Gojo & Company, Inc. is an enabler of financial inclusion for unserved and underserved communities, investing in and partnering with financial service providers around the world. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and has group companies in 13 countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia & the Caucasus, and Africa. Gojo exists to create a world where everyone is able to overcome the circumstances of their birth and determine their own future. Our mission is to extend financial access to all people in developing countries.
Your Parts offers one-stop-shop offering a wide range of autoparts and services for service centers embedded by on demand delivery and financial solutions.
Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
Oneport 365 is a B2B digital freight forwarding platform offering simplified, all-inclusive, and transparent freight forwarding services driven by technology.
The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
With the vision of "Let's increase happy parent-child time," Torana Inc. provides a rental subscription service, "Toysub! a rental subscription service that delivers toys optimized for infants and toddlers as they grow, in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, "Toysub!" serves approximately 15,000 households. Based on data from over 400,000 toy evaluations and over 100,000 toy planning sessions, we have established engineering and operations to select and deliver the best toys for children's growth.
The healthcare web application is developed and maintained by WeMeet.
Welnes is an app that connects users with nutritionists and trainers with personalized meal and workout plans. The company assists users in achieving their goals, whether they are to build muscle, lose weight, or simply live a healthier lifestyle. Welnes establishes a community for dieticians and nutritionists and for those looking to live a healthy lifestyle, eat healthy food, and alter their physical appearance.
Providing access to real-time cognitive and emotional states through everyday wearable devices
ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
Raseedi App is the first daily fintech app for the masses. Raseedi offers underbanked users a dialer to make cheaper calls, receive saving tips, make payments and borrow Airtime and bills instantly without a credit history.
Ascend provides a system for managing transportation, including project management, vehicle dispatch, invoice generation, and management visualization. It facilitates on-site work while enabling management decisions. Their management supports transportation companies from strategy through execution while using digital technology. To maximize the value of the logistics sector, they will also offer advisory services in collaboration with government and business groups.
Kwara is transforming credit unions into modern digital financial institutions, powered by an industry-leading core banking system and a modern mobile banking experience for credit union members. Backed by investors across Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA, Kwara currently serves 200+ SACCOs in Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines
Eden Life is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot.
Releaf is a supply chain technology firm that sources ingredients for African food factories. It aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains as Africa's population grows by 3 billion people. Releaf also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer of their products, and converts the raw material into factory-grade inputs for vegetable oil factories. Releaf uses digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, in addition to hardware, to work seamlessly with its network of over 2,000 smallholder farmers, who have supplied over 15 million kilograms of quality palm kernel nuts to food factories.
Medsaf is an end to end pharmaceutical platform enabling hospitals, pharmacies and patients to access affordable, and quality medications just in time. Medsaf has built a suite of technologies aimed at increasing efficiency, safety and transparency in pharmaceutical supply, including blockchain backed track and trace solutions, marketplace, and financing options. Medsaf provides "quality control as a service" and connects users to aggregated and vetted suppliers, logistics providers and other support for health care providers. Medsaf created an embedded finance platform offering BNPL solutions for medication procurement from suppliers to patients.
Medsaf is an end to end pharmaceutical platform enabling hospitals, pharmacies and patients to access affordable, and quality medications just in time. Medsaf has built a suite of technologies aimed at increasing efficiency, safety and transparency in pharmaceutical supply, including blockchain backed track and trace solutions, marketplace, and financing options. Medsaf provides "quality control as a service" and connects users to aggregated and vetted suppliers, logistics providers and other support for health care providers. Medsaf created an embedded finance platform offering BNPL solutions for medication procurement from suppliers to patients.
Office pharmacy provides abundant evidence of Chinese herbal medicine, manages the medication schedule.
DramaBase is a media & entertainment firm that focuses on development and production of interactive drama.
CorrActions is a software-based platform that's used in a product with human-machine interaction.
Around 20% of eCommerce transactions are abandoned or declined at payment phase, mostly because there is not enough information to validate them at Point of sale. FUGU takes a different approach, analyzing the payer behaviour post–payment and making the most informed decision only when actual risk starts, before shipment, for example. With over 80 online stores already using FUGU - we see 40% reduction in false declines while identifying 50% of fraud, previously allowed in. With subscriptions and buy-now-pay-later models on the rise, payments turn into relationships that continue far after checkout. Merchants can no longer rely on outdated risk snapshots taken at checkout page - instead they need a continuous analysis along the transaction’s lifetime and this is exactly what FUGU provides.
