Toshiya Otani

Co-Founder and Managing Director at TransLink Capital

📍 San Jose, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
Operator-angel🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Jul 2025
Meet the Al platform to Revolutionize Engineering. We started this company because manufacturing and engineering are overdue for a digital revolution. These fields are complex, and while agile, lean, and just-in-time methods have driven progress, AI now offers a transformative opportunity to reshape how work gets done. Foundation’s EGI platform is built to accelerate every stage of the product development cycle—from research and design to manufacturing and documentation—empowering engineers to build better products, faster and more efficiently.
Investor
Sep 2024
We are building a world class AI R&D company in Tokyo. We want to develop AI solutions for Japan’s needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
Board Member
Oct 2022
Makersite is transforming how products are made by accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy. We’re the leader in delivering supply chain digital twins for product sustainability, risk, and cost optimization for the world’s leading brands. Our technology combines AI, data, and apps to power sustainable product and supply chain decisions at scale, helping manufacturing enterprises solve complex challenges in minutes where previously it would take them months. We do this by empowering engineering and procurement teams in manufacturing companies with the data they need to make better decisions about what to make their products out of and from where they should buy from. Makersite’s AI automatically maps a company’s product data, suppliers, and manufacturing processes against more than 140 material and supply chain databases. It then constructs granular, precise digital twins of each product and how they are made, used, and disposed of. It is these dynamic, multi-criteria models and deeply integrated apps that enable transparency and understanding of multiple factors, including environmental footprints, should-costing, and compliance risks, faster than any current approach. Makersite is an award-winning software-as-a-service provider helping manufacturing enterprises solve complex challenges around their products and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by CEO and Founder Neil D’Souza, the Stuttgart-based company employs more than 60 employees across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Their customer portfolio includes Microsoft, Bekaert, Barco, Cummins, and Vestas. Amongst other areas, Makersite is the leader in MCDA for product design and procurement, as well as full automation of LCAs and Scope 3 reporting. Just in 2022, 20+ Million LCAs were processed through the cloud platform. You can find our social media privacy policy here - https://makersite.io/social-policy/
Board Member
May 2021
Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics. We mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the implementation of high performance manipulators with advanced vision capabilities, Plus One robots bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and Supervised Autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant. Plus One – Robots work. People rule.
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Empowerly is designed to make college admissions guidance accessible to all through data-driven education technology. Our platform uses algorithms and human expertise to match students with their best-match counselors who will assess their applicant competitiveness at top U.S. colleges and universities. We empower students with the tools they need to successfully navigate the complexities of college preparation, program acceptance, and beyond.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Chartboost is a leading in-app monetization and programmatic advertising platform, empowering app developers to monetize highly engaged audiences by connecting them directly with marketers through immersive ad experiences. In December 2024, Chartboost was acquired by LoopMe, a leading technology company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve brand advertising results. The acquisition reflects LoopMe’s bold ambition to advance brand advertising within the gaming and mobile app ecosystems – expanding its established presence in this space, significantly growing its SDK network, and strengthening its outcomes-based AI technology platform. For more information on LoopMe, visit www.loopme.com
Board Observer
Nov 2019
Singular empowers marketers to futureproof their growth with next-gen attribution and analytics. We provide a holistic solution that combines mobile attribution with industry-leading cost aggregation, flexible ROI analytics, and automatic loading directly into your BI tools. Top marketers from LinkedIn, Rovio, Microsoft, Lyft, Twitter, EA, and more, rely on Singular for a complete view of their marketing performance.
Board Member
May 2019
Omniscience is a fast-growing, venture-backed, early-stage AI startup in the heart of Silicon Valley currently operating in stealth mode. We are the solution of choice for the Fortune 500.
Board Member
Nov 2018
Skymind was an open-source, enterprise deep-learning provider based in San Francisco, California. Were a team of deep-learning specialists and Java engineers, and the proud creators of the worlds first open-source, distributed, commercial-grade deep-learning framework: Eclipse Deeplearning4j.
