Future of Work Startups

CaSy is a household services platform that connects customers with vetted staff members offering cleaning, organization, and cooking services. The company operates in Japan and serves households seeking outsourced domestic help.

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Kickflow builds workflow automation software for enterprise companies, with AI-first design principles for task management and business process optimization.

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ScaleHack connects businesses with skilled professionals in growth strategy, scaling, and operational challenges. The company operates a database of specialists experienced in business development across major Japanese firms, offering project-based teams and methodologies to support companies from startups to enterprises.

1 investor

Spir is a scheduling automation tool that pulls free/busy times from Google and Microsoft calendars to let users share booking links, coordinate team availability, and automate reminders and follow-ups. It targets business teams in sales, recruiting, and customer support, with integrations for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, and HubSpot.

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Zenmetry provides corporate training programs and implementation support for generative AI and AI agents, including executive hands-on programs, curriculum development, and workflow integration services. It also develops its own AI agent products, serving businesses and executives in Japan.

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Openup Group provides staffing and career-development services, dispatching engineers—including inexperienced and mid-skill workers—to client projects and matching personnel to a range of business needs. The company positions itself around supporting individual growth and connecting workers with companies across industries in Japan.

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Coconala operates an online marketplace, launched in 2012, where individuals and professionals sell skills and services such as logo design, website development, presentation decks, business plans, SEO advice, and app development. Its "PRO" certification program matches certified professionals with business customers.

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Connectill is a Japanese company that provides remote-work employment opportunities—matching skilled but unavailable IT and programming workers with jobs—while also running AI development, data creation, and software product/solution services (including Forguncy implementation and training). It focuses on remote-work staffing, women's workforce participation, and AI support initiatives in Japan.

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スーツアップ (SuitUp) is an AI-supported team task management tool that focuses tasks on three elements — who, what, and by when — with a spreadsheet-like interface, automated recurring tasks, deadline reminders, and integrations with chat and calendar tools like LINE, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Chatwork, and Google Calendar. It targets small and mid-sized businesses in Japan, including teams new to task management software.

1 investor

Startup Class ("スタクラ") is a Japanese job-change and side-work platform focused on connecting professionals with vetted, high-growth startups and ventures. It offers curated startup job listings, a 5-minute startup aptitude assessment, and career-change stories, targeting people seeking more autonomy and challenge in their work.

1 investor

UT Group operates a platform for workforce management and career development in Japan, addressing diverse employment conditions, skills training, and life-stage support for Japanese workers and foreign nationals seeking employment in Japan.

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Protagonist is a recruiting agency specializing in the AI, Web3, and deep tech sectors, placing high-level professionals and CxOs for startups and enterprise AI transformation/DX initiatives. It also runs its own media outlet "Plus Web3" and operates in Japan.

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Minshoku (株式会社みんなの社食) operates a delivery-based corporate cafeteria service, providing lunch to employees at companies that lack an in-house canteen. Based in Tokyo, it works with restaurant partners and delivery partners to serve workplace lunches in Japan.

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RareJob provides English-language education services and operates across Japan and the Philippines, offering online English learning along with global leader development and career-related programs. The company serves individuals and companies seeking to develop globally capable talent.

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Work Life Balance Co., Ltd. is a Japanese consulting firm that helps companies and government organizations implement work-style reform (hatarakikata kaikaku) through consulting, executive and staff training, lectures, organizational diagnostics, and guidebooks. It also offers web-based productivity tools including "Asa-mail.com" for visualizing and sharing daily schedules and time estimates and "Kaeru Kaigi Online" for structured team improvement meetings.

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rakumo provides add-on cloud software for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, offering tools such as group calendar scheduling, an internal bulletin board, a web address book, workflow approvals, attendance management, and expense reconciliation. The product is aimed at Japanese businesses to add functions those platforms lack, and is used by around 2,600 companies.

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Asproad is a Japanese construction-focused group company that provides workforce solutions through staffing and training. The company connects experienced engineers and specialists with construction projects through its subsidiary companies Archi Japan and JAG Field, serving both workers seeking career development and construction firms needing technical expertise.

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Andus Labs helps organizations build the human readiness needed to adopt AI, drawing on experience in digital transformation and AI labs. It focuses on the organizational and people-side factors of AI adoption rather than the technology capability itself.

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TransactIQ offers a collaborative workspace application for corporate real estate teams and brokerages to manage site selections, negotiations, contracts, and lease management. The platform provides configurable workflows, interactive digital market surveys and tourbooks for commercial real estate (CRE) transactions.

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Anura Connect is a consulting firm that places vetted Epic (healthcare software) consultants with health systems, and represents specialized consultants seeking transparent engagements. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, it acts as an intermediary between healthcare organizations needing Epic expertise and Epic professionals.

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Apex TI offers Toolbelt, an AI workforce platform that connects business tools with AI-powered "Assistants" to automate workflows, aimed at non-technical users. The company also provides forward-deployed engineering services to design, build, and maintain custom AI agents for organizations.

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AspenView Technology Partners provides IT talent acquisition and digital transformation services, leveraging AI-native capabilities and Latin American technical expertise to help CIOs reduce total cost of employment and meet staffing needs in North America.

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Bereave provides technology that helps people find guidance, support and information when navigating the death of a loved one, serving employees, families, HR teams and managers. It offers workplace bereavement support and end-of-life resources for organizations and their staff.

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bluSPARC offers a leadership development system for enterprise executives and managers, combining psychometric assessments, one-to-one coaching, and cohort learning delivered through a digital platform. It measures leadership competencies and behavioral change for corporate clients across all levels of an organization.

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