Before Coral Capital, Yohei launched the first fund for 500 Startups in Japan, where he invested in over 80 companies. Prior to that he was a researcher at Nomura Securities, where he worked on tech IPOs including Gunosy ($300m), bengo4.com ($80m), FreakOut ($110m), and Voyage Group ($240m). Before Nomura, he covered the TMT sector for J.P. Morgan's investment banking division. He worked on Sony's acquisition of So-Net Entertainment for $785m, Toshiba's acquisition of Landis+Gyrfor $2.3bn (ASIAMONEY Japan Best M&A 2011), and Bain Capital's acquisition of Skylark for $2.1bn.