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Admit AI is a workspace for high school counseling teams that connects students' brag sheets, essays, recommendation letters, and college lists into one supervised system, with tools for essay review, college research, resume review, interview prep, and caseload management.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
AGE technologies is a Japanese company that develops services to simplify and centralize inheritance and business succession processes, reducing information asymmetry around passing on assets between generations.
FintechLegalTechPropTechSaaSTokyo, JP
塩原 優太(代表取締役社長 (Representative Director & President))黒川 智(専門役員 テクノロジー担当 (former CTO, appointed 2021))
AI-sensor system that cuts road-heating energy loss and running costs for facilities and companies (TIL Inc.).
World-first service analyzing ESG across product/service supply chains using AI, quantifying 3,290 ESG indicators covering environmental, social and governance factors.
AI agent automating inbound tourism operations (bookings, inquiries, complaints, payments) for tourism businesses (ikura Inc.).
Amplium provides encoding and distribution software for immersive video content on Apple Vision Pro, serving studios and independent creators.
Creator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Smart-city company handling ICT implementation for real streets from planning and design to prototyping and on-site construction.
Anycrew is a talent agency service that connects freelance and side-job (fukugyo) professionals with work opportunities, including roles such as CFO and finance positions.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces
Company operating an art-related business, formerly named TRiCERA and changing its name to Art to Heritage.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerFintechMarketplacesTokyo, JP
井口 泰(Representative Director)
ATOMica operates social coworking spaces designed to foster relationships between people and enable connection and collaboration.
Future of WorkSaaSSocial宮崎市, JP
BetterEngage is an employee experience platform (EXP) that integrates and visualizes scattered HR data in real time, giving HR staff and managers a cross-cutting view of employee and organizational conditions.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSTokyo, JP
石原史章(代表取締役 (CEO))
Next Green Revolution is a Japanese agriculture initiative built around soil health, offering vegetables grown with a focus on soil quality ("Next Green Vegetables") and farming methods including soil solutions, soil-value visualization (Agri LCA+), and soil-based carbon credits (Next Green Credit).
AgTechClimate TechFoodTech
Blucor offers Hope, an AI voice recruiter that automates high-volume blue-collar and hourly hiring by posting job ads, calling and interviewing applicants by phone in 50+ languages, and delivering ranked candidates with transcripts.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
BUKARU provides a dedicated app for school extracurricular clubs (部活) that handles scheduling, chat, activity notes, and a QR-code passport/points system for logging participation.
EdTechSaaSSports Tech
Automates real-estate/construction volume-check work via AI and IT that parses and generates building design drawings.
Provides anonymized sensor data insights for offices, senior housing and retail to optimize layouts, prevent falls and understand consumer movement.
Burlingame, US
Honghao Deng(Executive Officer, Director)Naimish Patel(Director)
BoardRaymond Stuart Stata(Director)Seth Levine(Director)
Direct Air Capture solution for high-quality CO2 removal with industrial reuse economics (CarbonNest Inc.).
Uses advanced visualization technology; offers 'Katachi Space' to create and share real-scale AR captured with a smartphone camera.
cocosy is a matching platform for office relocation in Japan, connecting companies directly with property owners who send offers on office spaces.
MarketplacesPropTech
Coursebase is an AI-powered learning management system (LMS) for corporate and institutional training, supporting online, in-person, and blended courses with content creation, analytics, e-learning libraries, API integration, and single sign-on.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
CrestLab develops technology tools for anime creators and production studios.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentTokyo, JP
坂東 裕太
Upcycles plant residue into washi paper and washi yarn as alternatives to high-environmental-impact materials, partnering with regional industries.
Wireless live-image camera service for outdoor tourist sites with automated SNS posting (SKIDAY Inc.).
Makes 'cinnamon', a conversational AI watch-over robot that remembers past conversations and monitors health via a linked wristband.
Donut Robotics develops proprietary VLA (vision-language-action) AI to control robots and produces a Japan-made bipedal humanoid robot with gesture control.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics
DOUXLESS is a Japanese luxury non-alcoholic beverage brand offering tea-based, wine-style pairing drinks (such as "Chaos Grape" and "Round Ginger") designed to accompany fine dining.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
塚越慎之介(DOUXLESS Developer (Sommelier))播磨直希(DOUXLESS Brand Owner)
Douzen designs consumer hardware products focused on emotional, non-verbal connection between people, emphasizing calm user experiences over feature-heavy screens.
