TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . and the U.K., While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B , SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. Other investors include South Korean sneaker reselling platform KREAM (another SoftBank Ventures Asia portfolio company), Altos Ventures and JAFCO. million monthly users. The StockX EC-1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Breaking into Japan is often one of the biggest challenges a growing tech company will encounter. For the startups that cater to these companies, “cracking Japan” is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmaps. Japan is not a testing ground for MVP products. Share on Twitter. Barnabas Birmacher is the CEO of Bitrise.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

South Korean startup Kakao Entertainment announced today it has acquired Wuxiaworld , an Asia fantasy fiction platform, via its serialized fiction app subsidiary Radish to bolster the mobile storytelling business. based storytelling platform acquisitions , Radish and Tapas Media. market, according to its statement. . .

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. The Series D funding, which brings its total funding to date to approximately $91.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The funding is coming at a high-watermark moment for edtech — with the shift to remote learning in the last year of pandemic living highlighting the opportunity to build better tools to serve that market, and a number of startups in the category subsequently raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2020

Unlike the Xbox One, the Xbox Series X will launch in Japan at the same time as other major markets, meaning it’ll see release this November. The Xbox One came out in November 2013 in 13 countries, but Japan had to wait until September 2014 along with several other regions, despite its outsized importance to the games industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Canada and Japan. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rakuten Symphony , the recently launched telco-focused arm of Japan’s Rakuten Group , today announced that it has acquired Robin.io , a startup that offers a Kubernetes platform optimized for storage solutions and complex network applications. When it first launched, Robin.io

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Corporations have been dealing with IT operations and security management since the coronavirus pandemic that has changed the way in which people work — remote or hybrid work — and accelerated the market opportunity. Additionally, it intends to strengthen its R&D base in India and sales team in Japan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Tokyo-based SODA , which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK , has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace. million monthly users, which it says makes it the largest C2C sneaker marketplace in Japan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Separately, Hybe Japan will announce a boy band in Japan, Hyunrock Han, CEO of Hybe Japan, said. JYP Entertainment partnered with Dunamu to set up a K-pop-based NFT platform in July, while SM announced its launch to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain platform in 2019. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Akros Technologies wants to disrupt the current asset management industry via its AI-driven asset management software platform that mines market data for stocks. million from Z Venture Capital , the corporate venture capital wholly owned by Z Holdings , which also owns the Japanese messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful social media strategy. billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan. Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

fintech company, announced an acquisition of Paidy , a Japanese buy now, pay later (BNPL) service platform, for approximately $2.7 billion (300 billion yen), mostly in cash, to enhance its business in Japan. Paidy is basically a two-sided payments service, acting as a middleman between consumers and merchants in Japan.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The businesses that the accelerator favor all aim to go beyond Korea’s traditionally inward focus, and move into lucrative markets including the US, China, Japan, and others. Selling premium organic breads from local bakeries via an online platform is what this startup does. Zoyi (Marketing). HeyBread (E-commerce).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). Honolulu, Las Vegas, Miami) and Japan, Kimura said. Since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, SmartRyde has experienced a significant decrease.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It can be particularly tough for businesses in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) who have been weathering this storm the longest. But as we approach the end of the year, APJ is finally on a slow path of recovery, even though progress is uneven across markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The e-commerce market of South Korea is expected to increase up to $250 billion by 2025. Una says that South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market globally, is considered a key market for Una Brands. . company Thrasio also set up an office in Japan in 2021 to expand its presence in Asia.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When travel platform KKday raised the first part of its Series C in September 2020 , the travel landscape was very different. We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities. CLASS101, a Seoul-based online education platform, announced today it has closed $25.8 and 220 classes in Japan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enterprises. . The global data collection and labeling market size was valued at $1.6 Japan and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Octopus will now launch as a brand in Japan with its trademark 100% renewable electricity operation, which uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid. Octopus has a 5% share of the energy supply market and counts 1.8 by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% In the U.K.,

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Moving into Southeast Asia, however, isn’t an easy task — as it is a hugely fragmented market.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. In fact, one of the most in-demand job skills for digital marketers and fundraisers is knowing how to effectively use social media advertising channels and Google Ads.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

French startup Back Market — a marketplace for refurbished electronics goods — has raised a $335 million Series D funding round led by General Atlantic. It will be using the funding to expand into new markets. trillion market globally. ” Back Market doesn’t refurbish devices directly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Whether that’s true is up for debate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom. The air taxi market prepares to take flight.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Germany, Japan and Singapore. . Three co-founders, Jung, Jun Hong and Sugwan Lee, founded the company in 2018 to build autonomous driving simulation platforms that let autonomous vehicle manufacturers simulate real-world test driving. . Morai SIM already replicated more than 20 cities across the globe. . The startup posted $1.7

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