The unstoppable rise of Ecommerce: The rise of ecommerce — accelerated by the pandemic — may be one of the most significant shifts in retail behavior in modern history. Looking at the numbers, US ecommerce sales in 2021 were around $871 billion, more than quadrupling from $200 billion in 2011…

We welcome our newest member to the DNX family, Shuhei Nitta. He joined us as the Investment VP in the Tokyo Office. Shuhei was an M&A advisor at a leading securities firm in Japan. …

As a founding partner of DNX, Mitch Kitamura has successfully helped establish a pan-pacific investment firm, with one foot in Silicon Valley, US, and another in Tokyo, Japan. As for most VCs, the value comes from rich experience, a vast and diverse network, and close collaborative relationships with corporations as…

As the record-investment dust of 2021 is settling, we took the opportunity to ask Mitch Kitamura, Managing Partner at DNX, to share DNX’s view of what is taking shape ahead, as 2022 takes off. What can entrepreneurs expect this year? How will the temperature of the VC market continue to…

We at DNX were delighted to host another exciting webinar last week. This time with a focus on how Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can directly impact and drive a better Customer Experience (CX). Salim Virji, a well-known Site Reliability Engineer at Google who has contributed to numerous books on reliability…

We are delighted to welcome our newest member, Kaishu Kadoya, who joined us as the Senior Associate on the Finance Team in the Tokyo office. We interviewed Kaishu about what led him to DNX Ventures. - — - Hello, I’m Kaishu Kadoya, who joined the Finance team of DNX in…

Written by MinJoon Choi, Associate at DNX Ventures / Reviewed by Akira Kurabayashi, Managing Partner and Head of Japan at DNX Ventures Recently, B2B SaaS startups have been gaining momentum in Japan, and similarly, the public market has been paying much more attention to SaaS companies. In particular, in recent…

Takeaways from the DNX Ventures webinar: featuring Omkhar Arasaratnam, former Executive Director, Head of Data Protection Technology at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Gadi Bashvitz, CCO at NeuraLegion. You can access the session recording here. How software was written in the past Before modern application development practices, in the…

Customer Success and Support organization transformations, as discussed with Angus Klein DNX Ventures recently hosted B2B Summit 2021 Online, which had a focus on customer services organizations in transformation, due to the rapid increase in digitalization and SaaS trends. …