Jun Wakabayashi
Venture Principal
AppWorks
Check: Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.
Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and help portfolio companies enter new Asian markets. In direct opportunities, his writing favors repeat founders with learned resilience, large problems native to Southeast Asia, sound unit economics, profitability and margin discipline, and teams able to adapt when the original model fails.
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