David Milstein

Managing Partner, Eight Roads Ventures Japan

📍 Tokyo, Japan🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 Japan
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Jan 2024
zpeer is a company based out of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Jun 2021
センシンロボティクスは『ロボティクスの力で、社会の「当たり前」を進化させていく。』をミッションに掲げ、企業や社会が抱える課題を、ドローンをはじめとするロボティクス技術で解決する社会インフラDXのリーディングカンパニーです。 ドローンやロボットの自律制御、取得したデータの管理、AIによる分析解析、そして誰もが簡単に使える画面デザイン、これらソフトウェアと、データを収集するドローンなどのハードウェアといったデバイスを組み合わせ、送電設備やプラント施設、建設現場などでの設備点検や作業場管理を自動化するサービス・プロダクトを開発しています。 「労働人口の減少」「インフラの老朽化」「災害の激甚化」という日本が抱える社会課題の抜本的な解決を目指しています。
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Oct 2016
〜食の未来を、アップデートする〜 トレタは飲食業界の課題をテクノロジーで解決し産業改革を目指すVartical SaaSです。 私たちの使命は、情報化から取り残された飲食業界をアップデートし、 そこで働く人たちが活き活きとやりがいをもって働ける環境を取り戻すことで す。 テクノロジーを使って、現場の仕事を支え、外食産業をよりよく変え、より豊かな食文化を作ることを目指しています。
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Jun 2016
WHILL connects the world with personal transportation solutions. Our mission is to deliver fun and innovative mobility for all. In addition to designing and selling mobility vehicles, WHILL provides mobility-as-a-service, offering autonomous transportation services as well as on-site fleet and short-term rental services that make public spaces such as airports, hospitals, and vacation destinations more accessible.
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Jun 2016
株式会社Paidyは、日本において、業界をリードするあと払い(Buy Now Pay Later)サービス「ペイディ」を提供しています。スマホだけで欲しいものを今すぐ購入できて、お支払いは「まとめてあとから」。シンプルなUX、翌月一括あと払いまたは分割手数料無料* の3・6・12回あと払いで支払いが可能な利便性、スマホで賢くお金の管理ができる点などから多くの方にご利用いただき、アプリダウンロード数は1000万を超えています。70万店舗以上の販売店で利用いただけるほか、Visaの加盟店ならお支払い方法として店頭でもオンラインでもペイディを利用できる「ペイディカード」も提供しています。ペイディアプリをお使いいただくと、欲しいアイテムの発見から購入までの一連のお買い物が、全てアプリ内で完結します。 「夢に自信を持ち、心に余裕を持てる世界」を作ることを目指して。お客様への信頼をもとに、どなたでも安心してお買い物を楽しめる環境を整えることが、ペイディの大事な使命です。 Paidy is Japans pioneer and leading BNPL service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream. Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers. Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline.
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May 2015
Tokyo
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Jun 2014
Cloudian is the leader in data management software for the hybrid cloud. With military-grade security, limitless scalability and seamless cloud integration, Cloudian’s S3-compatible object storage lets users optimize data access, meet data sovereignty requirements and cut costs by consolidating information to a single, cloud-like platform. Cloudian’s geo-distributed architecture manages and protects object and file data at the edge, core, and in the cloud—for both conventional and modern applications. Learn more at cloudian.com.
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Mar 2014
Kaizen Ad delivers the highest-quality video ad creative including 2D, 3D, user-generated content (UGC), influencer content, playables and more. As an extension of your creative team, we work tirelessly to deliver the freshest and most engaging video ads with faster turnaround times, ensuring real outcomes for our clients. Kaizen creative managers offer support at every stage, including quality assurance and asset creation. Trust Kaizen Ad to help you elevate your video advertising and take your brand to new heights.
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Jun 2013
Peatix is an event discovery platform that connects people to communities through a shared passion for all things similar and different. Whether you are an aspiring home cook looking for live stream classes from the comforts of your own kitchen, a music junkie looking to discover an indie band in your city to jam with, or an entrepreneur seeking to connect with communities across the globe, we deliver these unique experiences right into your hands, even as you are on-the-go. With a mobile-centric search design, discover your next experience easily across multiple categories from Arts & Culture to Business & Tech. Our personalized recommendation system also brings to users more of what you love, making event discovery simpler & more intuitive, the way it is meant to be. Peatix also never charges any additional ticketing or processing fees to attendees so sit back, relax & rest assured you can purchase your tickets with confidence and ease. About Peatix: Peatix is a global event discovery platform with more than 850,000 events facilitated across-the-world to date. It is available in 27 countries including Japan, Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia, and investors include Fidelity Growth Partners Japan, 500 Startups, Digital Garage, Draper Nexus Ventures, Itochu Technology Ventures, Sunbridge Partners, and ZenShin Capital
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Mar 2013
With the advance of digitalization, we are able to recognize values unseen to the human eye such as time and space as data, and the birth of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are already beginning to change the nature of economy as we know it today. Our mission is to make full use of these growing technologies to unearth the most effective uses of their value and create a brand new economy.
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
zpeer is a company based out of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2021
Board Member
Jun 2021
センシンロボティクスは『ロボティクスの力で、社会の「当たり前」を進化させていく。』をミッションに掲げ、企業や社会が抱える課題を、ドローンをはじめとするロボティクス技術で解決する社会インフラDXのリーディングカンパニーです。 ドローンやロボットの自律制御、取得したデータの管理、AIによる分析解析、そして誰もが簡単に使える画面デザイン、これらソフトウェアと、データを収集するドローンなどのハードウェアといったデバイスを組み合わせ、送電設備やプラント施設、建設現場などでの設備点検や作業場管理を自動化するサービス・プロダクトを開発しています。 「労働人口の減少」「インフラの老朽化」「災害の激甚化」という日本が抱える社会課題の抜本的な解決を目指しています。
2018
Azit
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Jul 2018
2016
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Oct 2016
〜食の未来を、アップデートする〜 トレタは飲食業界の課題をテクノロジーで解決し産業改革を目指すVartical SaaSです。 私たちの使命は、情報化から取り残された飲食業界をアップデートし、 そこで働く人たちが活き活きとやりがいをもって働ける環境を取り戻すことで す。 テクノロジーを使って、現場の仕事を支え、外食産業をよりよく変え、より豊かな食文化を作ることを目指しています。
Board Member
Jun 2016
WHILL connects the world with personal transportation solutions. Our mission is to deliver fun and innovative mobility for all. In addition to designing and selling mobility vehicles, WHILL provides mobility-as-a-service, offering autonomous transportation services as well as on-site fleet and short-term rental services that make public spaces such as airports, hospitals, and vacation destinations more accessible.
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