Kimihito Usui
InvestorSenior Principal at Axil Capital · Deputy General Counsel at Altamont Capital Partners
Japan
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Kimihito Usui is a Senior Principal at Axil Capital Partners (Axil Capital Advisors K.K.), focusing on early-stage biotech investment across the US, Japan, and Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo and worked as a researcher on artificial cell models and later as a lead researcher at a drug discovery venture, where he handled preclinical study design, budget management, fundraising, and business development, publishing 12 peer-reviewed papers. Since 2016 he has worked in life science and healthcare investment, establishing his firm's first direct biotech investment scheme in a securities-based principal investment division and completing direct investments in nine companies across the US and Japan, two of which listed on NASDAQ.
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- Axil Capital Partners, Axil Capital Advisors K.K.Senior Principalcurrent2023 — present東京都, 日本
- Axil Capital Partners, Axil Capital Advisors K.K.Principal2019 — 2023日本 東京都
- Mizuho SecuritiesDirector2021 — 2023日本 東京都
- Mizuho SecuritiesVP2016 — 2021
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- Who is Kimihito Usui?
- Kimihito Usui is a Senior Principal at Axil Capital Partners (Axil Capital Advisors K.K.), focusing on early-stage biotech investment across the US, Japan, and Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo and worked as a researcher on artificial cell models and later as a lead researcher at a drug discovery venture, where he handled preclinical study design, budget management, fundraising, and business development, publishing 12 peer-reviewed papers. Since 2016 he has worked in life science and healthcare investment, establishing his firm's first direct biotech investment scheme in a securities-based principal investment division and completing direct investments in nine companies across the US and Japan, two of which listed on NASDAQ.
- Where does Kimihito Usui work?
- Kimihito Usui is Senior Principal at Axil Capital.
- Where did Kimihito Usui go to school?
- Kimihito Usui studied at The University of Tokyo (Ph.D.); The University of Tokyo; Tohoku University.
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