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End of the year 2020 is fast approaching, and as we look back at the B2B industry this year, the biggest impact of all without a doubt has been COVID-19. The economy slowed heavily as the movement of people came to a halt in order to prevent the spread of infection. Another byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the accelerated digital transformation in many industries, as companies were forced to rethink the way they work and make major changes in business practices.
For this B2B Summit, we are welcoming the CEO of Notion as one of the speakers. Notion, as you may know, has grown rapidly thanks to the digitization of corporate workflows, and their application is already being used by early adopters in Japan. We will be focusing on retail tech, which has been greatly impacted by COVID-19, and discuss what new technologies emerged during the pandemic and how they are playing a role in the transformation of the industry. We will also hear from one of DNX's Japanese portfolio companies, a start-up that has successfully secured funding in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, about their fundraising strategies.
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Behind the Scenes with Notion's CEO on Product Led Growth Strategy
Ivan Zhao is Co-founder and CEO of Notion, the all-in-one workspace for notes, documents, wikis, projects, and collaboration. A designer by training, Ivan founded the company in 2016 to make it possible for everyone in the world to create the tools they need without knowing how to code. Before Notion, he worked in product design at digital education startup Inkling. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and resides in San Francisco.
Co-founder/CEO, Notion
Ivan Zhao
Natsuki leads DNX's Portfolio Platform. She joined the firm in 2015 and built the firm's operational process by leveraging her network within the venture world. Since then, she's been focusing on building the firm's portfolio platform team, where she supports early-stage portfolio companies.
Before joining DNX, Natsuki was a Marketing & Sales specialist at Nissan Motors HQ in Japan, overseeing the dealerships to increase Nissan's sales volume in the domestic market. Natsuki holds a BA in Sociology from Keio University in Tokyo.
As a happy transplant to the Bay Area, Natsuki spends her weekends hiking, running, and discovering great restaurants.
Head of Platform, DNX Ventures
Natsuki Zihnioglu
The Remarkable Changes in Retail Tech under COVID-19
Gene was most recently Vice President of Innovation - New Ventures at Target and head of its San Francisco Innovation Office. He oversaw new product development and commerce models involving emerging technology and directed the startup engagement across offices in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Bangalore (India). He was General Manager for the company’s retail concept lab store, Open House, and expanded the company’s startup programs, Target Accelerators, into one of retail’s most comprehensive portfolios covering areas from retail digital tech to emerging DTC brands.
Gene was also previously Target’s head of corporate strategy as well as its interim Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer. In those roles, he drove digital transformation of key businesses and helped incubate several large-scale initiatives ranging from new store formats to voice commerce and brand acquisitions. He led enterprise partnerships with Google and MIT Media Lab and also held advisory roles on innovation councils for National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retailers Industry Leaders Association (RILA).
Gene started his career designing robotics and led new product development in the automation industry. He is currently a mentor with TechStars, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, Stadia Ventures and is an active advisor for several startups through his consultancy, Halo Advisory Network, LLC. He is an LP with Bread and Butter Ventures, is an Advisor with Sway Ventures and on the Board of Directors at Recycle Across America.
He received an MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business and holds an Engineering degree from the University of Illinois.
Managing Partner at Halo Advisory (Former Head of Innovation at Target)
Gene Han
Chelsie Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of SHIPSI, the delivery technology platform that enables retailers to offer same-day and scheduled delivery without managing any of the logistics. She’s a retail, technology, and supply chain expert who has consulted 500+ top retailers and brands on business strategy, growth, and execution. Among her previous clients are Saks Fifth Avenue, New Look, UGG, O’Neill, Nike and more. In addition to being nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Chelsie is also a contributor to the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, a mentor to emerging brands, a surf enthusiast, and a yoga instructor. She currently resides in Venice, CA.
CEO / Co-Founder, SHIPSI
Chelsie Lee
Rio focuses on investing in innovative companies in Cyber Security, Mobile, Storage, and Retail Tech sectors that could be successful in a global scale. His portfolio companies include Cylance, Klout, Remotium, SafeBreach, Fyde, JoyMode, AppDome, Ayasdi, vArmour, Junify, and Hom.ma. Prior to joining DNX Ventures, Rio spent six years at Globespan Capital Partners where he had put his resource on both investment and business development of Japan/US portfolio companies. Palo Alto Networks(NYSE) is one of the U.S. companies he has successfully helped launch in the Japanese market.
