Masato Ukaji

Pioneer Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of electronic products. It operates through the Car Electronics and Others segments. The Car Electronics segment develops, manufactures, and sells in-vehicle hardware products such as car navigation, car audio and video, car speakers, event data recorders, and other car-related electronic products. The Others segment provides medical and health devices, audio equipment, optical discs, and organic light-emitting diode devices. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto on January 1, 1938 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Neoteny Co. Ltd. (Neoteny) is an independent Japanese venture capital firm which was founded by Joichi Ito in 2000 to invest in personal communication technologies. Headquartered in Tokyo, Neoteny has completed investing and functions as a holding company for their portolio of investments. The firm's investment team has backgrounds in Goldman Sachs, NTT, Mitsubishi Corp., Digital Garage, Infoseek Japan, PSINet Japan, Eccosys, and Energy Conversion Devices Inc.