Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Japan (July 2026)

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• Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
• Fermelanta — Fermelanta produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It engineers a cell to build a biosynthetic pathway of target molecules with gene transfer and disruption.
• Neusignal Therapeutics — Neusignal Therapeutics is a medical company that develops therapeutic medicines for dementia and psychiatric illnesses.

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• Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
• FitHappy — FitHappy is a behavioral & medical-based wellness app to solve diet problems for good.
• Bioma — Media Desa Terkini

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• Caguuu — Caguuu offers high-quality designer furniture at affordable prices, through e-commerce, eliminating middlemen and store operating costs.
• Diggle — DIGGLE is a service that provides fundamental management accounting management on the cloud called fraud management. It is possible to reduce the mistakes and man-hours of the fraud management task and easily carry out the fraud management task even if it is not an expert in finance or accounting.DIGGLE covers budget creation work and budgetrecord comparison work, especially in the foreman management work. In the budget creation work, the KPI and the budget are automatically created by inputting the target numerical value to the preset parameters utilizing the budget generator function, while the forecast contrasting work is made up of the financial information, non-financial information It is easy to calculate by simply entering the numerical value, and it is possible to carry out calculation of the forecast contrast.
• Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.

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• Tsunagari AI — Tsunagari specializes in developing and providing AI-powered consultation services tailored for local governments, aiming to enhance administrative efficiency, support citizen engagement, and streamline public service delivery.
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• Akari Hosho — Akari Hosho provides a group of trusted professionals, including lawyers and judicial scriveners. Akari Hosho provides a guarantee service.
• Black Cat Carnival — Black Cat Carnival Inc. is a communication service development company.
• Carbon CryoCapture — Carbon CryoCapture specializes in the carbon dioxide separation systems aimed at creating economically viable, energy-efficient, and genuinely sustainable CO2 separation and recovery technologies. The company is dedicated to deploying cost-effective, efficient systems for CO2 capture that integrate smoothly with current infrastructures, all whileenhancing energy consumption and production. This enables clients to attain zero emissions throughout the development and application of resources.

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• MomentFeed — MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue.
• Uncover Truth — UNCOVER TRUTH is an analytics company that offers data visualization services through the web and mobile.
• Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.

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• Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
• Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.
• Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

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• Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
• Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.

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• FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
• Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.

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• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Direava —
• Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.

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• AI Mage —
• Umami United — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
• Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.

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• Kakutoku — Nitlon Inc. provides crowdsourcing management services. The company was founded by Seiya Mitsuda on February 02, and is headquartered in Beppu, Japan.
• AlarmBox — AlarmBox develops services that make use of professional knowledge of technology and corporate screening, and changes common sense of risk management of enterprise.
• AVIATE —

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• MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
• ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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• Base Food — Base Food produces high-quality, flavorful staple food products that are nutritionally-balanced and convenient.
• Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
• Wonderplanet — Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Nagoya, Japan.

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• kAIgentic — kAIgentic is a Singapore-based agentic AI company founded in August 2025, specializing in enterprise intelligence layer platforms that transform tacit work knowledge into governed, autonomous AI agents.
• Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
• Waypoint Leasing Services — Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational backgroundtranslates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.

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• Zippi — Zippi provides financial services for gig workers in Latin America.
• OpenAssets — OpenAssets builds open infrastructure and technology for digital financial systems and tokenized capital markets. The company develops standards and platforms for issuing and managing tokenized assets, digital currencies, and programmable money across major blockchains. Its solutions include tokenization-as-a-service, compliant asset issuancetools, and programmable ownership features for bonds, equities, commodities, and other assets. OpenAssets serves governments, central banks, financial institutions, and digital asset companies seeking to modernize capital markets. The organization also convenes industry alliances to define technical, policy, and governance frameworks for programmable finance.
• Turbi — Turbi is a digital shared mobility company that makes car rental experience practical, cheaper and unique

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• Mntsq — MNTSQ is a legal tech venture company that provides products to law firms to streamline legal due diligence operations.
• AironWorks — AironWorks trains your team to recognize and stop phishing attacks with real-world simulations and clear, engaging cybersecurity education.
• Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.

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• Kinish — Kinish is a company leading a revolution in dairy products. To achieve environmentally friendly and delicious dairy products, we are developing a special rice variety that produces milk proteins.
• Kwahuu Ocean — Kwahuu Ocean develops sustainable squid farming systems.
• Spine Chronicle — Spine chronicle is a medical device manufacturing firm that specializes in developing orthopedic medical equipment.