ConsumerHardwareSan Francisco, US
Kentaro Miura(Executive Officer, Director)
NFT-based repeat-purchase tool for hometown-tax (furusato nozei) gift providers using gamified digital cards (MeTown Inc.).
Fant operates a platform connecting hunters with buyers of game meat (jibie), such as Ezo deer venison sold to restaurants.
AgTechFoodTechMarketplaces
Takano(代表取締役 (Representative Director))
Sales-management cloud app for small local businesses like sake breweries and liquor shops, from about JPY5,000/month (FERM Inc.).
フクスケ (Fukuske) is a cloud-based corporate compliance platform for managing employee side-jobs (fukugyo), providing an application intake window, risk diagnosis, e-learning, audit trails, and attached insurance to help companies detect and prevent labor-related side-job risks.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaSTokyo, JP
Floatmeal works on alternative protein sources, offering a local, cost-effective, and climate-resilient option to help farms and businesses build greener supply chains.
AgTechClimate TechFoodTech
Flyers is a service for drone aerial-photography enthusiasts that helps them find and book flight spots and supports them before and after flying.
ConsumerMarketplacesSaaS
Reward Gateway | Edenred provides a unified employee engagement platform that helps organizations design and deliver employee value propositions through recognition, wellbeing, benefits, and discounts.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Taro Fukuyama(Founder/CEO)inSunny Tsang 🌞(Founder/Chief Designer)in
Fril is a Japanese consumer-to-consumer marketplace app where individuals list and sell items such as fashion, electronics, hobby goods, and food.
ConsumerE-commerceMarketplaces
Fundkey provides outsourced fund back-office and administration services run by certified public accountants, covering fund formation, ongoing operations, accounting, closing, and audit support.
FintechSaaS
GEO Creates provides VR services and a SaaS platform called ToPolog that stores spatial experience data in the cloud and applies eye-tracking, EEG, and AI-based gaze analysis to evaluate and improve spatial design.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Develops one of the world's smallest EV chargers with authentication and billing, enabling charging in any parking space.
Company advancing dental healthcare including lifelong dental checkups and oral function management for inpatients and care recipients.
HIX is a mobile app for men concerned about hair loss and male pattern baldness (AGA) that uses AI, with review by certified hair diagnosticians, to analyze photos of the user's hair and scalp and assess the degree of thinning and scalp condition.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthWellness & Fitness
HILO is a Hokkaido University spin-out commercializing a drug-efficacy evaluation method based on fluorescence bioimaging technology developed by Professor Yusuke Ohba.
BiotechDeep TechDigital HealthMedical DevicesSapporo, JP
天野 麻穂(代表取締役 (Representative Director / CEO))大場 雄介(取締役 (Director, R&D))依田 知則(取締役 (Director))中井 正矩(取締役 (Director))石井 淳一(取締役 (Director))
H2O Japan Management provides facility management and cleaning services—including regular and emergency cleaning, air conditioner cleaning, supply restocking, waste collection, smart-lock support, and 24-hour hotel front-desk support—for share houses, apartments/company housing, hotels, vacation rentals, and shared meeting rooms.
MarketplacesPropTechTokyo, JP
Idein develops Actcast, an edge AI platform that runs deep learning on low-cost edge devices (such as Raspberry Pi) with a marketplace of vendor apps for collecting and analyzing real-world data.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoTTokyo, JP
中村 晃一(代表取締役 / CEO)山田 康之(取締役 / CTO)姜 太一(執行役員 / CFO)
Ikura provides an AI agent for Japanese tourism and inbound businesses that automatically handles inquiries, bookings, payments, and customer management via WhatsApp and Instagram, operating 24/7 in 50 languages.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Semi-custom subscription for allergy-, vegan-, and Muslim-friendly sweets free of dairy, egg, wheat, and white sugar (TREASURE IN STOMACH Inc.).
VR communication tool that records 360-degree footage of medical/construction sites for shared, avatar-based training (Kishibull Inc.).
Jigowatts develops, manufactures, and sells EV/PHV chargers and operates charging services, combining hardware and software technology.
CleantechEnergyHardwareIoTMobility & TransportationTokyo, JP
柴田 知輝(代表取締役 (Representative Director/CEO))下岡 優斗(取締役 (Director))
Jimdo provides digital tools for self-employed people and small business owners, including a website builder, online store, a Legal Text Generator, and Facebook for Business integration.
