Team
The trend is shifting from investments that aim for only economic returns to investments that are also socially meaningful. We are conscious Investors.
Naoko Okumoto
Co-founder, Managing Partner
Naoko is the Managing Partner and Founder of Niremia Collective, a Silicon Valley based early-stage venture capital firm focused on wellbeing technology. She leads the investment strategy along with the global wellbeing community building.
Naoko is a seasoned investor and technology executive with a proven track record in building new business portfolios within Silicon Valley and Japan. Prior to establishing her own fund, she drove US investments for Mistletoe, a social impact fund, and was an Executive Advisor at Z Corporation, a fund created by Softbank/Yahoo Japan. She was also a founding partner at World Innovation Lab (WiL), a Silicon Valley based VC firm, and was the Vice President of Strategic Partnership Management at Yahoo Inc., managing global joint ventures, growing revenues from $16MM/annual to $520MM/annual.
Naoko’s board participation includes a Non-executive Director at S4 Capital, a board member at CoinDesk Japan, and a board advisor at Transformative Technology.
Nichol Bradford
Co-founder, Partner
Nichol is the Co-Founder and Partner at Nirmeia Collective. She is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Transformative Tech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing tech founders, investors, and innovators – with 9000 members in 72 countries.
Prior to becoming a leader in transformative technology, she served as a senior interactive entertainment executive responsible for strategy, operations, and marketing for major brands that include: Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi. In her role, she operated World of Warcraft and all of Blizzard Entertainment’s properties in China as well as held a key role on the Vivendi Games team responsible for the Activision-Blizzard merger – an $18B deal and an industry defining event.
Nichol is a lecturer at Stanford University, a graduate of Singularity University’s Global Solutions program, has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She is a board trustee of the California Institute of Integral Studies, a fellow of the British American Project, served on the board of the Brandon Marshall Foundation for Mental Health, and is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.