Prior to Globespan, Rio spent seven years at Sumitomo Corporation, a Japanese conglomerate trading company where he had gained his international business expertise in IT technologies and consumer web services. Rio began his VC career at Presidio Ventures (Sumitomo’s corporate venture capital arm) in Santa Clara.
Managing Partner at DNX Ventures
Hiro Rio Maeda
Successful Mega Fundraising During Pandemic
After graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, he worked at McKinsey & Company, specializing in the optimization of procurement, manufacturing and development, as well as acquisition and post-acquisition integration management in the manufacturing and high-tech sectors, where he was involved in a company-wide transformation project. After working on projects in the U.K., India, and the U.S., he founded Kakehashi Inc.
CEO of Kakehashi
Takashi Nakagawa
Founder of XICA. Graduate of Keio University, and founded XICA while at university. Yoshiaki—formerly a professional bandsman between age of 12 to 24 founded XICA to eliminate “avoidable tragedies through power of statistics and insights”. The mission comes from his childhood experience from bankruptcy of his father’s workplace.
Director & CEO, XICA
Yoshiaki Hirao
After Joining Mitsubishi Corporation, he was involved in automotive trading, planning and executing sales/marketing initiatives in overseas markets, cross-border investment deals and new company formations, large government bidding deals, M&A deals, among others. Founded RevComm Inc., in July 2017, that offers “MiiTel," a service that uses artificial intelligence to visualize sales calls and call center operations. RevComm has expanded to 10,000 users in just a year and a half.
CEO of RevComm
Takeshi Aida
Founder of XICA. Graduate of Keio University, and founded XICA while at university. Yoshiaki—formerly a professional bandsman between age of 12 to 24 founded XICA to eliminate “avoidable tragedies through power of statistics and insights”. The mission comes from his childhood experience from bankruptcy of his father’s workplace.
Akira has been in the venture business for 20 years in the US and Japan, and backed more than 50 enterprise software start-ups: TeamSpirit (TSE Mothers 4397), Money Foward (TSE Mothers 3994), Sansan (TSE Mothers 4443), Hottolink (TSE Mothers 3680), TerraSky (TSE Mothers 3915), SynergyMarketing (Acquired by Yahoo Japan), 1st Holdings (Acquired by Orix), Shanon (TSE Mothers 3976), Kabuku (Acquired by Futaba Corporation), Beceem Communications (acquired by Broadcom) and Smart Signal (acquired by GE Intelligent Platforms) etc.).
Akira currently serves on the boards of Money Forward (TSE Mothers 3994), FROM SCRATCH, Andpad, XICA, toBe Marketing, UPWARD, Kakehashi, Mazrica, Trend Express, Adacotech, Creadits, and Knowledge Work and is a board observer at Folio, Studist, Spacely, Flect, Alphaus, HERP, Resily, Alp, Techtouch and Tutorial.
Before joining DNX Ventures, Akira was Japan Head at Salesforce Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners. Prior to Globespan, Akira spent 5 years at Mitsui & Co., Ltd and led the company's venture capital activities both in the US and Japan. He was Co-Founder & Director of Mitsui Technology Investment Group in Silicon Valley. Previously, Akira spent 5 years at Fujitsu Limited in various roles including Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, and Sales.
Akira is a published author of The Corporate Venture Capital Handbook, Chuokeizai-sha, Inc. Akira holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a BA and Ph.D. in Technology Management from Doshisha University and completed Executive Management Program at University of Tokyo (Spring 2017)
Managing Partner and Head of Japan / DNX Ventures
Akira Kurabayashi
2021.08
Angus Klein
Vice President of Global Support, Snowflake
Prosenjit Sen
CEO, Quark.ai
Hajime Hirose
CEO, Alphaus, Inc.
2020.11
Ivan Zhao
Co-founder/CEO, Notion
Chelsie Lee
CEO / Co-Founder, SHIPSI
Gene Han
Managing Partner at Halo Advisory (Former Head of Innovation at Target)
Takeshi Aida
CEO of RevComm
2020.06
Eric Yuan
Founder and CEO, Zoom
Andrea Thomaz
CEO and Co-Founder, Diligent Robotics
Matt Garratt
SVP and Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures
Glen Sun
Partner, Sequoia Capital
2019
Maryam Rofougaran
CEO of Movandi
Richard C. Koo
Chief Economist at Nomura Research Institute
Takeo Inada
CEO of OCT
Koji Ogishima
CEO of TeamSpirit
2018
Tim Draper
Founder of Draper Associates
Chika Terada
CEO of Sansan
Luisa Lima
Co-foudner of Fyde
Yosuke Tsuji
CEO of Money Forward
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