Lean on Me offers e-learning training for the welfare of people with disabilities. The business works to increase awareness of intellectual disabilities and to build a society in which people with intellectual disabilities can actively participate. Lean on Me offers training to understand the characteristics of intellectual disabilities, employs them, and sponsors charity events for them.
Pricepally is direct to consumer food supply company that provides access to farm-fresh food items and food brands that is secure and affordable in African cities. We enable individuals and businesses to buy and share bulk food items sourced directly from farmers and wholesalers, making them cheaper and fresher than buying at retail. We power the collective bargaining power of people to offer the best value for money for food.
SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enabling DERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
The Food Lab is a cloud kitchen platform but describes itself as an infrastructure company for restaurants in Egypt — about 400,000 in number — in the food & beverage (F&B) space. The company provides a full suite of end-to-end services, including cloud kitchen (kitchen as a service) and procurement.
ASCEND offers auto-call telephone surveying, telephone business automation, and CRM system development services. It is a call recording service, FileMaker, IP phone, CRM system, and automated call system. They believe that only the hard work of each employee contributes to the development of the company.
Oneport 365 is a B2B digital freight forwarding platform offering simplified, all-inclusive, and transparent freight forwarding services driven by technology.
Pricepally is direct to consumer food supply company that provides access to farm-fresh food items and food brands that is secure and affordable in African cities. We enable individuals and businesses to buy and share bulk food items sourced directly from farmers and wholesalers, making them cheaper and fresher than buying at retail. We power the collective bargaining power of people to offer the best value for money for food.
JapanFuse provides a BAR subscription service.
With the vision of "Let's increase happy parent-child time," Torana Inc. provides a rental subscription service, "Toysub! a rental subscription service that delivers toys optimized for infants and toddlers as they grow, in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, "Toysub!" serves approximately 15,000 households. Based on data from over 400,000 toy evaluations and over 100,000 toy planning sessions, we have established engineering and operations to select and deliver the best toys for children's growth.
PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services. PostCoffee provides personalized coffee boxes that customers can personalize from different options. PostCoffee also provides regular mail delivery of delicious coffee to customers' mailboxes. PostCoffee recommends coffee, brewing method, frequency, and price based on a coffee diagnosis from approximately 150,000 combinations.
MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with their passionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
FMG is a financial service firm that provides fleet management services in African countries.
LinkBIO is a drug discovery platform. Target identification is the process of identifying a molecular target associated with specific diseases. LinkBIO accelerates the research and development for the creation of new drugs and molecular target screening with medium molecular weight compounds.
Evolve Credit’s SaaS core banking platform enables financial institutions of all sizes to streamline, digitize, and manage any kind of deposit, lending, and recovery service end-to-end, in one place. Our no-code tools enable financial institutions to offer simple, personalized customer banking experiences, online and offline.
RYM & CO. is a service that allows you to take out lunch at various restaurants by purchasing a ticket valid for 30 days at a monthly fee.
Eden Life is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot.
Spring in Africa is a fnacial service offering firm that provides banking alternatives to make transection efficient.
CODE Meee is a comprehensive scent company. They also provide optimal scents based on data to individuals and companies. Additionally, they also provide fragrant product planning and manufacturing services.
NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
HAKKI AFRICA is a financial services agency. They develop a sustainable system in which people may benefit from the thorough support of local companies, resulting in full independence. They create APIs for credit as a service for small to medium-sized financial institutions, including microfinance in developing countries.
Lean on Me offers e-learning training for the welfare of people with disabilities. The business works to increase awareness of intellectual disabilities and to build a society in which people with intellectual disabilities can actively participate. Lean on Me offers training to understand the characteristics of intellectual disabilities, employs them, and sponsors charity events for them.
Trois-re is a Educational Platform
QuickBus operates as an online marketplace ticketing system. QuickBus allows users to see reviews for different buses in Africa and book their seats online through its mobile application.
