Top 45 Video Games VC Funds & Investors in Japan (August 2026)

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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.
• Holo-X — Holo-X provides augmented, virtual, and mixed realities services and products.
• 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.

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• ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Yokohama Vanilla — Yokohama Vanilla is a Company which operates Yokohama-based gift sweets brand.

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• Techtaka — SaaS, Logistics
• Linq — We are creating ‘hyper-automated insurance platforms’ to comprehensively support underwriters and claim adjusters and to facilitate communication between insurers and reinsurers using AI and deep learning.
• Cosmobloom — Cosmobloom Co. is a manufacturing company that analyses, designs, and develops space solar power generation systems and solar power sails.

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• HIBARI — HIBARI solves on-site issues through AI and digital twins.
• Unseed — Unseed is a consulting company that provides in-house training in data analysis and AI model development, technical expertise and training.
• Zevero — Carbon Accounting Software and Services. With Zevero optimise your carbon footprint management effortlessly. Take charge of sustainability today!

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• StockGro — StockGro is a stock market advisory & research app trusted by 35M+ users. Get daily trade ideas with entry, exit & stop-loss from 150+ SEBI-registered analysts.
• Hulp — Hulp provides a personal assistant service that helps manage household tasks, bookings, family coordination, and daily activities.
• welevel — Building games with attitude

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.

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• Grafenary — Graphenary creates unique graphene optical devices using graphene materials with a variety of remarkable features.
• SecureNavi — SecureNavi offers automation tools for the information security management system. It reduces conventional analogue operations using excel and word. For inquiries, telephone numbers and physical addresses are available on their website.
• NanoFrontier — NanoFrontier continues to market technologies that are widely available and incredibly inexpensive.

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• TRIPP — Eyes open. Mind Open. World open. Experience a world of awe and wonder with TRIPP.
• Sandbox VR — Step inside a new dimension and experience a new reality with your friends. See, touch, and hear. VR as it was meant to be. Sandbox VR, In Here, It's Possible.
• Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.

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• Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
• HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.

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• Tasogare — Tasogare distributes high-quality coffee.
• The ROOM4D — The ROOM4D is a contract data analysis consulting service company.
• PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.

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• Mento — UGOKU is a provider of management of personal coaching service.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a discovery-based e-commerce model where friends and family can “discover” and purchase daily sale items together. They provide services for online retail shops. KAUCHE is committed in creating an exciting shopping experience for both customers and partners who want to sell products.
• Unito — Unito is a hospitality firm that offers lodging and accommodation facilities.

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• Yuime — Yuime is an HR consulting firm that offers agricultural staffing, contract farming, and recruitment services.
• RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
• Bounce — Luggage Storage Near Me 24/7 - Store your baggage in 32,000+ worldwide locations. Bounce is the BEST luggage storage app for finding and booking left luggage & lockers near you!

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• LOOV — LOOV is a video platform that helps in creating professional and data-driven videos for salesmen and marketers to boost conversion metrics.
• CULTA — CULTA uses technology to increase the efficiency and speed of breeding and improve productivity and profitability in agriculture.
• Japan GX Group — Shibuya Blend Green Energy platform analyzes company processes and resources, recommends and plans improvement initiatives, and addresses corporate ESG challenges, assisting companies in balancing business and environmental protection.

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• Any Style — Any Style develops a messaging app from voice actors that regularly sends messages via subscription. It also engages in the planning and production of audio content and the VTuber production business.
• Chaintope — Chaintope is specializes in blockchain technology with a focus for FinTech and non-FinTech sectors.
• Smile Robotics — Smile Robotics provides Service Robots in Japan.

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• Ambr — Ambr is a virtual world where users can access through a VR device an play in various virtual spaces with other users. Users can access Ambr as an avatar. There are different avatars in the Ambr world, such as warriors, wizards, animals, and monsters. New avatars can also be acquired within Ambr. Users can explore and enjoy different virtual spacesthat do not exist in the real world, such as Skyland, cyberspace, and toontown. It also has mini-games that allow users to play together.Ambr was founded in August 2018 and is headquartered in Japan.

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• CELLORB — CELLORB provides player management, sports event planning, and event management services.
• Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
• Nekonome — Nekonome creates a game platform with global character designs, in-game updates, and regular events, providing a personalized gaming experience based on data.

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• Final Aim — Final Aim has been driving the global adoption of blockchain and smart contracts technologies in industrial design and manufacturing. In November 2021, the company announced the beta version of its blockchain platform, “Final Chain.” In April 2022, the company established its headquarters in the United States. In September of the same year, FinalAim was accepted into “Berkeley SkyDeck,” a world-renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator. In February 2023, it was also chosen as “The Most Likely to Become the Next Unicorn” within the Berkely SkyDeck program. In June 2023, the company won the “Japan-US Innovation Awards – Innovation Showcase,” a co-program by the Japan Society of Northern California and the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center.
• Volve Creative — Volve Creative is a media company that provides virtual artist management, events, advertising video, and music production services.
• Lightfury Games — India's true AAA game studio with a vision to pioneer a new era of gaming by creating groundbreaking AAA titles that entertain and inspire players worldwide.

