Aucfan
Sumitomo Fudosan Osaki Twin Bldg East 7F, 5-1-18, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0001, Japan
Overview
Aucfan is the only company in Japan that provides all the eCommerce price data across the big three market, America, China and Japan. The data Aucfan aggregates has reached more than 800millions with last 8 years coverage and Aucfan provides these data through its website Aucfan.com. (www.aucfan.com). The data Aucfan provides both to the consumers and the retailers include the the price across the major global EC and Auction sites such as Rakuten, the No1 shopping site in Japan, Yahoo! Auction, the No1 Auction site in Japan, and Amazon Japan as well as eBay.com, the No1 EC site in US, and Taobao, the No1 Auction site in China. By visiting the Aucfan.com, buyers and sellers can easily find the price and the value of the product globally. Aucfan currently focuses on the consumer buesinss but Aucfan's next strategy is to expand its business to the BtoB by providing the price data to the EC and retail markets and helping them make the critical judgement for the price setting and purchsing just like the Bloomberg providing the financial information to the financial brokers and helping them make the business judgement. Aucfan's next ambition is to expand its business globally and as the part of that strategy, Aucfan has already launched the Chinese website in JULY/2010 and plans to open the US site in SEP/2010.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Auctions
- B2B
- Big Data
- E-Commerce
- Search Engine
Investment portfolio
- Fuzu
Participated · Series B · Jul 2026
Fuzu operates an AI-driven platform that helps jobseekers with career guidance, personalised learning and skills development while providing employers with talent acquisition services and labour market insights. Founded in 2015, the company reports more than 7.5 million lifetime users. Management, led by CEO Jussi Hinkkanen, plans to use new capital to enhance the platform and grow the company’s workforce. Fuzu also intends to expand into additional African markets to capture rising demand for digital recruitment and career development services. The company’s recent $3.86M Series B further validates investor interest in its growth trajectory and product-market fit.
- nextProtein
Participated · Series A · May 2020
Founded by Mohamed Gastli and Syrine Chaalala, Paris- and Tunis-based nextProtein upcycles low-value agricultural and food byproducts into three core offerings: nextMeal protein powder, nextOil insect oil, and nextGrow organic fertilizer. The company relies on Black Soldier Fly larvae and a rigorously optimized feedstock recipe—tested across more than 100 ingredients—to achieve competitive feed conversion ratios while keeping CAPEX and OPEX low. Its products aim to replace resource-intensive commodities such as fishmeal and soy, offering a circular, lower-carbon alternative for global animal-feed supply chains. Proceeds from its latest raise will finance construction of a second, large-scale facility in Tunisia that is designed to output 12,000 tons of insect-based ingredients annually, including 2,500 tons of protein powder. Management believes achieving industrial scale and cost parity will move insect protein from niche to mainstream adoption. The company’s capital-efficient model and continuous R&D give it confidence to compete on both cost and reliability with traditional feed ingredients.
Team
Nishiki Takashi
Outside Director
Watanabe Kiyoshi
Auditor
Shuichi Takenaga
Representative
LinkedInChosa Yushi
Vice President