• YAMAP

  Participated · Series D · May 2024

  YAMAP launched its service in 2013 and operates a smartphone‑based outdoor platform focused on mountaineering and other outdoor activities. Its flagship app displays current location and routes using GPS even where cellular service is unavailable, and includes off‑route alerts and location‑sharing functions to enhance user safety. The company recently completed a Series D financing that amounted to ¥2.04 billion (20.4億円) and includes debt. YAMAP has established a wholly owned insurance subsidiary, YAMAP Naturelance Insurance (ネイチャランス損保), to develop insurance products that leverage the platform's accumulated big data. Initial products include an outdoor leisure policy with witness‑information collection and an outdoor household/gear policy; YAMAP will sell these as an insurance agent starting May 28 and will allocate part of the proceeds to mountain rescue and accident‑prevention activities. The company is developing telematics, dynamic‑pricing insurance based on user behavior data targeting summer 2024 and aims to use accumulated accident data to reduce outdoor accidents and build a proprietary insurtech offering. Sefuri operates Yamap, a mobile app that provides offline location tracking and a social platform for mountain climbers and hikers. Since its March 2013 launch the app has recorded 260,000 downloads, 160,000 registered users, 2.2 million photos and 9 million monthly page views. The company has expanded services to include an insurance service for hikers, Yamap Geers (a price-comparison site for outdoor gear), and Hyakkei (an online outdoor media site). It has partnered with camera manufacturers and had the app pre-installed on Kyocera’s Torque smartphone and Casio’s WSD-F10 smartwatch, and worked with Olympus on outdoor camera accessories. Sefuri is conducting a field test in Niseko offering offline maps and has posted more than 400 English-language updates from domestic and inbound visitors. Management says the newly raised funds will be used to operate the business while the team focuses on improving services rather than pursuing profitability for at least a year, and plans to add gamified, geolocation-based features (stickers for summits, Streetpass-like communication) with support from Colopl.

• Frontier Field

  Participated · Series C · Jul 2023

  Frontier Field develops and provides 日病モバイル, a secure smartphone service for hospitals that supports staff calls and communications. The service includes integration with nurse call systems and electronic medical records to streamline workflows. Launched in 2020 to accelerate DX for physicians and nurses, the product aims to replace shrinking PHS usage and address upcoming 2024 working-hours reforms. 日病モバイル is positioned as a hub to connect medical systems, devices, and personnel rather than merely a PHS replacement. The service is currently used by about 60 hospitals and more than 20,000 healthcare workers. The company recently completed a Series C that includes debt financing and will use the proceeds to improve the convenience and value of 日病モバイル. フロンティア・フィールド operates “日病モバイル”, a secure smartphone and DX service built for hospitals that connects carrier switches to the company’s system via IP‑VPN and dedicated lines to protect patient data. The platform offers hospital-specific integrations and apps — including nurse‑call and electronic medical record linkage, emergency alerting, and multi‑vendor SIP/VoIP support — to simplify multi‑professional coordination while reducing personal data leakage risk. It is designed to replace PHS, paper, and fax workflows and to enable direct data entry in home‑visit care, eliminating double data entry. The company has deployed 日病モバイル in 19 hospitals as of March 2022 and, with Japan Hospital Association cooperation, targets about 40 hospitals by December 2022 and 300 hospitals / 60,000 lines by the end of 2024. The service emphasizes a closed network model to address hospitals’ sensitivity about Internet connectivity and offers a common authentication basis for multiple applications. The company was founded in July 2016 by Yasuyuki Sato, a former NTT Docomo and Japan Altmark executive.

No current team members are available.