Education App, Smart Education Raises 550M Yen Accelerating Global Expansion...
Smart Education, developing education apps for children, announced fundraising from CyberAgent (500 million) and Infinity Ventures (50 million). With the capital, the company strengthens app...
View ArticleCGM Of Wedding Center, Minnano Wedding To Be Listed On Mothers / Venture Now
Minnano Wedding was accepted to go IPO on Mothers Market of Tokyo Stock Exchange. The planned date is March 25th. ...Minnano Wedding was launched as a new service of DeNA in February 2008. It was...
View ArticleFaith Invest In Revolver, SNS Platform / Cnet Japan
Faith announced acquiring 4.38% of shares of Revolver through its group company. It aims to collaborate between its music platform and Revolver's SNS platform.Revolver is a platform allowing...
View ArticleKDDI Partners With Lancers To Support Small Business By Crowdsourcing / ITmedia
KDDI aims to support business expansion or cost reduction by crowdsouricng connecting its solutions for small and medium businesses with Lancers. In addition, KDDI plans to provide free consulting...
View ArticleCyberAgent Acquires Owldata, DMP To Strengthen Adtech / Venture Now
CyberAgent acquires 82.75% of Owldata, a data management platform (DMP) provider. Along with the acquisition, it changes the name to RightSegment. ...Owldata was founded in December 2012 as a 100%...
View ArticleYume no Machi Souzou Iinkai Takes 13% Of O2O App, Tamecco / Venture Now
Yume no Machi Souzou Iinkai partners in capital and business with Tamecco, a startup providing O2O mobile app for shops using artificial intelligence.Tamecco was founded in May 2012. Utilizing original...
View ArticleAucfan Has Capital Alliance With Realworld For Data Cleansing / Venture Now
Auchan announced capital and business alliance with Realword for big data cleansing using crowdsourcing. ...Aucfan has over 20 billion data of item and price information accumulated on its online...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese payment startup WebPay raises $1.1 million
Tokyo-based WebPay Holdings, a startup providing Stripe-compatible payment processing solutions for web services, announced yesterday that it has raised 110 million yen (approximately $1.1 million)...
View ArticleIntern Placement Service, JEEK Operator Techouse Fundraises From East...
Techouse announced fundraises from East Ventures. The amount is not disclosed. Techouse was founded in January 2012 running JEEK, internship placement service. ...continue reading in Japanese...
View ArticleShiroyagi Corp., News Recomendation Engine, kamelio Operator Raises 50M Yen...
Shiroyagi Corporation runs kamelio which allows users to follow their interest to receive recommendation of right news. The total amount is about 50 million yen which comes from Global Brain the fifth...
View ArticleFixed Price Renovation EC, Renoco Raises 200M Yen / TechCrunch Japan
Sekaie, an operator of Renoco enabling users to order renovation online, fundraised 200 million yen from Nissay Capital. Renoco claims that it eliminates hard sell and additional charge from...
View ArticleHRM Software, CYDAS Has Capital Alliance With Salesforce.com / Venture Now
CYDAS announced capital alliance with Salesforce.com aiming to expand its business to global market by providing its Performance Cloud, cloud based human resource management application on Salesforce's...
View ArticleMobile Vein Authentication, Universal Robot Raises 100M Yen From NTT Docomo...
Universal Robot develops a palm vein authentication software for mobile which advantage is recognized by NTT group. The system does not require dedicated device such as near-infrared devices to detect...
View Article[TechCrunch] Atomico-Backed Quipper Gets Another $5.8M To Expand The Reach Of...
Quipper, an e-learning platform backed by the London-based VC firm, Atomico, that’s led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, has closed a new tranche of funding. The $5.8 million Series A2 round takes...
View Article[e27] CyberAgent Ventures invests in Korean app developer Woowa Bros
CyberAgent Ventures has announced that it has made a US$0.5 million investment in Woowa Brothers, the developer of popular Korean food delivery app Baedalui Minjok. This investment is part of a US$12...
View Article[The Bridge] News curation startup Gunosy fundraises $12 million from KDDI
Japanese telco KDDI announced today that it has invested in Gunosy, the creator of a popular news curation app of the same name. Details of the investment were not disclosed but it’s likely worth...
View Article[The Bridge] Home design marketplace Suvaco raises $1.2 million
Tokyo-based Suvaco, a home design marketplace startup, announced yesterday that it has raised $120 million yen (or about $1.18 million) from Fuji Startup Ventures and Mobile Internet Capital. Since...
View Article[The Bridge] Japanese startup Translimit raises $100,000 to launch social...
Tokyo-based startup Translimit announced today that it has raised 10 million yen (about $100,000) from Genuine Startups and Skyland Ventures. The funds will go towards launching a mobile quiz app with...
View ArticleBento Delivery Portal, Japan Food Delivery Raises 40M Yen From Mizuho Capital...
With the capital and business alliance with Mizuho Capital, Japan Food Delivery aims to increase brand awareness in large corporations utilizing customer network of Mizuho Financial Group as well as to...
View ArticleAllied Arcitects Has Capital And Business Alliance With Grgowth Hack Tool,...
AppSocially provides a platform service to optimize invitation and word-of-mouth features among users for smartphone apps. AppSocially is a growth hack tool to support total marketing activities by...
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