Livela Inc.

REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR

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Yuko Funahashi

Experience living in five countries, designing five-star hotels worldwide, consulting with more than 7,000 people, and supporting business launches and growth. Our representative, Yuko Funahashi, brings international perspective and practical commercial experience to discovering value, developing products, selling and expanding across markets.

Turn Japanese value into a business chosen worldwide.

How value is understood changes across cultures and markets.

What strengths should you communicate? To whom, and in what form? How will you sell and grow the business?

By connecting design with business and revenue strategy, Yuko Funahashi turns concepts into practical offers and connects them to sales and further growth.

Career & experience

After graduating from Hosei University’s Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Yuko Funahashi moved to the United States for language studies. She worked as cabin crew for Qatar Airways before studying interior design on a Foundation Course at University of the Arts London.

At HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates, she worked on five-star hotel designs around the world, developing an international perspective on space, experience and luxury.

In 2018, she joined the launch of an investment company, working alongside its president and contributing to growth from inception to over JPY 3 billion in annual revenue over seven years.

She became independent in 2022, expanding her business to a scale of JPY 300 million through property investment and rental operations. She holds a Japanese real estate transaction specialist qualification. Her beauty salon business achieved a 90% next-booking rate from its first year and generated JPY 30 million in annual profit with one room, one bed and one staff member.

Based in Germany since 2025, she supports salon businesses and online businesses, alongside branding and business expansion in Japan and abroad.

For a corporate client’s international business, she led business design, sales-channel development, negotiations, sales and overall project management. The client business achieved JPY 2 billion in net profit in its first year.

Today, she provides end-to-end production for businesses, connecting expertise, brands and content with product development, creation, sales and international expansion.

Build your next source of revenue.

Explore what comes next for your business and content. Tell us about your current challenges and where you want to go.

Individual consultations take place on Zoom.