Anis Uzzaman moved to Japan straight out of high school without knowing Japanese, studied engineering in Tokyo, and later worked hands-on in semiconductor manufacturing before joining IBM, giving him an unusually direct technical and cultural connection between Japan and Silicon Valley. At Pegasus Tech Ventures, he builds working partnerships with companies before investing, which has led to real results like connecting Aisin with Vayyar's sensor technology to detect children left in cars and with Element AI to raise manufacturing yield by about 10%, and he personally writes more than 1,000 letters a year to help entrepreneurs from places like Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia get U.S. visas through Startup World Cup.