Founder. Based between Tokyo and San Francisco.

🧬 Co-founder, Taxa

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Today, I am a co-founder at Taxa Technologies to invent new personal-care categories through skin microbiome engineering and to deliver them with our D2C medical platform 🧬

After a semester at Keio University, I moved to the U.S. to study psychology and neuroscience, graduating with Highest Honors from Williams College. I left PhD program at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research to build in San Francisco 🌉

• Associate Leader, U.S.-Japan Council
• Honorary Member, the Association of World Bank Group Alumni, Japan Chapter
• SVJP (Silicon Valley Japan Platform) Technologist

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Ideas…💭

DIY Bio | Highly automated, open-source home lab

Brain Machine Interface

Engineering the Canine Skin Microbiome for Tick Repellency

Matcha + Protein Sparkling Water

©︎Yuichi Fukunaga 2026

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