Portfolio
KDDI Open Innovation Fund has invested in a total of 51 companies (as of February 8, 2018).
Photo/Movie
TOLOT
- 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.
Game
3rdKind
- 3rdKind Inc. publishes and produces smartphone games. The company rolls out many high-quality game titles from abroad to the Japanese market.
5Rocks (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.
AppBroadCast
- 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.
Soft Gear
- Soft Gear is a company that develops online games that are compatible with a variety of platforms.
EC
ORIGAMI
- Origami Inc. operates a social shopping service that allows customers to follow their favorite brands and shops and obtain the latest information.
MONOCO
- MONOCO Inc. operates a shopping site that offers selected designer items, including fashion accessories and miscellaneous goods, from around the world.
giftee
- giftee, Inc. operates a social gift service that allows customers to send gifts via e-mail, LINE and other SNS on their smartphones.
LUXA
- 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.
Creema
- Creema Ltd. provides a marketplace for hand-made items in which original works of creators are traded.
Education
Aoi-zemi
- Aoi.co provides Aoi-zemi, which is an online tutoring school on live streaming.
RareJob
- RareJob Inc. provides an on-line English conversation training service that allows customers to take one-on-one lessons from selected excellent teachers.
Edmodo (US)
- Edmodo. Inc. provides social network service platform specialized for the field of education.
Media
Jimoty
- 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.
nanapi
- nanapi, Inc. operates a site for sharing useful techniques in daily life.
TSUMIKI
- 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.
issuu (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.
VentureBeat (US)
- VentureBeat, Inc. provides a site for technology news media.
RICH 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.
logly
- 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".
UNDOUTSUSHINSHA
- 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.
Solution
iRidge
- iRidge, Inc. provides location-linked push notification ASP service "popinfo".
Moxtra (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.
Mist Technologies
- Mist Technologies, Inc.provides a P2P contents delivery platform "MistCDN".
Ossia (US)
- Ossia, Inc. developed a wireless power charging technology called "Cota".
ZOYI (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.
Allganize (US)
- Allganize offers enterprise workplace automation by providing AI-driven knowledge management SaaS (Software-as-a-service).
Mad Street Den (US)
- Providing "Vue.AI", an one stop Artificial Intelligence solution.
GeoSpock Ltd
- Provider of geo-temporal data analysis and visualization platform.
Service
Hailo (UK)
- Hailo Network Holdings Ltd. engages in a service for dispatching taxis and settling accounts using smartphones in major cities around the world.
Pogoseat (US)
- Pogoseat, Inc. a seating upgrade service for sporting events and concerts.
Loco Partners
- Loco Partners, Inc. operates the online accommodation booking website, "relux". It provides selected and members' only information of the premium accommodations.
DAILY (Korea)
- Providing mobile hotel and restaurant reservation services.
Hosty
- HOSTY, Inc. operates cozy and distributed hotels where any type of travelers, even groups can find perfect accommodation.
IoT
Monohm Inc. (US)
- A provider of innovative IoT devices "Runcible" which based on Firefox OS.
August (US)
- Provides a smart lock device for home automation and security.
Jibo (US)
- Providing "Jibo" the World's First Social Robot for the Home.
Telexistence
- Providing robotics and cloud data services based on the telexistence technology.
XSHELL
- Providing IoT platform for hardware and software developers.
Resin.io (UK)
- Providing IoT device management platform.
UnaBiz (Singapore)
- Serving as Sigfox network operator in Singapore and Taiwan and providing Sigfox based IoT Solutions.
Healthcare
Embrace 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
Halo Neuroscience (US)
- Creators of a neurostimulation headset that accelerates muscle movement.
EUPHORIA
- Providing sports data managament service"ONE TAP SPORTS".
Biotechnology
NANOEGG (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
ITANDI
- 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
Aspectiva (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
GB-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.