E-commerceMarketing TechSaaSGermany, DE
Job-Us is a job management system that helps large enterprises design job descriptions from business and organizational strategy, then continuously update them and connect them to talent management processes such as grading, placement, evaluation, and career development.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Keyes develops a smartphone-based smart lock system that allows users to unlock padlocks and wire locks via a mobile app, enabling time and access-controlled key distribution for indoor and outdoor use without physical keys.
HardwareIoT
Provides a customer-analysis pass platform for physical stores based on visualization, detection, prediction and control.
Kirifuda develops on-chain finance products and blockchain intelligence services (data analysis, index development, and compliance support) that let businesses embed blockchain-based financial features without specialized expertise.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechTokyo, JP
Hideyuki Akagawa(代表取締役社長 (Representative Director & President))Tomoki Yamaguchi(取締役・ブロックチェーンインテリジェンス代表 (Director))Kazuma Iizumi(取締役 (Director))Hifumi Takai(CTO)
Komham develops microbial technology to decompose organic waste and sells biomass recycling systems based on that research.
BiotechCircular EconomyCleantechClimate TechTsukuba, JP
Suno Nishiyama(Representative Director)
Operates 'cocosy', letting companies relocating offices receive property proposals directly from building owners without brokers or brokerage fees.
LOCARI is a Japanese online media platform publishing lifestyle articles for women, covering topics such as fashion, beauty, hairstyles, cooking, travel, and money.
ConsumerMedia & Entertainment
Operates 'SHOP STOP', a platform dispatching mobile shops (mainly food trucks) to varied locations, partnered with 1,000+ shops.
Product centralizing dispersed personal health information on a secure memory card (Milwus Inc.).
Mitene ("みてね") is a family photo and video sharing app that lets parents upload children's photos and videos with unlimited storage, automatically organize them into monthly albums, and share them privately with invited family members who can add comments.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSocial
Land-based sea urchin aquaculture using a closed recirculating system and proprietary feed for sustainable premium urchin (mizuhachi Inc.).
Mizuhachi operates a land-based, closed-loop aquaculture system that raises low-yield sea urchins bought from fishermen into high-quality urchins with over 15% yield in a short period, using a proprietary feed formula without alum, additives, or preservatives.
AgTechClimate TechFoodTechSapporo, JP
高橋優人(代表取締役 CEO)
Operates 'mawaroute', a generative recommendation engine specialized in product suggestions, supporting 100+ languages via conversational recommendation chat.
Mopi develops low-cost autonomous driving technology aimed at community and rural transit, positioning itself as a "just right" self-driving solution to redefine community bus services.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMobility & TransportationTokyo, JP
高田康文(代表取締役 (Representative Director))Shaoshan Liu(取締役 / Technology Evangelist)ダイアナ・ユウ (Diana Yu)(取締役 / Mopi Evangelist)Patrick Kwong(Chief Evangelist)
Startup using location big data and technology, offering inbound-support services focused on tourism, inbound, MaaS and urban development.
Japanese company providing recruitment, support, and staffing services for foreign "specified skilled" workers, including an agriculture-focused staffing operation.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSapporo, JP
横山三四郎(代表取締役社長 (President & CEO))平井凱斗(取締役 管理本部長)宮城勇也(取締役 事業本部長)加藤美保(取締役 人事本部長)
Nu-Credits provides trade finance services, including invoice factoring and working capital advances, to importers and exporters engaged in international trade.
Fintech
Oh my teeth offers clear aligner orthodontic treatment where aligners are delivered to the patient's home, with clinic visits generally not required and a medical team providing support via LINE.
Digital HealthDirect to ConsumerHealthtech
Outreach Grid provides software tools for outreach workers, HMIS administrators, and cities to locate and track at-risk and homeless individuals, dispatch services, create service plans, and match clients to shelters and housing resources.
GovTechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Tiffany Pang(Cofounder)
ovice is a virtual space platform for remote and hybrid teams that lets users move an avatar to "walk up" to colleagues and start spontaneous conversations without meeting links, supporting 1-on-1 and team chats via voice, text, reactions, and screen sharing.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Operates 'WHERE', a solution using satellite data and AI plus registry data to find land/real estate quickly for business sites.
PIE VAT offers a digital, AI-assisted platform that automates tax free shopping and VAT refunds for international tourists, replacing manual paperwork with app-based verification.
FintechRetail TechTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US
Dominic Sheehy(Director)Michael Walsh(Director)Brian Yeh(Director)Sunny Long(Executive Officer, Director)
Ramps builds infrastructure to connect people with rural regions, operating three linked businesses: a community platform (ensembles), a lodging operations platform (tomarin), and a tourism data/DX platform that consolidates lodging, experience, visitor, and hometown-tax data into a dashboard for local governments and operators.
