Satoshi Fruhashi

STRIVE, Inc. (STRIVE) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of GREE, Inc. (TYO: 3632). STRIVE, Inc. is headquartered in Tokyo with additional office in Singapore. The firm was founded in 2011 by Amano Yusuke.

Kids Color, Inc. provides childcare support services. It develops and manages 'HoiClue' a childcare website. Its business activities include electronic content planning, production, and publication; Internet media management and website operations. It also organizes children seminars, camps, lectures, and events; provides training of nursery teachers; and offers childcare services. The company was founded by Minami Amamiya and Daisuke Hiramatsu in May 2010 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sora-Seed Startups Studio KK (Sora-Seed Startups Studio) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2013 by Yasunari Shibata. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

somewrite, Inc. develops software to redistribute news sources out of owned media. It also develops and operates the somewrite Ad, an advertising platform that picks up advertorial articles from owned media sites and distributes them to other partnering news media sites. The firm’s platform has also a tracking system, which picks up the users’ advertisement preferences. The company was founded by Yasunari Shibata in September 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Parasol, Inc. engages in the planning, development, and operation of web dating services. Its products include Match App, Forky, Renai Konkatsulab, Konkatsu Cupid, and Marriage Up. The company was founded by Yuichiro Karakasa on January 23, 2017 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

LandReam, Inc. provides business services. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Money Forward, Inc., Klavis, Inc. is a Japanese company that provides know-how to increase the productivity of accounting firms, including study sessions aimed at improving skills as an engineer. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan and has an operation team in Vietnam, China, and Japan, realizing overwhelming productivity that other companies do not have. The company's service is made up of team collaboration, mainly by engineers. Klavis understands the essence of issues, has the ability to solve them, and acts to solve them. The company was founded by Tatsuya Kanto, who has been the CEO since incorporation. Klavis was acquired by Money Forward, Inc. on November 30, 2017 for $7.01 million.

Part of Money Forward, Inc., Knowledge Labo KK engages in the management of a business analysis website. The company is based in Kita-ku, Japan. Knowledge Labo KK was acquired by Money Forward, Inc. on July 05, 2018.

Money Forward Venture Partners, Inc. (Money Forward Venture) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Money Forward, Inc. (TK:3994). The firm is headquartered in Tokyo.

ASMARQ Co., Ltd. engages in the marketing research business. It provides online and offline research, and panel recruiting services. The company was founded on December 21, 2001 by Masakazu Machida and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Million Plate, Inc. is a Japanese startup food delivery company that operates a cloud kitchen using platforms such as Uber Eats and Deaf Building. Million Plate is based in Tokyo, JP and was founded in 2016 by Yoshio Nagata, who has been the CEO since then. The company offers a wide variety of brands with diverse menus, including curry, dessert, noodle, and rice bowl dishes. The company uses accumulated data to provide personalized products based on the area and needs of their customers. The company also manages kitchen cars and directly managed cloud kitchens.

SALOWIN, Inc. is a Japanese share salon company founded in 2019 that provides a new form of independence to hairdressers by returning 80%% of the industry's highest technology sales. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is currently developing share salons in Omotesando, Ikebukuro, Shibuya, and Ginza.

HiManager Co., Ltd. provides real-time evaluation services. The Japanese company was founded in 2018 by Kengo Mori, who has been the CEO since 2018.