Ikuya is a serial entrepreneur and has been a software engineer since he was in junior high school. Previously he was CTO of Fractalist, a mobile software company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. While he was in college, he founded Newrong, led several governmental projects, and developed a new P2P middleware currently used by several established Japanese manufacturers. He is also Senior Visiting Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC and a Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics.