At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Japan based COO’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jun Nishikawa
Co-founder, Executive Vice President, COO of eureka, Inc.
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About eureka, Inc.: runs marriage hunting app, apps for couples
Kaisei Hamamoto
Director, COO, and Chief Engineer of SmartNews
Kaisei Hamamoto is a passionate programmer and entrepreneur. Hamamoto graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology’s School of Information Engineering in 2005. He is the Co-Founder, COO and Chief Engineer of SmartNews, the leading mobile news app that delivers stories from thousands of trusted publishers globally. Much of his work has focused on aggregating massive amounts of information from the Internet and creating simple visualization and organizational systems to help people better understand it. This interest turned into a personal project in 2010, then evolved into SmartNews in 2012. About SmartNews SmartNews is a leading global news-discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. SmartNews provides news that matters to millions of users thanks to its unique machine learning technology and relationships with over 3,000 global publisher partners. Founded in 2012, SmartNews has been downloaded more than 50 million times globally. The company has raised $182 million in venture funding, and has achieved a valuation of $1.2 billion, making it the first news app UNICORN since 2015.
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About Smart New Lab, SmartNews: SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.
Yabe Kota
Representative Director and COO of WED
Yabe Kota is the Representative Director and COO of WED.
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About WED: WED is an information technology based company.
Katsuyuki Yamaguchi
Director and Executive Vice President COO of Chatwork
Katsuyuki Yamaguchi is the Director and Executive Vice President COO at Chatwork.
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About Chatwork: Chatwork is a group chat app for global teams, that includes secure messaging, video chat, task management and file sharing functionality.
Yu Numazaki
Director COO / founder of CoinJinja
Focused on driving growth for CoinJinja.com, a top ICO search engine, and CoinView, the world’s best all-in-one cryptocurrency portfolio management app available for iOS and Android.
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About CoinJinja: Japan’s top crypto media: CoinJinja.com (ICO listing site) and CoinView (free, all-in-one crypto investment portfolio management app).
Ryoichi Kusama
Co-Founder & COO of MICIN
Ryoichi Kusama is the Co-Founder and COO at MICIN.
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About MICIN: MICIN is a medical IT company that offers a free app for patient charts, billing, and video chatting between doctors and patients.
Yurika Enomoto
COO of Letibee
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About Letibee: Social Startup for LGBT community
Tetsuro Nodai
Director, COO, and Founding member of Tone Connect
Tetsuro Nodai is the Director, COO, and a founding member at Tone Connect.
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About Tone Connect: Tone Connect provides various types of Mobile Apps, Web Apps & IT Services.
Takahiro Mayumi
Director and COO of Receptionist
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About Receptionist: Receptionist is a company that develops and operates the cloud reception system.
Hisahiro Nagafuku
Director COO of Line Pay
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About Line Pay: Line Pay is a secure & easy payment platform.
Yukiharu Tomita
COO of Meleap
Yukiharu Tomita, COO, meleap inc.meleap is an augmented reality entertainment startup founded in 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. meleap has developed HADO, a combination motion sensor, smartphone and AR tracking solution for location-based entertainment centers. HADO is deployed in 60+ venues across 6 countries.
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About Meleap: HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor.
Yukiharu Tomita
COO of Meleap
Yukiharu Tomita, COO, meleap inc.meleap is an augmented reality entertainment startup founded in 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. meleap has developed HADO, a combination motion sensor, smartphone and AR tracking solution for location-based entertainment centers. HADO is deployed in 60+ venues across 6 countries.
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About Meleap: HADO is a new sport utilizing the leading AR technology with players wearing a head mounted display and an armband sensor.
Sensui Ryosuke
Director and COO of MAMORIO
Born in 1990. Graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of Political Economy. After joining Fuji Xerox, engaged in new pioneering consulting sales, mainly for medium to large companies. MAMORIO oversees collaboration with other companies and corporate sales.
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About MAMORIO: MAMORIO are promoting alliances with companies.
Kenichi Sugihara
COO of Dr.JOY
Kenichi Sugihara is the COO of Dr.JOY.
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About Dr.JOY: Dr.JOY is a wasteful business flow, medical institutions dedicated hospital SNS.
Hosono Shingo
Executive Officer & COO of Nana Music
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About Nana Music: Nana Music is a free musical collaboration application that enables its users to share their musical experiences.
Noboru Ito
Director COO of Draft
Noboru Ito is the Director COO at Draft.
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About Draft: Draft provides D collection, an EC application for men’s fashion.
Hirokazu Inami
Representative Director and COO of My Alarm Co., Ltd.
Hirokazu Inami is the Representative Director and COO at My Alarm Co., Ltd.
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About My Alarm Co., Ltd.: My Alarm Co., Ltd.offers Native application, web & system development, Web consulting & Influencer marketing business.
Shingo Iwamoto
COO of Linked Brain
Shingo Iwamoto is the COO of Linked Brain.
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About Linked Brain: Linked Brain is a game management and development contract business
Yuki Homma
COO of Pocket Marche
Yuki Homma is the COO at Pocket Marche.
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About Pocket Marche: Pocket Marche is a smartphone app that allows to buy food while talking with farmers and fishermen across the country.