Portfolio

KDDI Open Innovation Fund has invested in a total of 51 companies (as of February 8, 2018).

Photo/Movie

Open link in a new windowTOLOT
TOLOT Inc. provides a printing/bookbinding service that allows customers to put pictures that are saved in their smartphones into a single photobook by using a dedicated application.

Open link in a new window4D REPLAY, Inc. (Korea)

Game

Open link in a new window3rdKind
3rdKind Inc. publishes and produces smartphone games. The company rolls out many high-quality game titles from abroad to the Japanese market.

Open link in a new window5Rocks (Korea)
5Rocks, Inc. develops growth hack tools specializing in mobile games and applications. The company provides all types of analytical features and management solutions to maximize the life time value (LTV) of the users.
  • * August 6th 2014, Acquired by Tapjoy,inc.

Open link in a new windowAppBroadCast
AppBroadCast Co., Ltd. develops and operates Game Gift, a comprehensive media for attracting customers of smartphone games offering items as gifts. The company operates a consulting business for attracting mobile game customers.
  • * April 8th 2016, Acquired by mediba

Open link in a new windowSoft Gear
Soft Gear is a company that develops online games that are compatible with a variety of platforms.

EC

Open link in a new windowORIGAMI
Origami Inc. operates a social shopping service that allows customers to follow their favorite brands and shops and obtain the latest information.

Open link in a new windowMONOCO
MONOCO Inc. operates a shopping site that offers selected designer items, including fashion accessories and miscellaneous goods, from around the world.

Open link in a new windowgiftee
giftee, Inc. operates a social gift service that allows customers to send gifts via e-mail, LINE and other SNS on their smartphones.

Open link in a new windowLUXA
LUXA, Inc. operates a selected online flash sale site that offers premium items, such as luxury brand items and products of popular restaurants, at member-exclusive prices.
  • * April 14th 2015, Acquired by KDDI

Open link in a new windowCreema
Creema Ltd. provides a marketplace for hand-made items in which original works of creators are traded.

Education

Open link in a new windowAoi-zemi
Aoi.co provides Aoi-zemi, which is an online tutoring school on live streaming.
  • * December 7th 2017, Acquired by ZKAI Learning Technology Inc.

Open link in a new windowRareJob
RareJob Inc. provides an on-line English conversation training service that allows customers to take one-on-one lessons from selected excellent teachers.
  • * The company became a listed company on Mothers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on June 27, 2014

Open link in a new windowEdmodo (US)
Edmodo. Inc. provides social network service platform specialized for the field of education.

Media

Open link in a new windowJimoty
Jimoty, Inc. operates a classified advertisement site that allows users to post local advertisement information, such as For Sale/For Spare, Help Wanted, and Events, free of charge.

Open link in a new windownanapi
nanapi, Inc. operates a site for sharing useful techniques in daily life.
  • * October 1st 2014, Acquired by KDDI as consolidated subsidiary

Open link in a new windowTSUMIKI
TSUMIKI Inc. provides Filmarks, a social movie review service, enabling the discovery of truly interesting movies around the world, as well as engaging in the advertisement planning and production business.
  • * August 18th 2015, Sold all shares to Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.

Open link in a new windowissuu (US)
Issuu, Inc. provides an industry-leading digital publishing platform that connects the world's content creators to an audience of active readers around the globe.

Open link in a new windowVentureBeat (US)
VentureBeat, Inc. provides a site for technology news media.

Open link in a new windowRICH MEDIA
RICH MEDIA operates KamiMado, a site where users can search for and make reservations at over 8,000 beauty salons and nail salons nationwide, and have access to various beauty columns.

Open link in a new windowlogly
logly, Inc. is a technology company that has strengths in data analysis technologies such as "Natural Language Processing" and "Machine Learning." They provide native advertising platform "logly lift".

Open link in a new windowUNDOUTSUSHINSHA
UNDOUTSUSHINSHA operates SPORTS BULL, a news media for sports fans.

Communication

SyncLunch
SyncLunch, Inc. was providing Social Lunch, a service that helps people meet other people over lunch using their real names on Facebook.
  • * The company sold all its shares to Donuts Co., Ltd. on December 10, 2012

Solution

Open link in a new windowiRidge
iRidge, Inc. provides location-linked push notification ASP service "popinfo".
  • * July 16th 2015, Got listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers

Open link in a new windowMoxtra (US)
Moxtra, Inc. provides a service that enables various digital files to be edited and shared in real time on multiple devices among members of a group.

