[The Bridge] Japan’s job search startup LiB raises $700,000, offering more...
Tokyo-baed LiB, an executive job search site for women, announced today that it has raised 70 million yen ($688,000) from CyberAgent Ventures and East Ventures. Since its launch two months ago, LiB...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese fish delivery startup Hachimenroppi secures $4.5...
Tokyo-based startup Hachimenroppi, which operates a fish delivery service for restaurants, announced today that it has fundraised about 450 million yen (or $4.4 million) from Recruit Holdings, YJ...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s B Dash Ventures to form $60M second fund by yearend
At the reception party for the B Dash event, we heard from the organizer and B Dash Ventures CEO Hiroyuki Watanabe that they are currently forming a new fund. He told us it will be valued at around 6...
View ArticleMobile Video Distributor, Breaker Fundraises From gumi / Venture Now
Breaker, which distributes video contest for mobile, announced fundraising from gumi ventures' fund. Along with it, it started discussion for business partnership with gumi.Breaker was founded in...
View Article[The Bridge] Photo sharing app Snapeee raises $4M series C funding from...
Tokyo-based Mind Palette, the startup behind photosharing app Snapeee, announced today it has fundraises 400 million yen (about $4 million) from Japanese investment firm Global Brain, publishing...
View ArticleGame Publisher For Smartphone, 3rdKind Raises 100M Yen / Venture Now
3rdKind announced a total of 100 million yen of finance from Nippon Venture Capital, Global Brain, and Adways. 3rdKind was founded in 2011, publishing high quality games developed in North America and...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s ExCo raises $3.3M, launches cardless online payments...
Tokyo-based startup Exchange Corporation (ExCo for short) announced yesterday that it has launched a new payment solution called Paidy and raised about 330 million yen (or $3.3 million) from Arbor...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s state-run fund to invest $9 million in eyeglass...
NHK reported on August 2 that Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), the Japanese state-run startup fund, will invest 900 million yen ($9 million) in Japanese eyeglasses-focused vertical...
View Article[The Bridge] Opt unveils $150M investment plan, wants more companies to go...
Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that Tokyo-based e-marketing company Opt will invest 15 billion yen ($146.2 million) in startups focused on cloud services for enterprise users, adtech, e-commerce,...
View Article[The Bridge] Online cram school startup Aoi.Co. raises $1.2 million from Jafco
Tokyo-based Aoi.Co., the startup that operates a live-streamed onine lecuture service for junior high students, announced today that it has fundraised 120 million yen ($1.2 million) from Japanese...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s Ticket Street raises $3M from eBay, Gree Ventures
Ticket Street is a Tokyo startup providing a platform focused on the buying and selling of show tickets. The Nikkei reported that the startup has fundraised 300 million yen (or about $3 million) from...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s news curation app SmartNews raises $35M from Gree,...
Tokyo-based SmartNews, the company behind the news curation app under the same name, announced today that it has raised about 3.6 billion yen (about $35.4 million) from several companies. This round...
View ArticleCrowdworks Fundraises From Recruit Aiming Business Synergy / TechCrunch Japan
Crowd sourcing service operator, Crowdworks raised capital from RSP Fund V, investing arm of Recruit Holdings. The amount is not disclosed but considered to be several tens of million yen.The startup...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese women’s fashion media site 4meee raises $500,000
4meee! (pronounced “for me”) is an e-commerce and curated fashion site for young women. Tokyo-based Rocket Venture, the company behind the service, announced today that it has raised 50 million yen...
View ArticleLINE Invests In gumi To Expand Games To The World / ITmedia
LINE announced capital and business partnership with gumi, Brave Frontier and other games developer. LINE invests in gumi which develops games for LINE platform. Both aims to sell made in Japan games...
View ArticleIROYA Fundraises From Nissay Capital / Venture Now
IROYA, operating curation commerce service with colors as its concept, fundraised from Nissay Capital.IROYA started the service in March 2014 to provide EC platform for matching color and items as its...
View ArticleLOCKON Goes IPO On Mothers / Venture Now
Ecommerce development open source software, EC-CUBE developer, LOCKON had approval to be listed on Mothers market by Tokyo Stock Exchange. The planned date is September 17th. ...LOCKON was founded in...
View ArticleMitsui & Co. Invests In Translation Startup, PIJIN / Nikkei
Mitsui & Co. partners with PIJIN to launch a service allowing foreign visitors to get tourist information with their own language using a smartphone. When reading QR code on billboards or...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s crowdsourced app development service Sekai Lab raises $1.2M
Tokyo-based Monstar Lab, the company that provides crowdsourced offshore app development service Sekai Lab, announced last week that it has fundraised 120 million yen (approximately $1.2 million) from...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s Quan invests in Thailand’s mobile game startup Magic Box...
Tokyo-based Quan, the Japanese startup behind mobile apps like MyStickerShop and Lounge, announced today that it has invested in Bangkok-based game startup Magic Box Asia. Magic Box Asia was founded by...
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