Masahiko Homma

Mr Honma is the founder of IncubateFund. He started his career with overseeing information technology investments in Silicon Valley at JAFCO's overseas investment arm. He has also held roles in Accenture's venture capital arm and in 2007 founded Core People Partners, a fund specialising in incubation of internet businesses. He has a stellar track record of creating and supporting mobile gaming start-ups including Pokelabo and Gumi. Both have grown from 2 to 3 persons teams when he joined as the first outside investor in 2008, into companies with 280 and 400 employees respectively. Pokelabo, which he co-founded and took the first CEO role of was successfully acquired by GREE, mobile gaming giant in Japan, with the valuation of over US$174 million in an all-cash deal in 2012.