Joi Ito
hideJoichi Ito (伊藤穰一 Itō Jōichi*, born June 19, 1966), nicknamed Joi Ito, is a Japanese-born and American-educated entrepreneur.
In the spirit of disclosure, here are all of my venture investments and roles. I have also listed my non-profit roles.
Roles
- Board Member, CCC Co., Ltd. (4756-TSE)
- Board Member, Tucows (TCX-AMEX)
- Board Member, Technorati
- Chairman, Six Apart Japan
- Board Member, Digital Garage (48190-JAQ)
- CEO, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
- CEO, Kula Co., Ltd.
- Board Member, Outblaze
- Board Member, Socialtext
- Board Member, Etology
- Board Member, Brainsellers
- Board Member, MediaProbe
- Board Member, CGM Marketing
- Board Member, Storyplanet
- Board Member, Fotonauts
- Board Member, Machinima.com
- Board Member, Frestyl
- Board Member, The Sixty One
- Board Member, Nihon Gigei
- Advisory Roles/Advisory Boards
- Advisory Board, PicScout
- Security Committee, Kakaku.com
- Advisory Board, Chumby Industries
- Advisor, Twitter
- Advisor, Emitac
Investments
Companies where I have a > 5% stake are marked with an "M" (this is not exact since the calculation of "stake" is unclear and the percentages fluctuate)
- Via Neoteny
- M - Six Apart
- Beatcraft
- M - fyto
- Mediaprobe
- A Level Coursework
- Brainsellers
- Generation Create
- Assignments
- M - Neoteny Venture Development
- Via Digital Garage
- Direct investments US
- Kongregate
- Technorati
- Socialtext
- Wikia
- Game Layers
- Etology
- TCHO
- Neutral Net
- M - Storyplanet
- Triggit
- M - Ping.fm
- Kickstarter
- Direct investments Japan
- Other Direct investments
- Via ONV
- Aviary
- naan studio Inc.
- M - The Sixty One
- FreStyl
- Investments through funds
- Exited
- PSINet Japan - acquired by Cable and Wireless
- Infoseek Japan acquired by Disney then by Rakuten
- Digital Garage - IPO 2000
- Good - acquired by Motorola
- NetAge - IPO 2006
- Infoteria - Went public 2007
- flickr - acquired by Yahoo
- last.fm - acquired by CBS
- Jaiku - acquired by Google
- ThreeSF aka Rupture - acquired by Electronic Arts
- Tiny Pictures - acquired by Shutterfly September 2009
- Dopplr - Acquired by Nokia
Non-profit organizations
- CEO & Board Member, Creative Commons
- Board Member, WITNESS
- Board Member, iCommons
- Board Member, Mozilla Foundation
- Board Member, Mozilla Japan
- Trustee, Nishimachi International School
- Board Member, ZeroOne Art and Technology Network
- Board Member, Global Voices
- Board Member, Public Knowledge
- Board Member Emeritus, Open Source Initiative
- Advisory Board Member, Metabrainz Foundation
- Senior Visiting Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC and Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University
Other non-profits I support
Government Roles
- The Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications study group on the Basic Resident Registers Network member
