Yuta Shimizu spent years at Accenture and BCG working on large-company system rollouts, and he brings that background into how he evaluates enterprise startups—looking closely at things like company-wide deployment, approval steps, and permissions rather than just market size. He also writes detailed breakdowns of how big companies like Domino's, Target, and The New York Times carry out digital transformation, often using specific frameworks like the "five pillars" of DX or the split between offensive and defensive DX.
About their Fund
One Capital is a Japan-focused enterprise software VC, started by Shinji Asada after he left Salesforce Ventures wanting to be a more hands-on partner to founders, and it raised the largest first-time VC fund in Japan's history at $170M while focusing on Japan's low SaaS penetration and opportunity to replace legacy software; it looks for founders who are alumni of major US tech firms or early employees at successful public Japanese tech companies, and it recently added healthcare expertise through former McKinsey partner Yukako Yokota. The firm sets itself apart by building its own SaaS tools (like Projection-ai) and using 100+ SaaS products internally to evaluate startups as real users, by using its fund to help large Japanese companies digitize over ten-year relationships, by publishing widely cited Japan SaaS Insights research, and by drawing about 20% of its second fund from international investors in the US and Singapore.
















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