Nikkei reported on Friday Japanese HRTech startup SmartHR has secured about 12.5 billion yen (about $115 million US) in the latest series D round, which brought their valuation up to 170 billion yen ...

26日、大阪市、都市活力研究所、JETRO 大阪本部、大阪産業局は「HackOsaka 2024」を開催した。このカンファレンスの目的の一つとして、海外スタートアップの日本進出、日本スタートアップの ...

Tokyo-based Mercari, the startup behind the mobile flea market app of the same name, announced today it has raised 1.45 billion yen (approximately $14.1 million) from Global Brain, Globis Capital ...

See the original story in Japanese. Kyoto Fusioneering, a developer of key components for fusion reactors, announced on Tuesday that it has completed its second Series C extension round, raising 1.07 ...

左から、戦略顧問の朝倉氏、副社長の乗松氏、社長の溝口氏、戦略顧問の海老根氏 今年3月から展開する遺伝子検査など科学的根拠をもとに個々人に最適なダイエットを提案する「FiNC ...

左から：アラン小松崎氏、馬渕邦美氏、孫泰蔵氏、林駿甫氏 Image credit: Masaru Ikeda 5日、都内で XinobiAI（シノビ・エーアイ）の設立記者会見が開催された。XinobiAI を立ち上げるのは、投資家で ...

Tokyo-based Crowd Credit, the Japanese startup behind a cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform under the same name, announced on Thursday that it will be fully acquired by Osaka-based ...

Knowhere is developing an analysis app (from the company website) that can perform motion analysis based on body movements and calculate tracking data such as ball rotation with just a smartphone. It ...

On the 11th, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced the renaming and expansion of its startup investment fund, now called the Bandai Namco 021 Fund, increasing its investment capacity to over ¥6 billion ...

Knowhere が開発中の解析アプリ（同社ウェブサイトより）同社はスマートフォン1台でカラダの動きなどを元にした動作解析、ボールの回転数などトラッキングデータの算出などができるアプリ ...

Some of the Kanmu team with their founder and CEO Wataru Yamaki standing in the middle. Image credit: Kanmu See the original story in Japanese. Nikkei reported on Monday that Japanese FinTech startup ...

Pairs is a Facebook-based dating and marriage hunting app launched in 2012 and has acquired over 1.5 million users in Japan and 800,000 users in Taiwan to date. Couple is a memory-sharing and ...