Yohei Sawayama

Founding Partner of Coral Capital. Before Coral Capital, Yohei launched the first fund for 500 Startups in Japan, where he invested in over 40 companies. Prior to that he was a researcher at Nomura Securities, where he worked on tech IPOs including Gunosy ($300m), bengo4.com ($80m), FreakOut ($110m), and Voyage Group ($240m). Before Nomura, he covered the TMT sector for J.P. Morgan’s investment banking division. He worked on Sony’s acquisition of So-Net Entertainment for $785m, Toshiba’s acquisition of Landis+Gyrfor $2.3bn (ASIAMONEY Japan Best M&A 2011), and Bain Capital’s acquisition of Skylark for $2.1bn.