Yokohama-based Willbox, Japanese virtual logistics platform Giho, said on Monday it got about 700 million yen (about $4. 7 million) in a Series A circular. This circular is addressed through SMBC Venture Capital with participation from Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Marubeni Ventures, Anobaka, Salesforce Ventures, Golden Asia Fund III and Mizuhoo Capital. Golden Asia Fund is a joint venture between Mitsubishi UFJ Capital of Japan and Industrial Technology Investment Corporation (ITIC), the investment arm of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
Willbox was founded in 2019 through Issei Kami. A circle of family members has been running a Kawasaki-based company called Koei for part of a century, which handles large-scale packaging and logistics for heavy and precision machinery. International logistics of bulky shipments for heavy and precision machinery. Precision machinery requires packing them in wooden boxes before hitting them in containers, and those boxes are increasingly manufactured by specialized craftsmen, depending on the shape and length of the shipment. For this reason, unlike small goods, it is not imaginable without delay to estimate shipping prices or decide on a carrier for external logistics.
Willbox targets the FCL (Full Container Load) domain, basically for export. 120 logistics companies are registered in Giho, of which about 20% are packaging companies such as Koei, and the rest are freight forwarders, maritime operators and land transport companies to ports. Logistics corporations spend more than a portion of their time preparing quotes, but 80% of quotes will be wasted due to lost orders. Knowledge entry.
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Fukuoka-based Posttalk, the Japanese startup behind a card-based chat tool of the same name, unveiled the global edition of the tool with English help on Thursday. The new edition was unveiled at the B Dash Camp 2022 Fall launch festival, one of Japan’s most famous biannual gatherings to be held in Fukuoka. This follows the release of its original Japanese edition last year. Posttalk was founded in May 2018 by Technical Rockstars co-founder Yohei Kawano and fellow former developer Kiyohiko Hirama. Technical Rockstars was acquired through TSE-listed cloud service provider Uhuru and then shut down the Milkcocoa service in 2016. Since his party at Technical Rockstars, where his team members were forced to work separately from each other Fukuoka and Tokyo. Although Internet programs like Google Hangout and Google Docs existed back then, they have many demanding situations in creating a remote team painting environment. The platform allows issues and responsibilities to be shared across the team in a similar way to sticky notes placed on the. . .
Fukuoka-based Posttalk, the Japanese startup with a card-based chat tool of the same name, unveiled the global edition of the English-language help tool on Thursday. The new edition was presented at the fall launch competition B Dash Camp 2022, one of the biannual gatherings of Japan’s most famous take place in Fukuoka. This follows the release of its original Japanese edition last year.
Posttalk was founded in May 2018 by Yohei Kawano, co-founder of Technical Rockstars, along with developer Kiyohiko Hirama. Technique Rockstars was acquired through TSE-listed cloud service provider Uhuru and then shut down the Milkcocoa service in 2016.
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Kawano says,
When you’re on Shibuya in Tokyo, it’s not unusual to be able to use Zoom, Slack, and maybe even GitHub. But after returning to Fukuoka, I found that it was different. It’s not smart to have only other people who like geeky things, and it’s hard to paint with non-geeks if you’re just employing existing equipment. I learned that the team needed to be more open.
The Fukuoka-based company raised 22. 5 million yen (about $210,000 at the exchange rate at the time) in a previous seed last year from two local Fukuoka venture capital firms: Dorgan Beta and FGN ABBALab.
Tokyo-based Base Food, which develops and sells nutritionally whole food products, announced Wednesday that its IPO application for listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been approved. The company will list on the TSE Growth Market on November 15 with the aim of providing 2,723,100 shares for public subscription and promoting 961,000 shares in over-allotment features for a total of 3,684,200 shares. Underwriting will be handled by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, while Base Food’s ticker code will be 2936. Based on the company’s estimated factor value of 950 yen (about $6. 5) based on the share , its market capitalization value is approximately 48. 3 billion yen (about $329 million). Its Value Diversity will be released on October 28 with book creation scheduled for October 31 and pricing on November 4. The final value of the public offering will be decided on November 7. According to its February 2022 consolidated statement, the company posted a profit. of 5,550 million yen ($37. 8 million) with an ordinary loss of 461 million yen ($3. 1 million). Base Food is the food generation startup founded in April 2016 by Shun Hashimoto, previously involved in the autonomous driving business at DeNA. The company develops and markets Base. . .
Tokyo-based Base Food, which develops and sells nutritionally whole food products, announced Wednesday that its IPO application to be indexed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been approved. The company will be indexed in the TSE Growth Market on November 15 with the goal of providing 2,723,100 inventories for public subscription and promoting 961,000 inventories in overallocation functions for a total of 3,684,200 inventories. The subscription will be carried out through Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, while Base Food’s inventory code will be 2936.
