Legendary Speakers
Behind Alpaca, Moneytree, Yukai Engineering, and EnFi — the real stories.
Reminder for Founders to dare to imagine building the next TOYOTA and SONY.
Join us on Mar 31-Apr 1 to learn from some of the best founders on the planet!
Yoshi Yokokawa (Alpaca)
A Fintech pioneer who leveraged his Wall Street background to build Alpaca—the first YC-backed startup to secure a U.S. brokerage license from scratch—redefining global financial infrastructure through an API-first platform.
Paul Chapman (Moneytree)
A fintech visionary who pioneered open banking in Japan by founding Moneytree and securing unprecedented trust from all three mega-banks to redefine financial data transparency and consumer empowerment.
Shunsuke Aoki (Yukai Engineering)
A robotics pioneer who founded Yukai Engineering, turning the dream of emotionally intelligent robots into reality with Qoobo and BOCCO emo — reshaping how humans bond with technology from Tokyo.
Michiko Kakiya (EnFi)
A gaming industry pioneer who bridged her hands-on PlayStation experience at Sony with a decade of securities analysis to found EnFi — the world’s only game-focused Fund of Funds — redefining how global capital flows into the gaming ecosystem from Tokyo.
Here’s the deal.
At Takeoff Tokyo, you have direct access to founders like this and you can ask them anything.
The only thing you need is the guts to walk up and say hello.
Since you’re an entrepreneur you left “playing it safe” behind a long time ago, didn’t you?