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Ryo Chikazawa

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Founder at Autify

Mountain View, California, United States

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Ryo: together at Seikei University

About

Ryo Chikazawa is the Co-founder and CEO of Autify, which participated in the Alchemist Accelerator. He previously worked as an engineer at Viki (acquired by Rakuten), DeNA, and Hoodline, and co-founded Emosiv (acquired by CROOZ) as its CTO. His earlier work includes managing Viki's subtitling community, leading front-end architecture for the mobile game Blood Brothers, and developing the open-source web game framework Arctic.js in 2010.

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Autify's investors · 9

ANOBAKATokyo · $382K – $99M checks · since 2021Archetype VenturesTokyo · $875K – $92M checks · since 2021Genesia VenturesTokyo · $774K – $50M checks · since 2021Globis Capital PartnersTokyo · $3.9M – $369M checks · since 2021LG Technology VenturesSanta Clara · since 2021Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2021Uncorrelated VenturesLas Vegas · since 2021WiLPalo Alto · since 2021World Innovation LabPalo Alto · since 2021

Co-founders at Autify

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Sam YamashitaFounder
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Sam Y.Founder

Experience

  1. AutifyCo-founder & CEOcurrent2016 — presentSan Francisco
  2. Pixel Labs, Inc.Software Engineer2016San Francisco
  3. Viki, Inc.Product Engineer2014 — 2016Singapore
  4. emosiv, Inc. (Acquired by CROOZ)CTO & co-founder2012 — 2013Shibuya-Ku Tokyo, Japan
  5. DeNASoftware Engineer2010 — 2012Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan
  6. UNITEAIR Co.,Ltd.Front end engineer2008 — 2010Shibuya-Ku Tokyo, Japan
  7. OtabaDesigner & co-founder2006 — 2008Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Skills & more

JavaScript12SASSHTML 57Flash4Ruby on Rails3CSS1Ruby1Git1Node.js1JavaObjective-CIllustrator
+11 morePhotoshopAmazon Web Services (AWS)QA AutomationBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)User Interface DesignGraphic DesignEntrepreneurshipKeyframe AnimationStart-upsAgile TestingAgile Methodologies

Languages English · Japanese · Mandarin

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Who is Ryo Chikazawa?
Ryo Chikazawa is the Co-founder and CEO of Autify, which participated in the Alchemist Accelerator. He previously worked as an engineer at Viki (acquired by Rakuten), DeNA, and Hoodline, and co-founded Emosiv (acquired by CROOZ) as its CTO. His earlier work includes managing Viki's subtitling community, leading front-end architecture for the mobile game Blood Brothers, and developing the open-source web game framework Arctic.js in 2010.
Where does Ryo Chikazawa work?
Ryo Chikazawa is Founder of Autify.
What companies did Ryo Chikazawa found?
Ryo Chikazawa founded Autify.
Where did Ryo Chikazawa go to school?
Ryo Chikazawa studied at Seikei University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer science).

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