As an entrepreneur, Shinya Kasuga has engaged in new business development of international and Japanese startups in software, information services, blockchain, and game/entertainment areas, including Swift Inc. (Director of Board), Broadtail Co. Ltd. (Co-founder), and Ubitus Inc. (Japan Country Manager). Leveraging his engineering background as a researcher in IBM Research Tokyo and M.S. in Information at University of Michigan, he assesses technology of investment candidates and supports portfolios’ business development on a hands-on basis.