Data & InfrastructureMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityHigashikawa, JP
成尾 太希(創業者 兼 代表取締役 (Founder & CEO))
Agriculture DX platform using a plug-in cigarette-socket device to coordinate and visualize farm vehicle operations (Ezowin Inc.).
Cuborex develops crawler (tracked) mobility platforms for robotics, including the ROS-compatible CuGo development platform and electric crawler units used for building rugged robots that operate on rough terrain such as mountain roads and disaster sites.
Deep TechHardwareRobotics
Sassor develops energy technology including a home AI that analyzes residents' lifestyles to optimize cost and comfort, a virtual power plant (VPP) that automatically controls energy resources to balance supply and demand, appliance disaggregation from smart meter data, and behavior estimation from energy data.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Community-style hotel brand targeting inbound tourists with optimized long-stay hotels focused on customer satisfaction.
Creative company founded in 2005 with 30+ global awards; offers creative visual programming app 'Springin''.
ShipMate offers international parcel shipping for travelers in Japan, letting them drop purchases at post offices, hotels, or retail stores and ship them home via a smartphone app that handles customs paperwork and pricing.
ConsumerLogistics & Supply ChainTravel & HospitalitySapporo, JP
ShouldBee is a hosted (ASP) automated testing service for web services and web applications, letting QA engineers and testing teams write test scripts in simple Japanese without building a test environment or learning complex scripting.
Developer ToolsSaaS
SOINN develops compact, low-computation AI based on its patented "artificial brain SOINN" technology to add intelligence to devices, equipment, and information systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnergyMachida, Tokyo, JP
Osamu Hasegawa(代表取締役 CEO (Representative Director & CEO))
Spatial Pleasure builds the Mobility Intelligence Platform (MIP), which combines pre-built functional micro-components to address recurring operational challenges for transport and logistics operators.
Climate TechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & Transportation
Suzuki(CEO / 代表)
StayX develops labor-efficient facility management software and a booking platform for short-term rentals and lodging, and operates its own accommodation brands.
PropTechSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Operates 'SPOBY', a behavior-change app visualizing CO2 reduction from movement while promoting health, rewarding users with points and exchangeable perks.
Sumyca is a booking site for monthly and long-term furnished apartment stays and vacation rentals, including the stayme and S-villa brands, offering upscale apartment and villa accommodations with instant online reservation.
MarketplacesPropTechTravel & Hospitality
Metaverse tech company offering fan-marketing metaverse 'SYNMN' to promote fan engagement and community building.
A telehealth service (小児科オンライン / Syounika Online) that lets parents in Japan consult pediatricians and midwives via LINE chat about children's health and parenting concerns from newborns to adolescents.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
theLetter is a Japanese publishing platform for professional writers, journalists, and experts to distribute web articles and newsletters and earn recurring income through subscriptions, sponsor collaborations, and syndication to partner media.
Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Provides software to streamline paper- and fax-heavy real estate management, collecting building info via app and using AI to replace manual work.
TIL Inc. develops AI and IoT applications, including voice recognition tools that extract keywords from on-site conversations, a video-meeting audio transcription tool (RECORiS for Video), and an image-recognition system that controls road heating based on snow conditions.
AI & Machine LearningIoTSaaSTokyo, JP
川村 秀憲(Co-founder)藤浪 慧(Representative (CEO))
Tippsy Sake sells premium Japanese sake direct to consumers, delivering small-production bottles from Japan to customers' doors, including a curated Sake Flight set with tasting cups and mat.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Tokuty is a Japanese recruitment platform connecting companies that want to hire specified-skilled ("tokutei ginou") foreign workers with job seekers, using a database of over 37,000 candidates and a network of 392 overseas partner agencies across countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
B2B MarketplacesHR TechMarketplaces
Tokyo Vegan Gyoza is a plant-based (vegan) frozen gyoza product sold to consumers online in Japan, now distributed through the Green Culture online store.
ConsumerE-commerceFoodTech
One of Japan's largest big-data holders operating purchase data on 50 million people, combined with AI for data marketing.
TsunaguJapan is a travel media publication offering itineraries, destination guides, and articles about Japanese cities, culture, cuisine, and products for international travelers visiting Japan.
Media & EntertainmentTravel & Hospitality
Senses consumer behavior via 1 million beacons and a 50-million-download app, providing a big-data behavioral platform.
