• Nealle

  Participated · Series B · Aug 2024

  Nealle operates Park Direct, a mobility SaaS that digitizes end-to-end parking operations including customer acquisition, contracts, payments, and management. Since launching Park Direct in 2019, the company has driven DX of analogue parking processes and claims industry No.1 in "number of installations" and "online-contractable units" for three consecutive years. Nealle reports ARR growth of +1,110% from end-2021 to end-2023, a pace exceeding T2D3. Enterprise adoption is accelerating (including deployments with Mitsui Fudosan Realty) and the company is scaling its corporate fleet product Park Direct for Business (PD Biz). Nealle is also pursuing EV-related new business and plans to use funding to strengthen hiring, product development, and marketing to achieve further non-linear growth. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tokyo, and has raised ¥10.2 billion cumulatively. Nealle runs Park Direct, a mobility SaaS that enables end-to-end online handling of parking listings, applications, contracts, rent collection (including guarantees) and customer management. The service launched in 2019 and has grown to be an industry leader; an external December 2022 survey ranked it No.1 for number of adopting companies and online-contractable parking listings. In 2022 Park Direct’s number of tenants grew roughly 500% year-over-year. Nealle has expanded into corporate parking management with Park Direct for Business (PD Biz) and forged a strategic partnership with Toyota. The company is running EV charger installation pilots and plans to use Park Direct’s online/offline parking and mobility data to build a broader mobility platform. Financially, Nealle has raised a cumulative ¥5.6 billion and reported capital of ¥4,129 million (as of July 2023). Nealle runs Park Direct, an industry-first mobility SaaS launched in November 2019 that enables online parking listings, contracts, payments (including guarantees) and customer management. The company says Park Direct achieved industry No.1 in 2020 and 2021 for number of adopting companies and listed parking spaces. In 2021 Park Direct’s payment volume grew 41.6x year-on-year as adoption and available spaces increased. Nealle plans to scale product development, hiring and advertising to accelerate usage and expand its service footprint. The company also intends to leverage accumulated parking data to support EV charging infrastructure and broader mobility-infrastructure initiatives. Nealle was founded in 2013 and is based in Nihonbashi, Chūō-ku, Tokyo.

• LayerX

  Led · Series A · Nov 2023

  LayerX offers an AI-native SaaS platform that automates corporate back‑office workflows, with flagship products including Bakuraku (expense management, invoice processing, corporate cards and related workflows), Alterna (a retail digital securities platform developed with Mitsui & Co.), and Ai Workforce (a generative AI solution for enterprise workflows). The company emphasizes AI-driven UX and features like auto-entry and document splitting, and also invests in AI agents and AI-enabled BPO. LayerX says Bakuraku serves more than 15,000 companies and that Ai Workforce counts Mitsui & Co. and MUFG Bank among its clients; Bakuraku customers include Ippudo, IRIS Ohyama, the Imperial Hotel, and Sekisui Chemical. Founded in 2018 by Yoshinori Fukushima and spun out of a DX/blockchain project, the startup has rapidly scaled headcount from about 220 employees in October 2023 to around 430 by the end of July 2025. The company reports reaching 10,000 customers in February 2024 and 15,000 by April 2025, is on track to reach ¥10 billion (~$68 million) faster than any Japanese SaaS company in history, and targets ¥100 billion (~$680 million) in ARR by fiscal 2030 with plans to grow to ~1,000 employees by 2028. LayerX builds the Bakuraku suite of spend-management products covering invoice processing, expense reimbursement, and corporate cards, using AI to simplify input and improve efficiency. The company also develops AI/LLM solutions to support operational efficiency and data utilization for enterprises and government. It has created a joint venture, Mitsui Bussan Digital Asset Management, aiming to become a digital-native asset manager. Founded in August 2018 and headquartered in Tokyo, LayerX has raised about ¥132.6億円 (≈¥13.26B) since inception. Recent fundraising brought the Series A cumulative total to roughly ¥102億円 (≈¥10.2B). The company plans to use proceeds for Bakuraku feature development, marketing, hiring, and to accelerate commercialization of AI/LLM integrations beyond experimental stages.

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