Takashi Okazaki obtained a doctorate in science from Osaka University Graduate School. He joined Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. in 2010 after serving as a research fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Takashi leveraged the experience of conducting research and development primarily in the fields of natural products chemistry, electrophysiology, electrochemistry, and biophysics from the perspectives of a university, major private company, and a national research institute, as well as planning science and technology promotion projects for an organization affiliated with a municipal government, to engage primarily in the identification of seed-stage startups, company-university matching for industry-academia collaboration, human resource development, and local acceleration. Takashi joined Real Tech Fund as a science bridge communicator in 2016 and has been a growth manager since 2021.