{"id":4918,"date":"2014-09-01T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.sip-vc.com\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2022-01-26T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:10:58","slug":"akira-shirakawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/?p=4918","title":{"rendered":"Akira Shirakawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.sip-vc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shirakawa2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4919\" src=\"https:\/\/en.sip-vc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shirakawa2.jpg\" alt=\"shirakawa2\" width=\"116\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shirakawa2.jpg 159w, https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shirakawa2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Akira has achieved 63 exits from portfolio companies he has managed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At JAFCO, Akira supported early-stage companies with business development and hands-on IPO consultation.\u00a0During his tenure, he helped support 29 portfolio company IPOs in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, he joined Urban\u00a0Corporation as a director to lead the IPO process. He led the company to an IPO in JASDAQ\u00a0and was later in charge of disclosures as IR director.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, he was invited to UFJ Tsubasa Hands-on Capital Ltd.\u00a0as its first CEO, where\u00a0he developed their venture capital division from recruiting and infrastructure planning to business planning and operational management and also lead investment decisions as Chief Investment Officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Akira as CEO, UFJ Tsubasa Hands-on Capital Ltd.\u00a0received investment from \u201cpublic sector\u201d and \u201cpension funds,\u201d and operated\/managed a 13.31billion yen fund using the limited partnership method.\u00a0 The fund invested in 94 companies, many of which were early-stage companies.\u00a0 Over the course of 5 years, UFJ exited 26 companies at a Successful exit ratio of 27.6\uff05 of which 11 companies (42.3%) had a successful IPO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2006, Akira had served as director at SIP, bringing his hands-on venture capital expertise to the SIP value-add investment business (-2022).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Akira graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a degree in accounting and management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; Throughout his career, Akira has achieved 63 exits from portfolio companies he has managed. &nbsp; At JAFCO, Akira supported early-stage companies with business development and hands-on IPO consultation.\u00a0During his tenure, he helped support 29 portfolio company IPOs in 15 years. &nbsp; In 1996, he joined Urban\u00a0Corporation as a director to lead the IPO process.<a href=\"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/?p=4918\"> >>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sip-vc.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}