Roppongi Venture Capital

Members

Meet the team.

Koji Yamada

Koji Yamada

Founding Partner

M.S. from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Completed Harvard Medical School Executive Education AI in Health Care Program.

Selected for METI's "Shido Next Innovator" Program (Cohort 9).
Selected for UC Berkeley's "SkyDeck Bootcamp in Tokyo" (Cohort 1).
Selected for Venture Café Tokyo "COMMUNITY CAMPUS" (Cohort 1), Best Team Award & MVP.

Founder & Director, NPO Minato-ku Wellness Research Institute.
Tokyo Ambassador, The REAL (an international nonprofit for mental health).
Member, MIT Venture Forum of Japan. Member, America-Japan Society.
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Japan.

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Tokio Itonaga

Tokio Itonaga

Entrepreneur / Venture Capital Associate

Representative Director, FEA Agricultural Research Association.
Former mathematics instructor at a major prep school.
Former lead programming instructor at a Tokyo cram school.

A 2nd-cohort graduate of the boarding international school "Kurabuchi English Village." During high school he studied in Canada, attending a local high school while researching statistics at a local research institution, broadening his global perspective. Drawn to programming from an early age, he taught programming at a Tokyo cram school after returning to Japan.

Working at the intersection of venture creation and technology, he drives multiple projects across education, agriculture, and AI. As Representative Director of the FEA Agricultural Research Association, he supports regional industry growth and talent development. He has been involved in the management and growth of 60+ companies, including listed firms, with 39 business exits.

Selected for Venture Café Tokyo "COMMUNITY CAMPUS" (Cohort 1), Best Team Award. Enrolled at Hosei University since 2025, researching machine-learning applications in agriculture and civil engineering.

Specialties: agronomy, civil and infrastructure engineering, AI and machine learning in agriculture, market analysis.

At Roppongi Venture Capital, he focuses on discovering next-generation entrepreneurs, researching new business domains, and building the startup ecosystem—aiming to create new value for society through technology and entrepreneurship.

Kenichi Kitamura

Kenichi Kitamura

Advisor

M.S. in Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.
Currently works at a government-affiliated financial institution.

Armed with the abstraction and logical rigor honed in advanced mathematics, he sees through to the essence of problems across domains. At Agora, he deepens the questions and ideas that emerge from dialogue with AI from a mathematical perspective, sharpening the precision of thought.