WiL

WiL (World Innovation Lab) is a venture capital firm that partners with leading global corporations and government entities in Japan and Asia. With offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tokyo, the firm’s mission is to serve as a bridge between startups and corporations in the United States and Asia, with a particular focus on Japan. WiL supports its portfolio companies by establishing corporate partnerships that enable U.S. and European startups to scale globally, and Japanese startups to innovate and globalize. WiL invests in emerging technology spanning fintech, insurtech, automation and productivity, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, health tech and sustainability. Notable WiL investments that have exited to public markets from Fund I and Fund II include Asana, Mercari, Raksul, Wise and Auth0 — whose acquisition by Okta was completed in May 2021. WiL also invests in exceptional venture funds, and supports its LPs in corporate venture investment efforts. WiL also works with its corporate investors on evolving their own innovation capabilities through new business creation, partnerships with leading startups, and organizational culture change. WiL acts as the bridge between startups and corporates across key innovation hubs around the globe in driving growth - starting with Japan and the US.

Todd Grover

Principal

Takayuki Hoshuyama

Partner, Business Creation

Aki Koto

Partner

Masaya Kubota

Partner

Toshimichi Namba

Partner

Pretre, Steve

Partner

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Partner

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Josys

Series A in 2022
Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog corporate IT operations, reducing operational costs and improving security levels. It aims to simplify IT operations and reduce costs associated with enterprise software. The platform focuses on enhancing security and automating IT management tasks, making it essential for companies aiming to control their SaaS environments effectively.

LegalForce

Series D in 2022
LegalForce is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides contract review support services. The company uses and combines natural language processing and other technologies to offer functions that include reviewing contracts according to the type of agreement and detecting clauses that may be omitted or risky in addition to preventing omissions and oversights helping legal professionals to strengthen the system and improve the quality and efficiency of legal operations. LegalForce was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan.

Aiven

Series D in 2022
Aiven is a technology-driven company that enables businesses to manage an open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. It enables its customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards.

Voxel

Series A in 2022
At Voxel, we're passionate about revolutionizing workplace safety and operations with groundbreaking, full-stack AI and computer vision technology. Our site intelligence platform helps safety and operations leaders see the unseen risks, make strategic decisions, and prevent workplace incidents before they happen. Customers include Fortune 500 companies across major grocers and retailers, manufacturers, food and beverage warehousers, supply chain and logistics service providers. Based in SF with team members sitting all over the globe, Voxel is backed by industry leading VC’s.

Curebase

Series B in 2022
Curebase builds a digital clinical trial assistant that would alter how medical providers discover, activate, and administer clinical trials for their patients. It aims to run clinical trials faster and cheaper than anyone else via software that reduces recruitment times, automates manual steps, and lets drug companies distribute their trials to clinics. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sumutasu

Series B in 2022
Sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties. The company's mission is to create a society where every one of us can make the ideal choice.

AI Medical Service

Series C in 2022
AI Medical Service is a start-up company that develops artificial intelligence that brings together the wisdom of Japanese endoscopic specialists and contributes to the development of endoscopic medical care worldwide.

Next Web Capital

Venture Round in 2022
Next Web Capital support entrepreneurs starting their business in the new ecosystem based on cryptos and blockchain. Next Web Capitalrm provides mentoring by its founders and other members, sharing their experience in addition to offering financial support by actively participating in the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) and other ecosystems.

Bokksu

Series A in 2022
Bokksu is the only Japanese snack and tea subscription box that delivers gourmet cultural experiences through authentic storytelling. We directly partner with local snack makers across Japan to deliver both their snacks and their stories to people everywhere, which sustains and empowers local communities while spreading their traditional craft, culture, and history to the world.

Monogusa

Series B in 2021
Monoxer is a company that specializes in educational technology, specifically aimed at improving memory retention for learners. It offers e-learning and class management platforms tailored for private schools, tutoring academies, prep schools, and language schools. Monoxer provides real-time analysis of learning content, visualizing each learner's knowledge retention levels.

Aiven

Series C in 2021
Aiven is a technology-driven company that enables businesses to manage an open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. It enables its customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards.