PaylessGate is an authentication technology company. Their authentication technology utilizes high speed, high precision position measurement technology to grasp location information and perform personal authentication by connecting bluetooth devices, enabling users to provide personal identification without overlapping identification zones.
ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.
schemeverge is a creator of a platform for travel support created to aid travelers with their various individual needs and demands. The products and services provided by their business enable customers to address a variety of traffic congestion concerns while also assisting in the motorization transformation of urban societies. They offer local businesses a platform Horai so they can comprehend client demand, offer pertinent services and information, and enhance the customer experience.
With the vision of "Let's increase happy parent-child time," Torana Inc. provides a rental subscription service, "Toysub! a rental subscription service that delivers toys optimized for infants and toddlers as they grow, in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, "Toysub!" serves approximately 15,000 households. Based on data from over 400,000 toy evaluations and over 100,000 toy planning sessions, we have established engineering and operations to select and deliver the best toys for children's growth.
Fly is a leisure company that provides campsite reservations, equipment preparation, setup, rentals, and withdrawal services.
Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leveraging technology as an enabler to empower African communities. Founded in 2014, They have been developing technology-driven solutions in health, agriculture, sports, green energy and offer business support services. In partnership with various key players in different sectors, they have developed unique and efficient different use cases of technological solutions impacting millions of lives.
NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
Iromono is a digital software platform that offers online matchmaking solutions for men and women in the vicinity.
Shokunin-san.com is developing regional information services mainly for the construction industry. Shokunin-san.com operate a portal site that supports craftsmen and construction workers.
Forema creates a mechanism to return the meat of wild birds and beasts (mainly deers and boars) to the market. But our goal is not a butcher. Forema's purpose is to use wildlife, which had to be exterminated by conflicts between nature and humanity, with the slogan, "Useless killing turned into profitable economic activity." We are tackling environmental issues through business and aiming to create a system where economic activities can lead directly to nature conservation.
Elaly Technology makes life better for people around the world.We aim to make the value of money and the experience gained from it flatter.As many people as possible will use technology to realize a happier life, independent of the money economy.
Africa Incubator (Afri-inc) is an IT company that specializes in developing mobile applications for sales management. It has developed and operated SENRI, a sales management system for manufacturing and distribution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. As of 2018, SENRI is being used by about 50 manufacturing and logistics companies focusing on consumer goods. With the introduction of SENRI, more than 50 Africa-based companies have succeeded in increasing sales productivity. Afri-inc was established in 2015 by Kentaro Nagai.
AXIS MOTION facilitates an online platform that enables its users to find information, news, and updates related to real estate industry. AXIS MOTION offers opportunities for individuals to earn money by providing information related to real estate industry. AXIS MOTION was founded in July 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Anecle provides various types of Management Consulting services.
Port is involved in the internet media business. It is developing technology in the three social task areas of career (employment), finance (finance) and medical (medical).
Porcupine is an app for live streaming and esports.
CODE Meee is a comprehensive scent company. They also provide optimal scents based on data to individuals and companies. Additionally, they also provide fragrant product planning and manufacturing services.
Iromono is a digital software platform that offers online matchmaking solutions for men and women in the vicinity.
mydimed offers a free online drug interaction checkers and telehealth services with clinical pharmacists.
Dplus Trading provides consulting, planning, manufacturing and sales of textile-related products .
Steezy offers a music SNS application "Wassapi" under the philosophy of "Increasing people who love music and the surrounding culture.
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RASCAL's is managing an online sport matching service for retired athletes and wants to learn from them.
Menew is an online platform that enables users to organize and set menus for family meals. Users can track family preferences and trends; make shopping lists; and get an easy-to-read calendar format for the menus.
Gistit is a Facebook chat app that offers students with summaries, quizzes, and resources on their studies. The company finds materials for studying needs, narrates study material, helps its users succeed in their classes, and saves time. Gistit is an Israel-based company that was founded in 2016 by Oded Lavie.
A unique software solution that provides a novel way to consume storage directly from the cloud with the experience of local storage
MyDearest develops and publishes original VR games. They provide a catalogue of visual novels that are animated and adapted to use virtual reality technology, thereby enabling players to experience stories from a first-person perspective.
