Ken Asada, managing director at NTT Docomo Ventures, the corporate venturing unit owned by Japan-based mobile network operator NTT Docomo, left the company this week.
The move came ahead of a forthcoming move to Salesforce Ventures, enterprise software provider Salesforce’s corporate venture capital vehicle, next month. Asada had spent less than a year at NDV, having joined in January from Intel Capital, the investment arm of semiconductor producer Intel.
Asada had been promoted to investment director during a stint of nearly eight years at Intel Capital. He told Global Corporate Venturing in January 2019 that during his time at Intel Capital he participated in deals totalling more than $200m and sat on the boards of portfolio companies Cloudian – also part of NTT Docomo Ventures’ portfolio – LeapMind, Gengo and Fileforce.
