Data & Infrastructure Startups

SmartDrive develops an AI Mobility OS, an integrated data platform for vehicle and fleet management, offering products such as fleet management, alcohol-check compliance, and personal-car commuting management for fleet operators and the automotive industry. The company is based in Japan.

2 investors

Nightley provides location intelligence services, including its "CITY INSIGHT" people-flow (human mobility) data analysis platform that combines GPS probe data, SNS analysis, and generative AI. It serves local governments and businesses for urban planning, road/traffic management, and marketing use cases in Japan.

2 investors

Highreso (株式会社ハイレゴ) operates GPU-dedicated data centers and provides computing infrastructure services in Japan. Founded in 2007, it builds and runs large-scale GPU data centers to supply computing power for innovation and industry.

2 investors

FreakOut is a Japanese advertising technology company that operates programmatic and social advertising platforms and marketing solutions, including audience targeting and ad-performance analytics for businesses. It offers B2B ad targeting and works with purchase-data partners to enable data-based ad delivery and analysis.

2 investors

Plaid (プレイド) is a Japanese technology company that builds products using data and technology to make large-scale, complex unstructured data intuitively usable by people. It focuses on maximizing the value of first-party customer data for businesses and services.

2 investors

Tenchijin is a Japanese space startup that uses satellite ("space big data") for land evaluation consulting and the development and operation of related services. It applies Earth observation data to environmental and social challenges such as sustainable land use.

2 investors

Sensors Data provides a data analytics and AI agent platform for enterprise digital operations, offering automated diagnosis, strategy generation, and execution for marketing and customer growth. It serves businesses across more than 30 industries in China, connecting online and offline data to support member lifecycle management and marketing optimization.

2 investors

SensorsData provides a real-time customer data platform (CDP) that unifies multi-channel data into customer profiles and segments, with features like ID-mapping, zero-copy architecture, and OpenAPI. It serves enterprise customers and offers both cloud and on-premise deployment along with end-to-end implementation services.

2 investors

Guandata provides a self-service, one-stop data analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform to help enterprises build agile, data-driven decision-making capabilities. Its customers include large companies across consumer and automotive sectors.

2 investors

Aptpod develops industrial IoT platform middleware and edge hardware based on high-speed bidirectional data streaming technology, offering its 'intdash' product for connecting vehicles, robots, and construction and agricultural machinery to the cloud. Its platform supports high-resolution remote data collection and analysis, real-time monitoring, remote control, and digital twins for industrial companies and system integrators.

1 investor

Provides IT solutions for the marketing research field, including survey systems for fieldwork and tabulation, along with platforms and operational resources for researchers. Its research platform is used by over 200 companies in Japan including research firms, consumer goods makers, and advertising agencies, and it also offers a data collection foundation based on zero-party data for customer experience.

1 investor

Operates CODE, a patented shopping and household-budget app that uses gamification to collect consumer purchase data from receipts and barcodes. The company packages this single-source purchase data ("買いログ") into research, sales promotion, advertising, and data-provision services for companies' marketing, while returning a share of the value to app users.

1 investor

19th is a platform that lets users train small, task-specific machine learning models from their own examples, automatically searching model candidates and distilling them into production-ready models. It targets teams building focused product tasks (such as classification and PII identification) without requiring a dedicated ML team, positioning its models to outperform frontier LLMs on accuracy, latency, and cost.

1 investor

0x provides infrastructure for decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, offering the underlying technology used to build trading and swapping functionality.

1 investor

0xbow builds compliance infrastructure for private onchain transactions, using an Association Set Provider (ASP) to vet deposits and exclude illicit funds while preserving user privacy. It serves privacy protocols, L1/L2 ecosystems, and enterprises that need regulatory-compliant private blockchain transactions.

1 investor

Squid is a cross-chain platform providing a routing and execution engine that lets users swap, bridge, and route tokens across 100+ blockchains and 20,000+ tokens in a single transaction. It serves retail users, developers, chains, and institutions through a bridge app, APIs, SDKs, widgets, and bespoke infrastructure for stablecoins, FX, and RWAs.

1 investor

14bis supplies technology solutions to the aerospace and defense sector, applying blockchain and data analytics to enable connectivity and visibility in complex defense systems.

1 investor

Yiqi Education Technology (一起教育科技) provides education technology services in China, including education big data platforms, AI-driven personalized learning, and smart education infrastructure. It partners with local government education authorities and schools to build regional smart education systems.

1 investor

One Mnet Health provides technology and services that turn healthcare data into insights for healthcare providers, supporting workflow automation, patient engagement, personalized care, and revenue and payment management. It serves providers across the United States, helping manage patient balances and improve operational efficiency.

1 investor

1WorldSync provides product content management and syndication capabilities, including PXM, PIM, and MDM tools plus a GDSN data pool, helping brands and retailers manage and distribute product information across commerce channels. The company was acquired by Syndigo to combine these capabilities with a retail network and ratings and reviews solution.

1 investor

2iT builds AI-powered geospatial analysis tools that integrate satellite imagery and spatial data to help organizations answer location questions such as where to invest, site a facility, or monitor territory. Its products support territorial asset management, site selection, and investment prioritization for public- and private-sector clients across various industries.

1 investor

375ai builds a physical-world data layer that captures continuous, labeled multimodal streams (video, audio, geometry, environment) from edge nodes on urban infrastructure across the United States. It sells this ground-truth data to teams training AI models and enterprises working in world models, robotics, autonomous systems, simulation, and mapping.

1 investor

Company providing drone-based surface assessment and data collection solutions for hard-to-reach areas, including muck pile analysis.

1 investor

3IPK builds blockchain-based products for enterprise customers, focused on secure, verifiable, and transparent data with attention to service availability, data scalability, and enterprise-grade security. Its solutions are aimed at businesses across multiple industries to support trusted data and decision making.

1 investor