Manabu Nakamura joined The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan in 1991. In 1994, he worked at a VC firm in Tokyo, and was promoted to Managing Director of Shinsei Corporate Investment in 2012. With 19 years of experience in VC, he founded Shinsei Capital Partners in 2018. Nakamura holds a BA in economics from Kyoto University and an MBA from University of Rochester.

Ryo Fujinami joined Shinsei Corporate Investment in 2016 and Shinsei Capital Partners in 2019. Previously, he worked at Abbott Japan, where for 15 years he developed in vitro diagnostics for cancer, infectious, metabolic, and cardiac diseases. Fujinami holds a BS in engineering from Osaka City University and a M.Sc.Eng. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.