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Katsumi Ikuta

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Investor at Sony Ventures Corporation

Japan

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About

Katsumi Ikuta is an Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund and holds a business development and senior project management role at Sony. He also serves as Project Manager of Web3 Security Audit at TECHFUND and has over 10 years of experience in embedded system development as a hardware and software engineer, along with experience as an IoT and cloud engineer working with Python and GCP.

Experience

  1. Sony Innovation FundInvestment Managercurrent2024 — present
  2. SonyBusiness Development & Project Managercurrent2012 — presentTokyo, Japan
  3. SonyProject Leader2009 — 2012Tokyo, Japan
  4. TECHFUND Inc.Project Manager of Web3 Security Audit Servicecurrent2021 — presentTokyo
  5. Self-EmployedCloud / IoT Engineercurrent2021 — present
  6. Sony Electronics Asia PacificProduct Engineer2007 — 2009Singapore
  7. SonyHardware Design Engineer2005 — 2007Tokyo, Japan
  8. SonyFirmware Engineer2002 — 2005Tokyo, Japan
  9. KENWOODSoftware Engineer1996 — 2002Tokyo, Japan

Skills & more

Leadership1Management1Team LeadershipGlobal Communications2Business Development2Cloud Applications1Software Project ManagementSoftware Development1Electrical Engineering1Artificial Neural NetworksCustomer ServiceResearch
+12 moreArtificial IntelligenceProject ManagementRapid PrototypingRaspberry PiHardware ArchitectureComputer VisionProduct DevelopmentProgrammingMicrocomputersInternet of Things (IoT)Apache KafkaC (Programming Language)
  • Claude Code in Action — Anthropic
  • Building with the Claude API — Anthropic
  • Introduction to Model Context Protocol — Anthropic
  • Certificate of completion: Introduction to agent skills — Anthropic

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Who is Katsumi Ikuta?
Katsumi Ikuta is an Investment Manager at Sony Innovation Fund and holds a business development and senior project management role at Sony. He also serves as Project Manager of Web3 Security Audit at TECHFUND and has over 10 years of experience in embedded system development as a hardware and software engineer, along with experience as an IoT and cloud engineer working with Python and GCP.
Where does Katsumi Ikuta work?
Katsumi Ikuta is at Sony Ventures Corporation.
Where did Katsumi Ikuta go to school?
Katsumi Ikuta studied at University of the People (Master of Business Administration - MBA); Ritsumeikan University (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical); Ritsumeikan University (Bachelor's degree, Science and Engineering).

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