Yoshinori Yanagisawa
M&A Manager at Asylum
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYoshinori Yanagisawa is an M&A and corporate strategy leader with 11 years' experience across venture capital, corporate development, and consulting, currently managing startup investments and M&A at Akatsuki and Dawn Capital. He has led end-to-end deal processes—sourcing, diligence, and investment committee approvals—for more than a dozen early-stage deals, with a specialty in cross-border transactions driven by his international experience and multilingual skills. His background spans strategy roles at Accenture and hands-on operational builds as CEO of a small ventures studio, giving him a rare blend of rigorous financial modeling and on-the-ground business development. Yoshinori focuses on startups that create passionate user bases and pragmatic, disruptive innovation, aligning investment thesis with corporate growth priorities. An alumnus of Hitotsubashi with studies at HEC Paris and UPenn, he pairs global academic exposure with practical execution in Japan’s venture ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
University of PennsylvaniaBachelor's degree, Economics, GPA 3.5, Bachelor's degree, Economics, GPA 3.5 at Hitotsubashi UniversityHEC Paris
English, French
Github Skills (30)
texture10
wav7
minecraft6
movie6
discord-bot5
javascript4
discord4
thread4
api3
bukkit3
spigot3
porting3
electron3
server3
heroku3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akatsuki/AkalaboTexture
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
It is the open design project of Akalabo Texture
Contributions:6 releases, 51 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
textureopen-designdesign-project
akatsuki/Video-Frame-Reducer
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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