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Customer-Facing AI in Tokyo

顧客接点AI. AI for customer service, sales and marketing. 28 companies in central Tokyo, most active first.

28 companiesMinato 10Shibuya 9Chiyoda 7Chuo 215 active in the last 30 days

Hmcomm

Hmcomm株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded Jul 2012

Voice-AI company building the VAAP voice AI-agent platform, now extending to on-prem/closed environments.

Voice AIAI AgentsOn-prem AI
Leadership: 三本 幸司 (代表取締役社長CEO)
Partnership · 2026-10-05 Hmcomm teams with QNAP to validate its VAAP ZBOX voice-AI agent platform on on-prem/closed-network infrastructure

AnyMind Group

AnyMind Group株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2016-04; listed TSE Growth 2023-03

Listed commerce-tech group offering AI live commerce (AnyLive) and brand/publisher growth platforms across Asia.

Live CommerceAnyLiveBrand Commerce
Leadership: 十河 宏輔 (代表取締役CEO)
Partnership · 2026-09-24 AnyMind × Alibaba Cloud strategic partnership; Qwen into AnyLive

bellFace

ベルフェイス株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded Apr 2015

Sales AI startup whose bellSalesAI agent extracts deal info from conversations and auto-fills Salesforce.

Sales AICRM Input AgentSalesforce
Leadership: 中島 一明 (代表取締役)
Agent deal · 2026-10-02 Japan Post Insurance (Kanpo Life) rolls out bellFace's bellSalesAI to 1,200 corporate sales staff nationwide

Crescendo Lab

株式会社クレッシェンド・ラボ
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded Jun 2017 (Taiwan); JP entity Jan 2022

Taiwanese AI communication cloud (MAAC/CAAC/DAAC) unifying LINE, web, CRM and POS data for marketing and customer conversations in Japan.

AI Communication CloudLINE MarketingCustomer Data Analytics
Leadership: 猪股 唯耶 (日本法人代表) · 薛 覲 (Jin Hsueh) (CEO(台湾本社))
Foreign entry · 2026-10-13 Taiwan's Crescendo Lab wins first three Japanese DAAC customers (incl. Takeya) after trials

Cresta

Cresta AI合同会社
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2017; Japan entity July 2026

US enterprise CX-AI platform combining AI agents, real-time agent assist and conversation intelligence for contact centers; Japan entity since 2026.

Contact Center AIAI AgentsAgent Assist
Leadership: 田村 元 (Jim Tamura) (VP 兼 日本カントリーマネージャー) · Ping Wu (CEO (Cresta Intelligence, Inc.))
Foreign entry · 2026-10-08 US CX-AI platform Cresta launches Japan entity, appoints ex-ElevenLabs Japan lead Jim Tamura as country manager

DJ Insight

株式会社DJ Insight
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded Nov 2025

Developer of TsutaeAI, which analyses facial expression, voice, gaze and movement in video/audio to visualise people's reactions in service, training and events.

Non-verbal AIVideo & Voice AnalysisCustomer Service Analytics
Leadership: 齋藤 立壽 (代表取締役CEO・共同創業者) · 浅倉 拓也 (取締役CTO・共同創業者)
Funding · 2026-10-19 Non-verbal AI startup DJ Insight secures ¥20M JFC loan; cumulative funding ¥50M

ecbeing

株式会社ecbeing
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2012-10; Soft Create HD subsidiary

Top JP customizable EC platform (ecbeing) shipping generative AI chatbot AI Digital Staff.

EC PlatformAI Digital Staffecbeing AI+
Leadership: 林 雅也 (代表取締役社長)
Agent deal · 2026-10-01 ecbeing AI Digital Staff goes live on ANA Furusato Tax donation site

Flyle, Inc.

株式会社フライル
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2020

AI transformation partner for contact centers and CX teams, pairing an AI product with a dedicated support team to run voice-of-customer analysis, response-quality evaluation, after-call-work reduction and AI operators, aiming to automate o

Contact Center AIVOC AnalysisCX
Leadership: Yuichi Takabe (財部優一) (Representative Director & CEO / Founder)
Funding · 2026-10-07 Flyle closes ¥1.88B Series A and launches an AI Operator for contact centers

GMO Pepabo

GMOペパボ株式会社
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · TSE Standard 3633; capital ¥262.22M (per PR)

Listed JP hosting/EC group shipping GMO Sokuresu AI agents for chat and phone customer support.

