101 Top Japanese Financial Services Companies and Startups of 2021

June 30, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Financial Services companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Financial Services 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

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Top Japanese Financial Services 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.

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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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Kyash

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Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app.

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Liquid Global

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Liquid Global is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide liquidity to the crypto economy.

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Wealthnavi

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

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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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Origami Japan

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Origami Japan is a leading Japanese mobile payment platform.

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WealthPark

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WealthPark is a digital asset management platform that connects investors and managers of real estate.

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CROWD CREDIT

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Cross-border marketplace lending platform

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AlpacaJapan

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Building cutting-edge capital markets AI technology working with number of financial institutions

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DeCurret

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DeCurret is Providing the optimal rate of digital currency, instantly processing a large amount of currency transactions stably.

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Funds

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Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.

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One Tap BUY

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One Tap BUY provides my banker, the financial smartphone application.

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MONEY DESIGN

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MONEY DESIGN offers automated investment management and advisory services.

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FOLIO

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FOLIO is a financial Instruments Business Operator .

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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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Credit Engine

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Credit Engine is a online lending platform enables financial institutions.

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unerry

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Unerry is responsible for new high-tech and financial business consulting and corporate revitalization.

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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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Global Mobility Service

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Global Mobility Service is a financial service company.

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Coiney

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Coiney provides smarphone-based credit card processing services in Japan.

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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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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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Emerada

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Emerada is a bank account aggregation and cashflow analytics platform to SMEs and banks for enhancing lending activity in Japan.

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Crezit

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Crezit is offers a wide range of financial products and services in a single click, as well as customer advice, product simulators.

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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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TORANOTEC

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

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Robot Fund

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Robot Fund is a provider of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions for asset management businesses.

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pring

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

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Gaia Japan

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Gaia is a Financial based Company

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iYell

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iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.

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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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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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Crowd Realty

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Crowd Realty is an offering investment type cloud funding services for real estate.

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FRAME00

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FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform.

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Smart Trade

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Smart Trade is an information technology company that offers full stack software development for investment strategy environment.

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Nanameue

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Nanameue is a holdings company based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Frich

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Frich is a start-up venture company that develops insurance services.

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Sompo Holdings

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Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services.

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HiJoJo Partners

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Distribution of unicorn target funds

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Dream Incubator

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Dream Incubator is a strategic consulting and business development firm helping companies with their growth and expansion.

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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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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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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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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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Kabu.com Securities

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Kabu.com Securities is a Finance Company in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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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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MiRTeL

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Mirtel is a venture company from Hiroshima University that was established from the desire to save as many people as possible.

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Crowdport, Inc.

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Crowdport operates a P2P platform, connecting individual investors who wish to manage their assets with companies.

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keychain

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Keychain is the decentralized authentication blockchain platform for finance, IoT, and enterprise.

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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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REASE Inc.

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Rease is a company that provides credit valuation engine planning and credit granting 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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Power Solutions Japan

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Power Solutions is a FinTech venture based on the concept of IT Strategy.

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Strainer Co., Ltd.

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Strainer Co., Ltd. is a financial information Platform.

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Loadstar Capital

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Loadstar Capital is a real estate finance service provider that operates OwnersBook, a real estate crowdfunding platform.

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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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Lecto

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Lecto provides Saas solutions to eliminate the tedious practices behind financial services

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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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Sumitomo Corporation

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Sumitomo Corporation is a business services company that works with import, export, trilateral trade, and business investment in Japan.

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Telcoin

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The company’s eponymous cryptocurrency, Telcoin, is based on the popular Ethereum blockchain

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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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MUFG Innovation Partners

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MUFG Innovation Partners is a corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).

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Music Securities

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Operating Investment(type of fund) Crowd-Funding service “Securite” for Private Investors.

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LENDY Japan

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Lendy is an Operation of online lending service

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Payment Technology Japan

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Payment Technology is a payroll prepayment system company.

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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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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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efit

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efit is an investment platform that makes it easy for anyone to make technical investments automatically.

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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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FINPLANET

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FINPLANET provides online financial services.

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GVE

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GVE develops and operates a legal currency digitization platform.

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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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Good Moneyger

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Good Moneyger is the finance industry at a foreign investment bank.

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Bridge Sea Capital

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Bridge Sea Capital is a comprehensive asset management company.

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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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SushiSwap

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SushiSwap is a peer-to-peer, decentralized exchange that allows users to swap tokens, provide liquidity, and other DeFi services.

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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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KDDI Open Innovation Fund

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KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund

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EXIA

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EXIA is providing money lending and asset management services.

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bookee Japan

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bookee is a Financial Service based company.

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