Marketing Tech Startups

Zaius provided a customer data platform (CDP) and B2C marketing automation software that unified customer data to power personalized marketing campaigns. Acquired by Optimizely in 2021.

2 investors

ZATAP connects physical products to digital experiences, positioning products as access points to brand digital ecosystems for consumers.

2 investors

Zaymo provides interactive email blocks that enable customers to complete transactions, write reviews, and manage subscriptions directly within emails without leaving the email client. The platform offers no-code integration with existing email templates and marketing stacks, serving email marketers and brand marketing teams.

2 investors

Zellify is a no-code platform for building web-based onboarding and subscription funnels that let mobile app companies acquire and convert paying subscribers before they reach the App Store, avoiding App Store fees. It offers A/B testing, AI-assisted funnel editing, real-time analytics, payment integration via Stripe or Paddle, and conversion attribution data for ad platforms like Meta, TikTok, and Google.

2 investors

Zembula offers a Composition Engine that automates personalization of daily retail marketing emails, dynamically selecting and personalizing content for each recipient at the moment of open. It serves enterprise retailers, integrating with their existing email service providers and data feeds to increase revenue and customer loyalty.

2 investors

Adriel is an AdOps platform that unifies marketing campaign management with real-time dashboards, automated performance tracking, and a no-code ETL, with planned ad generation and launching tools. It provides marketing teams with unified, business-ready advertising data in one place.

2 investors

CAPSULE is a content marketing and fan economy company that works with KOLs, YouTube/Instagram/TikTok creators, VTubers, and anime IPs, and has run marketing campaigns across gaming, FMCG, beauty, consumer electronics, finance, and e-commerce industries. It offers brand marketing services and creator/IP monetization through community management, ad placement, collaborations, merchandise, and offline events.

2 investors

Touchspot is a Japanese company that creates movies and web content to build interactive user experiences and support clients' marketing efforts. It works alongside clients on data analysis and strategy to solve their marketing challenges.

2 investors

PartnerProp offers an AI-powered partner marketing platform based on the ELG (Ecosystem-Led Growth) model that helps manufacturers and their sales partners generate more deals through a reseller/distributor channel. It provides a partner portal for sharing sales materials, visualizes partner activity, automates partner onboarding and enablement, and integrates with CRM, MA, and ERP tools.

2 investors

Kaizen Platform provides digital transformation (DX) services for enterprises, including website solutions, video ad creative production through its "Kaizen Ad" marketplace, and sales DX tools. The company, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market, serves businesses seeking to improve their websites, advertising, and digital operations.

2 investors

EVIRY Inc. is a Japanese company offering SaaS products including the 'millvi' cloud video delivery system and platform, and the 'kamui tracker' YouTube data analytics tool. It also provides solution services such as YouTube channel operation, influencer marketing, video production, and live streaming.

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

Yappli is a Japanese company describing itself as a "digital experience company" that uses technology to make digital tools easier to use and improve everyday life. This page presents the company's mission and its five core values ("Yappli Value").

2 investors

Utoniq operates "UDom," a fandom platform that lets artists, athletes, and entertainment brands run paid fan communities and issue "digital-real" trading cards and member-only content and online lotteries. It serves creators and rights holders such as musicians, VTubers, and theme parks in the Japanese entertainment and fan-engagement market.

2 investors

Richka operates as a digital-focused creative agency that provides marketing support and a platform where tens of thousands of ad creatives are produced monthly, applying AI to automate ad generation and video production. It combines a creative research team with technical development, and conducts joint research on ad creation with distribution partners such as Meta and Yahoo!.

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

Indent Corporation develops technology aimed at helping small or one-person teams build large consumer brands. The company's stated focus is on applying current technology to predict market trends.

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

Learned Media is a digital and social media marketing agency that provides brand identity, creative content, influencer marketing, and web/app development for consumer and B2B brands. Its clients include Junior's Cheesecake, BMW North America, Timex, DISH Media, Roc Nation, and Anheuser-Busch InBev.

1 investor

Revive Media offers an advertising platform that uses LLM technology to automate audience discovery and targeting across DSPs, letting advertisers describe their targeting criteria and have relevant segments selected automatically. It unifies campaign management, data integration, and reporting across digital, CTV, radio, streaming, and audio channels for advertisers.

1 investor

1105 Media is a business-to-business services provider offering digital and print content creation, events, and marketing services to help clients identify and reach qualified buyers. It serves companies in industries such as enterprise computing, big data, and infrastructure markets.

1 investor