Ryutaro YAMADA

Consultant/Entrepreneur/Startup Investor

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After joining Amazon Web Services straight out of university, Ryutaro spearheaded onboarding and cloud‑solution proposals for 300–400 startups as a Startup Account Manager.

He later founded the creative agency beer Inc., providing recruitment branding and video production for clients ranging from large enterprises to government bodies, while also supporting growth at media platform PIVOT as a designer.

Today, leveraging his hybrid expertise in sales and design to back early‑stage founders, he works as an Investment Manager at Scrum Ventures, driving startup investment support and new‑business creation.

Expertise

Cloud enablement for startups, including AWS architecture design and onboarding

Business development and community management in Web3 and Generative AI

Startup investment support and new‑business creation

Business growth support through a hybrid Sales × Creative approach

Languages

Japanese, English

Career

Scrum Ventures (Senior Associate, 2025-)

beer inc. (Co-Founder, 2022-)

Amazon Web Services (Startup Account Manager, 2020-2024)

Education

Waseda University (B.A, 2020)