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Christopher Ax
Founder & CEO
at
WAY Equity Partners
Christopher Ax is founder and CEO of WAY Equity Partners. WAY is a permanent capital firm which invests into software companies in Japan.Prior to WAY, Chris Ax worked at Rocket Internet and in 2014 co-founded Schmatz, a German beer and restaurant group in Tokyo in 2014. Schmatz started with a food truck and now has 38 stores, 900 team members and Schmatz beer (FMCG) distributed in supermarkets nationwide.