Rice Capital

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Rice Capital is a seed fund that invests in startups in the U.S. and Japan. Rice Capital was founded by Taro Fukuyama, a founder of Fond, which was backed by Y Combinator, DCM Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz and was acquired by Edendred in 2023. Taro became the first Japanese YC founder. He also serves as a board director at SmartHR, a Japanese unicorn.

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