Yohei Nakajima

Yohei Nakajima is an industry expert, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur. He is the General Partner at Untapped Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2020. The firm is known forleveraging AIand automation in investment processes, including AI-assisted startup research and a founder-facing GPT VC Associate. Nakajima was ranked among the Top 20 thought leaders in the 2023 Data-Driven VC Landscape report and has spoken on using AI in VC at events like the a16Z GP-LP Mixer.

Nakajima is also an artist and the founder of PixelBeasts. He serves as a board member at Misapplied Sciences, a company specialising in next-generation display technology. His approach to venture capital follows a “build-in-public” methodology, where he shares his work openly to learn faster, connect with founders, and contribute to the ecosystem.

One of his most notable projects is BabyAGI, an open-source AI platform developed in March 2023. It was the first popular autonomous agent with task planning capabilities. BabyAGI went viral, receiving millions of impressions, over 20,000 GitHub stars, and more than 50 academic citations. It has been featured in major publications, including Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, and VentureBeat. Nakajima was invited to speak at TED AI in San Francisco.

Before founding Untapped Capital, Nakajima worked at Scrum Ventures (2018–2020) as SVP of Scrum Studio and a Venture Partner, where he collaborated with companies like Nintendo and Dentsu. Earlier, at Techstars (2014–2017), he managed The Disney Accelerator and later served as Director of Pipeline, helping startups across 30+ accelerator programs.

Nakajima holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Claremont McKenna College (2009) and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States.