Akira Ushioda

CEO at Kenjiro Private Office

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
5
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3
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1
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0
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8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Sep 2021
MILAMORE was founded in 2019 by CEO and Creative Director George Inaki Root who finds inspiration from his multicultural background and passion for Japanese culture. Our mission is to honor Japanese heritage and create global fine jewelry brand. Root's designs balance bold and edgy elements with sophistication, creating androgynous pieces that celebrate colorful individuality. His philosophy, rooted in the concept of wabi-sabi and yin-yang, emphasizes the beauty in imperfection and encourages the wearer to be deeply connected with themselves and their surroundings through his designs, which are meant to be "conversational jewelry", sparking up a conversation rooted in a deeper meaning. Our pieces are handcrafted by skilled artisans in Tokyo and Yamanashi. Each piece is a work of art, imbued with a sense of history and artistry, and made with the utmost attention to detail. MILAMORE owns two shops open in Japan and has an ever-expanding distribution internationally.
Investor
Jan 2020
Hi! 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games! Founded in 2020, our ethos is simple. Combining world-class expertise with a commitment to kindness, we aim to prove that being a great place to work - forging a culture of excellence and inclusivity - is the key to building great games, for everyone. We’re proudly remote-first, family-friendly and zero-crunch. And we’ve worked hard to create a company culture that champions kindness, care, and community 💪 Together, we’re pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity to build beautifully-crafted wholesome games that surprise & delight our players and their communities. Our first game is Sunshine Days - a wholesome village life game with a social twist, currently available in Early Access on Android & iOS!
early stageComputer Games
Investor
Oct 2019
GC Turbo is a leading game company working with top companies such as Line, Gree, and Disney. They build messenger games such as Disney Tsum Tsum, Battlecats Galaxy, and Fishing Star. They have offices in Tokyo and San Francisco.
early stageComputer Games
Board Observer
2018
Connecting creators and advertisers. Matchmade is an easy-to-use platform that brings advertisers and creators together for targeted and measured campaigns. Matchmade continuously analyses channels, videos, streams on YouTube and Twitch. That’s over 1.1 Billion videos and 9.2M YouTube channels to date. For more information, please visit: https://matchmade.tv/ or email hello@matchmade.tv.
Investor
2018
We collaborate with iconic contemporary artists like Jenny Holzer, Cai Guo-Qiang and the Chapman brothers, making their work more accessible to younger collectors through sculpture editions, print editions and unique works on paper. As well as success in attracting some of the most important artists in the world to our platform, our product launches are heavily oversubscribed, with many behaving more like fashion drops than art sales, selling out in seconds. The company began as a cult Google Docs blog of contemporary artists, initially inspired through rap lyrics and hip-hop album covers. That blog grew organically into the worlds biggest online art community, with over 2m followers under the age of 35. With digital engagement more than 4x the rest of the art world and in line with the biggest youth fashion brands of today, our vision is to inspire a generation of millions of young people who love art like they love music and who collect works like they build their wardrobe.
mid stageFine Art
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2021
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Sep 2021
MILAMORE was founded in 2019 by CEO and Creative Director George Inaki Root who finds inspiration from his multicultural background and passion for Japanese culture. Our mission is to honor Japanese heritage and create global fine jewelry brand. Root's designs balance bold and edgy elements with sophistication, creating androgynous pieces that celebrate colorful individuality. His philosophy, rooted in the concept of wabi-sabi and yin-yang, emphasizes the beauty in imperfection and encourages the wearer to be deeply connected with themselves and their surroundings through his designs, which are meant to be "conversational jewelry", sparking up a conversation rooted in a deeper meaning. Our pieces are handcrafted by skilled artisans in Tokyo and Yamanashi. Each piece is a work of art, imbued with a sense of history and artistry, and made with the utmost attention to detail. MILAMORE owns two shops open in Japan and has an ever-expanding distribution internationally.
2020
Investor
Jan 2020
Hi! 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games! Founded in 2020, our ethos is simple. Combining world-class expertise with a commitment to kindness, we aim to prove that being a great place to work - forging a culture of excellence and inclusivity - is the key to building great games, for everyone. We’re proudly remote-first, family-friendly and zero-crunch. And we’ve worked hard to create a company culture that champions kindness, care, and community 💪 Together, we’re pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity to build beautifully-crafted wholesome games that surprise & delight our players and their communities. Our first game is Sunshine Days - a wholesome village life game with a social twist, currently available in Early Access on Android & iOS!
early stageComputer Games
2019
Investor
Oct 2019
GC Turbo is a leading game company working with top companies such as Line, Gree, and Disney. They build messenger games such as Disney Tsum Tsum, Battlecats Galaxy, and Fishing Star. They have offices in Tokyo and San Francisco.
early stageComputer Games
2018
Board Observer
2018
Connecting creators and advertisers. Matchmade is an easy-to-use platform that brings advertisers and creators together for targeted and measured campaigns. Matchmade continuously analyses channels, videos, streams on YouTube and Twitch. That’s over 1.1 Billion videos and 9.2M YouTube channels to date. For more information, please visit: https://matchmade.tv/ or email hello@matchmade.tv.
Investor
2018
We collaborate with iconic contemporary artists like Jenny Holzer, Cai Guo-Qiang and the Chapman brothers, making their work more accessible to younger collectors through sculpture editions, print editions and unique works on paper. As well as success in attracting some of the most important artists in the world to our platform, our product launches are heavily oversubscribed, with many behaving more like fashion drops than art sales, selling out in seconds. The company began as a cult Google Docs blog of contemporary artists, initially inspired through rap lyrics and hip-hop album covers. That blog grew organically into the worlds biggest online art community, with over 2m followers under the age of 35. With digital engagement more than 4x the rest of the art world and in line with the biggest youth fashion brands of today, our vision is to inspire a generation of millions of young people who love art like they love music and who collect works like they build their wardrobe.
mid stageFine Art
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