At CFO (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 CFO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CFO’ 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.

Hiroki Totoki
Director, Executive Deputy President, CFO & Representative Corporate Executive Officer of Sony
Hiroki Totoki is the Director, Executive Deputy President, CFO & Representative Corporate Executive Officer at Sony
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About Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Kazuya Mashiko
Executive Officer, CFO Corporate Development Division Management Division M & A Promotion Office of SHIFT
Kazuya Mashiko is the Executive Officer and CFO Corporate Development Division Management Division M & A Promotion Office at SHIFT.
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About SHIFT: software testing, quality assurance and security assessment
Yasuo Tanaka
CFO Japan Corporation and Board of Directors of Extravaganza International
Yasuo Tanaka is the CFO Japan Corporation and Board of Directors at Extravaganza International.
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About Extravaganza International: Start-up venture IT company of United states of america delaware.

Akiko Fujikawa
CFO of Peatix
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About Peatix: Peatix is a event registration platform that provides organizers with the tools to create, promote, and sell out events.
Ken Yasunaga
EVP and CFO of Floadia Corporation
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About Floadia Corporation: Floadia Corporation is a developer of embedded flash memory IP.
Akihiro Hojo
CFO of HACARUS
Akihiro Hojo is the Founder and Representative Director at BLAST-Hub.
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About BLAST-Hub, HACARUS, On The Slope: Hacarus is a provider of AI tools for the medical and industrial fields.
Takumi Sato
CFO of Hibot
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About Cymusic, Hibot: Hibot offers robotic platforms, and related hardware and software solutions.
Shohei Sasaki
CFO of LeapMind
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About LeapMind: LeapMind makes deep learning “small and compact” and accessible across a broad spectrum of applications, evolving the Internet of Things.
Matsuda Kai
Chief Financial Officer of Ubiregi
After graduating from Keio University, he worked in the Investment Banking Department of JP Molvang Securities, and earned an MBA at the Kelok School of Business, Northwestern University. After that, he moved to New York and San Francisco, and he was a career as an investor at a U.S. pension manager. After returning to Japan, he assumed the position of the Codoman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd. as an institutional investor sales. Leveraging more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry, funding more than 6.5 billion yen as Chief Financial Officer of two start-up companies (freee, Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd.)Successful procurement. Participated in Yuhiresi Co., Ltd.
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About Ubiregi: Ubiregi offers a point-of-sale (POS) system for iPad devices.
Nobuhiko Seki
CFO of EduLab, Inc.
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About EduLab, Inc.: EduLab is an edtech corporate group that empowers next-generation education.
Hiroki Uchida
Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director of Uhuru
Hiroki Uchida is an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at Uhuru. He previously worked at Nippon Life Insurance (NLI), transferred to Nissay Capital (NLI group VC arm), Joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Tax Co. Mr. Uchida graduated from the University of Tokyo.
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About Uhuru: Uhuru is a technology service company that provides cloud and social services to companies such as Salesforce.com and many others.
Yusuke Watanabe
Director, CFO of Clipline
Yusuke Watanabe is the Director, CFO at Clipline.
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About Argano, Chocolate, Clipline: ClipLine provides a mechanism that enables the communication between multi-store.
Naoki Inoue
Director, Executive Officer, and CFO of Chatwork
Naoki Inoue is the Director, Executive Officer, and CFO of 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.
Kimoto Kyoji
Director and CFO of Cogent Labs
Kyoji Kimoto has 20 years of experience in audit, financial consulting and corporate investment, including a tenure at Deloitte Tohmatsu FAS and Deutsche Securities, as well as founding a financial advisory business. He has supported numerous IPOs and managed more than 50 M&A deals. Kyoji previously served as corporate auditor for Cogent Labs prior to joining as CFO in March of 2018.
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About Cogent Labs: Cogent Labs is solving for practical artificial intelligence.
Kazunobu Harada
Directors and CFO of CYDAS
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About CYDAS: CYDAS, Inc. was founded with the mission to “Bring out the Talent in People”.
Kengo Yoshida
Director, COO, and CFO of Toreta
Kengo Yoshida is working as a Director, COO, and CFO at Toreta.
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About Toreta: Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants.
Takei Kunihiko
Director and CFO of A*QUANTUM
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About A*QUANTUM: A*QUANTUM is a company that specializes in quantum computer software.

Yuya Watanabe
CFO of UNCOVER TRUTH
Yuya Watanabe is a CFO at UNCOVER TRUTH.
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About UNCOVER TRUTH: UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
Yuya Nishimura
CFO of rakumo
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About rakumo: rakumo is a Sales of information communication equipment and software company.
Shinichi Kawakami
CFO of Jicoo
Shinichi Kawakami is the CFO at Jicoo.
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About Jicoo: Jicoo provides a platform for team collaboration that helps to streamline remote work by allowing users to link with various apps.
Yoshifusa Yasui
CFO of Compass Japan
Yoshifusa Yasui is the CFO at Compass Japan.
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About Compass Japan: Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology
Sembo Tadashi
Chief Financial Officer of Joho Kiban Kaihatsu
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About Joho Kiban Kaihatsu: Joho Kiban Kaihatsu is a statistical analysis and database business & Image processing system business.
Ken Sasaki
CFO of SMARTInsight Corporation
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About SMARTInsight Corporation: SMART/InSight offers enterprise software that integrates scattered data sources into easy-to-understand visual representations.