Rika Ito

Founder & CEO at Anchor HQ · Climate analytics · enterprise sales, carbon accounting

Anchor HQ

Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)

7+ years experience

University of Tokyo

English, Japanese

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Overview

Founder of Anchor HQ (climate analytics). 7 years of building before that. Grew the team to 24 people across 4 countries. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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enterprise salesclimate techcarbon accountingdata

Experience

Founder & CEO
Feb 2025 - Present
Anchor HQ · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
- Raised $25 million across 3 rounds.
- Took Anchor HQ from zero to $7 million ARR.
Engagement Manager
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
EY · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
- Designed the operating model for a 12 thousand-person transformation.
- Delivered 13 engagements across 7 countries.
Consultant
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
LINE · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
- Delivered 18 engagements across 5 countries.

Projects

Climate analytics benchmark

2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing data and climate tech on real workloads.

Open-source carbon accounting toolkit

2022

A small library for climate analytics that 444 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

University of Tokyo
BEng, Computer Science
2015 - 2019

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