Tanuki Tech.Co
1 known investors
Provider of a fire-service digitization (DX) platform that turns emergency dispatch, attendance tracking, and administrative reporting into automated digital workflows for fire department staff and volunteer firefighters (fire brigades). The system handles dispatch notifications, automated duty reports with allowance and tax calculations, equipment and vehicle management, and mapping of field information, serving Japanese municipal fire and government organizations.
Also known as FireChief · 株式会社タヌキテック
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Tanuki Tech.Co (株式会社タヌキテック) develops and sells FireChief, a groupware and fire-activity support system for Japanese fire departments and volunteer fire brigades (shobodan). The system digitizes both emergency information transmission and back-office administration, and is used by both career fire service staff and volunteer brigade members from PCs and smartphones.
Functionally, FireChief automates dispatch orders and duty (turnout) reports. Dispatch notifications can be triggered automatically — including through email parsing or a connection to a dispatch console — and can sound an alert tone on members' smartphones even when the device is in silent mode. Member availability and turnout status are tracked through GPS and manual status entry for dynamic status management and safety oversight. Turnout reports can be generated automatically from incident history and schedule data, with automatic allowance and taxation calculation, and can be exported as CSV or in prescribed form templates. At incident scenes, members can submit damage information, still images and video, and mark burning or inundation areas, which are mapped within the system; water-supply and wind direction/speed information can also be displayed. The data reported through the app is intended for use by the standing fire service and disaster response headquarters. Business-management features cover turnout reporting, equipment and vehicle management, schedule management with attendance surveys for events, and business communications with attached documents, with electronic document distribution according to rank.
The company states its business as fire-service DX (digital transformation) and the provision of digital tools for emergency response services. Security is described as certified to ISO 27001 (certificate number MSA-IS-368), with access limited to fire service and municipal staff and brigade members, backed by 24-hour server maintenance and on-site training.
Business model
The company licenses the FireChief system to public-sector customers — municipalities and fire headquarters — and also indicates a sales-channel arrangement for private companies wishing to resell the product. Onboarding includes training for fire service staff and senior brigade officers on system overview and operation, plus 24-hour server maintenance and support.
Traction
The company claims the leading number of deployments among volunteer fire brigade digitization services and cites coverage in Kyoto Shimbun, Jomo Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, DIGITAL SHIFT TIMES, Jichitai Works WEB, Nikkei BP and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, as well as an appearance on NHK's "Ashita o Mamoru Navi" program. Advertised operational effects include dispatch order issuance in zero seconds, turnout report creation in five seconds, and 100% automatic allowance calculation.
Latest developments
Company announcements reference a change of business office address, a partnership-related note with a company jointly providing disaster-prevention ICT, an item involving Nikkei BP and Uniadex, an appearance on NHK General TV, newspaper coverage in Mainichi Shimbun, and an event related to "after COVID" themes, though details are limited on the site's news listing.
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Market position
The company describes FireChief as the volunteer fire brigade digitization service with the largest number of deployments in Japan, stating a No.1 implementation record, with specific customer names disclosed only on request and with permission.
Technology
A web and smartphone groupware platform for fire operations. Capabilities include email parsing and dispatch-console integration to issue automated dispatch orders, alert tones that sound through silent mode, GPS- and status-entry-based dynamic member tracking, automatic generation of turnout reports from incident and schedule history with allowance and tax computation, CSV and form-template export, on-scene photo and video upload with mapping of burning and inundation zones, water-supply and wind data display, and equipment, vehicle and schedule management. Information security is certified under ISO 27001 (certificate number MSA-IS-368).
Go-to-market
Direct inquiry-based sales to prefectural and municipal public bodies and fire headquarters via a web contact form and telephone (weekdays 09:00–17:00), supported by documentation requests. The company cites media coverage across Japanese newspapers and trade outlets and a television appearance, and participates in events; it also accepts inquiries from private companies interested in distributing the product.
Japanese municipal fire departments and fire headquarters, career fire service personnel and off-duty staff, and volunteer fire brigades (shobodan) and their senior officers, along with municipal government staff and disaster response headquarters. Private companies are also addressed as potential resellers.
Geography
Japan; the company's contact telephone number uses the Kyoto area code (075) and it references activity involving Kyoto, and coverage in regional newspapers including Kyoto and Gunma prefectural titles.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe company states it holds Japanese Industrial Standards and international standard information security certification, ISO 27001, under certificate number MSA-IS-368.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- Tanuki Tech.Cotanuki-tech.co.jp · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Tanuki Tech.Co do?
- Japanese provider of FireChief, a digitization platform for fire department staff and volunteer fire brigade administration.
- Who are Tanuki Tech.Co's investors?
- Tanuki Tech.Co's investors include Colopl Next.