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Shogo Minami

Investor

Associate at Presidio Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Shogo Minami is a CVC Strategic Investor at Presidio Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation. Since 2022, he has invested in seed and early-stage companies across AI, media and entertainment, physical AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, space, and defense technology, with portfolio companies including Sorajima, Brave Group, MOSH, Gojo & Company, Nudge, Forest, Bloomo Securities, Rocket Link Technology, Secondz Digital, and ATOM.

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Experience

  1. Presidio VenturesCVC Strategic Investorcurrent2026 — presentSanta Clara County, CA
  2. 住友商事株式会社Member of Innovation and Investment Dept.current2020 — present
  3. Sumisho Venture PartnersSenior Associate2022 — 2026
  4. BooxMixFounder2019 — 2020
  5. Japan House of RepresentativesCongressional Intern2016 — 2018Tokyo

Education

  1. Keio UniversityBachelor’s degree, Political Science2016 — 2020
  2. TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologySummer School Program, e-Governance course2019
  3. Redlands

Skills & more

LeadershipPublic SpeakingLarge Language Models (LLM)Customer ServiceSocial MediaMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Word
  • AI Agents Fundamentals — Hugging Face

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Same school

Also attended Keio University58

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Also attended TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology19

Lena NedebockInvestment Associate at Burda Principal InvestmentsRiin VähkFinance Manager at Karma VenturesMariliis HolmOperations & Scientific Diligence at Sustainable Food VenturesJulia VinkmannAccountant at EastateSamuli AheristoInvestment Associate at Vendep CapitalMarko OoloGeneral Partner at SuperAngel

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Also attended Redlands1

Leo PintoHead of Capital Formation at AirTree Ventures

Shared employers

Also worked at Presidio Ventures14

Masood PirzadaCEO at Presidio VenturesRoss LeavExecutive Vice President at Presidio VenturesTomo YamaguchiSenior Vice President at Presidio VenturesSeth NishidaSenior Director at Presidio VenturesTyler SchintoSenior Director at Presidio VenturesRichard CrosfieldDirector at Presidio Ventures

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Colleagues at Presidio Ventures

Ben Takeuchi
COO at Presidio Ventures
Dafydd Prole
Principal at Presidio Ventures
Ellen Pierce
VP Administration at Presidio Ventures
Hiro Tomogae
Director at Presidio Ventures
Jamie Tapscott
Operations Specialist at Presidio Ventures
Kei Yoshida
Principal at Presidio Ventures
Leonard Fong
Senior Controller at Presidio Ventures
Masood Pirzada
CEO at Presidio Ventures