Board Member
Nov 2018
Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers get better results with reinforcement learning. Pathmind provides a cloud-based tool and intuitive interface for adapting business simulations to achieve operational breakthroughs with AI. It works on previously unsolvable problems in manufacturing, supply chain and energy optimization.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Were now part of Pepper! --- Notion is a smart monitoring system that empowers home and property owners to be proactive in monitoring their spaces and most valued possessions. Powered by a multifunctional sensor and app, Notion is committed to helping reduce risk and increase monitoring of a property with the ultimate goal of becoming a requirement for insurance. Notion partners with leading insurance and service providers to help drive customer adoption, expand education, increase engagement, reduce claims, and customize products and discounts. getnotion.com
Board Member
Jun 2016
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs. Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn. We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
Board Member
Nov 2015
Top Flight Technologies is a leading provider of heavy-lift, long-range hybrid-electric commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We can deliver fully autonomous mission-ready UAVs for inspection/surveillance or cargo-transport within 60-days. Combining the new opportunities in Agile Aerospace 2.0 with our energy-saving hybrid power, extended flight time and enhanced payload UAVs, we are redefining global value chains and creating new business models. We are helping to rethink the ways goods are produced and consumed, how transportation and delivery systems are used throughout the industry, and developing new tools to access and analyze valuable data and information on a near real-time basis. Learn more about our Airborg(TM) hybrid-powered multi-function UAVs that address industrial-strength applications requiring extended flight, enhanced payload and onboard power for sensors and data communications at www.topflighttech.com
Board Member
Jun 2014
The Workspot Enterprise VDI Platform is engineered for simplicity - without compromises. Workspot is the only 100% cloud-native, unified VDI platform for securely delivering Windows 10/11 and Linux virtual desktops and apps across on-premises infrastructure and multiple public clouds. Support your multi-cloud/hybrid strategy and address every enterprise use case with a single, proven solution that modernizes and future-proofs end user computing in your organization. Start your Workspot pilot in one day, go live in 45 days. Surprised? Find out how we do it! Watch our key feature demos at workspot.com/why-workspot
Board Member
Feb 2014
Use Cisco CloudCenter (formerly CliQr) multicloud platform to more securely deploy and manage applications in multiple data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments. This software solution helps you modernize and automate your data center or add public cloud application deployment to your service offering.
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Meet the Al platform to Revolutionize Engineering. We started this company because manufacturing and engineering are overdue for a digital revolution. These fields are complex, and while agile, lean, and just-in-time methods have driven progress, AI now offers a transformative opportunity to reshape how work gets done. Foundation’s EGI platform is built to accelerate every stage of the product development cycle—from research and design to manufacturing and documentation—empowering engineers to build better products, faster and more efficiently.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
We are building a world class AI R&D company in Tokyo. We want to develop AI solutions for Japan’s needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
Makersite is transforming how products are made by accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy. We’re the leader in delivering supply chain digital twins for product sustainability, risk, and cost optimization for the world’s leading brands. Our technology combines AI, data, and apps to power sustainable product and supply chain decisions at scale, helping manufacturing enterprises solve complex challenges in minutes where previously it would take them months. We do this by empowering engineering and procurement teams in manufacturing companies with the data they need to make better decisions about what to make their products out of and from where they should buy from. Makersite’s AI automatically maps a company’s product data, suppliers, and manufacturing processes against more than 140 material and supply chain databases. It then constructs granular, precise digital twins of each product and how they are made, used, and disposed of. It is these dynamic, multi-criteria models and deeply integrated apps that enable transparency and understanding of multiple factors, including environmental footprints, should-costing, and compliance risks, faster than any current approach. Makersite is an award-winning software-as-a-service provider helping manufacturing enterprises solve complex challenges around their products and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by CEO and Founder Neil D’Souza, the Stuttgart-based company employs more than 60 employees across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Their customer portfolio includes Microsoft, Bekaert, Barco, Cummins, and Vestas. Amongst other areas, Makersite is the leader in MCDA for product design and procurement, as well as full automation of LCAs and Scope 3 reporting. Just in 2022, 20+ Million LCAs were processed through the cloud platform. You can find our social media privacy policy here - https://makersite.io/social-policy/
2021
Board Member
May 2021
Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics. We mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the implementation of high performance manipulators with advanced vision capabilities, Plus One robots bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and Supervised Autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant. Plus One – Robots work. People rule.
2020
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Empowerly is designed to make college admissions guidance accessible to all through data-driven education technology. Our platform uses algorithms and human expertise to match students with their best-match counselors who will assess their applicant competitiveness at top U.S. colleges and universities. We empower students with the tools they need to successfully navigate the complexities of college preparation, program acceptance, and beyond.
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