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Kai Sato

Los Angeles
As seen in: HuffPost, Nature, Entrepreneur, Inc., SportTechie, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Family Capital
Covers:  investing, private equity, family office, proptech, foodtech, sportstech, climatetech, ESG, corporate governance, marketing, go-to-market, startups, tech, culture, microcaps
MP at Mauloa, Fam office/Microcap/Startup Advisor & Author of "Marketing Architecture" Tweets=investing + operating + golf/@caddy2corner. Not investment advice

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Kai Sato’s Biography

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Kai Sato is a managing partner of Mauloa, a unique private equity firm where he is its west coast lead. In addition to Mauloa, he is an advisor to Forma Capital, a consumer-focused venture firm and a fund advisor to Hatch, a global startup accelerator focused on helping feed the world through sustainable aquaculture technologies. Kai is the author of “Marketing Architecture: How to Attract Customers, Hires, and Investors for Any Company Under 50 Employees.” Through his holding company, Kaizen R…

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How family offices can lead the circular economy and generate substantial profits | Family Capita...

How family offices can lead the circular economy and generate substantial profits | Family Capita...

For multiple generations, the Berolzheimer family has played a significant role in the pencil industry, throu…

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Prioritizing the people: Small-cap lessons from large-cap firms

Prioritizing the people: Small-cap lessons from large-cap firms

Want to best serve your investors? Airbnb and Amazon show how small caps must prioritize employees and custom…

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Why small-cap companies should communicate with long-term shareholders - but not pander to short-...

Why small-cap companies should communicate with long-term shareholders - but not pander to short-...

Just because social media gives smaller shareholders unprecedented access to companies and their management t…

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Can Smart Window Inserts Lower Carbon Emissions & Help Save the Planet?

Can Smart Window Inserts Lower Carbon Emissions & Help Save the Planet?

Take a look out your window. Have you ever stopped to think about how much money that glass is costing you? O…

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eGolf: The Future of Golf Will Be Driven by Digital Technology

eGolf: The Future of Golf Will Be Driven by Digital Technology

Leading up to this year's Open Championship at Carnoustie Golf Links, Rickie Fowler offered a clue to the fut…

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5 Keys for Big Companies to Implement Successful Accelerators

5 Keys for Big Companies to Implement Successful Accelerators

These days, nearly every large company seems to be dipping a toe into the venture capital world, and it's com…

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Publisher Correction: Activity-dependent ribosome profiling reveals the landscape of canonical and non-canonical translation in brain tissue

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By Nayan Suryawanshi, Hitoshi Uchida, Ryo Endo, Kai Sato, Daisuke Satoh, Kazuya Tsumagari, Koshi Imami, Takayasu Mikuni, Motomasa Tanaka
| Nature Verified
Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74968-z, published online 23 July 2026 In this article, the text in the legend for Fig. 2 (panels ‘D’ and ‘E’) was inadvertently swapped. The Acknowledgements section was also missing from this article and should have read, ‘We thank R. Bise for his advice on data analysis, Y. Chen for developing the data preprocessing pipelines, N. Takahashi, N. Takashima, and M.
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Microcap IR is a Mess, but Warren Buffett has the Simple Solution: Candor — Kaizen Reserve, Inc.

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By Kai Sato
| kaizenreserve.com
Investor relations for microcap companies are mostly flawed and in need of reform. In fact, it’s not much of a secret, and I’ve yet to encounter an accomplished microcap investor or executive who does not feel the same way, though some are reluctant to say so on record.
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Official Caddying Story: Hoyt McGarity — Caddyshack to Corner Office

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By Kai Sato
| caddyshacktocorneroffice.com
Hoyt was a stand-out collegiate golfer at Lynn University and played competitively on various professional tours. He co-founded Modern Golf in 2011, a Canadian club fitting company, then became CEO of True Spec Golf in 2014, a brand agnostic club fitting company. In 2017, Hoyt assumed the role of President and CEO of Miura Golf. Soon after, Howard Milstein acquired True Spec and GOLF and consolidated his golf investments into a holding company, 8AM Golf, where Hoyt became President.
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