Fumiaki Ikeno

Active Investor

Program Director (U.S) at Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

Half Moon Bay, California

Fumiaki Ikeno, Program Director (U.S) at Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign is an active investor based in Half Moon Bay, California. This profile covers what Fumiaki Ikeno backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Fumiaki Ikeno is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Medical Officer at MedVenture Partners. He serves as a Clinical Advisor at Heroic Faith Medical. He is also a Co-Founder of US-Japan MedTech Frontiers and Program Director at Stanford BioDesign. He serves as Program Director (US), Japan Biodesign at Stanford Biodesign. He is a co-founder and board member of US-Japan MedTech Frontier which is a non-profit cooperation to make a trans-Pacific eco-system of medical devices between Japan and the USA. Over the last decade, He has served as an advisor for medical device industries and currently serves as a chief medical officer of an incubation fund specific for Medtech (Medventure Partners, Inc, Tokyo) as a spin-off from Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) that is the largest government and private partnership fund in Japan. He is also serving as a chair of the cardiovascular working group of APAN (Asian Pacific Advanced Network) that contributes the remote education, research activities, and telehealth using a specialized internet network. He is also serving in consulting faculty/lecturer roles in several universities in Japan including the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, Tsukuba University, etc. He is a Ph.D. Candidate, Waseda University/Tokyo Women's Medical College, Biomedical Engineering (2018), He holds a Certificate, Stanford Biodesign, Graduate Student, Biodesign Certificate Program Stanford, California, Medical Device (2007), and M.D., Jichi Medical University, Japan, Medicine (1992).

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Pre SeedSeed
Invests in: Healthcare & BiotechBiotech & PharmaMedTech & Medical DevicesEdTech
Location: Half Moon Bay, California
Typical check: $150K
Past investments: 6

Notable investments

Boon VRSilicon Valley Medical Instruments, Inc.SPARK GLOBAL, STANFORD UNIVERSITYStanford Center for Asian Health Research and EducationStanford Byers Center for BiodesignInnovation Network Corporation of Japan

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