ADVISOR / ALUMNI

Alumni Venture Partner

Alumni Venture Partners are alumni of UTEC who continue to be part of the greater
UTEC venture community after their commencement from UTEC.

  • Hideki Tsuji

    Hideki Tsuji

    Alumni Venture Partner

    Board Director of UTEC Venture Partners, Inc.

    Hideki was a partner & board member at UTEC between 2006 and 2020 focusing on impact investments related to Energy Transition. While at UTEC Hideki led investments and served on the boards of Exergy Power Systems, Inc. (flexibility service by BESS), NExT-e Solutions Inc. (2nd-life e-mobility batteries by digital control technology), FCO Power, Inc. (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology), etc.

    Hideki graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and worked for MITI, Government of Japan. He then joined Visionarts, Inc. as a COO. Prior to joining UTEC in August 2006, he earned his Master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and London Business School.

  • Ted Yamamoto

    Ted Yamamoto

    Alumni Venture Partner

    Board Director of UTEC Venture Partners, Inc.

    Ted Yamamoto was a partner & board member at UTEC between 2008 and 2020 focusing on seed and early stage information technology investments. While at UTEC Ted led investments and served on the boards of ROMS, Inc., SWAT Mobility Pte. Ltd., Locix Inc., Fyusion, Inc., Mujin, Inc.(MBO in February 2019), Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd./ACSL ( IPO in December 2018 - 6232:TYO), Phyzios, Inc. (acquired by Google in February 2013), Naked Technology Inc. (acquired by mixi, Inc. in September 2011) ,etc.

    Prior to joining the team in July 2008, he spent 14 years at Mitsui & Co., Ltd. At Mitsui he was a core member of its venture capital operation, with 10 years expertise as venture capitalists at Mitsui's Corporate Development Division and at Mitsui Ventures - Mitsui's venture capital firm in the US and in Japan. As an investment partner at Mitsui Ventures' New York and Tokyo offices, Ted lead investments in US and Japanese start-ups, and worked with the management to build global businesses together. In 1997 he was also seconded to Nippon Venture Capital Co. as a Deputy General Manger. Ted's other experiences at Mitsui include the incorporation of FeliCa Pocket Marketing, Inc. - a Joint Venture with Sony Corp. where he served as a Senior Manager to promote new businesses around Sony's contact-less IC chip FeliCa technology.

    Ted studied Physics at the University of Oxford and holds M.A. (Oxon.).

    Ted is currently studying for his Executive MBA degree at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.