Justin Yoshimura

Justin Yoshimura

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Founder, Chairman and CEO

Bio

Justin Yoshimura is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of CSC Generation, backed by Altos Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Maveron, and Quest Venture Partners. Prior to this, he was SVP at Merkle (acquired by Dentsu for ~$2B) via the acquisition of his company 500friends, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing solutions backed by $12M+ from Crosslink Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and YCombinator.

He is also the founder and General Partner of RGF, whose publicly announced investments include, Dropoff (seed), First Opinion (seed, former member of the BOD), Next Force Technology (seed), Gigster (seed) Witlee (seed), Dave (seed), Macro Ventures (seed), Imperfect Produce (seed), Firebase (seed - acquired by GOOG), Zencoder (seed - acquired by BCOV), ifeelgoods (seed), Ownlocal (seed), Bounce Exchange (seed, co-lead Series A), Bright Funnel (seed), Mux (seed), BigFinite (seed).

Justin began his career when he dropped out of high school to found his first company, which was acquired when he was 19, after exceeding $10M in revenues. Besides entrepreneurship, Justin is passionate about animals, especially dogs, most but not all cats, dolphins, and sea turtles.

Location

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

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Primary Organization

CSC Generation

CSC Generation

Founded

2016

Employees

1001-5000

Industry

Software, Finance, Retail, Analytics

Jobs history

4

Sur La Table, San Francisco

Executive Chairman

2020 - Current

Z Gallerie

Executive Chairman

2019 - Current

One Kings Lane

Executive Chairman

2020 - Current

CSC Generation

Founder, Chairman and CEO

2015 - Current

Board and Advisor Roles

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Profile Resume

Justin Yoshimura is the Founder, Chairman and CEO at CSC Generation, based in United States, North America. With a background in Software, Justin Yoshimura has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

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Naval Ravikant

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David Li

David Li

Chief Technology Officer

Babak Nivi

Babak Nivi

Co-Founder

Investment portfolio

Justin Yoshimura has made 10 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - Dave on Apr 25, 2017

Number of investment

10

Number of exits

5

Personal investment

10

Annouced DateOrganization NameFunding RoundMoney Raised
May 24, 2013
Wunderkind Wunderkind
Series A - Wunderkind
1.5M
Aug 10, 2015
Wunderkind Wunderkind
Series A - Wunderkind
6.3M
Sep 02, 2015
Macro Macro
Seed Round - Macro
0
Apr 25, 2017
Dave Dave
Seed Round - Dave
3.0M

Partner investment

0

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Exits

5

exit.name Zencoder

Zencoder

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