Strainer
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Strainer is a Japanese-language media and analysis service that publishes articles interpreting corporate earnings reports and business trends, with a focus on U.S. and global companies. It offers a premium subscription and a company-search feature for readers following business and financial news.
Also known as Stockclip · Strainer, Inc. · ストレイナー · 株式会社ストレイナー
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Strainer, Inc. (株式会社ストレイナー) is a Tokyo-based media company that operates the Japanese-language economic news service Strainer at strainer.jp. The service selects earnings disclosures from notable Japanese and overseas listed companies — with a strong emphasis on US corporates — and republishes them as condensed, plain-language write-ups, including slide-based visual explanations of earnings topics. The editorial approach is described as extracting factual information and reorganising complex news into simplified messages.
The site publishes a continuous stream of dated articles covering quarterly results of large US technology, retail, semiconductor and fintech companies, alongside company-lookup pages, a premium subscription sign-up flow, an advertising-placement offering and an interview/coverage request channel. The company's stated mission is to raise the intellectual level of society, with an aim of becoming a global economic-information platform.
Founding story
The company, formerly known as Stockclip, was incorporated on 21 July 2017 with Yusuke Nozoe as representative director, to run the Strainer economic media service.
Business model
Media business built on a paid subscription (premium plan) to earnings-analysis content, supplemented by advertising placement.
Recurring subscription revenue from readers at roughly JPY 2,000 per month, plus advertising sales.
Traction
The paid media reports a readership of business professionals and states that the service has been growing; the site archive spans roughly 301 pages of articles.
Latest developments
Recent publishing output in August 2026 concentrates on quarterly results from US companies such as NVIDIA, Salesforce, Okta, CrowdStrike, Zoom, Box, Intuit, Veeva, BILL, DICK'S Sporting Goods, XPeng and PDD, with a recurring theme of enterprise AI agent adoption.
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Market position
A niche paid economic media outlet in Japan focused on earnings analysis, operated by a small team.
Positions itself on extracting only factual points from earnings disclosures and reorganising them into short, structured summaries and explanatory slides rather than general news commentary.
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer distribution through its own website, with free article listings leading to a premium subscription sign-up, alongside advertising and editorial-coverage offerings.
Japanese business professionals, including executives and managers, who follow listed-company earnings and economic news.
Geography
Headquartered in Yoyogi 5-7-5, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, with a team working primarily remotely and weekly team meetings; editorial coverage focuses largely on US-listed companies.
History
Founded in July 2017 as Stockclip and later operating under the Strainer name, the company has continued to publish earnings-focused coverage from its Tokyo base; site copyright notices span 2016 to 2026.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe company was established on 21 July 2017 to operate the economic media outlet Strainer, with Yusuke Nozoe as representative director. It was previously known as Stockclip.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Strainerstrainer.jp · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Strainer do?
- Japanese subscription business-media company publishing distilled analyses of listed companies' earnings reports.
- Who are Strainer's investors?
- Strainer's investors include Skyland Ventures.