Nobuhiro Seki
Education
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies 2000-08-01 - 2002-06-01
The University of Tokyo
BS, Materials Science 1988-04-01 - 1994-03-01
London Business School
N/A, Entrepreneurship 2001-01-01 - 2001-01-01
VC Lab
, -Work Experience
Monozukuri Ventures
Current
Monozukuri Ventures
NYDesigns
Current
NYDesigns
Six Apart
Current
Six Apart
Proteus Motion
Current
Proteus Motion
EdgeCortix
Current
EdgeCortix
Everykey
Current
Everykey
Salezilla
Current
Salezilla
FINIITE AI
Current
FINIITE AI
connectFree
Current
connectFree
SyncWorld
Current
SyncWorld
Skills
Summary
Nobuhiro "Nob" Seki is a serial tech entrepreneur with a background in media and engineering. He is currently Co-founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Monozukuri Ventures, a seed VC in deep tech in manufacturing, based out of Kyoto and New York City. Monozukuri Ventures was established in January 2020, as merger of Kyoto-based Makers Boot Camp and NYC-based FabFoundry, to help young hardware startups get investment and technical resources. In 2015, he co-founded FabFoundry, a New York-based platform for hardware startups that connects to essential resources such as investors. Nob led various projects such as Monozukuri Bootcamp and Monozukuri Hardware Cup Pitch Competition. He is a co-founding partner of MBC Shisaku Fund for hardware startups in the US and Japan. Previously, Nob served as an executive VP of Six Apart, a San Francisco-based pioneer of social media, which was acquired by SAY Media in 2010 and its Movable Type business purchased by Infocom in 2011. He's moved to New York to lead the new business development for Infocom until 2015. He co-founded a multiplayer mobile role-playing location-based game platform in 2001 at Carnegie Mellon. At Nikkei's publication company, he launched MIT Technology Review Japan, working closely with the MIT community. Nob received an MBA from Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo.
