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Naoki Shibata

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Smart Money Rating: 81 out of 100

Managing Partner, NSV Wolf Capital Ventures

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NSV Wolf Capital Ventures
Title
Managing Partner
Role
Managing partner
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Record updated 21 September 2026

About

Naoki started his career at Rakuten, working directly with the CEO on many new innovation and product launch projects. As a researcher at Stanford he launched AppGroves, a 500 Startups backed company. He also started a newsletter focused on financial statement analysis with thousands of paid subscribers that was eventually acquired. He is now a partner at NSV Wolf Capital.

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Background

Education
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO B.Eng., Systems Innovation, 2004 M.S., Environmental and Ocean Engineering, 2006 Ph.D., Management of Technology for Innovation, 2009Source (opens in a new tab)

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