Based on the company’s estimated factor value of 950 yen (about $6. 5) based on the stock, its market capitalization is about 48. 3 billion yen (about $329 million). November 4. The final value of the tender offer will be decided on November 7. According to its February 2022 consolidated statement, the company reported revenue of 5550 million yen ($37. 8 million) with an ordinary loss of 461 million yen ($3. 1 million).
Base Food is the food generation startup founded in April 2016 through Shun Hashimoto, formerly dedicated to the autonomous driving industry at DeNA. The company develops and sells Base Bread, Base Pasta and Base Cookies through its e-commerce site, as well as other e-commerce and wholesale sites to retailers. In February, more than 100,000 users won products every 4 weeks per subscription.
Led by CEO Hashimoto (34. 27%), the company’s main shareholders are Global Brain (23. 31% two funds), Rakuten Capital (8. 13%), XTech Ventures (4. 07%), angel investor Yutaka Kaneko (3. 51%), employee Takafumi Shimada, director Ryuta Saito and director Yosuke Yamamoto (2. 32% each) and The Fund (2. 05%).
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Taiwan-based iiiNNO, one of the island’s largest start-up funders, Japan’s Culture Convenience Club (CCC), known by the logo of its Tsutaya bookstore chain, and CCC crowdfunding company, Green Funding , announced Friday that they have reached an agreement for Taiwanese manufacturing. startups for the expansion of the latter in the Japanese market. The rite was held at the Tsutaya Songshan store in Taipei to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the 3 companies. Under the deal, CCC is expected to provide marketing for the Taiwanese startups’ products, both online and offline through bookstores and the company’s crowdfunding site in Japan. CCC has been very concerned with attracting startups, adding running its own accelerator program and commissioned operation of Startup Cafe coworking spaces in Japanese cities. It has also opened seven bookstores in Taiwan since its first overseas expansion in 2017. Earlier this year, the crowdfunder introduced an iTemp crusade, the Taiwan Wise Cup and Bowl, as its first allocation initiative. iiiNNO runs a startup accelerator program with Taiwan Tsutaya. After participating in cross-border startups, the local governments of the cities of Taipei and Fukuoka also participate in this initiative. Their…
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Taiwan-based iiiNNO, one of the island’s largest seed funders, Japan’s Culture Convenience Club (CCC), known for its brand of bookstore chain Tsutaya, and CCC’s crowdfunding company, Green Funding, announced Friday that they have reached a deal for Taiwanese manufacturing. for the expansion of the latter in the Japanese market. The rite was held at the Tsutaya Songshan store in Taipei to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the 3 companies. Under the agreement, CCC is expected to supply marketing for Taiwanese startups. ‘ online and offline products through the company’s bookstores and crowdfunding site in Japan.
CCC has been deeply concerned with supporting startups, as well as managing its own accelerator program and commissioning the operation of Startup Cafe coworking spaces in Japanese cities. It has also opened seven bookstores in Taiwan since its first expansion in 2017. Earlier this year, crowdfunding introduced an iTemp crusade, a Taiwanese wise cup and bowl, as the initiative’s first allocation. iiiNNO runs a startup acceleration program with Taiwan Tsutaya.
From left to right: Junichi Anazawa (COO/CHRO, One More), Chong-Jie Lin (Commissioner, Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government), Chia-Lei Chao (Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer, iiiNNO) and Kazuma Otsuka (Senior Manager, Business Planning Department, Taiwan Tsutaya). Image credit: Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government
After participating in cross-border startups, local governments in Taipei and Fukuoka cities are also participating in this initiative. Its mayors, Wen-je Ko of Taipei and Soichiro Takashima of Fukuoka, sent video messages to the signing ceremony.
ko says,
The objective of the MoU is to identify an investment and platform between Taipei and Fukuoka, to help Taipei startups join online and online and offline financing in Japan, as well as introduce Japanese startups to incubation centers in Taipei. We are very happy with the effects of this project.
Takashima says,
As a component of the cooperation between Fukuoka and Taipei, the new corporate power of both sides will be more powerful and more foreign. As both components come together in the confidence of welcoming new foreign companies, this framework will facilitate power between the two cities.
The rite of signature was attended by Kazuma Otsuka (Senior Manager, Business Planning Department, Taiwan Tsutaya), Junichi Anazawa (Director, COO/CHRO, One More), Chia-Lei Chao (Co-founder)
Unchorlight Kenya Limited (UKL) offers a BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) service called Zaribee, exclusively for “boda boda” motorcycle taxi drivers in the East African country. The company announced on Friday that it had obtained 90 million yen (about 623,000 US dollars) from Honda Trading and Skylight Consulting. Honda Trading is a trading company owned by one of Japan’s leading car and motorcycle manufacturers, while Skylight Consulting is a consulting firm affiliated with Tokyo-based IT outsourcing giant Transcosmos. UKL is a local Kenyan subsidiary of a joint venture established in 2021 through Skylight Consulting and the Africa-focused early-stage VC Uncovered Fund. In Africa, monetary facilities are underdeveloped, making it difficult to discharge unsecured loans. Taxi drivers are poorly rewarded despite their complicated operating environment. UKL provides a motorcycle sales service with the option to purchase in installments to self-employed motorcycle taxi drivers. The service allows multiple passengers to form a group, encouraging them to pay on a network-accepted-as-true basis by leveraging the visibility of credits. The motorcyclist can become the owner of his motorcycle after making installment invoices for 18 months. Since its launch in September 2021, UKL has sold more than 250 motorcycles in the first nine months. The company also sells insurance for motorcyclists, introduces mobility…
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Unchorlight Kenya Limited (UKL) offers a BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) service called Zaribee, exclusively for motorcycle taxi drivers “wedding wedding” in this East African country. Honda Trading is a trading company owned by one of Japan’s leading automobile and motorcycle manufacturers, while Skylight Consulting is a consulting firm affiliated with Tokyo-based IT outsourcing giant Transcosmos.
