ALL STAR SAAS FUND (Japan)
English summaries of Japanese SaaS, startup, and founder interviews from ALL STAR SAAS FUND.
Atomic Software CEO Shoichi Hatanaka and CTO Ryusuke Kumita explain how they are building a multi-vertical SaaS empire across aesthetics clinics and security firms using a modular 'atomic' architecture.
Ramp CEO Eric Glyman explains how the company hit $1B ARR in five years using a daily-count culture and AI-driven 6x sales productivity gains.
ALL STAR SAAS FUND's Maeda Hiro and Minato Masayuki declare 2025 a 'wartime' year for software and lay out 6 investment themes and 5 winning principles for 2026.
LayerX's Kobayashi and Onda explain how their FDE/DS paired model replicates Palantir's approach for Japanese enterprise AI deployment, with KPIs and org design details.
Algomatic CEO Ono Takanori argues the AI opportunity is in judgment-heavy work IT never automated, and that context data is the durable moat.
Sales Marker CTO Chen Chen explains how he built a 70-engineer team from 26 countries and why AI-era hiring should filter for Why/What/Who thinkers, not coders.
Akito Era of KnowledgeWork explains why 'searching' — meeting 105 candidates in 3 months — is the core of high-class recruiting.
Sell First: Makino Masayuki on Winning Startup Strategy in the AI Era
Sales Marker CEO Ogasawara on Speed, Differentiation, and Hypergrowth
IVRy CEO Ryoga Okunishi on AI-Era SaaS Strategy and Resilient Org Design
LayerX CEO Fukushima: Startups Have Two Years to Lock In Distribution Before AI Levels the Field
How Money Forward Globalized Its Engineering Org, from CTO Nakade
Autify CEO on Choosing VCs, Rejecting All Star SAAS Fund, and Hiring
Team Building Through Chaos: How to Scale Without Breaking Your Org
