Call for entries for "PRO Pitch"! Japanese soccer star/investor Keisuke Honda is looking for Filipino innovators

MANILA, Philippines, February 3 2022 - PROTOCOL ,inc will conduct "PRO Pitch", a pitch event for Southeast Asian startup on March 2. All the passionate startups from the Philippines can have a chance to have a pitch to prominent Japanese investors including Keisuke Honda.

■ABOUT
PRO Pitch is an online pitch platform organized by PROTOCOL, a global startup community founded by a Japanese soccer star Keisuke Honda. It allows startup founders to pitch their ideas or businesses directly to prominent angel investors & venture capitalists from Japan, Asia and around the world.

This time, we’re pleased to welcome a Japanese soccer star Keisuke Honda and prominent Japanese investors to PRO Pitch. You can pitch to them for completely free, so please feel free to apply.

Japanese soccer star Keisuke Honda launches a new global startup community PROTOCOL, the “AngelList of Asia"

■JUDGES

【Keisuke Honda】
In 2016, when he was attracting the attention of global soccer fans at A.C. Milan player, Honda launched KSK Angel Fund to invest in startups. Two years later, in 2018, in partnership with a Hollywood actor Will Smith, he launched Dreamers Fund. Between the two funds, Honda has amassed a portfolio of over 180 companies. In 2021, he launched PROTOCOL, a new global platform that helps startups, angels investors, VCs, and influencers connect from Japan, Asia, and around the world.

【Hiroki Asano】
For about 20 years, he has been investing in public and private companies. After working at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and PE fund, engaged in investment in internet, hardware and healthcare industry at Fidelity. Independent after investing in a venture business in COLOPL. Became an outside director (audit and supervisory committee member) of Sun* and an outside director of lafool. Graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering, Master of Finance, London Business School.

【Takeshi Nakanishi】
Tashi is the COO of the KSK Group, Partner of KSK Angel Fund, and CEO of Honda Estilo USA. He is also a board member of Surf Cup Sports, a youth sports company in San Diego, CA and Yume Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to reducing poverty. Tashi has experience in multiple asset classes as Vice President of Christina Development, a real estate fund, Logica Advisers, a quantitative fund, and Shinnecock Partners, a fund of funds. Tashi is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and received his Master of Law from ISDE in Madrid, Spain and B.S. in Political Science from Cal State San Marcos with a full athletic scholarship.

■ENTRY
Application deadline is 3-17 February 2022. And PRO Pitch will be held on on March 2. It is FREE and all the startups from Southeast Asia can apply! 

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