[Tech In Asia] Coda Payments scores $2.3 million to make mobile payments...
Coda Payments, a Singapore-based company working with telcos to implement easy payments for digital products, has secured $2.3 million in Series A funding from GMO Global Payment Fund, Rakuten...
View ArticleContents Marketing Service Provider, Innova Fundraises From Nippon Venture...
Along with the evolution of Google's search algorithm, traditional SEO techniques are drastically losing the effect. Different from the past when a number of hyperlinks matters, quality of contents...
View ArticleeExpo, Japan's First Crowd Sourcing For Industry Raises 180M Yen / SankeiBiz
Distty, an operator of crowd sourcing service for industry, eEXPO Sourcing which connects needs of large corporations and seeds of local small and medium corporations and universities utilizing network...
View Article[e27] SlideStory clinches US$290K from East Ventures, Skyland Ventures
Japan-based holding company Nanameue today announced securing JPY 30 million (US$291,149) from East Ventures and Skyland Ventures to grow its smartphone movie maker app SlideStory, and expand into...
View Article[The Bridge] Pairy, Japan’s social network for couples, raises $1 million
Tokyo-based Timers, the startup behind social network app Pairy, announced today that it has raised $100 million yen (approximately $970,000) from four Japanese investment firms: Incubate Fund, Itochu...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s U-note raises funds, aims to be intelligence hub for...
Tokyo-based startup U-note announced on Thursday that it has received investments from Venture United and Anri. Details were not disclosed, but the amount is thought to be in the hundreds of thousands...
View Article[The Next Web] Japanese recipe site Cookpad expands abroad with acquisition...
Cookpad, Japan’s top recipe website, is making an aggressive international push by acquiring Spain’s Mis Recetas and an equity interest in social cooking app Allthecooks. The move follows the launch of...
View Article[Tech In Asia] Mobile game developer Gumi raises $19 million, partners with...
While you’re enjoying your turkey yesterday, Japanese mobile game developer Gumi announced that it has concluded a financing round of 1.9 billion yen ($19 million) raised from FMH, B-Dash Ventures,...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese companies form new $300M investment fund to target...
Japan’s Nikkei reported today that Silicon Valley-based investment company WiL (World Innovation Lab) has formed a new fund focused on startups in Japan and the Valley, raising $300 million from a...
View Article[TechCrunch] Gogolook Confirms Its Acquisition By Naver, The Owner Of Line
Taipei-based startup Gogolook confirmed that it has been acquired by Naver, the Korean Internet giant that is best known outside of Asia for being the owner of Line. Gogolook has not disclosed the...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese budgeting app Dr. Wallet raises $1 million
BearTail, the startup behind the cloud-based household accounting solution Dr. Wallet, announced today that it has raised $100 million yen (approximately $955,000) from three Japanese investment firms:...
View Article[e27] Breaker raises US$2M to launch new mobile video network for Japan
Japan-based producer and distributor of mobile video entertainment Breaker has secured US$2M in seed funding to launch its services in the Northeast Asian country. The seed round was led by Tokyo-based...
View Article[The Bridge] Next-gen Japanese wheelchair startup, Whill, closes seed funding...
Whill is a Japanese startup that is currently developing a next-generation wheelchair. Earlier this week the startup unveiled that it has raised funds from Vegas Tech Fund, 500Startups, Mitsubishi UFJ...
View Article[The Bridge] Japan’s Adways partners with Korean growth hacking startup 5Rocks
Japanese internet company Adways (TSE:2849) announced on Thursday that it has invested an undisclosed sum in and partnered with Korean startup 5Rocks. The latter develops growth hacking solutions for...
View Article[The Bridge] Big data startup Hapyrus rebrands as FlyData, raises $1.6M
Silicon-valley based Hapyrus, a Japanese startup focused on developing big data solutions, announced yesterday that it has raised $1.6 million from investors in Japan and the US, including 500startups....
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese robotics entrepreneur forms $20M fund for bio and...
Our readers may recall that Japanese robotics company Schaft was recently acquired by Google and won the DARPA robotics challenge trials. Bloomberg reported yesterday that the company’s co-founder...
View ArticleCyberAgent Invests In e-Book Venture, Woody Supporting Former Employee To...
CyberAgent announced on January 9th to invest in Woody which runs ebook related businesses.Woody is a startup which Mr. Nakazato, who worked at CyberAgent until October 2013, established in November....
View Article[gamesindustry] SoftBank leads $120m investment round in Chinese app store
SoftBank Corp. was at the forefront of a $120 million funding round for Wandoujia, one of the premier app stores in the fragmented Chinese mobile market. This series B round also featured contributions...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese mobile app developer Utagoe fundraises from KLab
Tokyo-based Utagoe, the startup behind mobile app Moment Diary (iOS/Android), announced yesterday that it has raised an undisclosed sum from gaming company KLab and its investment arm KLab Ventures....
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese startup Logly raises $1.2M to grow its advertising and...
Tokyo-based Logly, a startup running an internet ad platform and recommendation service, announced yesterday that it has raised 120 million yen (approximately $1.15 million) from CA Mobile, Voyage...
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