Board Members

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Philosophy
Background and start-up process
Position in the industry (In the world)
What we see in the future

RiskTaker Inc. was established as a corporation in May 2021 as a comprehensive start-up vehicle, under the vision of "increasing the number of people who RiskTake and to accelerate innovative change in the world".

I started my career as an angel investor in 2019 after developing an automated securities trading system and expanding my business in the global financial field, and have made several joint investments with VCs.

Currently, we actively engaged in activities that go beyond investment, such as the forming community for entrepreneurs, monthly pitch events, and sponsoroship for sports athletes, to nurture the growth of entrepreneurs, startups, athletes, and other challengers. In order to eliminate barriers to entry into the global market, I founded RiskTaker with members who has overseas knowledge and networks.

We are committed to identifying the potential of entrepreneurship for the next generation of humanity, and to investing in and accelerating it in a time when technologies for achieving a sustainable society are attracting attention.

To achieve this goal, we have formed a team of people with experience in the financial business and overseas companies and businesses, and are positioned in the industry as a VC to further accelerate people and companies challenge to face risks.

Since ancient times, human beings have accumulated wisdom from many challenges and passed it on to their descendants to weave the present.

Not all of the challenges we take on will be worthy of a good story in the future, but we aim to create a world full of "Risk Takers," those who move the hands of time forward on their own.

CORPORATE IDENTITY

Philosophy

At RiskTaker, we believe that people who have taken risks and challenged themselves have changed the world.
We believe that by increasing the number of people who take risks through various activities, we can contribute to accelerating global change and making a better world a reality sooner.

BACKGROUND

Background and how RiskTaker was started

POSITION

Position in the industry (In the world)

We are committed to identifying the potential of entrepreneurship for the next generation of humanity, and to investing in and accelerating it in a time when technologies for achieving a sustainable society are attracting attention.

To achieve this goal, we have formed a team of people with experience in the financial business and overseas companies and businesses, and are positioned in the industry as a VC to further accelerate people and companies challenge to face risks.

FUTURE

What we see in the future

Since ancient times, human beings have accumulated wisdom from many challenges and passed it on to their descendants to weave the present.

Not all of the challenges we take on will be worthy of a good story in the future, but we aim to create a world full of "Risk Takers," those who move the hands of time forward on their own.

OFFICER

Board Members

TOMOHIRO TOMIYAMA

CEO
CEO

Tomiyama Tomohiro

As the representative director of Skynet, he has been active as an entrepreneur in the development of trading systems since the early days of the automated securities trading market. In 2019, he started his career as an angel investor, co-investing with VCs for startups such as Scaled and Sampo Inc. Founded Risktaker Inc. in 2021.
KIYOTAKA SAKAKIBARA

COO
Director / Chief Operating Officer

Kiyotaka Sakakibara

After working in the overseas business division of an online advertising agency and managing its Philippine subsidiary, he co-founded YOYO Holding Pte Ltd. in Singapore, and developed an app business with 1 million installs in ASEAN. After that, he worked as CMO of a virtual currency exchange and a D2C platform company in Japan, and joined the RiskTaker project in 2021 to lead the StartUpStudio division.
HIROKI KATSURAGAWA

CFO
CFO

Hiroki Katsuragawa

After graduating from Waseda University, he worked at Deloitte Tomatsu, where he supported IPOs and listed companies, and at Tomatsu Venture Support, where he supported startups. In 2012, he joined ORIX Business Investment Group, where he was involved in M&A mainly in the IT, healthcare, and food industries. In 2017, he joined Cocon, a cyber security venture company, where he was in charge of M&A, alliances, finance, administration, investor relations, public relations, and fundraising. In 2020, he founded CxODigital, a finance support company and also his a member of JICPA and Tokyo Certified Public Tax Accountants Association.
PATRICK YUJI WAKABAYASHI

CEO
Risktaker US CEO

Patrick Yuji Wakabayashi

He has been working in the Ad Tech industry for 13 years. He started his own company in the Philippines with the investment of a listed company and launched the first reward media in the Philippines from scratch. After starting his own company in the Philippines, he went to Malaysia as the head of a subsidiary of a listed company, and for about 5 years, he expanded and grew the company's Adtech solution for clients and media in Southeast Asia, and became CEO in 2019. In 2021, he joined Risktaker to lead the overall overseas expansion.