Operates 'YourDoc', a matching platform connecting foreigners with medical care across language, borders and culture.
verbal and dialogue is a construction technology company that develops "Cheez," a SaaS service for automatically creating construction photo albums (工事写真帳).
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaSOsaka, JP
Yoshiki Morikawa(Representative Director)
Operates 'BATNA', a B2B SaaS enabling price negotiation via QR codes for retail and e-commerce, reflecting real-time demand.
xTension is a live streaming DX service that enables audiences to send real-time emote reactions from their smartphones during live performances and events, displayed on stage to create engagement across both in-venue and live-viewing audiences.
Media & EntertainmentSocialTokyo, JP
Younode is a software development firm that builds web and mobile applications, AI agents, and in-house products for clients.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSapporo, JP
Shiro Arai(Founder & CEO)Keita Hikita(Co-founder & CTO)
Ichirou operates a caregiving workforce sharing platform and provides home care support and facility referral services for the elderly care market in Japan.
B2B MarketplacesDigital HealthHealthtechHR TechTokyo, JP
Service letting care facilities directly approach care managers for eligible clients to cut sales costs (HELTEQ Inc.).
Connected Robotics develops robotics and AI-powered automation solutions for the food service and restaurant industry, addressing labor shortages and food handling challenges through computer vision and robotic control systems.
AI & Machine LearningFoodTechRobotics
Medical coaching app for athletes to log training, condition, and medical information and share it with coaches, family, and doctors (Sportarre Inc.).
そうぞくドットコム is an online service that handles real estate inheritance and gift (贈与) name-transfer procedures for individuals in Japan, charging a flat fee per deceased property owner regardless of the number of properties or heirs.
FintechLegalTechPropTech
E-commerce supply of small-lot single-origin Hokkaido wheat for small-scale bread sellers (Bakerista Inc.).
E-commerce improvement service giving food producers monthly analytics report cards and improvement proposals (Locala Inc.).
Drug-efficacy testing service letting chronic myeloid leukemia patients identify effective molecular-targeted drugs before treatment (HILO Inc.).
WAAK° is a furniture brand for workspaces, offering products such as standing desks and tables designed to fit modern work styles while emphasizing durability and detail.
ConsumerFuture of WorkOkawa, JP
unerry operates Beacon Bank®, a real-world behavioral data platform that captures over 30 billion location-based data points monthly and applies AI to analyze consumer movement across stores and commercial areas.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningRetail Tech
Andeco is a Japanese consulting firm applying AI and IoT to architecture and urban spaces, offering smart city/smart building consulting, ICT strategy and AI/DX consulting with web development, and carbon-neutral consulting.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTechOsaka, JP
From To operates 47pass, a platform that builds partnerships between local governments (municipalities) and startups to support startups expanding into regional areas of Japan.
B2B MarketplacesGovTech
Mellow operates a platform that matches mobile shops such as food trucks (kitchen cars) with vacant spaces, connecting mobility-business operators with locations like offices and neighborhoods.
FoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesMobility & TransportationTokyo, JP
石澤(代表取締役社長兼CEO (President & CEO))
Notice indicating that MYCITY merged with ELEMENTS Inc. on November 1, 2024, with its corporate site content moving to the ELEMENTS website.
SaaS
KINCHAKU is an all-in-one platform for walk-in businesses that combines digital vouchers, bookings, reception, unattended check-in, and customer loyalty tools.
Marketing TechRetail TechSaaS
True Data operates a big-data platform handling purchase data at the scale of about 60 million people, providing ID-POS and POS data analysis for consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, and marketers.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechRetail Tech
The company uses satellite data from space combined with proprietary AI to surface undiscovered real estate source information, connecting orbital imagery with ground-based legal, topographic, and statistical data to reveal new property value on maps.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSpace Tech
Shikumi Design is a Japanese creative studio that designs interactive "fun experiences" combining technology and design for corporate branding, promotion, and education, drawing on more than 1,500 projects.
Creator EconomyEdTechMarketing Tech
SHIN-MIRAI INC. (株式会社森未来) is a Japanese company focused on wood/timber procurement and coordination, holding FSC and SGEC chain-of-custody certifications.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesConstruction TechData & InfrastructureNew MaterialsTokyo, JP
Junpei Asano(代表取締役 (Representative Director / CEO))
AI service that identifies rents and amenities likely to fill vacant rental properties by region (RESA Inc.).
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