Yoshi A. Okamoto

Chief Innovator & Global Strategist

📍 Japan🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2014
Angel investor🌍 Japan
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Advisor acting as a Corporate Investor
2014
Lingokids is the #1 entertainment platform for young kids. Enjoyed by over 20 million families each month, it offers more than 4000 interactive games, songs, and shows loved by kids and trusted by grown-ups around the world. Created by parents and educators, it stands as the ultimate destination for kids fun without compromise. Designed to be ad-free and age-appropriate, Lingokids delivers a premium, handcrafted experience that’s KidSAFE certified, with learning by default. More than 200 million downloads worldwide and over 50 awards have established Lingokids as the standard for kids entertainment.
 Partnerships with Disney, Blippi, NASA, BBC Earth, and more bring world-class content together, all in one trusted place for kids.
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2021
Advisor acting as a Corporate Partner
2021
Smart Paper platform provides AI for paper digitization and automated scoring. Supporting nearly 5 million students in India, enabling population scale assessment data collection. Recognized by UNESCO and the Confederation of Indian Industries. www.SmartPaperApp.com
EdTech Ecosystem Partner, AWS EdStart
2021
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.
2019
Advisor acting as a Corporate Partner
2019
Based in Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Techies is a one-stop IT consulting firm that provides clients with innovative solutions to all their business problems through digital transformation. We offer complete and comprehensive support in IT Product Development & Consulting, IT Due Diligence, and Cybersecurity. Our diverse team consists of highly-experienced experts in artificial intelligence, data science, software development, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure. In just four years, we have successfully delivered quality services to 35+ clients, including high profile companies such as SoftBank and Oyo Japan. One of our success stories is our project with MeeTruck, a SoftBank and Nippon Express transportation management venture, in which we have constructed a large-scale SaaS platform from scratch. The SaaS platform, with a highly optimized cloud infrastructure capable of handling 20,000 requests per second and zero downtime deployment, is now already being used by logistics companies around Japan. Start your digital transformation journey today. Reach out to Tokyo Techies anytime for a free consultation.
Visiting Associate Professor | Director of Innovation and Enterprise
2019
At NUS, we are shaping the future through our people and our pursuit of new frontiers in knowledge. In a single century, we have become a university of global influence and an Asian thought leader. Our location at the crossroads of Asia informs our mission and gives us a tremendous vantage point to help create opportunities and address the pressing issues facing Singapore, Asia and the world. At NUS, we believe in education, research and service that change lives. Read our social media community guidelines here: https://nus.edu/socialmediaguidelines.
2017
Research Partner, Minducate Center - Sagol School of Neuroscience
2017
Tel Aviv University believes in pursuing the next big idea, the next challenge, the next mystery that will advance human knowledge and improve all of our lives. TAU is the largest and most multidisciplinary university in Israel, comprised of nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes. It’s been consistently ranked as the #1 institution outside the United States in producing graduates who successfully raise venture capital for their start-up companies. We encourage our students to dream big and follow their passions.
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