Joi Ito

Joichi Ito (伊藤穰一 Itō Jōichi*, born June 19, 1966), nicknamed Joi Ito, is a Japanese-born and American-educated entrepreneur.

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In the spirit of disclosure, here are all of my venture investments and roles. I have also listed my non-profit roles.

Roles

• Director, MIT Media Lab
• Board Member, New York Times Corporation (NYSE-NYT)
• Board Member, MacArthur Foundation
• Board of Trustees, Knight Foundation
• Board Member, New Context
• Board Member, CCC Co., Ltd. (4756-TSE)
• Board Member, Tucows (TCX-AMEX)
• Board Member, Digital Garage (48190-JAQ)
• Board Member, New Context
• CEO, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
• CEO, Kula Co., Ltd.
• Board Member, littlebits
• Board Member, Outblaze
• Board Member, CGM Marketing
• Board Member, Storyplanet
• Board Member, Fotonauts
• Board Member, Machinima.com
• Board Member, Frestyl
• Board Member, The Sixty One
• Board Member, Nihon Gigei
• Board Member, Sanrio Digital
• Board Member, Viki
• Board Member, Adz

• Advisory Roles/Advisory Boards
  • Security Committee, Kakaku.com
  • Tasty Labs
  • Tokyo Otaku Mode

Investments

Companies where I have a > 5% stake are marked with an "M" (this is not exact since the calculation of "stake" is unclear and the percentages fluctuate)

• Via Neoteny Startup Fund 1
  • Path
  • Littlebits
  • Formlabs
  • Game Ventures
  • Viki
  • found
  • Adz
  • InSync
  • Catch
  • Game Closure
  • sup yo
  • animoca
  • Hellofax
  • Pinwheel
• Via Neoteny
  • Say Media
  • Beatcraft
  • Brainsellers
• Via Digital Garage
  • Twitter
  • Triggit
  • Etology
  • Technorati
• Direct investments US
  • Technorati
  • Wikia
  • TCHO
  • Storyplanet
  • Triggit
  • Twitter
  • Seesmic
  • Kickstarter
  • Aviary
  • The Sixty One
  • FreStyl
• Direct investments Japan
  • M - Neoteny
  • Digital Garage
  • Infobahn
  • M - Loftwork
  • Cerego/smart.fm
  • Generation Create
• Other Direct investments
  • GuardTime
• Exited
  • SocialText
  • fyto
  • Fortify
  • Kongregate
  • naan studio Inc.
  • PSINet Japan - acquired by Cable and Wireless
  • Infoseek Japan acquired by Disney then by Rakuten
  • Digital Garage - IPO 2000
  • Good - acquired by Motorola
  • NetAge - IPO 2006
  • Infoteria - Went public 2007
  • flickr - acquired by Yahoo
  • last.fm - acquired by CBS
  • Jaiku - acquired by Google
  • ThreeSF aka Rupture - acquired by Electronic Arts
  • Tiny Pictures - acquired by Shutterfly September 2009
  • Dopplr - Acquired by Nokia
  • M - Ping.fm - Acquired by Seesmic

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Non-profit organizations

• Director, MIT Media Lab
• Board Member, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Board of Trustees, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

• Chairman & Board Member, Creative Commons
• Board Member, Mozilla Foundation
• Board Member, Mozilla Japan
• Board Member, WITNESS
• Trustee, Nishimachi International School
• Board Member Emeritus, Open Source Initiative
• Advisory Board Member, Metabrainz Foundation
• Senior Visiting Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC and Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University

Other non-profits I support

• Wikimedia Foundation
• Archive.org
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation

Government Roles

• The Japanese Cabinet IT Strategy Headquarters