Autify

Series A in 2021
Autify is an AI-focused company that offers software testing solutions to address the challenges associated with automation testing. The company's flagship product, Autify No Code, empowers anyone to create automated end-to-end tests for their applications. Additionally, Autify's new product, Zenes, aims to simplify the process of creating new software tests through AI, allowing customers to work directly with the company's AI agent to generate tests from product documents.

CADDi

Series B in 2021
CADDi is an online ordering platform that tracks industrial products for the manufacturing business. They provide Realize DX throughout the supply chain by offering both goods and software. It enables businesses to reduce procurement expenses, improve QCD, and expand capacity. CADDi is an AI Data platform that offers supply chain data with a specialization in procurement intelligence.

Algolia

Series D in 2021
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers can easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful search and discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

mmhmm

Series B in 2021
Mmhmm is a developer of a virtual camera application used to help make creative use of background during video conferencing calls. Its application integrates into the user's video calling applications and adds backdrops, allows users to team-up with their remote partners and give presentations together, and enables customers to make their virtual meetings more interesting and informative. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

R-Zero

Series B in 2021
R-Zero offers smart building technology that delivers real-time insights on optimizing indoor spaces to improve workforce productivity, predict real estate needs, and create operational efficiencies, including reducing energy costs. R-Zero’s smart building solutions include IAQ and comfort monitoring, high-efficiency HVAC filtration, space utilization sensors, occupancy-based building controls, and real estate performance analytics. R-Zero’s connected platform is easy-to-use, secure, and scalable, enabling owners, operators, and their tenants, to prepare their buildings for tomorrow's challenges.

Soracom

Venture Round in 2021
Soracom is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Its services are built on scalable cloud technologies utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling IoT solution providers and developers to efficiently manage and expand their services. Soracom's offerings include secure data communication for IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices through its Air SIM service, which facilitates LTE and 3G mobile connectivity. Users can manage their IoT device configurations and monitor data traffic via a web console or API. Additionally, Soracom Beam allows for the secure offloading of data from IoT devices to the cloud, ensuring high encryption and remote management capabilities without direct internet exposure. By providing flexible, customizable solutions, Soracom aims to reduce the time and costs associated with deploying IoT services. The company officially launched its services in September 2015 and continues to support a wide range of applications within the IoT ecosystem.

PrizePool

Series A in 2021
PrizePool is a mobile-based application software that enables its users to invest their money through smartphones. PrizePool believes the team's experience combined with the commitments to both guarantee monthly prizes and create a social, referral model sets PrizePool apart from others in the market.

Motive

Series E in 2021
Motive is a technology company building technology to improve the safety, productivity, sustainability, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Combined with AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves small businesses across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. Motive is a fully unified integrated operations platform, combining driver safety, fleet management, equipment monitoring, and spend management all in one place.

Sendbird

Series C in 2021
Sendbird is the omnichannel AI agent platform enterprises choose to elevate customer experience, by initiating autonomous support & sales conversations, keeping humans in the loop for complex inquiries, and re-engaging customers with proactive business messages. Combining omnichannel AI and a battle-tested, award-winning communication APIs, Sendbird enables businesses to build AI agents and meaningful customer connections at scale. Trusted by 4,000+ leading apps—including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports—Sendbird powers over 7 billion conversations every month, offering exceptional reliability, security, and compliance that meet enterprise-level demands. Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.

Aiven

Series C in 2021
Aiven is a technology-driven company that enables businesses to manage an open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. It enables its customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards.

Stockmark

Venture Round in 2021
Stokckmark is an artificial intelligence. It is a natural language processing system for information processing based on human knowledge for business solutions. They develop and operate services that support corporate culture transformation using natural language processing.

LegalForce

Series C in 2021
LegalForce is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides contract review support services. The company uses and combines natural language processing and other technologies to offer functions that include reviewing contracts according to the type of agreement and detecting clauses that may be omitted or risky in addition to preventing omissions and oversights helping legal professionals to strengthen the system and improve the quality and efficiency of legal operations. LegalForce was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan.

Aisera

Series C in 2020
Aisera is a leading provider of Generative AI Solutions that helps enterprises boost revenue, improve user productivity, lower operating expenses and create magical user experiences. Aisera’s products are AiseraGPT, AI Copilot, AI Search and AiseraLLMs which are built on the AI Experience (AIX) platform that serve as an enterprise Generative AI stack for organizations to buy or build solutions. Aisera solutions deliver human-like interactions while providing contextually rich conversations that boost workforce productivity. Aisera’s AIX platform with pre-trained domain-specific LLMs are customizable to customer data, such that enterprises can get better accuracy, lower hallucinations and increased resolution rates. Aisera offers these domain-specific LLMs across a wide range, including: IT, HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Retail. Aisera compliments these offers with action bots that are built-in and customized AI workflows through a Visual studio to take actions and improve business process automation. Organizations can unlock human potential to save millions of operations costs, enhance productivity by 80%, and achieve 75% auto-resolution rates – all while reducing support costs by 80%. Aisera is an award-winning, top-tier VC-funded startup headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, recognized as a leader in multiple industry analyst reports. For a Demo, solution architecture, free enterprise AI and automation assessment of your organization’s effectiveness and to learn how your team can benefit from drastic cost savings with Aisera, please contact info@aisera.com.

Gorgias

Series B in 2020
Gorgias is a one-of-a-kind customer service platform specifically designed for ecommerce businesses to deliver effortless customer service at every stage of growth. With cutting-edge automation and AI capabilities, Gorgias revolutionizes how online stores interact with their customers by providing efficient and personalized support across email, voice, SMS, live chat, and social media channels. Founded in 2015, Gorgias began as a two-person team and has grown to more than 250 employees and eight offices in San Francisco, New York, Charlotte, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Paris, Lisbon, and Sydney. As a certified B Corporation, Gorgias is proud to be a leader in sustainable and equitable workplace practices. Today, Gorgias serves 12,000+ merchants in the ecommerce space, including Steve Madden, Glossier, BruMate, and TUSHY.

mmhmm

Series A in 2020
Mmhmm is a developer of a virtual camera application used to help make creative use of background during video conferencing calls. Its application integrates into the user's video calling applications and adds backdrops, allows users to team-up with their remote partners and give presentations together, and enables customers to make their virtual meetings more interesting and informative. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Unqork

Series C in 2020
Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications. Its platform allows users to manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines the product sales process to improve customer experience that enables large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality and lower costs than conventional approaches. It offers solutions for insurance, financial services, and state and local government sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Monogusa

Venture Round in 2020
Monoxer is a company that specializes in educational technology, specifically aimed at improving memory retention for learners. It offers e-learning and class management platforms tailored for private schools, tutoring academies, prep schools, and language schools. Monoxer provides real-time analysis of learning content, visualizing each learner's knowledge retention levels.

RevComm

Series A in 2020
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .

PrizePool

Seed Round in 2020
PrizePool is a mobile-based application software that enables its users to invest their money through smartphones. PrizePool believes the team's experience combined with the commitments to both guarantee monthly prizes and create a social, referral model sets PrizePool apart from others in the market.

Mural

Series B in 2020
MURAL is a digital workspace designed for visual collaboration, enabling innovative teams to solve complex problems through effective communication and teamwork. The platform is user-friendly, allowing for the rapid creation of diagrams that support design thinking and agile methodologies. MURAL's tools facilitate impactful meetings and workshops, helping global enterprises streamline decision-making, enhance alignment, and foster a culture of innovation. Major companies, including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, and Atlassian, utilize MURAL to connect teams and reduce travel costs. The company is based in San Francisco and employs over 100 individuals who work remotely across multiple time zones, with additional office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe. MURAL's enterprise-class, cloud-based infrastructure supports a significant portion of Fortune 100 companies, reflecting its commitment to enhancing collaboration in various sectors, including education and non-profit organizations.

Stepdays

Series A in 2020
stepdays is a media management, Contents production, Consulting, wholesale, retail, and other related businesses.stepdays aim to contribute to the bottom-up of the entire industry.

Digital Grid

Corporate Round in 2020
Digital Grid is a retail supply contract or a power supply contract with a service provider using the digital grid platform.

Hey

Series E in 2020
hey, Inc. integrates, plans, develops, and manages e-commerce portals and businesses. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Auth0

Series F in 2020
AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications. Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups.

