Data & Infrastructure Startups

Leeways builds technology platforms to increase transparency in real estate transactions and connect market participants including real estate professionals, financial institutions, and tax advisors.

1 investor

Risk Monster provides credit management and anti-social-forces (compliance) screening services for Japanese businesses, covering rule design, operational setup, and ongoing monitoring of corporate trading partners. It offers a proprietary RM credit rating, corporate database, alerts on rating/management/litigation changes, and enterprise data services such as data cleansing, name matching, and API integration.

1 investor

Works ID promotes a business philosophy centered on "designing work," combining digital transformation (DX) with human creativity to solve client challenges and improve how people and companies work. The page presents the company's corporate mission and values around freeing people from routine tasks and driving operational improvement for businesses.

1 investor

Donson is a Chinese marketing technology company that provides AI-driven marketing products and services to enterprises globally, leveraging media traffic, scenario tokens, and marketing data infrastructure.

1 investor

DataCanvas is an Asia-leading AI infrastructure and intelligent computing cloud provider that offers high-performance computing, intelligent cloud services, and professional model services for AI training and inference. The company operates platforms including Alaya NeW Cloud and Alaya NeW OS to serve global enterprises undergoing intelligent transformation.

1 investor

A financial service platform that aggregates interbank market quotations and provides semantic analysis of pricing data for institutional banking operations in China. The platform structures quotation information and enables intelligent matching of supply and demand in interbank deposits.

1 investor

Transwarp develops AI infrastructure software and services covering the full data lifecycle, including a distributed database (ArgoDB), a big data platform (Transwarp Data Hub), a data cloud platform (TDC), and intelligent analytics and development tools. It serves enterprises across more than a dozen industries for data management and digital transformation.

1 investor

Toyokeizai Online is a Japanese business and economics news platform that provides diverse perspectives and information to help people make informed decisions. The site delivers economic journalism and data-driven content to support readers in making ethical and responsible choices.

1 investor

Unerry leverages location data and AI to provide insights for urban planning, retail optimization, and disaster resilience. The company serves government agencies, retailers, and enterprises across Japan.

1 investor

APTO builds high-quality training and evaluation datasets for AI development, including datasets for math reasoning, safety, and medical domains to improve LLM accuracy. It offers an AI data annotation platform (Harbest), expert-driven data creation, custom solution development, and ready-made datasets across natural language, image/video, and audio, primarily serving enterprises in Japan.

1 investor

AVILEN develops AI implementation solutions that apply advanced AI technologies to business processes and organizational challenges across industries. The company combines cutting-edge AI research with deep practical domain expertise to create AI tools that replace workflows, enhance analysis and forecasting, and extend organizational creativity.

1 investor

DSF Pro offers FIC, a decision-support platform for professional football clubs that centralizes information, analysis, and insights in one place. It supports sporting departments across workflows including squad status, match reporting, player acquisition, player sales, and manager selection.

1 investor

OZ1 develops software solutions focused on implementing smart cities in Japan that prioritize human welfare over business interests. The company aims to address social challenges such as income inequality, demographic decline, and educational gaps through technology-driven urban infrastructure and data sovereignty.

1 investor

Scalar develops database-agnostic software solutions for enterprise data management, including ScalarDB—a universal HTAP engine that integrates multiple databases for transactional and analytical processing—and ScalarDL, a distributed ledger for managing data operations with strong security and authenticity guarantees.

1 investor

SENRI provides data and technology solutions to help companies in frontier markets build trust with customers and employees by offering visibility into business relationships and employee activities.

1 investor

Smash is a Japanese company that uses digital communication and conversations — with people or bots — as a way to solve problems, providing marketing, consulting, and data analysis services. It serves businesses, local governments, and consumers.

1 investor

A Japanese data analytics company that helps consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, and marketers leverage POS and ID-POS purchase data for product development, marketing strategy, and area-based store planning.

1 investor

XAION DATA develops services using open data based on patented data collection and structuring technology, and provides AI/data solutions. The company also operates in job placement and recruitment information services.

1 investor

ZenmuTech develops data security software using proprietary secret-sharing and data obfuscation technology to prevent information leakage. The company offers solutions like ZENMU Virtual Drive and QueryAhead for enterprises seeking security without compromising usability.

1 investor

SAT Co., Ltd. provides maintenance services for IT hardware equipment along with IT infrastructure construction and IT solution deployment and operation. The company serves enterprise IT clients in Japan.

1 investor

Ocean Eyes is a technology venture that uses pattern recognition, ocean simulation, and data assimilation to provide fishing-ground and ocean-condition forecasting services for fishers, aimed at sustainable use of marine resources. Based in Japan, it is expanding into Southeast Asia (including Indonesia) and offers a free ocean-forecast app called OEView.

1 investor

SkymatiX provides cloud-based remote sensing and drone surveying services for industries including construction, agriculture, and infrastructure. The company develops and sells software platforms that analyze satellite imagery, drone data, and geospatial information to solve operational challenges.

1 investor

M&A Online is a media platform that provides information on mergers and acquisitions to help individuals and businesses understand and engage with M&A transactions. The company aims to address Japan's succession crisis and contribute to economic innovation through regular content distribution.

1 investor

A satellite data analysis company that develops systems and provides services for processing satellite imagery to support marine, industrial, urban, and agricultural applications. The company specializes in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology and object/change detection from space-based data.

1 investor