UKL is a local subsidiary in Kenya of a joint venture established in 2021 through Skylight Consulting and VC Uncovered Fund on seed targeting Africa.
In Africa, monetary facilities are underdeveloped, making it difficult to offload unsecured loans. Taxi drivers are poorly rewarded despite their complicated work environment. Multiple brokers to form a group, which incentivizes them to pay in a network that they accept as true based by taking advantage of credit visibility. The cyclist can become the owner of his motorcycle after making quotas for 18 months.
Since its launch in September 2021, UKL has sold over 250 motorcycles in the first nine months. The company also sells insurance to drivers, introduces jobs in mobility services, adds mototaxis and organizes educational activities on driving.
In this niche, Kenya-based Japanese startup Hakki Africa provides credit-rating-based financing for used cars for taxi drivers, which advertises 220 million yen ($1. 9 million at the exchange rate at the time) in a Series A financing. In March. Another Moove startup, which provides car financing to freelancers in sub-Saharan Africa, raised $105 million in a Series A2 from several investors, adding Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Innovation Partners in the same month.
See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based TakeMe, the start-up providing payment and marketing responses for places to eat in Japan, announced today that it has raised 260 million yen (about $2 million) from Taiwan-based New Economy Ventures and angel investors. anonymous in the last initial circular. in March. Based on publicly available information, this follows their $9. 2 million investment in July 2018, which appears to be Series A. So far, New Economy Ventures has invested in Taiwanese crypto infrastructure platform Cybavo (acquired through US Fintech Unicorn Circle in 2022), Internet of Energy service provider NextDrive, as well as Taiwanese startup XREX, provide SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) for crypto businessesArray The company aims to support the expansion region of start-ups in East Asia. Formerly known as Japan Foodie, TakeMe was founded in December 2015 through Dong Lu, a Chinese serial entrepreneur from Beijing. After attending school in Tokyo, he worked at Goldman Sachs and later earned an MBA from Stanford University. Later, after working at a consulting corporation and a VC, he founded two new companies and later sold them. TakeMe has…
Tokyo-based TakeMe, the startup that provides marketing and payment answers for restaurants and restaurants in Japan, announced today that it has raised 260 million yen (about $2 million) from Taiwan-based New Economy Ventures and anonymous angel investors in the most recent investment circular in March. According to publicly available information, this follows its $9. 2 million investment in July 2018, which appears to be a Series A.
New Economy Ventures has invested in both Taiwanese crypto infrastructure platform Cybavo (acquired through US Fintech Unicorn Circle in 2022), Energy NextDrive’s internet service provider, as well as Taiwanese startup XREX which provides SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service). ) for crypto companies. The company focuses on supporting the regional expansion of startups in East Asia.
Formerly known as Japan Foodie, TakeMe was founded in December 2015 through Dong Lu, a Chinese serial entrepreneur from Beijing. After attending college in Tokyo, he worked at Goldman Sachs and then earned a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. and a VC, founded two startups and then sold them. TakeMe has so far been subsidized through several famous angel investors: Ikuo Nishioka, Xiao-Hang Yuan, Koutaro Chiba, Naoki Shimada, Yusuke Tanaka, and Legend Partners (Tomohito Ebine’s fund).
TakeMe has also been hit hard by the pandemic. For over 31/2 years, TakeMe has focused on delivering virtual transformation (DX) responses for F companies.
In July, TakeMe joined order aggregation platform Camel, which allows restaurants to manage orders from food delivery establishments such as UberEats, menu, Wolt and Demae-can. The integration means that the TakeMe platform alone allows restaurants to manage bookings from shipping local consumers and incoming visitors to accepting orders from food delivery facilities. Some restaurants now use the platform to manage even in-store orders.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced last week that his country would lift its COVID-19 travel ban on Oct. 19, exempting foreign visitors to Japan from visa requirements. With the recent downward trend of the yen, the tourism industries and places to eat expect a lot from the revival of the call of incoming visitors. TakeMe plans to use the budget for its TakeMe order control formula and increase feature progression for incoming visitors.