Akihiko Okamoto is a Partner at Headline Asia who previously built Recruit Strategic Partners as a global CVC, established an AI research institute, and created RING, Recruit's internal business launchpad that produced multiple billion-dollar companies. He focuses on finding B2B products with self-reinforcing network effects and embedded financial infrastructure, while emphasizing gentle digitalization that lets traditional businesses transition to technology at their own pace.
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SaaS, Fintech, AI, Consumer, Ecommerce
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Seed - Series B+
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$1M - $50M
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Headline operates a proprietary "technology operating system" (EVA + ATHENA) that systematically scrapes, scores, and tracks 10M+ startups, then underwrites them with company data in seconds—building a defensible data moat with over 10 years of granular longitudinal data on essentially every startup they track worldwide. The firm runs an explicit "local-to-global" model with fully autonomous, region-specific early-stage funds across the US, Europe, Brazil/LatAm, and Asia that invest with local teams, then band together via shared technology to help winners internationalize through a single global growth platform.
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