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• HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.

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• ALGO ARTIS — ALGO ARTIS is a software company that offers optimization in plant operations, tanking, ship allocation plan, and logistics.
• Shizuku AI — Shizuku is an open-source Android app that enables other apps to access elevated system APIs without requiring full root access on your device. It achieves this by running a background service launched via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) or wireless debugging on Android 11+, granting limited privileged permissions safely.
• Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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• Creattura — Creatura assists companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating and distributing carbon credits and promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources.
• Ugo — UGO is creating future avatar robots and a platform that connects the administration of multiple robots to achieve the ''fusion of humans and robots,'' or ''collaboration with robots to perform employment that used to be performed only by humans.
• Shizen Connect — Shizen Connect develops energy management systems that coordinate distributed energy resources such as battery storage systems, electric vehicles, solar power equipment, and virtual power plant platforms. The company provides software and control services that support demand response, battery storage operations, microgrid management, remotemonitoring, and energy optimization for utilities, real estate companies, and energy operators. Its platform integrates IoT and cloud-based technologies to manage energy consumption, electricity trading, and grid balancing across residential, commercial, and industrial environments. Shizen Connect also offers edge devices and SaaS-based tools that support remote metering, energy visualization, and device control across multiple energy assets.

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• Hagino — Hagino is a recruitment company that provides paid employment services for the hotel and lodging industries.
• Kimitona — Kimitona is the developer and operator of the AI ​​fortune-telling service "Uratch,".
• Livetoon — Livetoon creates intellectual property characters to access various content artificial intelligence.

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• 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
• Metaverse Creators — Metaverse Creators is a feature-rich virtual platform providing gamers with a wide range of games, creation tools, and avatar editing tools.

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• CharacterBank — CharacterBank offers game development and production services using VR technology.

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• bellFace — bellFace is an InsideSales System specialized targetted for Business to business sales customer support.No log in, no installation required. No matter where you are, it connects in 5 seconds becacuse it operates in the browser (patented). The audio system is connected through the telephone lines, there is no interruption like with Web meetingsystems. bellFace which is specific to sales, comes with document sharing and script function, so your experience is just like face to face communication . It is also suited for inside sales.
• WineBank — "WineBank" is a real-time online wine management and investment solution that we offer. In addition to operating a restaurant, it runs a sales company for food, drink, and other items.
• Mourning Clothes Rescue — Mourning Clothes Rescue operates a specialized clothing rental model utilizing automated, 24-hour unmanned storefronts. Users complete reservations and payments through smartphones to instantly access physical retail outlets via smart locks. This continuous availability solves the immediate challenge of acquiring formal attire on short noticeduring unexpected bereavement. By removing traditional staff overhead, the system passes cost efficiencies to consumers while providing private, on-site fitting options and long-term rental periods.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.

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• MyDearest — MyDearest is a Full dive product planning and development company
• Pickleball One — Pickleball one is to become an enabler of the pickleball industry , spreading the joy of "Fun as one" to the world.
• Advance Composite — Advance Composite is a manufacturing company that develops composite materials and molten metal forging-based products.

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• ADiXi — Adixi is a tech-driven business that supports the idea that people and technology may work together. It strives to open doors by utilizing cutting-edge technology, such as artificial intelligence, to promote long-term, sustainable corporate and societal progress.
• WARPSPACE — ARPSPACE is a space startup originating from the University of Tsukuba, has been launching and working on a satellite development project at the University of Tsukuba for five years until the company was established.
• Luxna Biotech — Luxana Biotech is a biotechnology firm dedicated to promoting the practical use of safe and effective nucleic acid therapies. Utilizing nucleic acid chemistry technology, the company strives to provide nucleic acid medicines to patients suffering from diseases that currently lack effective treatments.

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• Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
• Anyplace — Book work-ready furnished apartments for 30+ day stays. No lease, home office setup, high-speed internet, and full price transparency for professionals.
• Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.

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• D-ZARD — D-ZARD is a next-generation game studio garnering attention for its development capabilities and unique IP. D-ZARD is accelerating the development of the return of a masterpiece, Princess Maker COR (Karen), and the stylish action battle royale Asurajang.
• DeepSeek — Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.
• Yiqi Future — Yiqi Future is a cutting-edge high-tech company dedicated to the research, development, and innovation of advanced AI-powered physical therapy robots. With a strong focus on integrating artificial intelligence, robotics, and biomedical engineering, the company aims to revolutionize the rehabilitation and healthcare industry by providingintelligent, efficient, and personalized therapeutic solutions.