Hexa is the world's first Immersive OS. The most powerful 3D tech stack to create, manage, display and analyze your 3D projects. Hexa's customers (Macy's, Logitech, Crate & Barrel, Unity), use their technology to lower visualization costs, increase sales, improve customer acquisition cost and globally display/distribute their immersive content.
BtoA specializes in the planning and development of talent management solution. It also provides planning and operation of the motivation management platform. The company was founded in 2015.
BetterEngage automatically centrally integrates various personnel data scattered in-house by full use of the power of technology and data platform to realize the improvement of employee experience. A comprehensive personnel database is constructed by automatically integrating various personnel data scattered throughout the company. By integrating APIs with hiring management systems, attendance management systems, salary management systems, etc. that are already in use, centralized personnel data can be integrated automatically in real time.
LEMONADE, Inc. operates as a start-up focused on influencer marketing, providing a platform that connects brands with social media influencers. The company has established significant business alliances with prominent organizations in Japan, including Shueisha, the country's largest publishing company, and Dentsu Tec, a leading fee agent group. Additionally, LEONMADE has partnered with Gentosha, further enhancing its market presence. The influencer marketing platform boasts a substantial network, with over 50 million followers among domestic Instagrammers registered on its platform, enabling brands to effectively reach and engage their target audiences through influencer collaborations.
We provide a cloud business intelligence service, Analytica. Analytica helps customers analyze their business data with an easy and a rapid way to make rapid descisions. Customers are able to make secure connections from their database even in a private network to Analytica without technical difficulties due to our unique technology, having no data warehouse. Analytica’s features include a query inteface by either drag and drop or SQL Editor, Custom calculation, Pivot, Grouping, joining query result from mutliple datasources. Analytica was developed by Takayuki Hayashi and members of Vixcess and released its first version in May 2016. Vixcess is based in Japan.
SpeedApp is a mobile delivery management app that connects individuals and businesses directly to couriers in their local area. By cutting out the intermediary, SpeedApp gives users the power to send letters and small parcels locally in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. SpeedApp is available for iOS and Android, and is designed for use by both customers and delivery people. SpeedApp offers fast service, competitive pricing, and detailed package tracking. With SpeedApp, shipping has never been easier.
School With is a planning, development and operation of School With, a word-of-mouth information site for studying abroad and studying abroad
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Lemmeno offers innovative ways for users to interact with shared content, increasing virality and providing publishers with robust insights into sharing behavior on all messaging and social platforms. Lemmeno helps to both identify influencers and enable content optimization.
Amazing Life develops an inheritance smartphone app designed to relay the critical inheritance information to the next generations. The platform even stores the video message to the family after the user's end of life. Moreover, AmazingLife offers the Digital media called "shukatsunavi.jp" for senior generations to prepare for the inescapable end for everyone. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo.
ONDiGO is an AI sales-operations platform that boosts the bottom-line performance of sales/accounts teams. ONDiGO is leveraging quantitative indicators such as trends, sentiment, and engagement velocity to increase win-rate, shorten sales cycles and capture repeatable-success-patterns.
Parklife is the next generation of navigation technology. Based on sophisticated routing algorithms, Parklife leads the driver along the ideal route to a parking spot near his destination. Parklife’s unique technology maximizes the odds of finding a parking spot with minimal search as well as minimal costs.
ZEROBILLBANK support online/offline community organizers to enrich their community. We provide the white label system, RESTful API, and SDK for iOS/Android to them, such as private banking system to 1. issue digital community tokens with their original name, such as "Samurai Coin". 2. add their unique value on it, like point, reward, coupon, voucher, recognition and whatever. 3. manage multiple community tokens by single digital wallet and dashboard, named "ZEROBILL wallet" including sending and receiving function with tag management & messaging. 4. provide the market place to exchange their community token to others. We will issue their own community tokens against "ZEOBILL", so "ZEROBILL” would be the PRINCIPLE CURRENCY for community tokens to exchange to other community tokens.
