Atsushi Mizuno

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📍 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2018
Angel investor🌍 Japan
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Board Observer
Jan 2015
Cipia is a leading provider of intelligent sensing solutions that use edge-based computer vision and AI for safer and better mobility experiences. The companys product lineup includes Driver Sense (driver monitoring system), Cabin Sense (occupancy monitoring system) and Cipia-FS10, a complete video telematics and a driver monitoring solution for telematics service providers and fleets. Over a decade of research and development stand behind the companys proprietary market-leading computer vision technology, which has been selected by OEMs globally and serves vehicles on the roads today
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Valens Semiconductor is a leading provider of semiconductor products, pushing the boundaries of connectivity by enabling long-reach, high-speed video and data transmission for the professional audio-visual and automotive industries. Valens’ Emmy® award-winning HDBaseT technology is the leading standard in the professional AV market with tens of millions of Valens’ chipsets integrated into thousands of HDBaseT-enabled products, including switches, matrixes, displays, projectors, AV receivers, extenders, and more. Valens Automotive is a key enabler of the evolution of autonomous driving, providing the ultra-high-speed solution necessary to connect the growing number of in-vehicle sensors, cameras, radars, and lidars. The automotive chipsets are on the road in premium vehicles around the world, and the underlying technology has been selected to become the basis for the new international standard for automotive connectivity. Founded in 2006, Valens is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. To learn more, visit www.valens.com and follow Valens on Twitter @ValensAuto
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Kaiima is a global leader in elite castor hybrid seed genetics and technology, dedicated to transforming castor cultivation into a modern, sustainable, and profitable crop. Our castor breeding program develops optimized hybrids for global markets, with a strong focus on sustainability. Through our CastorMaxx platform, we offer not only advanced castor genetics but also cutting-edge agronomic production techniques, mechanized harvesting technology, and streamlined access to the global castor oil market. Our goal is to drive the growth of a circular economy around castor, creating sustainable solutions for the bioenergy, bioproducts, and castor oil industries. Originally founded in Israel in 2007, Kaiima now has its headquarters in Brazil and operates in multiple regions, including Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. We focus on research and development to bring new, high-impact products to market, supporting the castor oil industry’s evolution towards a more sustainable future.
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Board Observer
Apr 2010
Autotalks (www.auto-talks.com), which was founded in 2008, is a V2X chipset market pioneer and leader, providing customers worldwide with state-of-the-art V2X solutions. Autotalks helps reduce collisions on roadways and improve mobility with its automotive qualified chipsets. The chipsets offer the most advanced, truly secure and highest performing global V2X communication solution designed for autonomous vehicles. Autotalks’ advanced technology, to be mass deployed in the coming years, complements the information coming from other sensors, specifically in non-line-of-sight scenarios, rough weather or poor lighting conditions. It significantly improves overall road safety, effectively coordinating vehicles, self-driving cars, motorcyclists and pedestrians.
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2018
General Partner
Oct 2018
Magenta Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on Israeli and Israeli-related early stage technology startups across multiple categories including Enterprise Software, IoT, Industry 4.0, Automotive, Mobility, AI, Fintech, and Digitalization. We seek to partner with the best Israeli entrepreneurs and work with them towards building significant global companies. We do this by leveraging our unique network to open the right doors, sharing from our own and our community’s operational experience as well as helping secure further financing. Magenta Venture Partners is backed by prominent Japanese institutional investors, including Mitsui & Co. Ltd., all with strong global reach in multiple domains across a wide range of industries. The fund is led by four seasoned professionals with significant global experience in high-tech, startup investment, and corporate business development.
Israel Japan Chamber of Commerce
Board Observer
Sep 2018
2015
Board Observer
Jan 2015
Cipia is a leading provider of intelligent sensing solutions that use edge-based computer vision and AI for safer and better mobility experiences. The companys product lineup includes Driver Sense (driver monitoring system), Cabin Sense (occupancy monitoring system) and Cipia-FS10, a complete video telematics and a driver monitoring solution for telematics service providers and fleets. Over a decade of research and development stand behind the companys proprietary market-leading computer vision technology, which has been selected by OEMs globally and serves vehicles on the roads today
2014
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Valens Semiconductor is a leading provider of semiconductor products, pushing the boundaries of connectivity by enabling long-reach, high-speed video and data transmission for the professional audio-visual and automotive industries. Valens’ Emmy® award-winning HDBaseT technology is the leading standard in the professional AV market with tens of millions of Valens’ chipsets integrated into thousands of HDBaseT-enabled products, including switches, matrixes, displays, projectors, AV receivers, extenders, and more. Valens Automotive is a key enabler of the evolution of autonomous driving, providing the ultra-high-speed solution necessary to connect the growing number of in-vehicle sensors, cameras, radars, and lidars. The automotive chipsets are on the road in premium vehicles around the world, and the underlying technology has been selected to become the basis for the new international standard for automotive connectivity. Founded in 2006, Valens is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. To learn more, visit www.valens.com and follow Valens on Twitter @ValensAuto
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Kaiima is a global leader in elite castor hybrid seed genetics and technology, dedicated to transforming castor cultivation into a modern, sustainable, and profitable crop. Our castor breeding program develops optimized hybrids for global markets, with a strong focus on sustainability. Through our CastorMaxx platform, we offer not only advanced castor genetics but also cutting-edge agronomic production techniques, mechanized harvesting technology, and streamlined access to the global castor oil market. Our goal is to drive the growth of a circular economy around castor, creating sustainable solutions for the bioenergy, bioproducts, and castor oil industries. Originally founded in Israel in 2007, Kaiima now has its headquarters in Brazil and operates in multiple regions, including Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. We focus on research and development to bring new, high-impact products to market, supporting the castor oil industry’s evolution towards a more sustainable future.
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