Yoshimi initiates startup-corporate strategic partnerships, and facilitates startup business development by leveraging her network with corporations and filling various gaps between startups and corporations. She also supports generating Open Innovation skill sets and cultures that would lead creating future core businesses within corporations through DNX corporate programs.

Prior to DNX Ventures, Yoshimi spent two months each in Mumbai, India and Singapore to work on strategy projects during her MBA in 2015-2016. She also worked in sales and corporate planning for a trading firm in Japan. Yoshimi holds an MBA from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.