Panelists: Akemi Koda, Founder & CEO, USAsia Venture Partners, Changhwan Lee, Founder & CEO, Firenze Inc., & Kenji Niwa, Co-Founder & CEO, Firstcard, Inc.

Akemi Koda is an accomplished entrepreneur, angel investor and startup advisor with a passion for helping businesses grow. Akemi is a member of both the Stanford Angels and Band of Angels and has been investing in startups across the globe. As an advisor for Berkeley Skydeck and StartX, and a contributor to the Investor Feedback sessions at Alchemist Accelerator, she provides valuable guidance to startups.

Changhwan Lee is the Founder and CEO of Firenze Inc., a company that specializes in strategic consulting and principal investments.  There he develops strategies for comprehensive business value improvement and business promotion for multiple large companies in the automotive, healthcare, AI, internet media, smart city, and entertainment fields.

Kenji Niwa founded Firstcard in 2020 when he was an MBA student at UC Berkeley. Firstcard is a FinTech company that launched a debit card product that gives students up to 15% cash back and will launch a credit product soon to help students to build credit. Firstcard has raised $7.7M from VCs and Angels in the US and Japan.

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