This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Mobile companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Mobile industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Japanese Mobile Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
SoftBank
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SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products.
Toyota Motor
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Toyota is an automotive company that manufactures and markets vehicles to over 170 countries and regions.
Mercari
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Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.
Line
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LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally.
Nexon
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Nexon is an entertainment software developing company that creates free-to-play online games.
Gunosy
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Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news.
Kyash
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Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app.
Gumi Inc
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Gumi is a game development company that features a mobile social network.
Wonderplanet
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Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets.
Nota
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Nota develops an app for seriously easy sharing of screen caps and GIFs and Scrapbox, a new style of note-taking for teams.
Finatext
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Finatext provides cloud infrastructure and data analysis infrastructure for developing financial services.
Origami Japan
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Origami Japan is a leading Japanese mobile payment platform.
GREE
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Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.
ASOBIMO
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ASOBIMO is a developer of mobile MMORPGs with the goal to be [The No.1 online game company in Japan]
TakeMe Co., Ltd.
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TakeMe offers an “All-in-One” payment platform for our pre- and post- pay value added services for merchants to digitally transform quickly
Kakao Japan
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Kakao Japan is a free smartphone calling and messenger application.
One Tap BUY
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One Tap BUY provides my banker, the financial smartphone application.
Goodpatch
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Goodpatch is a Tokyo-based company developing and designing user interfaces for web companies.
GINKAN
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A Tokyo based startup focused on mobile app development & management. Runs SynchroLife, the app loved by eaters!
KDDI
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KDDI is providing telecommunication services for finance, energy, entertainment, and education sectors.
TableCheck
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TableCheck is a world-class reservation platform that centralizes reservations from third-party reservation sites.
cocone
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cocone develops and publishes mobile games and applications, and provides assistance to maintain their social media presence.
CANDY HOUSE
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CANDY HOUSE is a design house catering simple and smart services and things that are enjoyable and fun like candy.
Spotlight
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Spotlight provides an application that automatically detects visits to stores and rewards users with points that are exchangeable.
Mynet Inc.
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Mynet offers community games to the Japanese and Asian markets.
SmartNews
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SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.
Net Protections
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Net Protections is a Operation of “NP postpay” payment for BtoC mail order.
Payme Japan
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Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.
HEROZ
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HEROZ provides mobile media, marketing, and SNS-related services.
Akippa
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Akippa is an Osaka-based company that offers parking space reservation services.
BearTail
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BeatTail is a Japanese SaaS company providing travel and expense management services to businesses.
Crowd Cast
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Simplify payment between employees and organization
JapanTaxi
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JapanTaxi is a Provider of taxi booking services designed to cater the needs of people in Japan.
Coiney
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Coiney provides smarphone-based credit card processing services in Japan.
X Locations
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X-Locations is a Mobile Advertising and incidental services and Location intelligence.
AppBrew(Lips)
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AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, etc.
Ubiregi
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Ubiregi offers a point-of-sale (POS) system for iPad devices.
Yukai Engineering
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Yukai Engineering is a robotics startup that develops lifestyle and healthcare products.
Let
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Let is a mobile app that allows users to buy and sell goods with translation.
NearMe
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NearMe is created to find people who want to go in the same direction by taxi and can share.
Nyle
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Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses.
Fuller
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Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services.
Africa Incubator
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Africa Incubator is an IT company that specializes in developing mobile applications for sales management.
ROYAL GATE Inc
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Royal Gate us a tech company that offers mobile payment devices, technologies, and solutions.
LBB
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LBB is a mobile order app that allows customers to use their smartphones to order to ease queues when crowded.
Square Enix
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Square Enix develops, publishes, and markets interactive entertainment titles worldwide.
Aiming
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Aiming Inc provides assistance with the planning, production, and development of online games.
AI CROSS
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AI CROSS is an internet company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help enterprises communicate through mobile with their customers.
Nagisa
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Nagisa provides several smartphone apps like slide movie and livre.
