Tsune Shirota

Technology Investor

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
2023
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
Investor/Board Observer
2021
Aiven is the trusted open source data platform for everyone. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. Meanwhile, Aiven does what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable customers to drive business results from open source data technologies that trigger true transformations on a global scale. Aiven provides managed open source data technologies, such as PostgreSQL®, Apache Kafka® and OpenSearch®, on all major clouds. Most recently, Aiven achieved a $3B valuation and has now raised $420M total funding backed by its investors Atomico, Earlybird, Eurazeo, IVP, Lifeline, Salesforce Ventures, and World Innovation Lab. Aiven is headquartered in Helsinki and has hubs in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. To learn more about Aiven, visit https://aiven.io.
Investor
2020
Bring your video calls to life, deliver presentations they’ll remember, and make workplace communication better with mmhmm.
Investor
2020
Seeing is how go-to-market teams turn alignment into an ongoing way of working. Mural is the AI-powered visual workspace where it happens. Sync up Bring teams inside and outside your organization together in a shared visual space that replaces endless email updates with a living source of truth. Speed up Turn your ideas into action with AI tools that accelerate alignment, workflows that keep teams moving in lockstep, and templates that jump-start ideation and co-creation. Stand out Reach faster decisions and drive better outcomes — Mural gives you everything you need to get in front of customers quicker so your business wins more. More than half of the Fortune 100 trust Mural every day to foster always-on alignment. We help these innovators connect strategy to execution for faster, better results.
Investor
2019
Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers. Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than 17,000 customers to build blazing fast and relevant search experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale. Algolia was recently named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery Algolias journey to leadership is underpinned by its unwavering commitment to three foundational pillars Speed, Ease of Use, and Scale. Algolia is known for its blazing fast speed with results returned in a staggering 1 to 20 milliseconds, Algolias AI search eclipses industry standards by up to 200-fold, setting a new benchmark for user satisfaction and ROI optimization. The platforms ease of use empowers rapid implementation and effortless integration, Algolias APIs catalyze swift go-to-market strategies. Augmented by SDKs and a robust code library, the platform streamlines development while offering unparalleled analytics capabilities, ensuring every interaction is finely tuned to perfection. And, as the preeminent hosted search engine globally, Algolia processes a staggering 1.7 trillion searches annually. With an index housing over 30 billion records and operating at an awe-inspiring 99.999% availability, Algolia empowers enterprises to scale unprecedented heights of user-centricity. Founded in 2012 in Paris, the company grew and subsequently moved its headquarters to San Francisco to expand its operations and penetrate the North American market.
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2018
Asana empowers organizations to work smarter. Asana is the only enterprise work management platform that connects company-wide goals, strategic initiatives, and the execution of work in one place. Asana has over 150,000 customers and millions of users in 200+ countries and territories. Customers like Amazon, Roche, and T-Mobile, rely on Asana to manage everything from goal setting and tracking to capacity planning, to product launches. For more information, visit www.asana.com.
Investor
2018
The Auth0 Platform takes a modern approach to Identity and enables organizations to provide secure access to any application, for any user. Auth0 is a highly customizable platform that is as simple as development teams want, and as flexible as they need. Safeguarding billions of login transactions each month, Auth0 delivers convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Auth0 is part of Okta, Inc.
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2018
Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.
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2017
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold 40+ currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cross-border payments network that will one day power money without borders for everyone, everywhere. However you use the platform, Wise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money. Co-founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise. It is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker, WISE. 16 million people and businesses use Wise globally, which processes £9 billion in cross-border transactions every month, saving customers around £1.5 billion a year. For customer queries: Please note that LinkedIn is not a Wise Customer Support channel. If you would like to hear from our Customer Support team, please see our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. Login to access customer support: https://wise.com/login/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Wise/ IG:https://www.instagram.com/wiseaccount/ TW:https://twitter.com/home
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2023
Investor
2023
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
2021
Investor/Board Observer
2021
Aiven is the trusted open source data platform for everyone. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. Meanwhile, Aiven does what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable customers to drive business results from open source data technologies that trigger true transformations on a global scale. Aiven provides managed open source data technologies, such as PostgreSQL®, Apache Kafka® and OpenSearch®, on all major clouds. Most recently, Aiven achieved a $3B valuation and has now raised $420M total funding backed by its investors Atomico, Earlybird, Eurazeo, IVP, Lifeline, Salesforce Ventures, and World Innovation Lab. Aiven is headquartered in Helsinki and has hubs in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. To learn more about Aiven, visit https://aiven.io.
2020
Investor
2020
Bring your video calls to life, deliver presentations they’ll remember, and make workplace communication better with mmhmm.
Investor
2020
Seeing is how go-to-market teams turn alignment into an ongoing way of working. Mural is the AI-powered visual workspace where it happens. Sync up Bring teams inside and outside your organization together in a shared visual space that replaces endless email updates with a living source of truth. Speed up Turn your ideas into action with AI tools that accelerate alignment, workflows that keep teams moving in lockstep, and templates that jump-start ideation and co-creation. Stand out Reach faster decisions and drive better outcomes — Mural gives you everything you need to get in front of customers quicker so your business wins more. More than half of the Fortune 100 trust Mural every day to foster always-on alignment. We help these innovators connect strategy to execution for faster, better results.
2019
Investor
2019
Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers. Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than 17,000 customers to build blazing fast and relevant search experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale. Algolia was recently named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery Algolias journey to leadership is underpinned by its unwavering commitment to three foundational pillars Speed, Ease of Use, and Scale. Algolia is known for its blazing fast speed with results returned in a staggering 1 to 20 milliseconds, Algolias AI search eclipses industry standards by up to 200-fold, setting a new benchmark for user satisfaction and ROI optimization. The platforms ease of use empowers rapid implementation and effortless integration, Algolias APIs catalyze swift go-to-market strategies. Augmented by SDKs and a robust code library, the platform streamlines development while offering unparalleled analytics capabilities, ensuring every interaction is finely tuned to perfection. And, as the preeminent hosted search engine globally, Algolia processes a staggering 1.7 trillion searches annually. With an index housing over 30 billion records and operating at an awe-inspiring 99.999% availability, Algolia empowers enterprises to scale unprecedented heights of user-centricity. Founded in 2012 in Paris, the company grew and subsequently moved its headquarters to San Francisco to expand its operations and penetrate the North American market.
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