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• Trifa — Trifa is a telecommunications service provider that provides eSIM internet access when traveling internationally.
• Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
• AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge is an edge data center business with a mission to create the leading-edge platform, delivering seamless, localized and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to customers. They provide a wide range of direct connectivity options to enable connectivity within their datacenters. All cabling is installed and managed by AtlasEdge and itsengineering team to ensure speed of installation and guaranteed quality and management.

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• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• EISHIN — EISHIN is a technology company that specializes in pet tech business, recruitment consulting, website creation, and development services.

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• Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
• RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
• Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.

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• Brainpad — Brainpad is a provider of big data analysis and analytic services for corporations.
• Benefuel — Benefuel is commercializing the world’s most advanced, solid catalyst biodiesel refining platform, capable of producing high quality biodiesel from almost any type of feedstock and thereby transforming the old model of large batch, centralized fuel production and fragmented distribution into a new model of localized production and consumption fromthe vast array of renewable, inedible fats and oils available in the global market.
• OUE Lippo Healthcare (OUELH) — OUE Lippo Healthcare Limited (“OUELH”) is a subsidiary company of OUE Limited (“OUE”) and is listed on the Catalist Board of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. OUE and OUELH are member companies of Lippo Group, one of the Asia’s largest and most diversified conglomerates with close to 20 listed companies across Asia and serving over 60million customers annually.

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• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
• Inter Holding — Inter delivers solutions for global difficulties using vacuum technology, which uses a particular check valve to maintain a 99.5% vacuum rate.
• Better Place — Better place vision is to create a world in which kind people can continue to be kind, as well as a society in which people can work in their own way without worrying about money.

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• mewt — Lovable Generated Project
• Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
• ProLearn — ProLearn is an AI-native learning technology app that provides interactive AI tutor for K-12 learners and competitive test candidates.

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• AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
• Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
• AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

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• Rimowa — Rimowa designs characters not as mere “content,” but as immersive character operating systems that integrate naturally into everyday life, creating emotionally resonant experiences that seamlessly connect digital interaction, storytelling, and real-world consumer engagement.
• Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.
• AI Mage —

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• Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
• Yuimedi — Yuimedi acquires, investigate, analyze medical data and provides accurate solutions.
• Free Standard —

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• Agility — Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments.
• Cruz Foam — Cruz Foam offers certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions. Let us help you transition to compostable foam packaging solutions, today.
• MonoAI Technology — monoAI technology develop and operate network games,conduct technology research and content development for VR and AR content and conduct a new type of QA business that incorporates software testing methods and AI.

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• NodeX — We build open-source embedded software and cloud tools to help developers build secure IoT products, simply. By leveraging decentralized identity and h/w root of trust technology, IoT security platform "UNiD" enables developers to automate device management and easily build secure data pipeline between every devices and the cloud.
• Simplex Quantum — Simplex Quantum conducts research and development of AI-based solutions in the healthcare field and operates the SQ-bar service.It also offers the Shinden-kun, a portable device that can analyze the measured electrocardiographic information with AI and detect heartbeat turbulence.It was established on October 3, 2014 and headquartered inTakanawa, Minato-ku.
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.

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• Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
• Ruten — Ruten is a brain-machine interface company that specializes in reconstructive treatments for infeasible and ineffective conditions.
• Tokenz — Tokenz is your all-in-one platform for global digital payments, cross-border tax compliance, and seamless payouts.

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• HEAL-lll — HEAL-lll is a multifaceted firm that merges healthcare, technology, and gamification to promote individual and organizational well-being.
• Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
• Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.

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• FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
• Misaky Tokyo — Marine plant-based, handmade Japanese sweets. These crystal treats are individually handcrafted, the perfect gift idea! Vegan, gluten-free, and additive-free confectionery, with stunning flavors such as Yuzu, Matcha, and Rose. Supporting artisans in their craft. Japanese luxury sweets with a surprise inside.
• Reiwa Travel — Reiwa Trave is a digital travel agency intended that optimizes overseas travel. The company's platform uses online travel booking tools that provide digitalized contracts along with trip management, thereby enabling its customers' vacation and leisure experiences.

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• Nagaku — Nagaku is a web magazine that publishes about culture along with web development, PR, marketing, and consulting services.
• Ageless — Ageless is a staffing agency that provides human resources-related services primarily to middle-aged and senior citizens.
• Wunderbar — Wunderbar provides intellectual property along with branding and marketing services.

