パートナー (Partner) at UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
View Live Interactive Profile →Keisuke Ide is a Partner at UTEC. UTEC's profile states that after 15 years in the United States, including work as an engineer in Silicon Valley and in management consulting, and a period at a Tokyo venture company, he entered the venture capital industry. He invests in physical science and IT, in particular academia originated ventures. The page states verbatim that as lead investor he currently serves as outside director of Japanese and US portfolio companies, naming Liminal Insights and Nelumbo Inc. in the United States and RICOS and Algalbio in Japan. It separately records, in the past tense, that he formerly served as outside director and lead investor at GLM Co., Ltd. (acquired by an overseas listed company), AI inside Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange IPO) and IID, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange IPO), and that he executed the acquisition of Phyzios, Inc. by Google Inc. from deal development through negotiation. His prior employers listed by UTEC are KLA, The McKenna Group, IPFlex and Globis Capital Partners. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and an MS from Stanford University School of Engineering. UTEC states he has been named on the Forbes Japan Midas List and received a Japan Venture Award capitalist prize, and that he teaches on JVCA venture capitalist training.