Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Japan (June 2026)

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• Letara — Letara operates a space technology platform with the intention to serve a logistics network covering the solar system. The company produces hybrid propulsion engines for small spacecraft, promoting groundbreaking advances in space propulsion with high thrust, safe, and inexpensive propulsion system technology.
• Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
• Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.

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• 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.
• 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.
• Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.

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• Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
• Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.
• AVA Intelligence — AVA Intelligence is a Internet service development company.

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• Metro Weather — Metroweather is a venture from Kyoto University that develops a high-performance Doppler lidar that measures the direction and speed of wind several tens of kilometers away from minute movements of fine particles in the atmosphere. We aim to contribute to the safety of the sky by completing a three-dimensional wind map, which has never beenrealized,based on years of research at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Areas.
• Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing — JAPAN FUDO is a company that develops and manufactures new products related to wind, such as the world's most compact wind tunnel "Aero Optim" series and double propeller wind turbines.
• RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.

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• Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
• LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
• Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

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• Paytner — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
• 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.

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• Menou — MENOU specializes in AI technology and sensing technology. It features a graphical image identification modeler software.
• Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
• 3S — 3S is a SaaS developer platform that provides and operates 24-hour home nursing care services through technology.

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• MOVeLOT — MOVeLOT is an AI company that provides skeletal platform and robot planning, development, and production services.
• Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
• xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

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• Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
• Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
• ChromaCode — ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics. It leverages patented mathematical methods and algorithmic enhancements to enrich signal processing from life science instrumentation. The company uses this to extract new information on biochemistry reactions and substantially increase the performance capabilities of today’sgold-standard biochemical assays at a very low cost.ChromaCode was founded in 2012, ChromaCode is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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• Fogg Japan — Fogg is a platform that makes life styles more convenient without being affected by trends and deprecation like media and content
• Nagisa — Nagisa develops smartphone applications to facilitate free group chats, calls, and photo and movie sharing services. It was launched in 2010 by Yoshiyuki Yokoyama and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
• ECloud — E-Cloud is combines the experience and know-how cultivated in finance, IT and venture capital to provide information and opportunities related to venture investment, which has been limited until now, through the equity investment type cloud founding platform e-cloud. It provides to the general investor, and provides entrepreneurs with new means ofraising funds in addition to traditional banks and venture capital.

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• Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
• Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
• The Chain Museum — The Chain Museum creates a platform for connecting individuals .

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• FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
• Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
• Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.

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• Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
• Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
• Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.

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• Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
• FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
• Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.

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• Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
• LUC — LUC is a provider of the AI ​​x experience analysis platform "TERUS," .
• Tohakusha — Tohakusha is a creative agency that offers design, production and sale of digital content and EC websites, and content creation services.

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• Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.
• CMerTV — CMer TV is a platform that connects advertisers with newspapers, magazines, and specialized media by video
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.

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• Z-Works — "Z-Works Life Engine" is a cloud-type IoT platform. Collect and analyze the data of the terminal equipped with Z-Wave on the cloud, you can browse various data with the smartphone and remotely control the terminal equipped with Z-Wave.
• NovAccel — NovAccel operates as a deep tech company, ensure a stable supply of medical radioisotopes.
• Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.

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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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• ASUENE — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

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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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• Ababa — Ababa provides recruitment and employment solutions.
• PlaceHolder — Placeholder is a space value creation company that provides people with inspiring and exciting experiences by fusing digital technology and real space.
• RICOS — RICOS is a tech company that optimizes manufacturing processes using AI, simulation, and high-performance computing technologies.

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• Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
• FullDepth — FullDepth is a drone development company.
• Peco Free — Peco Free is a school meal pre-order service that is selected using a smartphone.

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• Mokable — MOKABLE is a startup introducing a new concept called "eating coffee," aiming to let consumers fully enjoy the flavor of carefully grown coffee beans. Their product uses finely ground whole coffee beans to enhance and maximize the rich aroma and taste of the coffee.
• Syukatsu Labo — Syukatsu Labo is a leading company that solves various problems in an aging society.
• Tensor Energy — Creating the operating system of our zero-carbon, distributed energy future

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• Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
• Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
• CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.

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• SODA — Soda launched its customer-to-customer marketplace SNKRDUNK, which now has over 3 million monthly users in Japan. Through the platform, users can buy and sell sneakers safely as it offers legitimacy checking services through local authentication provider Fake Busters.
• VideoVillage — VideoVillage is a video production company.
• Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.

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• Banzai — Leverage Banzai's event solutions to transform your bored registrants into paying customers. Learn more about Reach and Demio today.
• Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
• Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.

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• Koska — Koska is a service that automates highly accurate cost calculation without trouble in the IoT system.
• Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
• Pocket Concierge — Pocket Concierge is an online service for people to make online reservations at selected restaurants. The company's mission is to broadcast Japanese culinary culture worldwide and provide guests with exclusive dining experience.

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• pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• Bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
• ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.

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• Taxnap — Taxnap develops tax management software for freelancers.
• Kredivo Group — FinAccel is a financial technology company creating disruptive and meaningful products in retail credit for Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world and home to nearly 10% of the world's population. With an all star team of investors, founders and employees, FinAccel is currently focused on disruption in the unsecured lendingspace.
• Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.

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• Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
• Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
• Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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• Nstock — Nstock is specialized in developing SAAS based applications for ecosystem.
• STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
• PartnerSuccess — PartnerSuccess develops and provides SaaS tools that automate the collaboration between manufacturers and distributors.

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• Beff — Beff is a company that focuses on Global AI and battery development. It intends to reduce material waste and CO2 emissions during battery production and secure resources in a sustainable manner.
• Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
• Nature — Nature offers a product that enables its users to save money by controlling the use of their air conditioners.The product that the company offers is an air conditioner controller that transforms any window-mounted or through-wall AC into a smart one, equipped with infrared, power control, and sensors that, along with a mobile app for voicesensors, enabling users to operate household appliances with just one smartphone to control their ACs. It transforms the operation of room air conditioners (ACs) to improve comfort and efficiency for consumers while reducing energy demand peaks for utilities with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-install device.The Boston, Massachusetts-based company was incorporated by Mash Ohtsuka and Haruumi Shiode in 2014.

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• Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
• pickupon — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• Rise — Rise is a credit-led platform that enables underserved consumers to access installment-based purchasing power.

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• Emole — Emole is a platform that connects content creators with viewers through short drama content, offering a variety of engaging stories.
• Castee — Castee provides social collaboration services and also helps with a tool for job requests and overseas projects for creators.
• Tribeau — Tribute is a word-of-mouth app for aesthetic medicine for cosmetic surgeries, cosmetic dermatologists, and orthodontists who are not covered by health insurance.

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• AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
• Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
• Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.

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• Landsview — Landsview is an IT company that provides software development, numerical analysis, testing equipment, and measurement services.
• Flora — Flora develops a big data platform for female health, collecting data on individual symptoms, work performance, health conditions etc.
• Izanagi Games — Izanagi Games is an entertainment company that focuses on producing and publishing interactive games.

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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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• Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
• Linqmed — Linqmed is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the research and development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
• Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.

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• Brhino — Brhino provides planning, development, and management of web services. The company's product, Monokabu, is a site where people can buy and sell sneakers and things like stock. Brhino is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
• MiddleField — MiddleField is a team to make cars the best entertainment and to make the lives of everyone involved in cars into entertainment. They creates a society where a lot of people are involved as a middle point of all people's dreams. MiddleField owns and operates an e-commerce platform offering cars.

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• Ashirase — Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
• Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
• MaterialGate — MaterialGate focuses on single-molecule dielectrics, developing technologies for devices with better electronic characteristics.

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• Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
• Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
• ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

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• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
• Sensyn Robotics — Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helpingtackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.

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• Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
• Pragtech — Pragtech develops and operates parking lot service software that helps to eliminate payment congestion and reduce operating costs.
• Shinsekai Technologies — SHINSEKAI Technologies focuses on supporting companies, enabling them to advance their services to Web3 and NFT technologies.

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• Zest — ZEST is an IT firm that offers consulting and management support services to its clients. It is based in Tokyo.
• FamiOne — FamiOne is creating a society that will support the future of couples who want to receive children.
• Meetcareer — Meetcareer provides online counseling services for career planning.

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• Bgrass — bgrass is a consultation support platform for women working in the IT industry.
• Blankr — Blankr inc has developed an application called Raidli. Using the app, Vtubers can hold a virtual handshake event.
• Tripi — Tripi provides travel media and digital marketing services, as well as the accommodation gift service.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• Plainer — Plainer is an IT company that provides software development, data management, and SaaS solutions.
• CraftBank — CraftBank, Inc. is the start-up that operates online matching platform between constructors with having relations with 22k specialty constructors (10% coverage in the market). The company was succeeded in Management BuyOut in April 2021.

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• Divert — Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted. We make social and environmental impact by creating sustainable infrastructure and innovative technologies that help prevent food from being wasted.
• Rancon Auto Industries — Rancon Auto Industries is a Bangladeshi vehicle assembly and body manufacturing company.
• Thai Union Group — Thai Union Group produces shelf-stable seafood products for a global customer base. The company’s product portfolio includes tuna, shrimp, salmon, sardine and mackerel, cephalopod, bakery, and pet food products. Its brand portfolio includes Sealect, Fisho, Bellottaas, Chicken of the Sea, John West, King Oscar, Petit Navire, Parmentier, Mareblu,and Century.As a company committed to innovation and globally responsible behavior, Thai Union is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). In 2015, Thai Union introduced its SeaChange® sustainability strategy. Thai Union’s on-going work on sustainability issues was recognized in 2018 and 2019 by being ranked number one in the world in the Food Products Industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, achieving a 100th percentile ranking for total sustainability score.

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• LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
• MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
• Tech Doctor — Tech Doctor is a health monitoring service which provides analysis and insights for self care reducing the need for health care workers.

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• Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
• Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
• Flow Solutions — You have to know to grow. Flow’s AI-powered platform focuses retail executives, marketing and store teams on actionable steps to delightful customer experiences. Flow leverages IoT and existing retail data sources to standardize data communication across large retail chains while using AI to enable data-centric decision-making through all levels ofthe organization.