株式会社FromTo

株式会社FromTo (FromTo Inc.) is a Tokyo-headquartered seed-stage company working on connecting Japan's major metropolitan areas with its regional areas. Its stated vision is to "create a new business ecosystem across all of Japan," premised on the observation that people, goods and capital — and therefore business opportunities — concentrate in large cities, while products and services capable of solving regional problems do not reach the regions that need them.

The company's principal line of business is an intermediary service between companies and municipalities built on the corporate version of Japan's hometown tax donation scheme (企業版ふるさと納税). Rather than the standard cash donation, FromTo arranges donations of a client's physical products to municipal public facilities, researching which municipalities actually want a given product and running the process end to end. The company states this compresses the roughly 18-24 months typically needed to land a municipal deployment to as little as one month, while the donor still receives a tax deduction. A personnel-dispatch donation variant is also offered.

Its second product line is 47pass (よんななパス), a platform that aggregates local-government policy and support programmes aimed at startups and SMEs and digitises the process from information gathering through application, with the goal of simultaneously supporting corporate growth and municipal problem-solving. A local-government-facing version of 47pass was developed with support from Hamamatsu City's Fund Support Program. More recently the company has promoted 47Connect, an AI service for local-government business development positioned as an alternative to consultants, which generates outputs from municipal budget documents on the day they are published.

Founding story

The company was founded in July 2018 by Hiroshi Miyagi, who serves as representative director and CEO. Miyagi is from Okinawa Prefecture and previously worked as a bridge SE at a large Japanese systems integrator; he relocated to Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture after taking part in a proof-of-concept project there, built an engineer-focused career support business, and then established FromTo. He was selected for the 7th cohort of "Shido" (始動), the programme run by METI and JETRO. COO Taishi Nakata is from Hiroshima Prefecture and worked at Hakuhodo in accounting, corporate planning and corporate sales before becoming independent, running an advisor-referral business for regional companies and launching a consumer-goods brand that he led through a business sale. Shoko Yagi is listed as CBO.

Business model

FromTo operates as an intermediary between companies and Japanese local governments. Its core service brokers "product donations" under the corporate version of the hometown tax (kigyo-ban furusato nozei) system: instead of the usual cash donation, client companies donate their products to municipal public facilities, which gives them a documented deployment record, a relationship with the municipality, local brand awareness, CSR activity and a tax deduction. The company also offers a personnel-dispatch donation variant of the same scheme, the 47pass information platform for municipal policy programmes, and regional marketing support.

Revenue derives from intermediary services between companies and municipalities under the corporate hometown tax donation scheme (product donations and personnel-dispatch donations), the 47pass municipal policy information platform, regional marketing support work, and the 47Connect AI subscription service for local-government business development.

Traction

The company reports roughly ten or fewer employees and lists four members on its recruiting profile. It has signed corporate hometown tax donation cooperation agreements with at least four municipalities (Awara and Sabae in Fukui, Kanuma in Tochigi, Ikeda in Osaka), had its municipal 47pass development selected for Hamamatsu City's FY2022 Fund Support Program, and has been covered by Nikkei and Jiji Press's iJAMP portal. Client cases cited include companies using the donation route to open previously untapped municipal territories and establish public-facility deployment records.

Latest developments

In April 2026 FromTo signed a cooperation agreement with Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, on corporate hometown tax donation solicitation, following a similar agreement with Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, in April 2025. The company is promoting 47Connect, an AI "advisor" service for local-government business development, under a beta campaign limited to the first 20 companies, and offers a personnel-dispatch donation service using the corporate hometown tax scheme. In September 2024 it announced a joint project with Amane Career Inc. called #ダム際ワーキング to promote development in hilly and mountainous regions.