RighTune boosts websites business performance by playing personalized, background music on websites and applications. They play a unique playlist to each online user which is based on the website's branding, content and each visitor's preferences. They have over 1,000 customers - major brands, retailers, hotels & restaurants. On average they increase their business performance in 15%. Their music creates a subtle, ubiquitous ambiance that adds a deep emotional dimension to a website’s content and directly impacts users' behavior and increases staying time, brand loyalty and revenue. While playing music, they track users’ behavior on the website. They use big data, behavioral, machine learning algorithm that continually updates the music for new website’s users in order to increase users’ engagement and maximize business results.
yapQ is the world’s first Scenic navigator. They have created a smart ranking algorithm for popular POI’s around the world allowing they to suggest interesting walking routes in every city - on the go. Using yapQ on the go allows you to travel at your own pace. Just open the app and it will navigate you to the most popular places around you while guiding you with an audio-visual guide.
ThemeGo is a leading source for reviews of theme park vacations enthusiasts, families and “big kids”. Read reviews, share your thoughts. Everything you need is right here. When reading reviews, ThemeGo allows you to bookmark an interesting attraction or anything else you wish, to create your personalized plan. This plan will be accessible to you from anywhere.
Actifile helps organizations automate their Data Discovery, Monitoring and Protection needs, addressing external data threats (like ransomware), insider threats (like shadow IT) and assist in complying with Data Privacy regulations.
Enerjoy is an employee performance platform which empowers the employee's experience, contributing directly to improving the company's bottom line results. Enerjoy is an AI based web app that increases employee’s motivation by providing unique challenges, adapted to each employee’s drives and abilities. Our technology creates a workplace ecosystem that enables employees to improve professionally, feel empowered, appreciated and get rewarded Our algorithms autonomously define the following parameters for each employee, improving their performance: Character of challenges (personal, group ,competitive) Goals and objectives Incentives Time-frames Real-time feedback Social interactions Recommendations and notifications for managers Our solution provides a smart system, expertly modified to fit each employee's psychological and emotional needs. An AI driven tool, dynamic, adaptable, and highly dependable. our web based comprehensive app directly enhances employee’s motivation and satisfaction. Employee’s motivation increases productivity and reduces turnover rates improving total company's success
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The Dogiz app helps you track your dog's fitness and manage your dog's health and life! Earn Dogiz coins by staying active, which you can spend in our Dogiz shop on the services and products you need for your best friend! Our mission is to help dog owners gain a deeper understanding of their dog’s health and reward them for being more active with their dogs!
WonderVoice Technologies is a mobile apps developer company that develops apps for iOS users. It develops productivity related apps. WonderVoice is the world's 1st platform that allows you to interact w/ social networks & apps using your voic.
We have gathered top data science talents and world-class researchers to make emotions measurable. Digitizing human emotions opens endless applications in health, performance and lifestyle. It is a subscription-based API/SDK that utilizes AI algorithms to extract emotional state from physiological sensors data. Using physiological data enables our customers to get emotions data without compromising usability and privacy.
Our mission is to encourage Japanese society through cross-border dealing. We are currently conducting the recruiting and import business between foreign countries and Japan. We try to invite high skilled engineers to Japan via our platform. Likewise we import advanced technologies too. Firstly, we focus on the country "Israel" as our business partner.
Sakama is a direct-growing fish shop that delivers fresh fish directly from the production area with one phone call.
CouponRoller is a gamified marketing platform that brings brand awareness, site traffic, and new customers to longtail e-commerce sites. Its multi-platform system helps merchants drive new customers to their stores using interactive coupons. Shoppers compete for high-value discounts in an engaging, gamified experience and learn about new online stores. CouponRoller was founded by Shaun Waksman and Dana Meromsky in April 2014 and is based in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv.
Watermelon is a mobile games developer offering social casino games for the japanese market. They are a team of online games professionals with firsthand knowledge of the japanese market. Their products are designed to create a highly enjoyable experience for the japanese audience, and are adapted specifically for them.
CyberTiger connecting Japan and the world mobile marketing network. Japan mobile app world to affiliate, and will deliver quickly the world of apps to Japan affiliate. Their team is taking advantage of the wealth of experience and knowledge obtained in the marketing activities for the mobile user acquisition and retention of the world, will help the global expansion of Japan app.
Swingmail develops iPhone apps that help people manage information overload. Swingmail, Swingbook and Swingcal available on Apple App Store.
Wishfeed is a smartphone application that enables users to find and purchase clothes. It was launched by Shunji Sugaya in April 2014.