The inaugural Sohn Tokyo Conference is coming up on October 16 at Roppongi Hills Club in central Tokyo. Leading up to the event, we caught up with Naohide Une of Investment Lab. He told Hedge Fund Alpha that this will be his first time presenting at a Sohn conference, having been introduced by TriVista Capital’s Masaki Gotoh, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs.

Background on Investment Lab

Investment Lab Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based independent investment manager founded in February 2020 and registered with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (FIBO No. 3237). It runs a Japan-listed equity long/ short strategy with a mid- and small-cap bias, a venture capital business investing in mid- to late-stage Japanese startups, and an…