Truework

Series B in 2020
Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs.

RevComm

Series A in 2020
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .

BizteX

Series C in 2020
BizteX is a software robotics company that uses cloud Robotic Process Automation to automate routine operations. The company develops SaaS services centered on cloud RPA and expand it globally to contribute to the creation of creativity for many people. The company's service called, BizteX cobit, is a digital robot that performs a one-click substitute for humans by instructing routine work. BizteX was founded in July 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

LegalForce

Series B in 2020
LegalForce is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides contract review support services. The company uses and combines natural language processing and other technologies to offer functions that include reviewing contracts according to the type of agreement and detecting clauses that may be omitted or risky in addition to preventing omissions and oversights helping legal professionals to strengthen the system and improve the quality and efficiency of legal operations. LegalForce was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan.

Unqork

Series B in 2020
Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications. Its platform allows users to manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines the product sales process to improve customer experience that enables large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality and lower costs than conventional approaches. It offers solutions for insurance, financial services, and state and local government sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Stockmark

Series A in 2020
Stokckmark is an artificial intelligence. It is a natural language processing system for information processing based on human knowledge for business solutions. They develop and operate services that support corporate culture transformation using natural language processing.

Ladder

Series C in 2020
Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%. It uses an all-digital architecture and real-time underwriting to make life insurance as accessible, affordable, and beloved as it should be. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It offers coverage up to $8M in all 50 states.

Flywheel

Series A in 2020
Flywheel is a development and provision of solutions utilizing data and artificial intelligence. The company offers to consult on data and product development. The solutions for retail, distribution, media entertainment, transportation, manufacturing, and finance.

Hosty

Series E in 2020
Hosty is an online portal that fixates on the design, management, and construction of residential extensions, and renovations.

Sumutasu

Seed Round in 2019
Sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties. The company's mission is to create a society where every one of us can make the ideal choice.

Zenkigen

Series B in 2019
zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA.

PeerStreet

Series C in 2019
PeerStreet is a platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors and connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lending back to their local communities. PeerStreet was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Algolia

Series C in 2019
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers can easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful search and discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

AI Medical Service

Series B in 2019
AI Medical Service is a start-up company that develops artificial intelligence that brings together the wisdom of Japanese endoscopic specialists and contributes to the development of endoscopic medical care worldwide.

Digital Grid

Seed Round in 2019
Digital Grid is a retail supply contract or a power supply contract with a service provider using the digital grid platform.

DataRobot

Series E in 2019
DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

GHELIA

Series B in 2019
GHELIA aims to target this new era of AI with the latest deep learning technology. Through the development of a comprehensive AI platform ranging from OS to hardware, they aim to bring deep learning into easy use for everyone. It is their dream to bring the benefits of AI to as many people in as many walks of life as possible.

SOLAIRO

Series A in 2019
SOLAIRO is an online customer service solution that provides the best purchasing experience for online visitors.

SmartHR

Series C in 2019
SmartHR provides a cloud-native human resources management platform that offers a suite of tech-enabled human resources management solutions, focusing on employee management and administration, growth, talent management, and employee productivity. Through its comprehensive range of solutions, SmartHR serves a diversified spectrum of businesses including large enterprises and SMEs.

Amadeus Code

Series A in 2019
Amadeus Code is an artificial intelligence powered songwriting assistant. Jun Inoue, Gyo Kitagawa and Taishi Fukuyama launched Amadeus Code on November 11, 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Auth0

Series E in 2019
AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications. Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups.

ADARA

Series D in 2019
Adara assists brands in gaining a competitive advantage in the fast-paced digital market by offering predictive analytics for improved consumer engagement.

Smiloops

Series D in 2019
Smiloops is a planning, development and operation of Internet services.

Enageed

Series A in 2019
Enageed is an education platform designed for educational institutions and business.The company's platform converts education into content by cutting-edge design and imaging technology in games and videos, enabling the students to understand their potential and improving their skills.

Kong

Series C in 2019
Kong develops cloud API technologies that allow organizations to build AI applications while ensuring centralized API security, governance, and visibility across all services. It is an API platform that develops cloud API technologies to help with productivity, automate security, and push the performance of APIs.

