Summary
池村光次 Ikemura is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with over a decade of experience building B2B SaaS and growth services for startups and enterprises in Japan. He founded KUROKO in 2012 and later launched products such as the subscription reference-check service Nentame and the BANT-qualified lead generation platform BizOffer, now used by hundreds of companies. His background spans banking, executive search, and early-stage VC (Samurai Incubate), where he scaled Japan’s first nationwide MEO offering and supported portfolio startups in sales and business development. A former executive at Nyle, he blends operator instincts with a strong go-to-market focus—designing pricing models that remove adoption barriers (no upfront or monthly fees) and drive outcome-based revenue. He serves as a board member of WAOJE Tokyo and is a guest professor at iU, signaling engagement in both industry and education. Despite a tech-curious “Human Android” GitHub persona, his uncommon strength is converting investor-era network insights into repeatable commercial products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer