Our new round of articles is devoted to promising Japanese startups grouped by industry. Today, our focus is on the Game industry.
1. Playco
https://www.play.co/
· Year Founded: 2020
· Total Raised to Date: $100.0M
· Overview:
Playco is a company specializing in the production and development of instant play games that can be played immediately with anyone in the world without downloading apps on devices such as smartphones.
2. GENDA
https://genda.jp/
· Year Founded: 2018
· Total Raised to Date: $16.9M
· Overview:
GENDA is a company that operates an amusement facility management business, an online crane game business, and an amusement machine rental business.
3. Parallel
https://www.reactcorp.com/
· Year Founded: 2017
· Total Raised to Date: $16.5M
· Overview:
Parallel is a company that operates a calling application "Parallel" that you can play with your friends.
4. ANYCOLOR
https://www.anycolor.co.jp/
· Year Founded: 2017
· Total Raised to Date: $26.4M
· Overview:
ANYCOLOR is a company that operates a VR character business centered on the Nijisanji project and a two-way communication service "Yumenographia" that uses VR technology.
5. Cover
https://cover-corp.com/
· Year Founded: 2016
· Total Raised to Date: $10.0M
· Overview:
Cover is a company that provides VTuber distribution apps, character model production, and virtual live services.
6. Thirdverse
https://www.thirdverse.io/
· Year Founded: 2013
· Total Raised to Date: $20.0M
· Overview:
Thirdverse is a company that develops and provides the VR multiplayer swashbuckler action game "Sword of Gargantua".
7. Synamon
https://synamon.jp/
· Year Founded: 2016
· Total Raised to Date: $5.6M
· Overview:
Synamon is a company that develops VR, AR, MR related content, and researches and develops XR technology.
8. PlayBrain
https://playbrain.jp/ja/home
· Year Founded: 2016
· Total Raised to Date: $8.0M
· Overview:
PlayBrain is a company that provides esports planning, branding, creative, production production, event management, product development and marketing.
9. Libalent
https://libalent.com/
· Year Founded: 2015
· Total Raised to Date: Unknown
· Overview:
Libalent is a company that manages advertising business utilizing talent and fan community and management support business of talent who is active in the digital field.
10. LATEGRA
https://lategra.co.jp/
· Year Founded: 2017
· Total Raised to Date: $4.3M
· Overview:
LATEGRA is a company that manages entertainment content planning and production, event, CG, and video planning and production, as well as real-time graphic-specialized businesses that utilize AR and VR.
11. Graffity
https://graffity.jp/
· Year Founded: 2017
· Total Raised to Date: $2.0M
· Overview:
Graffity is a company that plans and develops the AR shooting app "Pechabato", the AR shooting battle "HoloBreak", and "Leap Trigger".
12. VARK
https://vark.co.jp/
· Year Founded: 2017
· Total Raised to Date: $10.0M
· Overview:
