Treasure Data Fundraises $5M From Sierra Ventures / ITpro
US-based Treasure Data providing cloud service for Data Ware House announced to raise 5 million dollars from US's VC, Sierra Ventures. Treasure Data was founded by Japanese engineers in 2011 at...
View Article[Sd] Japanese accounting startup Freee raises $2.7 million from Infinity...
Tokyo-based cloud startup Freee announced today that it has raised 270 million yen (approximately $2.7 million) in a series A funding from Infinity Venture Partners and DCM. This follows the previous...
View ArticleMobile App Eyeland Operator, Oceans Announced Partnership With Adways In O2O...
Oceans started collaboration with Adways in O2O. As the first effort, Oceans' location-based communication service, Eyeland places coupons of Asuiku, a last minute discount coupon service by Samurai...
View Articleignote Raises Fund From Samurai Incubate / Dream News
ignote provides melocy enabling to share musical performance overdubbed with smartphones. With just a smartphone device, users can record, upload and share music, which makes easier for anyone to...
View ArticleViewable Time-based Advertising Platform, Dennoo Raises $1.1M From Nissay...
Dennoo sells advertising based on time that users actually view rather than just displayed on a browser. The company announced fundraising of $1.1 million from Nissay Capital. The total amount raised...
View ArticleKlab Ventures Invests In Realglove, PaaS Technology Startup / SankeiBiz
With the capital, Realglobe develops CDaaS (Continuour Dedlivery as a Service) aiming to launch within this year.CDaaS is a development platform to add functions to automate various tasks such as...
View ArticleKDDI'ｓ Subsidiary, mediba Acquires ScaleOut / Cnet Japan
According to an industry insider, the price of the acquisition is over 1 billion yen. ScaleOut provides an integrated advertising distribution platform, ScaleOut Ad Platform which includes DSP, DMP,...
View Article[Sd] Yahoo Japan acquires e-commerce portal provider Venture Republic
Yahoo Japan (TYO:4689) announced recently that it has taken over leading Japanese e-commerce portal provider Venture Republic. Financial details were not disclosed. Since its launch back in 2001, the...
View Article[Sd] Star Festival raises $10M to expand innovative bento box business
Star Festival, the Japanese startup behind Bento box delivery and catering service, Gochikuru.com, announced today it has raised 1 billion yen (or about $10 million) from Jafco, one of Japan’s leading...
View Article[Sd] User-generated travel plan startup Trippiece raises $2M
Tokyo-based travel startup Trippiece announced today that it has raised 200 million yen (approximately $2 million) from Draper Nexus Venture Partners and other investors. With the funds, the startup...
View ArticleGlider Associates Raises 2B Yen To Grow Curation Magazine, Antenna / PR TIMES
Glider Associates agreed on allocation of new shares of 2 billion yen to Macromill and Singpore-based Scentan Ventures. ...In addition, it is decided that Takahumi Horie will become a service adviser...
View ArticleJTOWER, Indoor Communication Equipment Vendor, Raises 1B Yen / TechCrunch Japan
JTOWER provides infrastructure equipment such as antenna or cable for base stations to telecom operators. In concrete terms, it will launch a business to allow multi cellular operators to share...
View Article[Sd] Japanese flea market app secures investment of $3M just 6 weeks after...
Tokyo-based United, the company behind homescreen decoration app CocoPPa, announced today that it has partnered with Kouzoh. You may recall that Kouzoh is the mobile commerce company which recently...
View ArticleGocro Raises 420M Yen From Globis / PR Wire
Gocro, a developer of SmartNews, news app for smartphone, announced fundraising from Globis Capital Partners to finance 420 million yen.Gocro plans to accelerate hiring engineers and data scientists...
View ArticleVolare Raises 175M Yen To Strengthen Appliv, Apps Review Site / Cnet Japan
Volare revealed that it raised 175 million yen from Nippon Venture Capital (170 million) and an individual investor.Volare was founded in 2007 to start education business. And then it changed its...
View Article[Sd] Japanese UI improvement platform planBCD raises $800,000
PlanBCD is a platform that helps developers to improve the user interface on their web services. Kaizen Platform Inc., the Tokyo-based startup behind the service, announced today that it has raised...
View Article[Cnet] Telepathy raises $5 million to develop Google Glass rival
Telepathy, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised $5 million in a first round of funding to develop wearable computing technology that rivals Google Glass. "Wearable technology will enable the next wave...
View ArticleFuji Startup Ventures Invests In Classified Service, Jimoty / ITpro
A subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings (FMH), Fuji Startup Ventures announced investments in Jimoty, a classified site operator.As the first collaboration, FMH's subsidiary, Sankei Living places the...
View Article[Sd] Japanese mobile payments processor Coiney raises $5M
Tokyo-based Coiney, a startup focused on providing mobile payments solutions in Japan, announced today that it has raised 500 million yen (over $5 million) from Credit Saison, one of Japanese top...
View Article[Sd] Japanese startup raises $3M to bring laundry services online
Lenet is a web service that allows users to order a pick up of your laundry and have it delivered to your home when it is done. White Plus, the startup behind the service, announced today it has raised...
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