Stepdays

Seed Round in 2019
stepdays is a media management, Contents production, Consulting, wholesale, retail, and other related businesses.stepdays aim to contribute to the bottom-up of the entire industry.

Intertrust

Series B in 2019
Intertrust Technologies is a software company providing trusted computing products and services to leading global corporations–from mobile, consumer electronics and IoT manufacturers, to service providers and enterprise software platform companies. These products include the world’s leading digital rights management (DRM), software tamper resistance, and technologies to enable private data exchanges for various verticals including energy, entertainment, retail/marketing, automotive, fintech, and IoT. Intertrust is committed to open standards, and is one of the founders of Marlin DRM. Marlin is the Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for YouView in the UK, Italy's TivuNet and many IPTV services in Japan. Intertrust's ExpressPlay solution is rapidly growing in China and other regions, and Intertrust's Seacert subsidiary is the world's leading digital certificate authority for Marlin. Founded in 1990 by inventor-entrepreneur Victor Shear, Intertrust is based in Silicon Valley, with regional offices in London and Beijing. The Company has a legacy of invention, and its fundamental contributions in the areas of computer security and digital trust are globally recognized. Intertrust holds hundreds of patents that are key to DRM and the security, trust, and privacy management components of operating systems, trusted mobile code and networked operating environments, web services, and cloud computing.

ClearMotion

Series D in 2019
ClearMotion builds products enabling a next-generation user experience in vehicles. The company’s active suspension technology and proactive road sensing combine software and hardware to mitigate vehicle movement across uneven road surfaces. ClearMotion was founded out of MIT and has locations in the greater Boston area and Birmingham, UK. For more information visit https://www.clearmotion.com/.

Monogusa

Venture Round in 2018
Monoxer is a company that specializes in educational technology, specifically aimed at improving memory retention for learners. It offers e-learning and class management platforms tailored for private schools, tutoring academies, prep schools, and language schools. Monoxer provides real-time analysis of learning content, visualizing each learner's knowledge retention levels.

CADDi

Series A in 2018
CADDi is an online ordering platform that tracks industrial products for the manufacturing business. They provide Realize DX throughout the supply chain by offering both goods and software. It enables businesses to reduce procurement expenses, improve QCD, and expand capacity. CADDi is an AI Data platform that offers supply chain data with a specialization in procurement intelligence.

Asana

Series E in 2018
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .

Open8

Series B in 2018
Open8 is a content technology company that provides of SaaS, API, and MLaaS solutions.

BizteX

Series B in 2018
BizteX is a software robotics company that uses cloud Robotic Process Automation to automate routine operations. The company develops SaaS services centered on cloud RPA and expand it globally to contribute to the creation of creativity for many people. The company's service called, BizteX cobit, is a digital robot that performs a one-click substitute for humans by instructing routine work. BizteX was founded in July 2015 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Automation Anywhere

Series A in 2018
Automation Anywhere is a global company that specialises in Robotic Process Automation, offering AI-powered software bots that automate repetitive tasks. The company's cloud-native platform integrates RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to enhance productivity, customer experience, and employee engagement.

Hey

Series D in 2018
hey, Inc. integrates, plans, develops, and manages e-commerce portals and businesses. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

GHELIA

Series A in 2018
GHELIA aims to target this new era of AI with the latest deep learning technology. Through the development of a comprehensive AI platform ranging from OS to hardware, they aim to bring deep learning into easy use for everyone. It is their dream to bring the benefits of AI to as many people in as many walks of life as possible.

Auth0

Series D in 2018
AAuth0 is an identity management platform for application builders and developers. It provides Auth0, a web-scale cloud solution that includes APIs and tools that enable developers to eliminate the friction of authentication and authorization of their applications and APIs. Auth0 enables users to single sign-on for applications running on various platforms with various identity providers; add few lines of JavaScript to power their applications; customize various stages of the authentication and authorization pipeline, and connect their applications and APIs to their database of users and passwords. Its platform also allows users to authenticate to active directory, LDAP, SAML, Integrated Windows Authentication, Google Apps, Salesforce, and other IdPs without having to configure firewall; add and remove users, modify profiles and authorization attributes, and identify root cause user login issues; see a stream of recent logins and their locations; and enable various SaaS and SAML-enabled applications. Auth0's solution works with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Its platform is used by large and small enterprises, and startups.

