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SUPER STUDIO

2-23-18 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku Meguro Yamatedori Building 8F, Tokyo, 153-0064, Japan

Overview

SUPER STUDIO offers ecforce, an integrated commerce platform that provides a suite of tools including a customer data platform (ecforce cdp), business intelligence dashboards (ecforce bi), and marketing automation (ecforce ma). The platform supplies a unified infrastructure for online and offline sales channels to help merchants scale and execute digital transformation (DX). Led by CEO Kosuke Hayashi and headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, the company targets customers from SMBs to enterprise clients. The company plans to use the new funding to enhance product development, accelerate hiring, and expand sales and marketing efforts focused on enterprise clients. Financially, this raise is part of the company’s equity financing history, with total equity funding now around ¥10.1 billion. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article. SUPER STUDIO builds and provides the integrated commerce platform ecforce, aiming to optimize marketing, supply chain, and customer experience across online and offline channels. The company also operates D2C brands and feeds operational learnings back into product development to improve its platform. In 2023 it launched ecforce ma (an EC-focused marketing automation tool), opened its first physical next‑generation shop THE [ ] STORE, and is rolling out ecforce check, a next‑generation store reservation and customer management system. SUPER STUDIO says it will continue releasing multiple products to realize its "next‑generation EC" vision and extend ecforce into offline markets. The company emphasizes data integration across channels to help businesses of all kinds optimize their products and services. Financially, it disclosed an additional financing announced in October 2023 that contributes to its ability to invest in product development, consulting, and hiring.

Total raised
$21M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
May 2025

Industries

  • Business Development
  • Consulting
  • Professional Services
  • Sales
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    May 2025

    $12M

  2. Equity

    Oct 2023

    $9M

Team

  • Kohsuke Hayashi

    Founder & Representative Director

  • Tsutomu Mano

    Director and Founder

  • Hiroaki Hanaoka

    Director CTO

  • John Pedersen

    Creative Director

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