Takuya Hosomura, previously a senior manager at Rakuten Capital, has joined fellow corporate venturing vehicle Salesforce Ventures as a principal.
US-headquartered enterprise software producer Salesforce has hired Takuya Hosomura as a Japan-based principal for its corporate venturing unit, Salesforce Ventures.
Hosomura was previously at e-commerce firm Rakuten where he had spent nearly six years. The company had hired him for its marketing division in 2014 and he joined investment subsidiary Rakuten Capital two years later.
His senior manager role at Rakuten Capital from 2017 involved Hosomura investing in startups and building strategic partnerships between portfolio companies and the unit’s parent.…
