Naoki Goto

Associate at Sunbird Growth · Developer infrastructure

Sunbird Growth

Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)

4+ years experience

University of Sydney

English, Japanese

Investing

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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Sunbird Growth, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Sit on 7 boards. Most at home with venture capital and developer tools. Into vintage synthesizers.

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Founders building in privacy and data protection
Second opinions on venture capital decisions
Working sessions on developer tools
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developer toolsventure capitalopen source

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into Series A developer infrastructure in India and SEA

Cheque size: $100k
Stages: Series A
Sectors: Privacy and data protection, B2B SaaS
Geographies: India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow: Lead
Decision time: About two weeks
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Tokyo, Japan · remote OKventure capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools

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Experience

Associate
Apr 2026 - Present
Sunbird Growth · 6 mo · Contract · Tokyo, Japan
- Built the privacy programme for launches in 16 countries.
- Negotiated 175 commercial agreements a year.
- Secured 4 payments licences.
Principal Engineer
Oct 2022 - Apr 2026
LG Electronics · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
- Sit on 4 boards.
- Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.

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Education

University of Sydney
BEng, Economics
2018 - 2022

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