Representative Director Minoru Kuriyama draws on strategy consulting, data science, startup management and graduate business education to work with the people who run businesses — from shaping the strategy to putting it into practice.
Answering business questions through advice, implementation and education.
Connecting management and technology to support business concepts, issue framing and decision-making.
For example: AI-first mid-term strategy and new businesses; evaluating and prioritizing data and AI investments; framing issues for the management meeting
Learn more →Analysis designed backwards from business goals, algorithm design, and building mechanisms with AI inside.
For example: analyzing customer and sales data to design actions; prototyping work processes with AI built in; designing and evaluating algorithms
Learn more →Exercises, cases, AI-based materials and learning experiences for corporate training and business schools.
For example: AI strategy sessions for companies (half-day and up); cases and exercises for business schools; learning experiences designed with AI
Learn more →On AI strategy, data-driven management and new business creation — occasions to think and to practice.
For example: keynotes for executives; forum and conference talks; lectures in graduate schools and corporate programs
Learn more →Places we run, places we teach, companies we help lead.
Organizer / since May 2026
A monthly hands-on program for people who run businesses: start from a strategic question, build a working mechanism with AI inside it, and run it. Paid membership; corporate enrollment and custom sessions available. Held in Japanese.
Today's reading, Sat 7 Nov (in Japanese)
Updated every morningFor people in business education: sharing real examples of learning experiences designed with AI built in. Held occasionally, in Japanese.
Tama Graduate School of Business
Specially Appointed Professor; Head of the Data-Driven Management field
Data-Driven Management in Practice I and II
GLOBIS University Graduate School of Management
Faculty
Business Analytics; AI and Data Science
Also: Future Leadership Academy In Ginza (Matsuya Ginza); Innovatorship Program (Life Shift Inc.); corporate training and keynotes.
All teaching and talks →Director and co-founder
AI solutions for innovation and corporate transformation
Director and co-founder
Warehouse-sharing platform
Also: Advisory board member, D Capital (a private equity fund creating value through DX expertise).
All current roles →
Representative Director, Antecanis Inc.
Minoru Kuriyama
栗山 実
Data scientist, entrepreneur, strategist and educator.
Studied theoretical particle physics at the University of Tokyo, then worked at McKinsey & Company before founding Antecanis in 2010. Has launched data-driven startups, advised companies across industries on AI and data-driven strategy, and since 2015 has taught at graduate business schools.
Antecanis is the Latin name of Procyon, the brightest star of Canis Minor — the star that rises just before Sirius.
