Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Justin Yoshimura is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of CSC Generation, backed by China Science & Merchants Investment Group (China's 2nd largest PE fund), Khosla Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Maveron, and Quest Venture Partners. Prior to this, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for ~$2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator.

He is also the founder and General Partner of RGF, whose publicly announced investments include, Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Next Force Technology (seed), Gigster (seed) Witlee (seed), Dave (seed), Macro Ventures (seed), Imperfect Produce (seed), Firebase (seed - acquired by GOOG), Zencoder (seed - acquired by BCOV), ifeelgoods (seed), Ownlocal (seed), Bounce Exchange (seed, co-lead Series A), Bright Funnel (seed), Mux (seed), BigFinite (seed).

Justin began his career when he dropped out of high school to found his first company, which was acquired when he was 19, after exceeding $10M in revenues. Besides entrepreneurship, Justin is passionate about animals, especially dogs, most but not all cats, dolphins, and sea turtles.