Kohei Banno
InvestorFellow - Medtech Building & Investment at Kicker Ventures
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
About
Kohei Banno is a Venture Fellow at Kicker Ventures and an MIT Sloan Fellow MBA candidate in the class of 2026. He cofounded TG Medical, a Japan-based medical device startup that raised venture funding and government grants, conducted clinical trials, and managed regulatory strategy across three countries before being acquired by a global medical device company; earlier, he spent a decade at Citigroup in Tokyo and Hong Kong covering fund managers and CIOs across global equities. He is also cofounding Lub Dub Lab, a voice AI platform for cardiovascular screening, and is developing an investment thesis on brain computer interfaces and neuromodulation.
Experience
- Kicker VenturesVenture Fellowcurrent2026 — present
- Lub Dub LabCo-Foundercurrent2025 — present
- T.G.Medical Inc.Co-Founder (Acquired)2020 — 2025Tokyo, Japan
- Biomedical SolutionsCOO, Head of International Division2019 — 2020
- CitiVice President2008 — 2018
Education
- MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Business Administration - MBA2025 — 2026
- Harvard Business School
- Keio UniversityBachelor's degree, Economics
Skills & more
Languages English · Japanese
- Onefinnet Venture Capital — Onefinnet
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