Representative  Investments

Enterprise IT, Software and Services

Voice Recognition, Search and Transcription Services 

Yap Inc. (www.yapme.com)

Yap provides the premier automated voice recognition platform and services to enable natural language voice input for mobile phone text messaging, search and web applications; voicemail-to-email transcriptions; voice-to-text/voice translation; and other services.

Linux System Software 

Miracle Linux (www.miraclelinux.co.jp)

Miracle Linux is a distributor of the Linux operating system and Oracle’s suite of Linux products, and also provides support systems integration services related to Linux applications.

Horizon Digital Enterprise (www.hde.co.jp)

Horizon Digital Enterprise develops and distributes system management, security and email tools for Linux servers and networks.
 

Storage and Security

IPLocks (www.iplocks.com)

IPLocks, Inc. is an innovator in creating a highly scaleable security platform to solve database security, integrity, availability and confidentiality issues in real time. The system uses its patent-pending technology for detecting, alerting, diagnosing and monitoring for information risks from security policy violations, malicious acts, corrupt data, structural integrity, change control and information theft/leakage.

VistaPoint Technology (www.vpt.jp)

VistaPoint Technology offers enterprise customers a range of low cost, standardized product solutions in multiple areas including storage (backup, NAS, RAID) and security.

Search and Classification

Accela Technologies (www.accelatech.com)

Accela is a spin-off of Fujitsu focused on development and distribution of text search and translation engines to support enterprise information portals. Accela’s technology allows corporations to effectively search, catalog and leverage their internal unstructured data in order to respond more rapidly to customer requirements.

Wizaz (www.wizaz.co.jp)

Wizaz has developed a Content Classification Engine based on Bayes algorithms. Initial applications include: an email routing/filtering engine that sorts incoming ‘info’ requests for proper response; web filtering/blocking and access log tracking; data mining; etc.
 

Market Research ASP

Net Asia (www.netasia.co.jp)

Net Asia  conducts fast-turnaround market research services through mobile phones, and incubates and operates a collection of niche mobile and online ecommerce and marketing sites.

MacroMill (www.macromill.com)

MacroMill is an online application service provider, coordinating the planning, design and execution of market research via the Internet, creating analytical reports and offering marketing consulting services.

CRM and Marketing ASPs

Salesforce.com  (www.salesforce.com)

Salesforce.com provides mobile sales professionals anywhere, anytime access to premier CRM (customer relationship management) services through an optimized, affordable online ASP (application software provider) solution.

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.

Outsourced Customer Service and Sales 

Avec Lab (www.aveclab.com)

Avec Lab has developed an ASP (application service provider) model to enable corporations to quickly launch robust customer/client community forums/BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) enabling customers to create a vibrant user community, share reviews and feedback and receive corporate information and updates.

Fun-Life (www.fun-life.co.jp)

Provides companies with a complete solution for the outsourcing of catalogue and ecommerce sales from initial merchandising and sourcing of products through marketing and sales to fulfillment and logistics.

Business Process Consulting and Training Services

LT Solutions (www.lt-s.jp)

LT Solutions is Japan's leading provider of SAP-related change management education and services. Their offerings include consulting, online and classroom based education, and helpdesk services.