Yasushi Komori

General Partner

2022 - Current

Partner

2019 - 2022

Principal

2016 - 2019

- Investment in early-stage startups in entertainment, the consumer sector - Responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, and market research. GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology startups disrupting digital media and entertainment. We work with founders who are ahead of social trends, understand their audience and creatively combine existing technologies to offer new experiences to users.

Organizer

2018 - 2018

- Organized the online pitch event utilizing a video conference tool(zoom) - 240+ companies applied from global. We selected eight finalists to the pitch event. - 30+ investors from 20+ VCs attended the event online.

Organizer

2017 - 2017

- Organized VR/AR investors meetup 4 times in Tokyo, Japan. - Introduce western VR/AR trend to Japan business leaders. - Invite VR/AR expertise as a speaker from Japan and USA. - There are 50+ attendees for each event.

Senior Product Manager / Senior Data Analyst

2014 - 2016

- Reporting game KPIs, such as DAU, MAU, Revenue, Retention, and game activities, utilizing Tableau, SQL, Redshift, Python/Bash, and Jenkins. - Introducing new features as a Product Manager into games, resulting in a monthly revenue increase of 10%-20%. - Setting up new data analysis for marketing performance, diving into each install cost against acquisition cost. GREE International Entertainment, the division leading GREE’s charge into the Western market, was formed in 2011 and rapidly achieved international success, with revenue growth of 350% and a cumulative lifetime revenue quickly approaching $500 million. GREE is a world leader in the hugely popular role-playing and strategy game genres and its highly successful titles, including DragonSoul, Knights & Dragons, War of Nations, Crime City, and Modern War, have been downloaded over 130 million times.

Senior Product Manager / Senior Data Analyst

2011 - 2014

- Leading three game titles, making decisions for new feature implementation, development priorities, daily/weekly live operations, and problem-solving. - Achieved 150% revenue growth by adding new features. - Analyzing game data, such as DAU, revenue, and game activities, utilizing MySQL, Bash, and Excel. - Managing 10-15 people directly and 50 people indirectly, including engineers and product managers. GREE (3632:Tokyo) is a global leader in building top-quality, high engagement free-to-play mobile games. GREE’s annual revenue run rate is over $1 billion, and the Company has a market cap of $1.4 billion with over $500 million available in cash and cash equivalents

Senior Server Engineer

2010 - 2010

・Serverside software developer for the social game with 700,000+ DAU. ・Expertise in MySQL performance tuning and cache systems. ・Environment: Debian, PHP, Ethna (Japan local Framework), MySQL, Apache, Memcache, Git. ・Constantly building new features into games.

Server Engineer

2007 - 2010

-Server Engineer for an EC site. -Built the EC site from scratch, responsible for consumer-facing features, including product page, search, recommendations, ranking, user registration, cart, checkout process, and payment. -Optimized the website for SEO, acquiring many users. -Environment: CentOS, Perl, PHP (Symfony 1.0), MySQL, Apache, Memcache.