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  "markdown": "Co-founder, TableCheck Inc..\n\nJohn Shields is co-founder and CTO of TableCheck, a restaurant booking and guest management company, and took the CTO role in 2013. He studied electrical engineering at Brown University and then spent five years in equity algorithmic trading as a vice president at Nomura Securities (formerly Lehman Brothers Japan).\n\n## What John builds\n\n- [TableCheck API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tablecheck.md), graded C, 57.1/100, in Restaurant \u0026 local bookings. TableCheck is a restaurant reservation and guest management platform used mainly in Japan and Asia. Its API components cover availability, booking, CRM, POS and distribution to booking sites, with an MCP server for merchants. Co-founder, TableCheck Inc., researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Yu Taniguchi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yu-taniguchi/), Co-founder, TableCheck Inc.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smbc-venture-capital/)\n- [DNX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dnx-ventures/)\n- [Colopl Next](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/colopl-next/)\n- [Mizuho Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mizuho-capital/)\n- [Future Creation Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/future-creation-capital/)\n- [ABF Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/abf-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is John Shields?\n\nJohn Shields is co-founder and CTO of TableCheck, a restaurant booking and guest management company, and took the CTO role in 2013. He studied electrical engineering at Brown University and then spent five years in equity algorithmic trading as a vice president at Nomura Securities (formerly Lehman Brothers Japan).\n\n### What does TableCheck Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists TableCheck API from TableCheck Inc.. TableCheck is a restaurant reservation and guest management platform used mainly in Japan and Asia. Its API components cover availability, booking, CRM, POS and distribution to booking sites, with an MCP server for merchants.\n\n### Who has invested in TableCheck Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name SMBC Venture Capital, DNX Ventures, Colopl Next, Mizuho Capital, Future Creation Capital and ABF Capital.\n\n### How are John's tools graded?\n\nTableCheck API is graded C, 57.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.tablecheck.com/en/join/about-us/team/\n- https://www.tablecheck.com/en/japan\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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