LightUp
株式会社ライトアップTSE Growth AI company for SMEs — 30+ AI services; Sonoba Flow realtime process maps via TypeSafe Jev.
55 AI companies with their headquarters in Shibuya, most active first.
TSE Growth AI company for SMEs — 30+ AI services; Sonoba Flow realtime process maps via TypeSafe Jev.
Digitizes business cards, invoices and contracts into accurate structured business data that companies can search and act on.
Leadership: 寺田 親弘 (代表取締役社長/CEO/CPO)Manufacturing AI startup building design agent REVY for AI-driven engineering workflows.
Leadership: 浅野 友行 (代表取締役)Customer-behavior-led new-business consultancy pairing corporate assets with LLMO go-to-market.
Leadership: 根本 隆之 (代表取締役)AI-agent execution platform (Agentino) that turns natural-language workflows into shared, MCP-connected runbooks for non-engineer teams.
Leadership: 渡辺 育海 (代表取締役 CEO)Developer of TsutaeAI, which analyses facial expression, voice, gaze and movement in video/audio to visualise people's reactions in service, training and events.
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)Production-planning AI for manufacturers that ingests Excel/order data and auto-builds constraint-satisfying schedules.
Leadership: 永田 篤広 (代表取締役)Top JP customizable EC platform (ecbeing) shipping generative AI chatbot AI Digital Staff.
Leadership: 林 雅也 (代表取締役社長)Listed JP hosting/EC group shipping GMO Sokuresu AI agents for chat and phone customer support.
Leadership: 佐藤 健太郎 (代表取締役社長)Contract-workflow cloud (Hubble) with a Contract Flow Agent that helps legal and business teams draft, review, approve, and manage contracts, including Hubble mini and OneNDA.
Leadership: Shimpei Hayakawa (早川 晋平) (Co-Founder & CEO) · Katsuya Fujii (藤井 克也) (Co-Founder & CTO)AI contract review and legal operations platform for corporate legal teams, combining law-firm-grade legal knowledge with LLMs.
Leadership: 角田 望 (Nozomu Tsunoda) (代表取締役 執行役員・Group CEO/弁護士 (Group CEO, co-founder)) · Daniel Lewis (Global CEO)Startup building Stockwork, a sales AI agent that captures call/meeting primary data into CRM workflows.
Leadership: 関 翔太郎 (代表取締役)Governed knowledge base so AI agents read approved company context via MCP.
Leadership: 諸橋 瑛音 (代表取締役)AI data-agent platform where business users build pipelines, analysis and scheduled reports by chatting with an AI data analyst.
Leadership: 柴田 直人 (代表取締役)Preventive-medicine AI startup building a glucose foundation model (CGFM) from continuous glucose data for personalized prevention.
Leadership: 德永 翔平 (代表取締役CEO)Technology trading company (semiconductors and IT) that brings foreign AI and security products to Japanese enterprises with local support.
Leadership: 宮本 隆義 (代表取締役社長)Real-time voice-dialogue AI platform for phone, web and app (reservations, orders, inquiries, call centers).
Leadership: 森下 将憲 (代表取締役CEO)Platform for managing and improving human and AI customer-interaction quality: training video, AI role-play and AI call monitoring for contact centers.
Leadership: 上坂 優太 (代表取締役CEO)GMO group AI/humanoid trading company helping enterprises adopt AI and robots (incl. Unitree authorized distribution) with infra/security/finance wrap.
Leadership: Tomohiro Uchida (内田 朋宏) (Representative Director & President)CyberAgent group company whose AI Messenger Voicebot and Chatbot automate phone and chat customer service for Japanese enterprises.
Leadership: 米山 結人 (Yuito Yoneyama) (代表取締役社長 (Representative Director & President))Generative-AI solutions firm whose forward deployed engineers sit inside client teams to find, build and embed AI/DX changes end to end.
Leadership: 茨木 雄太 (代表取締役)Recruiting AI-agent OS Fairpath that runs scheduling/comms ops with FDE/operator backup for exceptions.
Leadership: Taye Ham (咸 多栄) (Representative Director CEO/CTO)Italian physical-AI cybersecurity company (Photon runtime security + foundation models) expanding into Japan with a local entity and Tokyo office.
Leadership: Gianni Cuozzo (Founder & CEO)SNS-marketing group building AI Media Studio and ジリツAI agent OS with Forward Deployed Marketers.
Leadership: 大槻 祐依 (代表取締役CEO)Foundry Labs is a Tokyo-based enterprise AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and scales production AI systems — from custom LLM fine-tuning to robotics and computer-vision deployment — for enterprises, governments, and consumer platfo
Leadership: Ilya Kulyatin (CEO / Representative Director) · Declan Clowry (CTO)Generative-AI-centred transformation services group covering consulting and implementation plus AI-era talent assessment for Japanese enterprises.
Leadership: 井手 高志 (Takashi Ide) (代表取締役社長) · 山川 雄志 (Yushi Yamakawa) (取締役CAIO)Builder of HELM-AIP, an ontology-based AI management platform for SMBs that ranks actions by value, with FDEs on site to drive execution.
Leadership: 清水 竜元 (代表取締役社長)AI talent and training company supplying engineers who lead coding agents on client sites, now offering dedicated FDE talent via its 'FDE DESK'.
Leadership: 石田 陽希 (代表取締役 CEO)AI SNS publicity platform — create, post to 10 channels, analyze/improve, for acquisition and hiring content ops.
Leadership: Hiroshi Matsubara (松原裕史) (Representative Director) · Kenta Murakami (村上健太) (Representative Director)Japan hub for AI content licensing — visualizes bot access and packages publisher rights (rev-share).
Leadership: 梅野 浩介 (代表取締役)Physical-AI fleet safety platform Driver•i — edge vision for commercial driver coaching and risk reduction.
