Shintaro Kaido

Shintaro Kaido is a co-founder at Synercon. Shintaro currently oversees new venture creation at Drexel University, one of America’s 15 largest private universities. Since joining Drexel in September 2014, Shintaro launched the $10 million early stage fund to invest in startups based on Drexel-developed technologies, started the Drexel Proof-of-Concept Accelerator and pivoted ic@3401 from a co-working space to the most desirable incubation space in Philadelphia with members raising $16 million in 2016 (the most in Philadelphia). Prior to Drexel, Shintaro made seed and A round investments for i2E, one of two venture development organizations recognized by name in the 2015 White House report “A Strategy for American Innovation” for its successful regional investment model.

Before becoming a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor, Shintaro worked for IBM, Motorola and Cadence Design Systems over a 10-year period as front-end hardware design engineer. Highlight projects include IBM eClipz (enhanced core logic for POWER6) and Cisco METRO (powered Cisco’s CRS-1, the fastest carrier routing system in the world in 2004).

Shintaro resides in West Philadelphia with his wife Janet, two cats and eight bicycles. He also enjoys his involvement with Codesy as a co-founder, a marketplace for bugs in open source software.