{"id":1396,"date":"2025-11-07T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:05:21","slug":"akemi-koda-ceo-of-usasia-venture-partners-had-the-opportunity-to-join-a-fireside-chat-with-chon-tang-at-skydeck-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/blog\/2025\/11\/07\/akemi-koda-ceo-of-usasia-venture-partners-had-the-opportunity-to-join-a-fireside-chat-with-chon-tang-at-skydeck-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Akemi Koda, CEO of USAsia Venture Partners had the opportunity to join a fireside chat with  Chon Tang at SkyDeck Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In front of digital fire place, grateful for the opportunity to join a fireside chat with Chon Tang at <a href=\"https:\/\/skydeck.vc\" target=\"_blank\">SkyDeck Fund<\/a> moderated by Kelly Lindberg at Berkeley SkyDeck . In this candid conversation, Akemi Koda shared her experiences regarding the unique challenges and opportunities of building a business in the US market, navigating cultural differences, and securing funding. Chon shared what it takes setting expectations around fundraising, and interacting with potential investors.<br \/>\nAmazing energy, thoughtful questions, and great conversations with IPP founders from Japan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetro.go.jp\/en\/startup\/\">JETRO Startup <\/a>JETRO &#8211; Japan External Trade Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/skydeck.berkeley.edu\">Berkeley SkyDeck<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-50x38.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717314-285x214.jpeg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-50x38.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1762577717040-285x214.jpeg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In front of digital fire place, grateful for the opportunity to join a fireside chat with Chon Tang at SkyDeck Fund moderated by Kelly Lindberg at Berkeley SkyDeck . In this candid conversation, Akemi Koda shared her experiences regarding the unique challenges and opportunities of building a business in the US market, navigating cultural differences,<a href=\"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/blog\/2025\/11\/07\/akemi-koda-ceo-of-usasia-venture-partners-had-the-opportunity-to-join-a-fireside-chat-with-chon-tang-at-skydeck-fund\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usasiaventurepartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}