People – Toshi Otani

Toshi Otani
Co-founder & Managing Director, Translink Captial

Toshi invests in cloud, mobile, infrastructure, and IoT companies with an enterprise focus. He also leads Translink’s activities, supporting portfolio companies with their customers and partners, primarily in Japan. Toshi’s active current investments include Chartboost, Empowerly, Noom, Omniscience, Pathmind, Rescale, Singular, Top Flight Technologies and Workspot. Noteworthy past investments include CliQr (ACQ: Cisco), CloudOn (ACQ: Dropbox), deCarta (ACQ: Uber), Guavus (ACQ: Thales), and Wildfire (ACQ: Google). Toshi holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University. Toshi is most excited to be working with founding teams that are aggressive yet humble at the same time. He is also an aspiring golfer, an accomplished skier, and loves to spend time outdoors.