FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Mitsuki Matsuda
Age 33 · Startup finance and IPO execution · Japan
A repeat startup-finance builder with a completed IPO, investment and M&A record.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 33
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- Japan
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 69.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Mitsuki Matsuda has built a career across the points where young companies meet capital. He established GX Incubate within Gaiax and worked on investments and acquisitions before moving to adish. There, he was the sole full-time employee assigned to the listing process and carried the company through its March 2020 debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at 27. The listing-day financial release names him as the finance contact, supporting the more detailed account of his responsibility.
Matsuda has since continued that work as chief financial officer of workflow-software company Anyflow and through a separate corporate-support practice. Those current positions are not counted as achievements by title alone. They matter because they show that the completed adish listing was followed by another finance-building mandate, rather than a move away from operating responsibility. The international scale of his record is modest, but the institutional craft is clear and transferable.
FigureAsia selection
Why Mitsuki Matsuda is on the list
FigureAsia selected Matsuda for documented authorship in a process where responsibility is often diluted across advisers and management. His record identifies him as the internal lead who assembled listing readiness, while his earlier investment and M&A work demonstrates range across both sides of startup finance. The outcome was completed and subject to public-market disclosure.
The selection does not convert adish's later performance into his personal impact, and it does not treat his current CFO title as proof of another completed outcome. Matsuda is recognised for a verified IPO and for repeatedly taking on the unglamorous institutional work—controls, disclosure, transactions and finance operations—that allows young companies to use capital responsibly.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Built an investment and M&A platform
Matsuda established GX Incubate and worked on corporate investments and acquisitions, giving him transaction experience before moving into public-market preparation.
adish completed its Tokyo listing
As the company's sole full-time IPO lead, Matsuda coordinated the internal work required for the market debut and served as its finance contact at listing.
Field context
The work in its field
A startup IPO is not simply a fundraising event. It requires reliable accounts, governance, disclosure, investor communication and systems that can withstand scrutiny after listing. The internal finance lead must coordinate advisers without surrendering ownership of the company's decisions.
Matsuda's record illustrates why that function deserves separate recognition. The completed market debut is visible; much of the work that made it possible was operational and largely invisible.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
69.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
21 / 30
Built an investment and M&A platform is treated as a delivered financial outcome. The score is confined to the completed result described in the record and excludes projections or paper valuation.
Individual agency and execution
16 / 25
The documented role—Chief Financial Officer—and the attributed actions in the profile establish accountable execution. Institution-wide results are not assigned to the person alone.
Verified reach and significance
14 / 20
A startup IPO is not simply a fundraising event. It requires reliable accounts, governance, disclosure, investor communication and systems that can withstand scrutiny after listing. The internal finance lead must coordinate advisers without surrendering ownership of the company's decisions.
Innovation and field influence
10 / 15
The record combines startup finance and ipo execution with the completed work described in adish completed its Tokyo listing. Credit reflects demonstrated practice, not a claim of novelty by itself.
Stewardship, access and Asian relevance
8 / 10
The Asian connection is explicit: A Japanese finance operator whose completed work spans venture investment, M&A and a Tokyo listing, and who continues to build finance functions for Japanese software companies. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.