Kaz Kikuchi
Partner at TransLink Capital
Tokyo, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaz Kikuchi is a partner at TransLink Capital with over 20 years of international experience investing in and building partnerships between US and Japanese technology companies. He has a deep track record at Mitsui and G2VP creating and financing new business models that digitize traditional industries—particularly across transportation, energy, manufacturing and logistics. Kaz serves on multiple boards and as observer for robotics, cybersecurity, and industrial AI startups, bringing operator-level experience from country management to project finance. He looks for companies applying emerging tech to analog sectors with sustainability and efficiency at their core. A practitioner-turned-investor, his technical curiosity is reflected in a personal progression across languages (C → C++ → C# → Rust), hinting at hands-on appreciation for engineering trade-offs. Based in Tokyo, he combines cross-border dealcraft with deep sectoral insight to help scale startups into global industrial players.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Keio University
Github Skills (137)
parquet10
rendering10
stream10
engine9
cli9
rust9
coverage9
oscilloscope9
apache-arrow9
3d-engine9
java9
csharp9
spring-boot9
dotnet8
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kazuk/OnBuild
Jul 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
build-timenugetnuget-packages
kazuk/sbom-ghr
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 59 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
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