Partner / JP at ff Venture Capital
View Live Interactive Profile →Taro Hizume is listed on the ff Venture Capital team page as Partner / JP, and his biography on the same page states that he is a general partner at ffVC. Before joining the firm he was an Investment Director at JBIC IG Partners, where he executed private equity and venture capital investment deals and, the firm says, played a role in establishing a venture capital firm in Europe. Before JBIC IG Partners he worked for Industrial Growth Platform, Inc., a Japanese consulting and advisory firm, leading management consulting projects in the electronics and TMT sectors, business turnaround projects and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He began his career at Mitsui & Co., Ltd. as an analyst focusing on railcar leasing and international ship trading. He holds a Tech MBA with Distinction from NYU Stern School of Business and an M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Tokyo. No company-level investment could be attributed to him from a first-party source, and no board seat was found.