CS AISokuresu AIVoice Agent
Leadership: 佐藤 健太郎 (代表取締役社長)
Product launch · 2026-09-30 GMO Pepabo launches GMO Sokuresu AI Phone for voice agent call handling

LY Corporation

LINEヤフー株式会社
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · LINE + Yahoo! JAPAN operator

Operator of LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN, shipping consumer AI agents under the Agent i brand.

Consumer AI AgentsMessagingSearch
Leadership: 出澤 剛 (代表者)
Product launch · 2026-10-05 LY Corporation rolls out a 'scheduling agent' in LINE (via LINE Labs) under its Agent i AI-agent brand

MEDIUM

株式会社MEDIUM
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2023-10

Startup building Stockwork, a sales AI agent that captures call/meeting primary data into CRM workflows.

Sales AIStockworkConversation Intelligence
Leadership: 関 翔太郎 (代表取締役)
Agent deal · 2026-09-30 MEDIUM Stockwork deployed at Uluru fondesk sales org (named customer win)

noco

noco株式会社
Chuo 中央区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded May 2017

AI customer-support platform (HelpDog) combining forms, FAQ, chatbot, email and live chat for enterprise inquiry reduction.

AI Customer SupportHelpDogFAQ / Chatbot
Leadership: 堀辺 憲 (代表取締役)
Agent deal · 2026-10-13 Kyorindo Pharmacy adopts noco's HelpDog AI customer-support system after manual-search pilot cut inquiries ~90%

Umee Technologies

Umee Technologies株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded May 2019

Conversation-insight AI for in-person sales and service (Front Agent) plus an AI meeting-notes/CRM agent (Front Agent Log); UEC-certified venture.

Conversation IntelligenceSales & Service AIAI Meeting Notes
Leadership: 新納 弘崇 (代表取締役)
Partnership · 2026-10-15 Umee Technologies forms capital and business alliance with SoftBank's SB C&S to scale 'Front Agent' sales

Verbex

Verbex株式会社
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2020

Real-time voice-dialogue AI platform for phone, web and app (reservations, orders, inquiries, call centers).

Voice AIVoice AgentsContact Center
Leadership: 森下 将憲 (代表取締役CEO)
Agent deal · 2026-10-01 Verbex voice-AI engine powers SCO Group's 'AI Denwa' phone automation in the paylight X dental platform

VideoTouch

VideoTouch株式会社
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded Apr 2013

Platform for managing and improving human and AI customer-interaction quality: training video, AI role-play and AI call monitoring for contact centers.

Contact Center AIAI Quality MonitoringAI Role-play Training
Leadership: 上坂 優太 (代表取締役CEO)
Agent deal · 2026-10-19 Japan Post Insurance rolls out VideoTouch 'AI Monitoring' to auto-score ~6,000 calls a month at its call center

RevComm Inc.

株式会社RevComm
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2017

Voice-analysis AI company behind MiiTel, which records, transcribes and scores phone, meeting and contact-centre conversations.

Voice AIContact CenterCX
Leadership: 會田 武史 (Takeshi Aida) (代表取締役 (Representative Director))
Funding · 2026-08-30 Series B first close — ¥3.

AI Shift, Inc.

株式会社AI Shift
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2019

CyberAgent group company whose AI Messenger Voicebot and Chatbot automate phone and chat customer service for Japanese enterprises.

Voice AIChatbotCustomer Support
Leadership: 米山 結人 (Yuito Yoneyama) (代表取締役社長 (Representative Director & President))
Agent deal · 2026-09-02 AI Shift VoiceAgent live at Rinbell catalog-gift phone orders (end-to-end automation)

AIdeaLab

株式会社AIdeaLab
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · Tsukuba DL research team origin

Generative AI products company launching AIコールセンターくん, an inbound phone AI agent using GPT-Live with CRM integration and human handoff.

Voice AICall CenterGenerative AI
Leadership: Junki Tomihira (冨平準喜) (Representative Director)
Product launch · 2026-09-14 AIdeaLab launches AIコールセンターくん inbound phone AI with GPT-Live

ChatPlus

チャットプラス株式会社
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · Listed Growth market

Listed chatbot/AI-agent vendor (ChatPlus, AI AgentPlus) turning web chat into 24/7 sales and CX workflows for Japanese enterprises.

