Klab Ventures Invests In Realglove, PaaS Technology Startup / SankeiBiz

With the capital, Realglobe develops CDaaS (Continuour Dedlivery as a Service) aiming to launch within this year.

CDaaS is a development platform to add functions to automate various tasks such as building source, system test, backup, and delivery on top of PaaS which automates sever settings and building execution environment. ...

SankeiBiz 7/29/2013 [jp]

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• Klab is recently famous as a mobile social game developer, but was originally a very technology oriented company providing security solutions or load distribution systems. It could utilize its knowledge and skills to enhance the platform service of Realglobe.
• http://www.realglobe.jp/

Viewable Time-based Advertising Platform, Dennoo Raises $1.1M From Nissay Capital / TechCrunch Japan

Dennoo sells advertising based on time that users actually view rather than just displayed on a browser. The company announced fundraising of $1.1 million from Nissay Capital. The total amount raised so far is $3.1 million. ...

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TechCrunch Japan 7/26/2013 [jp]

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• Dennoo's cost per view model is best suited for video ads, which is finally becoming popular in Japan recently. It would be the best timing for the company to accelerate its sales and marketing activity with the capital.
• http://www.dennoo.com/

ignote Raises Fund From Samurai Incubate / Dream News

ignote provides melocy enabling to share musical performance overdubbed with smartphones. With just a smartphone device, users can record, upload and share music, which makes easier for anyone to publish music sessions. ...

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Dream News 7/25/2013 [jp]

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• melocy targets amateur bands to allow them to have a music session on different place and time. There is a similar service, nana, which focuses on sharing singing. 
• http://melocy.com/

Mobile App Eyeland Operator, Oceans Announced Partnership With Adways In O2O And Fundraising From Mitsubishi UFJ Capital / Yomiuri Online

Oceans started collaboration with Adways in O2O. As the first effort, Oceans' location-based communication service, Eyeland places coupons of Asuiku, a last minute discount coupon service by Samurai Adways, Adways' subsidiary to send customers from the application.

Oceans also fundraised from Adways and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. ...

Yomiuri Online 7/25/2013 [jp]

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• Eyeland allows users to share posts with their location as well as chat with other users around. It has been a few years since location-based apps appeared, but it seems they are still struggling to monetize from the services. It is expected that Eyeland can build up its business model with the partnership.
• http://eyeland.in/en/

[Sd] Japanese accounting startup Freee raises $2.7 million from Infinity Venture Partners and DCM

Tokyo-based cloud startup Freee announced today that it has raised 270 million yen (approximately $2.7 million) in a series A funding from Infinity Venture Partners and DCM. This follows the previous seed round where the company secured seed funding of 50 million yen (about $523,000) from DCM back in December. Coinciding with this new funding, the startup rebranded its company name to Freee from CFO K.K., coinciding with the name of its accounting service. ...

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Sd 7/24/2013 [en]

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• Freee is a cloud-based accounting service for SMB. It allows to keep accounts automatically by registering bank or credit card account. Accounting solutions are getting crowded by startups recently such as MoneyForward and MoneyTree for consumers, and A-SaaS for accounting firms. 
• http://www.freee.co.jp/

Treasure Data Fundraises $5M From Sierra Ventures / ITpro

US-based Treasure Data providing cloud service for Data Ware House announced to raise 5 million dollars from US's VC, Sierra Ventures. Treasure Data was founded by Japanese engineers in 2011 at Mountain View.

Treasure Data's DWH service is based on Hadoop, open source software enabling distributed batch process. In addition to the DWH service, it provides td-agent, data collecting tool which allows to gather, store, and analyze data. td-agent is based on OSS log collecting tool, Fluentd which is developed by Sadayuki Furuhashi, one of founders of the company. ...

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ITpro 7/24/2013 [jp]

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• Treasure Data had a previous financing of $1.5 million in September 2012 from several angel investors including Matz Matsumoto, Ruby developer.
• http://www.treasure-data.com/

[Sd] Japanese flea market app Mercari raises $500,000 from East Ventures

Mercari, a flea market app launched by Japanese serial entrepreneur Shintaro Yamada, has been showing good numbers of late. Since the release of its Android app back on July 2nd, more than 50,000 users have put over 10,000 items up for sale using the marketplace. 

Kouzoh, the startup behind the app, introduced the iOS version of its app today, and also announced that it has fundraised 50 million yen (approximately $500,000) from East Ventures. ...

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Sd 7/24/2013 [en]

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• Yamada is famous for selling his previous startup, Unoh to Zynga two years ago. Yahoo Auction has been almost dominant for many years in Japan in C2C marketplace. But along with a penetration of smartphone and tablet, new entrants including startups are appearing recently such as Fril and CyberAgent's Pashaoku. All of them including Mercari claim its easiness to use for non-teckey people. It is interesting to see who will win the race.
• http://mercari.jp/