Joe Saijo

Founding General Partner at Counterpart Ventures

Joe’s background is in IT where he started his career as a software engineer in Japan and then worked with Hitachi.

From 2007-2011 Joe was the Manager of Business Development at Hitachi and from 2014-2017 he served as the President and Managing Partner at Recruit Strategic Partners, the CVC vehicle of Recruit Holdings, Japan’s largest HR/media company.

Joe was responsible for the investment and portfolio strategy of Recruit Strategic Partners, managing over 100 portfolio companies worldwide (40 of which were based in the US).


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Counterpart Ventures

Counterpart Ventures is a life cycle venture capital fund, focused on investing in authentic relationships built on implicit trust with our founders. They embrace an innovative and flexible funding model which creatively aligns with the needs of our portfolio companies. They help build companies by providing meaningful access to real customers and strategic partnerships.


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