101 Top Japanese Finance Companies and Startups of 2021

June 30, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Finance companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Finance industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top Japanese Finance Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

CAMPFIRE

CAMPFIRE

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Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.

PayPay

PayPay

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PayPay is an online payment app.

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Money Forward

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Money Forward provides online personal accounting solutions that enable individuals to better manage their daily expenses.

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Paidy

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Paidy is a platform that enables consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration.

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Freee

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Freee is online accounting software that syncs with bank accounts and automatically categorizes entries to create financial reports.

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Makuake

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Makuake is a crowdfunding platform that provides support services, product manufacturing supporting, and other services.

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Gojo & Company

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Gojo extends financial inclusion to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.

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Uzabase

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Uzabase provides information infrastructure supporting decision-making in business activities.

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Moneytree

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Moneytree is a financial data aggregation platform that provides a personal finance app and a cloud-based accounting service.

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Wealthnavi

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Wealthnavi is wealth management of world-class on your side.

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CrowdWorks

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CrowdWorks provides Internet services operations centered on Japanese crowdsourcing platform.

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Kepple Africa Ventures

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Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Finatext

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Finatext provides cloud infrastructure and data analysis infrastructure for developing financial services.

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VALU

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VALU is providing services related to online recruitment and human resources support.

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MONEY DESIGN

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MONEY DESIGN offers automated investment management and advisory services.

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KDDI

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KDDI is providing telecommunication services for finance, energy, entertainment, and education sectors.

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ITOCHU Corporation

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ITOCHU is a general trading company based in Japan.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group primarily conducts commercial banking.

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Nomura

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Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments.

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Net Protections

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Net Protections is a Operation of “NP postpay” payment for BtoC mail order.

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Payme Japan

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Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.

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Metaps Inc.

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Metaps is engaged in three businesses: finance business, marketing business and the DX support business.

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Money Tap

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Money Tap is a planning, development, operation and consulting for various Fintech solutions using blockchain.

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MFS

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MFS is the next generation retail finance with the power of technology.

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Cryptact

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Cryptact is a technology company providing solutions and platforms utilizing blockchains, smart contracts and virtual currencies.

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Kanmu CLO

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Kanmu CLO is a credit card-linked coupon, providing a variety of offers, depending on users’ information and purchasing history of the card.

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OLTA

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OLTA is a cloud factoring can be used by individuals and corporations, and there is no upper or lower limit on the purchase price.

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Japan Cloud Capital

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Japan Cloud Capital is a financial services company that supports the growth of venture companies and develops the Japanese economy.

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ABCash Technologies

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ABCash Technologies provides advice on financial products such as insurance, mortgages, and investment products.

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xenodata lab

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xenodata lab is a developing an AI-powered finance data analytics leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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Bitcoin.com

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Bitcoin.com is the premier source for everything Bitcoin related.

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TORANOTEC

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TORANOTEC aims to create a world in which investment is familiar to everyone.

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pring

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pring is a mobile platform offering free money transfer & remittance services.

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Mitsui & Co

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Mitsui & Co., is a general trading and investment company with interests in Iron and Steel products.

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Gaia Japan

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Gaia is a Financial based Company

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ZUU

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ZUU is a Japan-based company that supports financial advisors with related consultancies and manages monetary websites.

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WED

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WED is an information technology based company.

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FUNDBOOK

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FUNDBOOK is a hybrid M&A brokerage service.

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IB

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IB is an insurance book app that allows users to manage insurance.

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Smartround

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Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking.

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SPARX Group

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SPARX Group invests through a number of innovative strategies on behalf of a wide cross-section of investors around the globe.

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Nanameue

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Nanameue is a holdings company based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Linkers

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Linkers is a management of manufacturing matching service

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Mikatus

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Mikatus supports good tax accountants and contribute to the growth of enthusiastic SMEs.

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Huobi Japan

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Huobi Japan designs a digital asset trading platform that empowers financial service.

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NSE

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NSE develops business software for financial institutions.

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Mitsubishi Corporation

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Mitsubishi Corporation is Japan’s largest trading company and a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu.

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SBI Group

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SBI Holdings is an economic service commercial enterprise company that offers financial products and associated services information.

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MILIZE

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MILIZE is a development and operation of a web platform that integrates financial engineering, AI research, development, and operation.

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DIGGLE

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DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management.

