Overview

Gender

male

Kaisei Hamamoto is a passionate programmer and entrepreneur. Hamamoto graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology’s School of Information Engineering in 2005. He is the Co-Founder, COO and Chief Engineer of SmartNews, the leading mobile news app that delivers stories from thousands of trusted publishers globally.

Much of his work has focused on aggregating massive amounts of information from the Internet and creating simple visualization and organizational systems to help people better understand it. This interest turned into a personal project in 2010, then evolved into SmartNews in 2012.

About SmartNews

SmartNews is a leading global news-discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. SmartNews provides news that matters to millions of users thanks to its unique machine learning technology and relationships with over 3,000 global publisher partners. Founded in 2012, SmartNews has been downloaded more than 50 million times globally. The company has raised $182 million in venture funding, and has achieved a valuation of $1.2 billion, making it the first news app UNICORN since 2015.