross-boarder VCs located in Tokyo, Boston and Seattle, and we help entrepreneurs with building NewCos in Biotech industries. Remiges invests only in therapeutic companies with innovative sciences from Japan, North America and EU, who prefer to join Series A and Series B fund raising. Uniqueness of our fund is that innovation access is not only from academic/ research institutions in the US/EU but those from Japanese organizations as well as our Pharma LPs accessabilities. With robust experience and broad network, we have accessed and can access cutting edge technologies and innovations from all over the world. I play a significant role in out-reach activities and evaluation for investment for Remiges Ventures, and sit on BoD in our portfolio companies.

OI

Ora, Inc.

  • VP Corporate Development

    2014 - 2017

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Acucela

  • Senior Director

    2012 - 2013

Acucela is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that specializes in discovering and developing novel therapeutics to treat and slow the

Raised $439,603.00.

acucela.com

Daiichi Sankyo Group

  • Associate Director, External Scientific Affairs, Global Business Development and Licensing

    1999 - 2011

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Sankyo

  • Manager

    2004 - 2006

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