CEO / Managing Partner

Tsuyoshi Ito

PROFILE

Tsuyoshi founded Beyond Next Ventures in 2014 with a vision to circulate financial returns back into academia. Beyond funding, he is committed to building an ecosystem that fosters deep-tech startups.
He serves as an outside director for portfolio companies, a Visiting Professor at Nagoya and Hiroshima Universities, and a committee member for government startup initiatives. Previously, he joined JAFCO in 2003, leading investments in university spin-offs.
His track record includes CYBERDYNE (IPO), Microwave Chemical (IPO), Spiber, Morpho (IPO), DoubleScope (IPO), and TKP (IPO). He holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.