{"id":2058,"date":"2009-01-31T01:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:27:37","slug":"lang-8-raises-angel-round-just-unde-10m-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/lang-8-raises-angel-round-just-unde-10m-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lang-8 Raises Angel Round Just Under 10M Yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lang-8.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2062\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lang8logo.jpg\" alt=\"lang8logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/lang-8-multi-lingual-social-network-service-for-learning-foreign-lanugages\/\">Lang-8<\/a>, a multi-lingual social network \/ language-learning site, has raised 9,570,000 yen ($100K) from prominent angel investors:<br \/>\n* Kiyoshi Nishikawa, a founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngigroup.com\/en\/\">ngi group<\/a><br \/>\n* Takashi Yoshida, ex-CTO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten.co.jp\/info\/ir\/english\/\">Rakuten<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/nakamedia.com\/\">Masahide Nakamura<\/a> [JP], CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aainc.co.jp\/english\/english.html\">Allied Architects<br \/>\n<\/a>* Shuichi Takenaga, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aainc.co.jp\/english\/english.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aucfan.com\/\">Aucfan<\/a> [JP]<br \/>\nCEO, Youyou Ki, is going to use the investment to improve Lang-8&#8217;s usability.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2009\/01\/22\/2007_005890.html\">Venture Now<\/a> [JP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lang-8, a multi-lingual social network \/ language-learning site, has raised 9,570,000 yen ($100K) from prominent angel investors: * Kiyoshi Nishikawa, a founder of ngi group * Takashi Yoshida, ex-CTO of Rakuten * Masahide Nakamura [JP], CEO of Allied Architects * Shuichi Takenaga, CEO of Aucfan [JP] CEO, Youyou Ki, is going to use the investment&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/lang-8-raises-angel-round-just-unde-10m-yen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lang-8 Raises Angel Round Just Under 10M Yen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[231,2049,3945],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","tag-angel","tag-lang-8","tag-vc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}