Masashi Kiyomine

Masashi Kiyomine

Founder at Kicker Ventures

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Masashi is the Founder & Managing Partner at Kicker Ventures and a veteran healthcare venture capitalist.
With more than 18 years of early stage investments in Digital Health, Medical Devices, Biopharma and Healthcare Services covering the US, EU, Israel and Asia, he brings a strategic vision to Kicker grounded in breadth of experience and knowledge of this field.
Prior to founding Kicker Ventures, Masashi spent 13 years at Mitsui Global Investment and served as the Head of Global Life Sciences Venture Investment.
Masashi has an appointment as a Specially Appointed Professor (Visitor) at Tohoku University and advises several healthcare and innovation programs, including Innohub by METI and AMDAP by Tokyo.
Masashi is a columnist at Nikkei Beyond Health and holds a dual BA in Engineering and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College.
An avid beer enthusiast, Masashi is a co-owner of Wursthall, a California take on the German Beerhall in San Mateo.
Masashi has served as board member and/or observer of more than a dozen healthcare companies, and currently serves as a board observer for Swing Therapeutics and CareX.ai.

Masashi Kiyomine active positions

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Private Equity Investor 2004-05-31
Director/Board Member -
Founder 2020-12-31
Co-Studio Founder 2019-12-31
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Former positions of Masashi Kiyomine

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Director/Board Member 2017-06-30
Director/Board Member 2015-06-30
Director/Board Member 2014-10-31
Director/Board Member -
Director/Board Member -
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Dartmouth College Undergraduate Degree

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