Azit
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Azit is an application developer that aims to close the gap in everyone’s mobility.
Al Travel
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Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM).
YAMAP
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YAMAP is a App can track and log your outdoors, view elevation info, and build an online outdoor journal.
Cubeacon
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Cubeacon gives smart solution for iBeacon technology
JTOWER
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JTower offers personalized design solutions for IT infrastructure and systems.
BluAge
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BluAge is a company that specializes in developing room search application.
Studio Ousia
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Studio Ousia develops technology to generate web page links using machine-learning algorithms and natural language processing.
G-cluster
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G-cluster Global provides services worldwide, using its cloud-based content provision technology, G-cluster.
trippiece
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Trippiece is a web service enabling users to share travel plans with each other.
Moi Corporation
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MOI is a Connecting the World in Realtime.
ONE of THEM
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ONE of THEM is an online platform that offers content, planning services, development, production, and management.
Sonix
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Sonix provides mobile solution business, IoT solution business, and cloud services.
Motion Lib
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Motion Lib is a developer of haptics technology intended to increase collaboration between humans and robots.
Hacosco
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Hacosco is a smart phone VR service using a simple viewer that can be used with your smart phone, to experience VR (virtual reality) easily.
Last One Mile
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Last One Mile provides the infrastructure to allow connections between telecommunications facility and its customers
VASILY, Inc.
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VASILY operates an online fashion coordination community.
Japan Legal System Institute
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Legal Technology, Legal Tech, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Document, SaaS, Smart Contract App.
Evolany
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Evolani is a mechanical labor by providing the most convenient and fun automated tools
SEQSENSE
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SEQSENSE develops autonomous mobile robots and related products.
U-MaP
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U-MAP is a start-up from Nagoya University to develop industrial materials.
KLab
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KLab is a planning, developing, and operating online mobile games.
miil
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miil is a smartphone application that enables its users to share photos of food they cooked, ate, and want to eat.
neuet
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neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
Nupp1
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Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.
LOGIC Japan
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Logic is a software company developing a new care record system developed at the request of care providers.
basic
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Basic provides a range of internet application marketing services.
DIRIGIO
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DIRIGIO is an Operation and development of mobile order & pay platform.
anamne Inc.
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anamne is that you can medical counseling by app and web online for women.
NTT DoCoMo
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NTT DOCOMO provides mobile telecommunication services through its W-CDMA networks in Japan.
and factory
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And factory is a smartphone business company that works on different service applications centered on the smartphone business.
Follop
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Follop is an application that turns SNS posts into cash instantly.
Video Matching
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Video Matching is a mobile application and web service development company.
X-mobile
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X-Mobile is thoroughly committed to communication quality so that customers can use it with peace of mind.
Happy Elements Japan
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Happy Elements is focused on the development of social, web, and mobile games as well as publishing services.
SakeWiz
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SakeWiz is a developed an app for sake and operated an Italian restaurant
Fabrica Communications
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Fabrica Communications engages in web, smartphone, and mobile content development businesses.
Nobollel
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Nobollel is a planning, development and operation of game applications utilizing Unity Planning, development and operation of game app.
Kataribe
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Kataribe is focusing on smartphone marketing, offers a variety of solutions to enhance content quality and content volume.
Glider Associates
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Glider Associates is an information technology and services company that offers Antenna, a smartphone curation application.
Lute
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Lute is an Instagram Stories media that produce and deliver video content specialized for mobile to deliver edgy content.
Tamecco
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Tamecco specializes in Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) for major retail brands, industrial, manufacturing & semi-conductor companies.
Context app
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Context App is a mobile application that enables its users to compose text messages with attached pictures for their friends and family.
App-CM
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Japanese startup developing in-line video ads platform for smartphones
Pairy
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Pairy is a Japan-based social network application for couples that allows users to keep relationship-related records.
Panasonic
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Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.
i cubed systems
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Ai cube de Systems provides information technology-related solutions for mobile devices.