Representative  Investments

Consumer, Content Delivery and Online Services 

Consumer Advertising and Marketing

Gydget  (www.gydget.com)

Gydget provides a social marketing platform, including viral fan widgets, that allows music groups, sports teams, non-profits and other organizations to reach their audiences where they congregate most: at social networking and fan-based websites. Gydget was founded by Gerardo Capiel who previously co-founded Digital Impact (now Acxiom Digital).

BeTREND (www.betrend.com)

BeTrend offers customers a complete low-cost, rapidly deployed solution for coordinated mobile user marketing campaigns. ASP (application software provider) solutions for instant site creation, mass emailing, market research, ecommerce and other services targeting mobile users.

Gaming

G-Mode (www.g-mode.co.jp)

G-Mode was established in July 2000 as the world's first mobile network game contents provider specializing in Java game software for cell phones.

HAMSTER Corporation (www.hamster.co.jp)

Traditional console video game company (e.g. PS2 platform, Windows) publishing numerous very low priced titles adapted from former arcade games and older, previously premium titles. Utilizing sales data of its titles as direct “market research” to then serialize new games based upon its hit games.
 

Entertainment Content Delivery

The New Media Group (www.thenewmediagroup.net)

The New Media Group is the leading digital media platform developer and operator in the Asia Pacific region.  TNMG owns and operates World On-Demand (the region's most comprehensive IPTV platform, www.worldondemand.net) and MY-World Communities (a leading portal for the advanced formation and management of online communities and their personal media, www.my-world.us).

Roonets (www.roonets.co.jp)

Roonets provides complete networked client-server systems and support for delivery of services to visitors in hotel and hospital rooms. Available for access through an in-room PC, these services include: on-demand entertainment (movies, video games, music), guest services (room service menus and ordering, check-out, area maps), Internet access (email, news, etc).

GaiaX (www.gaiax.co.jp)

Gaix plans, develops and manages clients’ rich media portal website communities, including systems offering users entertainment content delivery, multiplayer gaming, instant messaging, video messaging, chat and bulletin board services, avatars, etc.
 

Online Communities  / Portals

Attendio (www.attendio.com)

Attendio is a social events promotion and marketing service that automatically connects people to local events that match their interests through online, social network and push to calendar applications. The Attendio service launched in coordination with Microsoft Vista at the beginning of 2007. In October 2007, Attendio rebranded as Gydget (see above).  Attendio was founded by Gerardo Capiel who previously co-founded Digital Impact (now Acxiom Digital). 

ITmedia (www.itmedia.co.jp)

ITmedia is the largest online publisher in Japan. It was formed through the merger of Softbank's ITmedia and SunBridge's atmarkIT. atmarkIT was/is the largest web site serving IT professionals in Japan. atmerkIT is a problem solving resource for the IT expert, offering numerous forums on various subjects, technical articles and case studies. In addition to providing online advice, support and information, the company also offers conference and seminar planning and management.
 

OKWave (www.okwave.co.jp)

Web community offering structured broad-ranging questions and community monitored answer threads. Providing corporations outsourced customer service resources through integration of customer inquiries into web Q&A community. Offering Q&A system software for enterprise use in help desk and knowledge management applications.

Online Ecommerce Sites

AucSale (www.aucsale.com)

AucSale has its own shopping site where consumers tender bids for consumer electronics, accessories, foods and various other items exclusively acquired by its buyers. It also wholesales those items to other shopping sites.

istyle (www.istyle.co.jp)

istyle runs two cosmetics focused web portals, Cosme.com and @Cosme (cosme.net). These sites sell cosmetics and offer customer reviews of products. Revenues come from product sales, advertising and market research.