Ken Nishimura

Since he was in college, he has been serialized in the PC / Internet information magazine "Monthly ASCII", and after graduating, he has extensively covered Internet and digital as an editor and reporter for ASCII. Transferred to ITmedia in 2006 and covered trends in enterprise IT and software technology as deputy editor at "@IT", a website for IT experts. From 2007 to 2009, we interviewed many founders of Y Combinator such as Dropbox and Airbnb. In 2013, he became the editor-in-chief of TechCrunch Japan and interviewed Japanese startups and entrepreneurs. It will contribute to the growth of the Japanese startup ecosystem as a medium by trebling the number of visitors to the annual event "TechCrunch Tokyo" in about five years. After transferring to Google in 2018 and engaging in startup support and investment related business, joined Coral Capital in August 2019. Graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. Part-time lecturer at Sophia University. He is also a Ruby engineer.