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Joichi "Joi" Ito

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Founder & Managing Partner, Neoteny

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Neoteny
Title
Founder & Managing Partner
Role
Managing partner
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Record updated 20 September 2026

About

Joichi "Joi" Ito is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, writer and scholar focusing on the ethics and governance of technology. As an activist, he works to tackle complex problems such as climate change and societal inequity and redesign the systems of scholarship and science. Ito is the co-founder and a board member of Digital Garage and serves on a number of for-profit non-profit boards. He currently runs Neoteny, an early stage venture capital firm. Ito is also a co-founder of and a board member of the non-profit, Safecast, a primarily volunteer run platform that publishes and advocates for open environmental data. He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2011 to 2019. Ito was chairman of the board of PureTech Health and was previously the board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons.

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