Open link in a new windowMist Technologies
Mist Technologies, Inc.provides a P2P contents delivery platform "MistCDN".
  • * August 31th 2016, Acquired by Adways Inc.

Open link in a new windowOssia (US)
Ossia, Inc. developed a wireless power charging technology called "Cota".

Open link in a new windowZOYI (Korea)
ZOYI provides "WalkInsights", a people counting, tracking, and analytical tool for offline stores based on WiFi signals, and "Channel", a CRM and chat tool for online stores, in both Korea and Japan.

Open link in a new windowAllganize (US)
Allganize offers enterprise workplace automation by providing AI-driven knowledge management SaaS (Software-as-a-service).

Open link in a new windowMad Street Den (US)
Providing "Vue.AI", an one stop Artificial Intelligence solution.

Open link in a new windowGeoSpock Ltd
Provider of geo-temporal data analysis and visualization platform.

Service

Open link in a new windowHailo (UK)
Hailo Network Holdings Ltd. engages in a service for dispatching taxis and settling accounts using smartphones in major cities around the world.

Open link in a new windowPogoseat (US)
Pogoseat, Inc. a seating upgrade service for sporting events and concerts.

Open link in a new windowLoco Partners
Loco Partners, Inc. operates the online accommodation booking website, "relux". It provides selected and members' only information of the premium accommodations.
  • * February 7th 2017, Acquired by KDDI

Open link in a new windowDAILY (Korea)
Providing mobile hotel and restaurant reservation services.

Open link in a new windowHosty
HOSTY, Inc. operates cozy and distributed hotels where any type of travelers, even groups can find perfect accommodation.

IoT

Open link in a new windowMonohm Inc. (US)
A provider of innovative IoT devices "Runcible" which based on Firefox OS.

Open link in a new windowAugust (US)
Provides a smart lock device for home automation and security.
  • * December 13th 2017, Acquired by Assa Abloy

Open link in a new windowJibo (US)
Providing "Jibo" the World's First Social Robot for the Home.

Open link in a new windowTelexistence
Providing robotics and cloud data services based on the telexistence technology.

Open link in a new windowXSHELL
Providing IoT platform for hardware and software developers.

Open link in a new windowResin.io (UK)
Providing IoT device management platform.

Open link in a new windowUnaBiz (Singapore)
Serving as Sigfox network operator in Singapore and Taiwan and providing Sigfox based IoT Solutions.

VR

Open link in a new windowHacosco
Planning, sales and operations of smart phone VR service Hacosco.

Open link in a new windowCluster
Providing virtual event platform "cluster".

Healthcare

Open link in a new windowEmbrace Co., Ltd.
Embrace Co., Ltd. provides "Medical Care Station (MCS)" , a chat based SNS platform for team Medical care (Doctors, Nursing care, and other health care workers).

Sports

Open link in a new windowHalo Neuroscience (US)
Creators of a neurostimulation headset that accelerates muscle movement.

Open link in a new windowEUPHORIA
Providing sports data managament service"ONE TAP SPORTS".

Biotechnology

Open link in a new windowNANOEGG (R) Research Laboratories, inc.
NANOEGG (R) develops medical products based on dermatology research, and provides cosmetic products based on their own "drug delivery system".

Real Estate

Open link in a new windowITANDI
Itandi, Inc. develops applications for real estate industry. The products include an online broker app "nomad", a marketing automation and CRM software "nomad cloud", and an automated phone answering system "Bukkakun".

AI

Open link in a new windowAspectiva (Israel)
Aspectiva analyzes massive volumes of consumer opinions from across the web, turning them into comprehensive and valuable insights based on NLP and AI technologies.

Fund of Funds

Open link in a new windowGB-VI Growth Fund Investment Limited Partnership
The fund has been focused on creations of, and supports for, innovative ICT startups which can contribute to strengthening competitivenesses of Japan and the world economy. The fund has leveraged Global Brain's capabilities of strategic deal sourcing based on deep understandings and analysis of ICT trends, business matchings between large enterprises and startups based on its track records of corporate venture capital funds, and intensive hands-on supports by professionals with various backgrounds and expertise.