Tetsuyuki Kono

ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Inc. (Itochu Technology Ventures) is a venture capital arm of ITOCHU Corp. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was founded in 2000 by ITOCHU Corp.

Crowd Securities Japan, Inc. operates as a holding company which engages in the provision of investment and financial services through crowd funding business. It also offers recruitment handling, financial support, M&A (Merger & Acquisition), consulting services, trading, brokerage, and other securities-related operations. The company was founded in February 1993 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Global Brain Corp. (Global Brain) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Yasuhiko Yurimoto. Global Brain Corp. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Rakuten Group, Inc., Spotlight, Inc. develops and operates mobile services for smart phones including hardware devices. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was founded by Yo Shibata. Spotlight was acquired by Rakuten Group, Inc. on October 15, 2013.

UPWARD, Inc. is a holding company that designs and develops geographic information system software. It offers application programming interface (API) service, system source development, and background map data for geographic information system construction. The company was founded by Toru Mori in March 2002 and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.

Ad Hack Ventures (Ad Hack Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of xpd, Inc., itself a subsidiary of AOI TYO Holdings, Inc. founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

UUUO, Inc. develops and operates a software platform for buying and selling marine products. The Japanese company was founded in 2016 by Kazutomo Itakura, who has been the CEO since 2016.

EQIQ KK is a tech recruitment company based in Shibuya-ku, Japan. and has subsidiaries in Japan. EQIQ KK provides tech recruitment services. The Japanese company was founded in 2010 by Casey Wahl, who has been the CEO since 2010.