YJ Capital, internet company Yahoo Japan’s corporate venture capital arm, has promoted Hogil Doh from partner to chief operating officer (COO).
YJ Capital hired Doh in February this year after almost a decade at e-commerce firm Rakuten, having most recently been a partner at its corporate venturing vehicle, Rakuten Ventures, from 2015, helping manage the $85m Japan Fund it launched in 2016.
Doh’s deals at Rakuten Ventures included ride hailing service Gojek, digital marketing platform From Scratch, office food delivery service Okan and MakeLeaps, the digital invoicing platform developer purchased by stationery products supplier Ricoh in late 2018.
Doh said: “I am honoured and grateful for having been appointed COO after only five months at YJ Capital. At my previous job, Rakuten, I travelled around the globe and learned from the world’s top entrepreneurs and investors through business development, mergers and acquisitions, and investment operations.
“Going forward, I would like to leverage my experience and network to discover and support top entrepreneurs and to contribute to YJ Capital’s development, for it to become a world-leading investment organisation.” (Translated from Japanese by Global Corporate Venturing.)
Photo of Hogil Doh courtesy of LinkedIn.