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Timebank

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Time Bank is an application that allows you to experience a great deal with a little clearance time.

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Tranzax

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Tranzax is a Financial Services to provide primary manufacturers with new cash management solutions for their supply chains.

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iBank Marketing

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iBank Marketing is a Banking agency.

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Mizuho Bank

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Mizuho Bank offers corporate and investment banking services to major corporations, financial institutions, and public sector entities.

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Yoshidumi Holdings

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Yoshidumi Holdings operates as a business finance company.

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Polaris

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Polaris offers IT solutions for energy, manufacturing, finance, and logistics fields.

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Theoria Japan

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Theoria Japan is a specialized Q & A service.

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Siiibo

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Siiibo is a Startup to collect a small number of investors and issue bond based on its own web information platform.

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OsidOri

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OsidOri is a financial app company will provide this mechanism with the new FinTech service.

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ACES Japan

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ACES is providing image recognition algorithms such as object recognition and face and expression recognition

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TECOTEC

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TECOTEC is a Financial system introduction consulting business

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NestEgg Japan

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Nestegg is a Planning, development and operation of savings and settlement services.

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Handii Japan

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Handii is a Development and operation of corporate payment services.

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STOCK POINT

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STOCK POINT providing financial information services.

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Minsetsu

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Minsetsu is a Financial Service based company is to creating a bond between investors and companies.

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WhatzMoney

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WhatzMoney is to realize the best choice of money for everyone from his previous work experience in banking.

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DIRIGIO

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DIRIGIO is an Operation and development of mobile order & pay platform.

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Sasuke Financial Lab

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Sasuke Financial Lab is a provider of construction and operation of financial planning platform using the Internet.

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Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation

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Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.

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Zuu Online

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ZUU online is a Tokyo-based financial media company

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JAFCO Japan

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JAFCO Japan is a venture capital, incubator, and private equity firm.

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Global Trust Networks

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Global Trust Networks is a company that helps foreigners to live in Japan

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Mirai Chokin

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Mirai Chokin is a start-up,with the philosophy of contributing to the creation of living assets.

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H.I.F.

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HIS is a BaaS platform company.

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All Nippon Asset Management

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All Nippon Asset Management supports the diversification and sophistication of regional financial institutions’ operations.

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Nomad

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Nomad is a co-working space that also engages in investment and support for start-up companies.

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SMART IDEA Japan

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SMART IDEA is a financial technology company.

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400F

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400F develops services to solve problems related to people’s lives and assets.

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StockFormer

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StockFormer is a completely new real estate investment information platform.

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IT Realize

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IT Realize is a financial application service business.

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BrainCat

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BrainCat is a Japanese company that specializes in developing FinTech platforms.

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Indetail

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INDETAIL is a quickly growing company with mainly Japanese employees and an international Blockchain team.

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FINPLANET

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FINPLANET provides online financial services.

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Taryff

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Taryff is a privacy-focused loyalty scheme allowing business owners to reward loyal customers and increase repeat business.

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SmartApp Japan

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Smart Apps is a developer of a blockchain services application designed for smartphones.

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Moneytree Japan

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Moneytree is a household ledger service.

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GO-NET

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GO-NET is a new platform that leverages blockchain technology and Akamai’s Intelligent Edge Platform.

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Cogicogi Inc.

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Cogicogi Inc. enables its customers to rent and share cycles and bicycles.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is a Japanese bank holding / financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Omron Ventures

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Omron Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that invests and drives the growth of invested start-ups.

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Bank Invoice

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Bank Invoice is an online platform that helps its users connect with clients and reduce accounting workload.

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Communitio

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Community tail, is a service that can issue the original in-house currency wearing a company-specific name.

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Binary.com

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Binary.com is a trading platform for binary options on financial markets.

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank

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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is an asset management firm and bank in Japan.

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Smart Solution Technology Japan

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Smart Solution Technology is a License sales of smart sound touch technology

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ST-Life

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ST-Life is a Personal Financial Database Platform business.

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Future Venture Capital

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Future Venture Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investment.

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Gochiso

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Gochiso was born as a platform to address social and environmental issues in a sustainable and practical way.

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Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings

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Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings operates and manages group companies and seeks to enhance their value by promoting its regional.

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Monex Group

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Monex Group is a financial services to individual investors as an integrated online financial services broker.

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