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• KIC holdings — KIC Holdings engages in asset management, securitization, investment, advisory services,and real estate development businesses. They offer detailed services for due diligence, acquisition, financing, management planning, and asset management for medium- to large-size distribution centres, warehouses, and trunk rooms.
• REGiMMUNE — REGiMMUNE Corporation is a private biopharmaceutical company developing innovative solutions for treating immune disorders caused by nonspecific and/or excessive immune reactions. REGiMMUNE uses its proprietary technology platform, reVax (reverse vaccination), to target immune tolerance against specific disease-causing antigens throughinduction of regulatory T cells (Treg). This technology has potential applications in a number of immune system disorders and diseases including Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Currently, the company has one clinical-stage compound in a Phase I/II trial in the United States (RGI-2001) as a treatment for GvHD associated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and has a second product in preclinical development (RGI-3001) as a new treatment for T1DM. In addition, it has a number of well-differentiated compounds in its research-stage pipeline.In healthy individuals, the normal immune system works to protect humans from disease-causing viruses, bacterium, and cancers; or foreign antigens such as peanuts, wheat and tree pollens. Conventional immunosuppressants have several significant side effects associated with long-term administration including risk of infection, toxicity and relapse. Products developed with ReVax technology are expected to reduce or eliminate such side effects as well as reduce long-term treatment.
• Integral Geometry Science — Integral Geometry Science is a specialized manufacturer of measuring equipment and signal / image processing software.

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• Breaker — Breaker is Japan's global digital studio.
• Anto Bio — Anto is building a multimodal foundation model for microbial communities, making the gut microbiome computable for the first time.
• inXile Entertainment — inXile-entertainment.com is the home for inXile entertainment, developer of Wasteland 2, The Bard's Tale, Torment: Tides of Numenera, and The Mage's Tale video games.

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• Spike Studio — Spike Studio Inc., established in November 2023, is a Tokyo-based company specializing in generative AI and large language models. Their mission is to enhance Japan’s labor productivity tenfold by integrating advanced AI solutions into client operations and services. The company offers customized AI solutions, system integration, data analysis,predictive modeling, and training programs to help clients leverage generative AI effectively. Co-founded by CEO Shigeru Kuroyanagi and COO Hirohide Sano, Spike Studio aims to address challenges such as declining international competitiveness, an aging population, and labor shortages in Japan.
• 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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• Sinumy — Sinumy develops touchless identity authentication technology and high-speed, high-precision position measurement technology.
• Dioseve — Dioseve is providing novel possibilities for all life.
• Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.

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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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• Torpor Games — Experiences that challenge and provoke. Suzerain - a fictional political drama set in the 1950s. How will you rule? Out now for PC, Mobile, Xbox, PS & Switch
• Kinoa Labs — A real-time, AI-powered platform to engage, retain, and monetize mobile game users - launched and updated live, without waiting on development.
• Antihero Studios — Games Worth Sharing- by former Brawl Stars, Clash Royale and Candy Crush devs.

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• Carelogy — Carelogy is a medical technology company that offers AI for X-ray image analysis, voice recognition, and facial expressions.
• Yadokari — Yadokari provides various types of Construction & Real Estate related other services.
• CharacterBank — CharacterBank offers game development and production services using VR technology.

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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.
• NexusAdvisors — NexusAdvisors operates AvaCareer, an AI-powered recruitment platform that leverages intelligent AI agents to support both companies and job seekers by streamlining hiring processes, enhancing candidate matching, and improving recruitment efficiency.

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• ReEir — ReEir is a research firm that develops global regenerative medicine and cell therapy products for ulcer patients.
• Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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• ShallxR — ShallxR is a developer of low-vertigo motion XR chairs that focuses on the XR area and is dedicated to offering clients and partners with one-stop offline XR shared entertainment venue solutions.

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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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• Willow Gear — Willow Gear is a gaming furniture company.

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• Porty — Porty is a real estate platform company that provides property search tools, urban housing services, and data-driven solutions.
• GramEye — GramEye is a developer of medical equipment that uses robotics and deep learning to automate gram staining. The company operates under the assumption that the growth of germs that are resistant to antibiotics is a natural occurrence brought on by the usage of these medications. It aspires to a world in which antibiotics are correctly prescribed inall medical contexts. GramEye analyzes medical data, create web services, and create mobile applications as a health sciences company.
• Compass — Compass is a Solve problems in the local labor market with Consultation x Technology

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• Manabi-aid — Manabi-aid is an internet based company.The aim of the learning aid master is really simple and clear.This is a challenge to "improve the student's academic ability".Not to mention the limitations of group lessons. This is because the polarization of so-called "children who can" and "children who do not" isprogressing.
• Robot Start — RobotStart is a company specializing in robot related business with the main target of communication robot. The company was established in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
• Good News — Good News is a staffing agency that provides recruitment, public relations, and human resource management services.

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• Piazza — PIAZZA deploy the regional platform PIAZZA.
• L&F — L&F is a real estate company that develops rental portals and tools for vacant houses, family trusts, and rental property management.
• Ms.Engineer — Ms.Engineer is an education platform that helps to study coding and get placed in companies for women.