About

Founder, convener, and impact angel.

Seira Yun is the founder and CEO of Socious. He builds the company, advances the idea, hosts the summit and backs the founders — all pointed at the same thing: the impact that lasts.

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I want to leave my kids — and everyone else's — less to fix, more to build on. Everything else — the company, the idea, the summit, the investments — follows from that one commitment.

For most of modern history we've measured value one way: money. It's legible, liquid and universal — and it quietly bends everything we build toward what pays, not what matters. My work is an attempt to change the yardstick.

I didn't start in software. I spent years in humanitarian management at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and UNHCR — close enough to the front lines to see how much human good never shows up on a balance sheet. In 2021 I exited my first social business and founded Socious: infrastructure to make sustainability and impact measurable, verifiable and executable inside real markets.

Make impact, not money, the measure of a life. That's Impactism — not impact translated back into money, but impact honored for itself: conferred between people, and never cashed in.

That conviction grew into more than a company. I proposed Impactism as a way of thinking, founded the Tech for Impact Summit to convene the people who can act on it, and invest as an impact angel in founders solving planetary-scale problems.

It sits in a lineage: Bhutan's Gross National Happiness, Amartya Sen's Human Development Index, and Ken Suzuki's PICSY — each an attempt to measure what money misses. My inversion goes one step further: not a better translation of impact into money, but impact honored, not priced.

Seira Yun on stage at the Tech for Impact Summit
On stage at the Tech for Impact Summit, Tokyo.
Seira Yun meeting with policymakers in Tokyo
In the room — meeting policymakers in Tokyo.

Background & recognition

From humanitarian work to building the measure itself.

  • ICRC · UNHCRHumanitarian managementYears in the field with the International Committee of the Red Cross and UNHCR.
  • CambridgeMSt, Social InnovationUniversity of Cambridge.
  • 2021First exitExited his first social business, then founded Socious.
  • TodayFounder & CEO, SociousFull-stack developer · impact angel investor.

Recognition

  • Featured in Nikkei and The Japan Times
  • Named a Most Influential CEO in the Kanto region by CEO Monthly
  • Speaks and builds across Tokyo and globally, in EN & JA

Education & experience

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Seira Yun — founder & CEO of Socious, originator of Impactism, and convener of the Tech for Impact Summit; impact angel investor. ICRC and UNHCR alumnus, Cambridge MSt in Social Innovation. Building a culture that honors impact, not money.

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