Make every moment searchable.
Connect video, vision, and language so people can ask natural questions about what happened.
KAGURA BRAIN
vision, understood.
Make the physical world
understandable.
Products that help people see what happened,
understand what matters, and take the next step.
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ABOUT COMPANY
See more.
Understand more.
Kagura Brain turns everyday video into knowledge people can use.
We combine computer vision with the reasoning power of large language models to move beyond text and understand the visual world.
Ask who left the house, which customer left the restaurant, or what a pet did. Get a seamless answer grounded in what the camera saw.
OUR PURPOSE
From pixels to understanding.
Centered on people.
Explain what happened.
Ground answers in visible actions and context, with uncertainty made clear.
Make vision useful.
Turn visual knowledge into practical value for homes, restaurants, teams, and everyday life.
LEADERSHIP
A human vision.
A shared future.
Akira Zhang
Founder and CEO
Company vision, product & engineering
Akira leads company direction, product development, and AI engineering, turning the vision into reliable products.
Akira has experience working with international IT companies as a software engineer. His work includes internal projects with agentic AI features and mobile applications. He brings an understanding of the enterprise landscape to building useful, thoughtfully designed consumer products.
He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019.
Brandon Li
Cofounder and CSO
Business strategy, partnerships & finance
Brandon leads business strategy, strategic partnerships, and financial planning, connecting the technology with commercial opportunities.
Brandon brings experience in corporate and investment banking at a leading global financial institution, where he has worked on cross-border financing and strategic transactions involving companies and public-sector institutions across international markets. At Kagurabrain, he focuses on business strategy, partnerships, finance, and bringing the company’s technology to real-world applications. He studied Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, with a minor in Accounting.
Akari Yamamoto
Co-founder and Chief Sales Officer
Sales, customers & AI adoption
Akari leads sales and customer relationships, identifies each company’s pain points, and helps customers understand how AI can meet their needs.
Akari has worked as an account executive at Salesforce and another global technology company. She brings an understanding of how companies evaluate AI and the practical challenges each business faces.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from Aoyama Gakuin University.
THE WORLD IS WORTH UNDERSTANDING.