Hironobu Yoshikawa

Hiro Yoshikawa is a Japan-born entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley in 2009. In 2011, Hiro co-founded Treasure Data, based in Mountain View, and served as its CEO. Hiro has successfully led the team in three funding rounds raising $54 million from top venture capital funds. In July 2018, UK based CPU design giant, Arm Holdings, announced its acquisition of Treasure Data for reportedly $600M (Bloomberg). After serving as VP and General Manager of the Data Business Unit at Arm for three years, Treasure Data was separated from Arm to operate as an independent company again under SoftBank Vision Fund, where he is now the Chairman of Treasure Data. In 2021, he founded Carbide Ventures, an early-stage venture firm dedicated to bridging the US-Japan innovation corridor. Drawing on his entrepreneurial success and cross-border expertise, he supports fellow founders in both countries as they scale breakthrough technologies.

Prior to Treasure Data, Hiro served as a Principal of Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, Inc. (also known as Mitsui Ventures). His work at Mitsui began in February 2007, where he focused on early stage information technology investments in North America. Prior to that, Hiro was employed at Red Hat, Inc. in 2001, where he was the Business Development and Alliance Manager of OEM business channels and housing channels in the Asia-Pacific region. He successfully introduced Red Hat Linux into several transnational companies.