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235 funded startups based in Japan, newest round first. Each profile explains the product, customers, buyer, workflow and economics, with a breakdown by market.
AI sales agent that extracts business cards into CRM, prepares negotiations and updates deals from email and conversation analysis, via web app, Chrome extension and API.
Online accounting firm that handles bookkeeping, payroll and government filings for small businesses on a monthly plan, now with a video AI CFO.
Smartphone-based AI inspection for inbound/outbound food logistics, plus label printing, picking and AI-OCR for faxed purchase orders and invoices.
Generative-AI implementation partner that takes companies from planning through deployment and operation of AI agents for core business tasks.
AI HR ecosystem; MotherAI OS.
Uracchi is an AI fortune-telling app that analyses users' conversations to give personalised relationship advice and daily guidance.
Operates and manages hotels and ryokan using AI and data, and is productising a hotel-management DX platform and its own booking engine for outside properties.
R&D, manufacture and sale of glutathione-based agricultural inputs.
Develops the CV-8 electric mobility vehicle.
Building shared infrastructure for battery manufacturing.
Developing early cancer detection technology based on RNA modification analysis.
Preventive-care service combining full-body scans with AI.
Equipment inspection DX
VTuber development business.
Rolling up small machine shops (machi-koba).
Developing STC power generation from unused waste heat (Institute of Science Tokyo spin-out).
Roll-up of small machine shops (machi-koba) combined with AI
Construction-specific unified management tool (and vertical AI agent) covering quotes, schedules, photos, reports, invoices, cost and attendance.
Developing low-cost next-generation rocket engines.
DataFlow AI is a chat-driven AI workflow platform that automates manufacturers' 'gap work' outside ERP, replacing Excel macros and capturing veterans' tacit knowledge.
Ultra-low-power AI semiconductors.
Develops m-DAC direct air capture of CO2.
VR digital therapeutics for depression.
Social coworking operator and 'knotPLACE' community-management SaaS sharing member data across locations; places community managers in facilities.
Business-succession startup in Hokkaido rolling up franchise headquarters.
Space-structure startup developing structures for use in space.
AutoDate combines generative-AI automation with human finishing to take over complex, non-standard back-office tasks for companies.
Global music network and marketplace where creators share unreleased tracks and labels, A&Rs and publishers source songs, run briefs and collaborate in SURF Sessions.
Building IndoorFlow, an indoor spatial data platform.
Sales AI agent OS
AVACAREER is a recruiting marketplace where AI agents representing employers and job seekers talk to each other, automating roughly 90% of the hiring process.
AI-native entertainment company.
App for fans who collect random-blind merchandise to search, manage, swap and sell items, with anonymous exchange and transaction messaging.
Developing fully autonomous driving systems for heavy trucks.
Rare-metal-free AZUL catalyst for fuel cells, electrolysis and metal-air batteries, plus Ferion air battery and AZUL supercapacitor.
PitA is an AI hiring and talent-assessment tool for small and medium businesses that profiles personality and behaviour using Big Five theory, with a chatbot for coaching managers.
Generative-AI creative support for design and product development starting from hand-drawn sketches (Final Design).
Voice-analysis AI
An AI cross-border shopping service that lets consumers buy from overseas sites in one click by automating translation, currency, shipping and customs, also used by Japanese and…
3D.Core turns photos, video, point clouds and 360-degree video into precise 3D models for industrial digital twins, layout planning and equipment maintenance.
Mobile-health (SaMD) apps and digital therapeutics for health and medical care, such as pollen allergy and dry-eye apps and VR amblyopia training.
Takeout Eats is a takeout ordering and reservation management system for restaurants and food retailers, and Ritel is an AI platform that unifies customer data across channels…
S-CAN navigation service that helps satellites avoid collisions with space debris (JAXA startup).
Integrated robot-control platform that gets smarter the more it works on site.
Zeami Intelligence is a security-intelligence platform that gives agentless, browser-based visibility of internal networks and assets across sites, subsidiaries and partners…