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• Logice — Logice delivers seamless cold chain solutions, improving reliability in warehouse, delivery, and processing.
• Sembuh AI — Sembuh AI is an insurtech company that develops an AI‑based platform for health‑insurance claims processing. It focuses on automating high‑volume claims review, detecting fraud or anomalous claims, and reducing overpayments for insurers and third‑party administrators. The company acts as a claims‑automation and analytics layer rather than a directinsurer or payer.
• StratifiCare — At StratifiCare, we focus on the development and manufacturing of IVD (In-Vitro Diagnostics) assay solutions for personalized medicine. With more than 50 years of cumulative in-depth experience in Biomedical R&D and technology commercialization, StratifiCare strives to empower personalised medicine.

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• Yuimedi — Yuimedi acquires, investigate, analyze medical data and provides accurate solutions.
• Solafune — Solafune is a data science competition platform that leverage satellite and geospatial data.
• Mign — Mign offers a generative AI-related SaaS solutions for the construction and real estate fields.

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• Miive — Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.
• Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.
• Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

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• Silot — Silot started with B2B business connecting banking infrastructure and financial products in the early stage, and then directly empowered SMEs and social e-commerce sellers after transformation.
• GlobaliD — Your ID, just better in every way Take back control of your data. The future of digital identity. Your ID, just better in every way Get a Demo Why
• Akulaku Group — Akulaku is a leading banking and digital finance platform in Southeast Asia that operates in 4 major countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.Targeting an emerging market with an underserved but creditworthy and fast-growing consumer group, Akulaku currently provides users with digital banking, consumer credit, digital investment andinsurance brokerage services, fulfilling financial needs for a wide range of customers.

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• Chorakuchoju — Chorakuchoju is a healthcare organization that tries to avoid isolation by implementing AI technologies and medical services.
• Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
• Strand Therapeutics — Strand Therapeutics is developing the first platform for creating programmable mRNA drugs to deliver precise, multi-functional, potentially curative treatments.

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• AceRNA Technologies — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
• Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
• Flagellin — Flagellin is a pharmaceutical and medical industry.Development and sales of SaaS that supports sales and marketing of database and analysis services in the pharmaceutical and medical industries

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• Wewill — Wewill is a consulting company that provides accounting, SaaS, business development, and business consulting services.
• Digireha — Digireha is an IT company that provides a tool for rehabilitation by combining digital art and sensors.
• Find — Find is a software company that provides cloud development and operation services.

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• KAKEAI — Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.
• Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
• Recustomer — Recustomer is an IT company that develops software for digital payment and provides support for web development.

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• DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.
• Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.

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• NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
• AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

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• CAMPFIRE — Campfire engages in the planning, development, and operation of a crowd funding platform.They operate the largest cloud funding platform in Japan [CAMPFIRE (campfire)], which supports "whoever wants to start something."The fee is 5% of the domestic level, and about 15,000 projects have collected about $70million in total from over700,000 people.

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• Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.

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• CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
• Embraer — Embraer SA is a Brazil-based holding company primarily engaged in the manufacture of aircraft. The company’s business activities are divided into three business segments: Commercial Aviation; Defense and Security Business, and Executive Aviation. The Commercial Aviation segment is involved in the development, production, and sale of commercialjets, as well as in the provision of support services, with emphasis on the regional aviation industry and aircraft leasing. The Defense and Security Business segment mainly includes the research, development, production and modification of defense aircrafts as well systems and software design. Through the Executive Aviation segment, the company is active in the development, production, and sale of business jets, the provision of support services related to this sector of the market, and aircraft leasing. Embraer has subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and representative offices in Brazil, the United States, France, Holland, and China, among others.
• Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.

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• LINE Credit — LINE Credit is a Provision and operation of personal scoring and personal unsecured loan services.
• Line — LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.
• LINE Securities — LINE Securities is a provider of remote securities brokerage and securities investment consultation services.

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• Skild AI — Building general purpose robotic intelligence
• AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
• Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

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• Live Search — Live Search provides the real estate industry with online room availability management, property photography, and floor plan services.
• Simple Form — Simple Form provides real-time information on all domestic corporations necessary for financial institutions. We will accelerate the time-consuming and labor-intensive research work of corporations and take on the role of new financial underpinnings.
• Pathfinder — Pathfinder is a research and development company that provides MaaS and delivery vehicle application development services.

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• ADDX — Private market Investment with lower minimums. ADDX gives investors access to private equity, hedge fund, real estate & other alternative investment choices.
• PayPay — PayPay is an online payment app.This benefit is not applicable when paying with PayPay online payment service. * 2 For PayPay, per person, the “granting limit for one payment” is equivalent to 15,000 yen, and the “total granting limit for one month” is equivalent to 30,000 yen. If you pay by credit card other than Yahoo! Card, the grant rate is0.5%. * 3 If you pay with a credit card other than Yahoo!
• Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation — Japan Platform of Industrial Transformation is providing equity investment and business management services for affiliated group companies.