Doctor On Demand

Series C in 2018
Doctor On Demand is a video telemedicine company, offering on-demand and scheduled visits with US-licensed healthcare providers via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. It focuses on providing solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems. With solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems, Doctor On Demand is redefining the industry with top-rated customer experience, highest clinical standards, and implementation and customer success directors, as well as 24/7 customer support. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PeerStreet

Series B in 2018
PeerStreet is a platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors and connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lending back to their local communities. PeerStreet was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Zenkigen

Series A in 2018
zenkigen is a company which is Contribute to the creation of a society where people and companies can fully embody through technology.We will introduce our business, including the web interview / video interview platform HARUTAKA.

LiveArts

Seed Round in 2018
LiveArts specializes in the planning and operation of e-commerce websites.

Every

Series C in 2017
Every is a media company that offers online food recipe videos to various companies.

Caster

Series B in 2017
Castor is a staffing agency that specializes in remote assistance and various human resources business operations.

GHELIA

Seed Round in 2017
GHELIA aims to target this new era of AI with the latest deep learning technology. Through the development of a comprehensive AI platform ranging from OS to hardware, they aim to bring deep learning into easy use for everyone. It is their dream to bring the benefits of AI to as many people in as many walks of life as possible.

Coincheck

Venture Round in 2017
Coincheck operates a bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. The company engages in buying and selling of bitcoins and cryptocurrencies such as, Ethereum and Ripple. It also provides payment and lending services of bitcoins. The company develops software for trading of bitcoins. Coincheck was founded in 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Wise

Series E in 2017
Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive, products and services that meet the needs of clients. Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England.

XTREME-D

Series A in 2017
XTREME-D, formerly known as XTREME-Design Inc., is well-known for architecting technical computing in the cloud. The award-winning company develops and sells XTREME-DNA, a cloud-based, virtual, supercomputing-on-demand service. XTREME-DNA was launched to cut costs and make building HPC clusters easy in just 10 minutes. XTREME DEISIGN Inc. was founded in February 2015 by Naoki Shibata. It is based in Tokyo.

Cloud Ace

Series A in 2017
Cloud Ace Co., Ltd. is a provider of total support services and consulting for google cloud platform.

Digital Shadows

Series C in 2017
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface. Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pring

Corporate Round in 2017
Pring drives financial innovation via digital transformation, focusing on anti-money laundering, terrorist, and proliferation financing.

Birdeye

Series B in 2017
Birdeye helps businesses grow through happy customers. Over 60,000 businesses use Birdeye every day to attract new leads with listings, reviews, and referrals, convert them into customers with webchat and appointments and delight those customers with surveys, ticketing, and insights - all in one place. Using the Birdeye platform - AI, messaging, automation tools - businesses are delivering great customer experiences to 100M+ people. Founded in 2012, Birdeye is headquartered in Palo Alto, and led by alumni from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and Yahoo. Birdeye is backed by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Trinity Ventures, and World Innovation Lab.

ambie

Seed Round in 2017
ambie is a pioneer of dual listening audio style to entire world. ambie were trying to develop the new market in Japan by perfectly open ear style earbuds "ambie sound earcuffs". ambie had an idea to bring more delight into our daily lives: music that would follow wherever you are, just like a scene form a movie or TV drama. ambit sound earcuffs gives a new experience to consumer to dual listening style so they can still hear the outside world during phone calls and listening music. Our challenges to make a better life with music, we did a commercial launched with the prototype model "ambie wireless earcuffs" for the Japanese market at April 2018. the product offers fashionable wearable with 6type of pop color , a universal surface designed based on massive ear data and correspond to various ear shapes.

Groovenauts

Series A in 2017
Groovenauts helps to use quantum computers, machine learning, and big data, as well as offers consulting services.

ClearMotion

Series C in 2017
ClearMotion builds products enabling a next-generation user experience in vehicles. The company’s active suspension technology and proactive road sensing combine software and hardware to mitigate vehicle movement across uneven road surfaces. ClearMotion was founded out of MIT and has locations in the greater Boston area and Birmingham, UK. For more information visit https://www.clearmotion.com/.

