Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

immedio provides a platform that automates and streamlines companies' inbound sales process, turning inquiries into scheduled meetings quickly and efficiently. The product initially focused on immediate post-inquiry response and has expanded to cover website revisit handling and automated follow-up emails across the customer journey. The company is integrating AI features such as automatic research and summarization of prospects and digitization of business-card data from events. Customers include listed firms Sansan, Money Forward, and freee, as well as growth-stage startups like STORES, hacomono, and HERP. immedio aims to expand into B2C verticals such as real estate and recruitment and already has pilot use cases in property investment and career-support sites. The team is led by founder Hideki Hamada, who previously worked at Mitsui & Co., attended Harvard Business School, and held roles at bitFlyer and Sansan. Financially, immedio has raised capital to support product development and marketing for new areas, with a cumulative funding total reported at about ¥500 million. immedio provides a one-line-code service that lets website visitors book sales appointments directly from inquiry pages, targeting higher connect and conversion rates for inside sales. The system uses respondents' answers on inquiry forms to decide whether and how to present appointment options, enabling rules such as hiding appointments for low-probability leads, deprioritizing free-email addresses, or routing enterprise inquiries to specific reps. The company ran multiple PoCs from March onward: a large SaaS customer's estimate-request form saw商談化率 rise from about 60% to 80%, and a dental-services client converted roughly 70% of auto-acquired meetings into orders. Founder Hidetaka Hamada (浜田英揮) previously worked at Mitsui & Co. for ten years, led bitFlyer’s U.S. office, and managed Sansan’s “Bill One” product. immedio officially launched and has positioned itself against overseas competitors such as Chili Piper. The company recently completed a seed financing, providing initial capital to scale product rollout and customer acquisition.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

kickflow offers a cloud workflow and approval system designed for mid-sized and large enterprises, aiming to combine ease of use with enterprise-grade customization. The product emphasizes support for organizational changes, rich APIs, a polished UI, and advanced security support functions. The company reports growing customer counts and has operational track record at organizations with hundreds to thousands of employees. kickflow positions itself to reduce information-systems workload while delivering on-premise-like customizability in a cloud service. The company is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and led by CEO Taito Shigematsu. Following the recent fundraise, kickflow plans to focus on hiring and strengthening marketing and customer engagement to accelerate product and team development.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2022

KnowledgeWork is a Japanese sales enablement company that has moved from a SaaS knowledge-sharing platform for sales teams into a provider of sales-specific AI agents for large enterprises. It sells three lines: Sales AX Consulting, in which consultants and forward-deployed engineers build and operate AI agents fitted to a customer's own sales process; Sales AI Products, including a tool that automates meeting minutes and CRM/SFA entry and a roleplay tool that runs practice sales conversations against AI avatars; and Sales AI Agent OS, launched in August 2026 as the underlying platform, composed of ontology, strategy, AI agent, and interface layers. Its software is deployed at major Japanese enterprises at thousands-of-seats scale, including NTT Docomo Business, Mizuho Bank, and Nissin Foods. The company is pursuing capital and business alliances with large corporates and their venture arms to widen distribution of its sales AI agents. KnowledgeWork was incorporated in March 2020 under CEO Koji Asano and is headquartered in the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Financially, the company had raised ¥6.12 billion cumulatively through its Series B in November 2023 and added ¥3.5 billion (~$22.1M) in the first close of its Series C in August 2026.