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Christina Hirukawa

Business Strategist | Founder | Investor

📍 Canada, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Jan 2019
Freshline's wholesale and retail e-commerce platform makes orders 10x more efficient for food suppliers. Join hundreds of suppliers growing, saving, and scaling with Freshline. Learn more at https://freshline.io ⚡️
Investor
Jan 2019
Surf Giveaways drives real results for brands through customized giveaways created by industry experts. Surf has helped a range of high-profile brands, including Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, Amazon Prime Gaming, and SimilarWeb, to grow their following, better understand their audience and boost revenue. Surf has been recognized in respected publications such as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and TechCrunch. The platform has secured investment from reputable firms such as Moneta Ventures, Round13 Capital, and MAGIC Fund, as well as prominent individuals like Washington Wizards player Kyle Kuzma, content creator Cody Ko, along with unicorn founders such as Devon Townsend (Co-Founder, Cameo), Roham Gharegozlou (Co-Founder, Dapper Labs), Ryan Holmes (Founder, Hootsuite), Brad Shaw (CEO, Shaw Communications), Michele Romanow (President, Clearco), and Jason Robins (CEO, DraftKings).
Investor & Mentor
Jan 2017
We are on a mission to Kick Sugar, Keep Candy!
early stageFood & Beverages
Experience · 6 entries
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2019
New Venture Director
May 2019
Highline Beta is a hybrid corporate venture studio and VC firm that evolves the traditional management consulting model to put things into action, not just strategize in the clouds. We work with large corporates and family offices to identify and validate new growth opportunities and build ventures (spin-ins and spin-outs). We help companies and family offices design, build and run corporate venture studios, enabling them to repeatedly develop new businesses. Some of our clients include: RBC, AB InBev, Colgate-Palmolive, Cincinnati Insurance, Greenshield Canada, Munich RE, Mattel, 1848 Ventures and others. We work with executives to build new ventures both inside and outside of their organizations to unlock new areas of growth. We bring a startup mentality and execution capabilities to our corporate clients to help them grow beyond their core. Highline Beta is led by entrepreneurial leaders with track records of starting successful businesses and building incredible value, and we work with some of the world’s best-known companies to help them solve their growth innovation challenges.
Investor
Jan 2019
Freshline's wholesale and retail e-commerce platform makes orders 10x more efficient for food suppliers. Join hundreds of suppliers growing, saving, and scaling with Freshline. Learn more at https://freshline.io ⚡️
Investor
Jan 2019
Surf Giveaways drives real results for brands through customized giveaways created by industry experts. Surf has helped a range of high-profile brands, including Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, Amazon Prime Gaming, and SimilarWeb, to grow their following, better understand their audience and boost revenue. Surf has been recognized in respected publications such as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and TechCrunch. The platform has secured investment from reputable firms such as Moneta Ventures, Round13 Capital, and MAGIC Fund, as well as prominent individuals like Washington Wizards player Kyle Kuzma, content creator Cody Ko, along with unicorn founders such as Devon Townsend (Co-Founder, Cameo), Roham Gharegozlou (Co-Founder, Dapper Labs), Ryan Holmes (Founder, Hootsuite), Brad Shaw (CEO, Shaw Communications), Michele Romanow (President, Clearco), and Jason Robins (CEO, DraftKings).
2017
Investor & Mentor
Jan 2017
We are on a mission to Kick Sugar, Keep Candy!
early stageFood & Beverages
2015
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2015
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