Soki Ohmae

Co-founder/Managing Partner, Drone Fund
Soki Ohmae inspired to enter drones by an OK Go video, invests in unmanned autonomous machines across air, land, water and underwater, prefers in-person demos and uses hands-if support style.
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About Soki Ohmae

Soki Ohmae got into drones through art rather than tech, inspired by an OK Go music video shot with a drone, and he still practices drone photography himself while investing in unmanned, autonomous machines that move through air, land, water, and underwater. He likes to see technology in person before investing, like watching a submarine test dive from a fishing boat, follows a support style he calls hands-if where he steps in only when founders need help, and also teaches digital marketing and talks about drones on radio and podcasts.

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Drone Fund is one of the only venture funds in Japan or abroad built entirely around the vision of a drone and air mobility-based society, and it goes beyond investing by offering regulatory support and running a community for portfolio companies, including twice-yearly Chiba Dojo Drone Club camps where founders share operating challenges in a market still too small to navigate alone. Its track record includes being named the top drone investor in the world by deal count over the past decade, a first fund that returned about 85.2% in four years, and a portfolio that has grown from drone makers into air mobility, ground and aquatic robotics, with notable investments in noise-reduction startup Dotterel, delivery-drone company Wingcopter, and warehouse-robot startup LexxPluss.

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