Episode #19 - Hayato Kameta, Zweispace
Before founding Zweispace, Kameta-san was CEO of ARK Asset Management, the fund arm of Openhouse, and previously at the legendary Century21 world wide #1 real estate company in Tokyo's Shibuya district. With Zweispace, he looks to digitalize the real estate industry, by applying analytics to the valuation process, assessing earthquake robustness with IoT sensors, and putting the necessary documentation onto the blockchain. Kameta-san's ultimate goal is to re-create a real estate-based/backed financial system. Zweispace has just been accepted into the Plug & Play accelerator program in California, and is one of a few Japanese startups looking at markets globally at this stage of their growth.
Earlier in his career, after graduating from Kyoto University with a B.S. in Physics, Kameta-san worked at Softbank, where he had the opportunity to learn much about the Silicon Valley ecosystem through the 400+ startup investments the group had made at the height of the late 90s internet bubble. He later was the Director of the CEO office, and the CEO of Prosper Asia, the P2P lending platform founded by Chris Larsen, who later went on to create Ripple.
The company name derives from a word play on Einstein that physicists will appreciate. Please listen in!
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