ChatbotAI AgentsCX
Leadership: Mayuko Oe (大江 繭子) (Representative Director & President)
Agent deal · 2026-09-15 ChatPlus AI AgentPlus named customer win at ニコノリ — ~15% close rate, 30%+ underwriting pass

FinT

株式会社FinT
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2017-03; ~130 staff (PR Sep 2026)

SNS-marketing group building AI Media Studio and ジリツAI agent OS with Forward Deployed Marketers.

Marketing AIAI AgentsSNS
Leadership: 大槻 祐依 (代表取締役CEO)
Hiring · 2026-09-18 FinT expands hiring across AI eng/PM and business roles with angel raise

IVRy, Inc.

株式会社IVRy
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2019 · Series D

Conversational voice AI SaaS that answers, routes and analyses business phone calls, from single clinics to enterprise contact centres.

Voice AIPhone AutomationCX
Leadership: 奥西 亮賀 (Ryoga Okunishi) (Founder and CEO) · 田井 義輝 (Yoshiki Tai) (Chief Sales Officer)
Agent deal · 2026-09-01 IVRy starts JR East lost-and-found contact-center AI pilot (Sep 1–30)

Aww

株式会社Aww
Shibuya 渋谷区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2019; capital ¥490,000,000

Aww is a creative AI company that produces virtual humans (including Japan's 'imma') and has applied that technology to build a voice-driven conversational AI agent called HITO, which handles reception, customer service, and guidance for bu

Virtual HumanVoice AICustomer Service Agent
Leadership: Takahiro Moriya (守屋貴行) (CEO)

Genesys Cloud Services K.K.

ジェネシスクラウドサービス株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI

Genesys Cloud Services K.K. is the Japan subsidiary of global CX software provider Genesys, delivering the cloud contact-center platform 'Genesys Cloud' with AI-powered automation, agent assist, and analytics across voice, chat, and messagi

CX PlatformContact Center AIConversational AI
Leadership: Paul Ito Ricci (President, Genesys Japan (as of 2020 announcement; also referenced as CEO of Genesys Cloud Services K.K. in 2022 coverage))

KARAKURI Inc.

カラクリ株式会社
Chuo 中央区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded 2016

Customer-support-specialised AI startup building the KARAKURI AgenticCS platform — chatbot, voice agent and operator-assist tools for contact centres.

ChatbotVoice AICustomer Support
Leadership: 小田 志門 (Shimon Oda) (CEO) · 宇波 雄平 (Yuhei Unami) (CTO)

Kotozna Inc.

Kotozna株式会社
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded October 2016; 30+ employees globally

Kotozna, founded in 2016, provides multilingual generative-AI chatbot and concierge platforms (Kotozna TPG, ConcierGAI, In-Room) that help tourism and hospitality businesses communicate with international guests in 50+ languages.

Multilingual AIChatbotAI Concierge
Leadership: Genri Goto (CEO / Founder)

Neos Corporation

ネオス株式会社
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI

An IT/AI solutions provider best known for its AI chatbot service OfficeBot, offering natural language processing and generative AI-driven customer support and business-system development; wholly-owned subsidiary of TSE-listed Tecmira Holdi

ChatbotCustomer Support AINLP
Leadership: Masashi Ikeda (池田昌史) (Representative Director and President Executive Officer)

Preferred Robotics

Preferred Robotics株式会社
Chiyoda 千代田区 · Customer-Facing AI · Founded November 1, 2021

Preferred Robotics, a Preferred Networks subsidiary, makes Kachaka, an autonomous home delivery robot, alongside commercial cleaning and mobile robots, under a 'Robots for Everyone' vision.

Home RobotConsumer RoboticsAutonomous Navigation
Leadership: Toru Isobe (CEO)

User Local, Inc.

株式会社ユーザーローカル
Minato 港区 · Customer-Facing AI

Listed big-data and AI company whose Support Chatbot automates inbound customer and employee enquiries.

ChatbotCustomer Support
Leadership: 伊藤 将雄 (Masao Ito) (代表取締役 (Representative Director))