Leadership: Avneesh Agrawal (CEO (Netradyne, Inc.)) · Yuki Akai (赤井祐記) (Japan VP & Netradyne Japan President)AX consultancy helping overseas AI products enter Japan and supporting new-business / startup creation.
Leadership: 池田 慈生 (代表取締役)Software developer (fintech-grade builds) offering an FDE service where engineers enter SMB and mid-market clients to take AI from analysis to production use.
Leadership: 釣崎 宏 (代表取締役社長)TempestAI is a University of Tokyo-affiliated AI vendor combining AI and financial engineering to build RAG-based knowledge systems, AI concierge and forecasting tools mainly for banks, insurers and manufacturers, including a released loan-
Leadership: Ao Ikeda (池田蒼) (Representative Director / CEO, founder)Silicon Valley AgeTech building VCare — vision AI that automates care-facility incident records, reporting, and overnight checks beyond fall detection.
Leadership: Yuta Endo (遠藤雄太) (Co-founder & CEO) · Yusuke Yoshida (吉田雄輔) (Japan entity representative)Acrosstudio is a generative-AI implementation consultancy and contract-development firm that builds VLM, AI-OCR, and RAG systems end-to-end in-house for enterprise clients (trading companies, SaaS ventures, manufacturers), covering everythi
Leadership: Kazuya Hochi (保知一也) (Representative Director & CEO)AITERA is an AI consulting and development company offering an 'AI Agent as a Service' model: DX/AX strategy consulting, a modular custom-development platform (Atlas Suite), a cloud POS for beauty salons (Gallaregi), and an order-processing
Leadership: Yuki Ino (伊野友紀) (Representative Director & CEO)AlgoX is a generative-AI-specialized consulting firm, founded by ex-Boston Consulting Group consultants, offering custom AI strategy consulting, AI training programs, and bespoke AI system development for Japanese enterprises.
Leadership: Takumi Nishimoto (西本匠) (Representative Director / CEO)Provides an all-in-one enterprise generative AI/LLM platform (RAG-based knowledge search, an LLM app marketplace, and AI agents) plus FDE-style implementation support to 300+ companies in Japan.
Leadership: Yasuo Sato (佐藤康雄) (Co-Founder & CEO, Allganize Japan)Ascent Robotics develops AI robotics and digital-twin software that lets industrial robots handle a diverse range of objects flexibly and operate autonomously alongside humans.
Leadership: Ken Kutaragi (CEO)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
Leadership: Takahiro Moriya (守屋貴行) (CEO)Shibuya AI infra startup; CC Gov-LLM on 源内 trial and CC AI Factory for enterprise-owned AI stacks.
Leadership: 木下 寛士 (代表取締役社長 CEO)A data science startup studio offering a no-code AI platform to structure unstructured data (paper documents, PDFs, images, audio), industry-specific AI models, and autonomous AI agents.
Leadership: Hayato Kumemura (久米村隼人) (Representative Director / CEO)A wholly-owned DeNA subsidiary offering AI strategy consulting, tool/solution implementation, and AI product development for Japanese enterprises.
Leadership: Masaichiro Sumiyoshi (住吉政一郎) (Representative Director (代表取締役))GenX develops generative-AI document and data products for Japanese enterprises, including 'GenX AI OCR' for high-accuracy invoice/handwriting extraction and 'Nandemon AI,' an internal AI-agent platform for searching and processing CAD draw
Leadership: Kenta Akutsu (圷健太) (Representative Director / CEO)Internet infrastructure operator whose GMO GPU Cloud provides NVIDIA HGX B300/H200 clusters with Spectrum-X networking in Japanese data centres for large-scale AI training.
Leadership: Tadashi Ito (伊藤 正) (代表取締役 社長執行役員 (Representative Director, President & Executive Officer))Google Cloud's Japan arm delivering Vertex AI, Gemini, and hyperscale AI infrastructure.
AI and DX education company running corporate AI talent development and AX (AI transformation) adoption support programs.
Leadership: 大崎 将寛 (Masahiro Osaki) (代表取締役社長) · 吉崎 亮介 (Ryosuke Yoshizaki) (創業者)Consortium-backed startup building Japan multimodal foundation models for physical AI / robotics (Noetra + AIST NEDO program).
Leadership: 丹波 廣寅 (代表取締役社長)Japanese generative-AI company (originated as Microsoft's Rinna team) building Japanese LLMs plus avatar, speech, and custom-model products such as Tamashiru Custom and Koemotion.
Leadership: Juhon Son (宋 珠憲) (Representative Director)SHIFT AI, founded in 2022, runs Japan's largest generative-AI learning community and offers the corporate training service 'SHIFT AI for Biz,' combining AI consulting, workshops, and e-learning to build AI literacy and drive practical adopt
Leadership: Shota Kiuchi (木内翔大) (Representative Director / CEO)AI-agent startup helping SIers and software houses rebuild development around AI, with FDEs building the harness and seeding in-house FDE teams.
Leadership: 松浦 潔 (代表取締役CEO)STYZ is an AI-first consulting and dev studio that runs end-to-end AI-driven business process reform (AI-BPR) engagements for enterprises, from strategy through AI agent implementation and adoption, backed by its own software/AI dev team an
Leadership: Tatsuya Tanaka (田中辰也) (Representative Director / CEO)Techtical is a generative-AI startup that plans, designs and builds custom software solutions (data processing, voice recognition, document search, chatbots, image recognition) for client businesses, starting from free demos.
Leadership: Shou Inoue (井上翔宇) (Representative Director / CEO)Japan arm of the W&B AI developer platform — experiment tracking, sweeps, model registry and artifacts, plus Weave for LLM tracing and evaluation.