Laxus Technologies

Series B in 2017
Laxus Technologies is an online fashion-sharing platform that allows users to borrow designer handbags. They manage the application for unrestricted brand bag subscriptions. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. .

Skydrop

Series A in 2017
Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone. The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service. Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

Survios

Series B in 2016
Survios is a virtual reality company that creates groundbreaking interactive content powered by cutting edge immersive technology. It is composed of a team of dreamers, makers, artists, thinkers, and gamers. It's focus is all about engaging games., immersive tech and unparalleled presence. Nathan Burba, James Iliff and Alexander Silkin launched Project Holodeck as an interdisciplinary effort at the University of Southern California’s Games program. From Project Holodeck they founded Survios, and continue to focus on virtual reality gaming and immersive technology.

Intertrust

Venture Round in 2016
Intertrust Technologies is a software company providing trusted computing products and services to leading global corporations–from mobile, consumer electronics and IoT manufacturers, to service providers and enterprise software platform companies. These products include the world’s leading digital rights management (DRM), software tamper resistance, and technologies to enable private data exchanges for various verticals including energy, entertainment, retail/marketing, automotive, fintech, and IoT. Intertrust is committed to open standards, and is one of the founders of Marlin DRM. Marlin is the Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for YouView in the UK, Italy's TivuNet and many IPTV services in Japan. Intertrust's ExpressPlay solution is rapidly growing in China and other regions, and Intertrust's Seacert subsidiary is the world's leading digital certificate authority for Marlin. Founded in 1990 by inventor-entrepreneur Victor Shear, Intertrust is based in Silicon Valley, with regional offices in London and Beijing. The Company has a legacy of invention, and its fundamental contributions in the areas of computer security and digital trust are globally recognized. Intertrust holds hundreds of patents that are key to DRM and the security, trust, and privacy management components of operating systems, trusted mobile code and networked operating environments, web services, and cloud computing.

Inagora

Series D in 2016
Inagora operates Wandou, a Chinese-language e-tailer with some 3 million users. The site boasts around 40,000 offerings, with a focus on cosmetics, clothing and foods from brands. Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Deals/Itochu-gets-serious-about-selling-Japanese-goods-online-in-China

JITSUBO

Venture Round in 2016
JITSUBO aims to be a Peptide Lowest Cost Producer by continuously improving core technologies by incorporating all the latest technologies. JITSUBO company name is derived from "Chiba Jitsubo-san", a family business of Kazuhiro Chiba, a science and technology adviser and co-founder. Chiba Minorusan is a rare medicine that has been contributing to the health of people for over 500 years as a herbal medicine for women. The company named 'JITSUBO' from the desire to provide products that are useful for people's health through peptide drugs for a long time. We aim to be such a great mother-like company that continues to bring the results of technological innovation to the value of superior peptide drugs and continue to produce them in society.

Toreta

Series D in 2016
Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, and accepts reservations through the internet. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

SmartHR

Series A in 2016
SmartHR provides a cloud-native human resources management platform that offers a suite of tech-enabled human resources management solutions, focusing on employee management and administration, growth, talent management, and employee productivity. Through its comprehensive range of solutions, SmartHR serves a diversified spectrum of businesses including large enterprises and SMEs.

Retty

Series D in 2016
Retty is a social gourmet site where you can share the restaurants you have been to or want to go to with your friends. Choosing where you want to eat will become much easier with Retty! The iPhone and Android apps are coming soon. You'll be able to use Retty on the go on your smartphone.

Soracom

Series B in 2016
Soracom is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in providing a comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Its services are built on scalable cloud technologies utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling IoT solution providers and developers to efficiently manage and expand their services. Soracom's offerings include secure data communication for IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices through its Air SIM service, which facilitates LTE and 3G mobile connectivity. Users can manage their IoT device configurations and monitor data traffic via a web console or API. Additionally, Soracom Beam allows for the secure offloading of data from IoT devices to the cloud, ensuring high encryption and remote management capabilities without direct internet exposure. By providing flexible, customizable solutions, Soracom aims to reduce the time and costs associated with deploying IoT services. The company officially launched its services in September 2015 and continues to support a wide range of applications within the IoT ecosystem.
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