This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Payments companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Payments 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 Payments Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Rakuten
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Rakuten is a provider of e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications products and services.
Paidy
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Paidy is a platform that enables consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration.
Kyash
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Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app.
Origami Japan
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Origami Japan is a leading Japanese mobile payment platform.
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
bitbank
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Bitcoin wallet, payment processing, bitcoin reward service and news media
Space Market
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Space Market is a service that can easily lend and borrow from conference rooms to uninhabited islands.
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.
Akippa
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Akippa is an Osaka-based company that offers parking space reservation services.
Crowd Cast
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Simplify payment between employees and organization
Metaps Inc.
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Metaps is engaged in three businesses: finance business, marketing business and the DX support business.
Coiney
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Coiney provides smarphone-based credit card processing services in Japan.
Ubiregi
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Ubiregi offers a point-of-sale (POS) system for iPad devices.
Kanmu CLO
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Kanmu CLO is a credit card-linked coupon, providing a variety of offers, depending on users’ information and purchasing history of the card.
Alp
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Alp is customer management and recurring billing system for all of subscription business.
Bitcoin.com
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Bitcoin.com is the premier source for everything Bitcoin related.
ROYAL GATE Inc
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Royal Gate us a tech company that offers mobile payment devices, technologies, and solutions.
Pocket Concierge
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Pocket Concierge is an online reservation and payment service for selected restaurants.
yup
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yup is providing services to support freelance people’s funding.
Handii Japan
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Handii is a Development and operation of corporate payment services.
GMO FINANCIAL GATE
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GMO FINANCIAL GATE is a company that has been involved in the payment business .
GVE
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GVE develops and operates a legal currency digitization platform.
GMO Payment Gateway
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GMO Payment Gateway offers PG multi-payment service, including credit-card, convenience store payment.
Voyagin
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Voyagin is the tours and activities marketplace with a mission to help travelers discover and book the best travel experiences across Asia.
ECONTEXT Japan
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Econtextis a Storage Agency Service Payment Data Processing Service Money Transfer Service
Degica
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Degica is a leading provider of eCommerce and Payment solutions.
Pocket Change
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Pocket Change exchanges foreign currencies to/from electronic money.
enpay
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enpay is a SaaS platform that offers cashless collection services.
TF PAYMENT SERVICE
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TF PAYMENT SERVICE is a Cashless payment business
PlayNext Japan
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Playnext is a Paid employment placement business
BitCash
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BitCash makes internet payments safer and more convenient through electronic money.
CARDNET
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CARDNET specializes in the authorization data switching service and payment business support service for member stores.
invox
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invox is a cloud service platform that automates accounting processing such as payment and accounting regardless of the form of invoice.
AXES Payment
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AXES Payment provides settlement agent services such as credit card payment and coupon sale.
SB Payment Service
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SB Payment Service offers a wide range of payment methods and support for procedures related to payment, business agency, and contract work.
ZEUS
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ZEUS is a provider of online electronic money payment services.
ALL
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ALL engages in the development and sales of automatic payment machines and ticket vending machines.
Kachiri
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Empower restaurants to focus on personal customer service through offering self-order kiosk, mobile orders, payments, and CRM programs.
GOLDEX
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GOLDEX is a FinTech company that specializes in payment solution research and development.
TenTen
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TenTen is a fast-paced technology startup in the mobile Bluetooth LE field developing integrated hardware, software for real-world loyalty
remise
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remise is a company that provides payment collection services.
ALMEX Japan
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ALMEX provides automatic payment machines and systems for hotels and medical institutions.
POS+
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POS+ provides cloud-based point-of-sale(POS) to support store management across a wide range of industries.
NIPPON Platform
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NIPPON Platform is a financial service company.
ANA Digital Gate
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ANA Digital Gate is a joint-venture company for corporate settlement solutions business that leverages FinTech.