Best AdTech Companies in Tokyo, Japan
The 51 best AdTech companies in Tokyo, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Flywheel.
Ranked: Best AdTech companies in Tokyo
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flywheel Provider of enterprise data platforms transforming siloed information into AI-ready assets | $11M | 77 mo ago | Series A | Naoto Yokoyama CEO & Co-founder | 2018 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+33 | — | — |
| 2 | Adgo AI-enabled social media ad campaign management platform for advertisers | $10M | 23 mo ago | Series B | Michael Kim CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 3 | SpiderAF Provider of platform protecting marketing from fraud and security risks | $8M | 57 mo ago | Series B | Satoko Ohtsuki Founder & CEO | 2011 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Ads+30 | — | — |
| 4 | Cinemacraft Interactive video monetization platform | $7M | 125 mo ago | Series A | — | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 5 | FreakOut RTB enabled demand side platform | $7M | 160 mo ago | Public | — | 2010 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+23 | 5 patents Digital signage support structures and information processing platforms for advertising systems. | 1 launch |
| 6 | Fringe81 Provides creative optimization service | $4M | 137 mo ago | Public | — | 2005 | — | 2 patents Ad image distribution server platforms for targeted digital advertising | — |
| 7 | Intimate Merger AI-based ad analytics solutions provider | $3M | 91 mo ago | Public | Takeharu Yoshizawa CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Geniee Offers SSP and ad exchange | $2M | 121 mo ago | Public | — | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 9 | AdMaker Mobile advertising optimization platform | $2M | 189 mo ago | Deadpooled | Kiyo Kobayashi Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 10 | App-cm Mobile video ad compression | $1M | 124 mo ago | Series A | Atsufumi Otsuka Founder | 2015 | Google CloudNginxGoogle Font API+7 | — | — |
| 11 | GeoLogic Provides location based advertising platform | $907K | 97 mo ago | Seed | Wataru Noguchi Founder & CEO | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — | — |
Top 12 AdTech companies in Tokyo
#1
Series B · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014$10.2Mraised▾
AI-enabled social media ad campaign management platform for advertisers. The platform enables merchants of online platforms to create & run advertising campaigns across social media channels, helps in measuring outcomes of campaigns, to increase sales, and increase revenue. Clients include Spartan Race, Moneytree, and Golftec, among others.
- Aug 2024Series B$1.7M
- Nov 2021Series A$393.7K
- Dec 2020Series A$550K
- May 2020Series A$7.6M
#2
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2011 · 46 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Provider of platform protecting marketing from fraud and security risks. It offers solutions for ad fraud protection, fake lead protection, affiliate fraud protection, and website security. The platform detects fraudulent clicks, identifies risky scripts, prevents fake leads, and safeguards affiliate campaigns. It provides tools for digital marketers and website managers to improve performance and maintain control.
- Oct 2021Series B$5M
- Nov 2019Series A$2.9M
#3
Series A · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 1 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Provider of enterprise data platforms transforming siloed information into AI-ready assets. The company offers a data utilization platform that connects fragmented, structured and unstructured data across internal and external systems, converting it into formats suitable for analytics and machine learning. Its solutions build AI-ready data foundations, visualizing relationships between datasets and supporting applications such as search, demand forecasting, recommendation engines, and decision simulation. Services include design and operation of data infrastructure, pipelines, governance, and integrations so organizations can accelerate productivity, optimize costs, and scale AI use cases on top of their existing environments.
- Feb 2020Series A$10.7M
#4
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2010 · 5 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Cinemacraft is an interactive media monetization platform. Private label solution enables brands and publishers to deliver context driven engagement on videos and photos. Cinemacraft provides ‘dynamic’ embeds which display a selection of segments from a video rather than a single frame. Enables brands to convert promotional videos into a videogram and served into ad networks. Brands and agencies can create display, pre-roll, post-roll ad units out of existing video content.
- Mar 2016Series A—
- Feb 2015Series A$3.9M
- Feb 2014Series A$775K
- Jun 2013Series A$1.5M
#5
Public · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2010 · 485 employees$6.9Mraised▾
FreakOut is Japan's first RTB enabled Demand-side platform. Offers multiple targeting criteria such as search targeting, site retargeting, demography, device, interest, placement targeting etc. Provides Data Management platform which collects audience behavior, demographic, interest data. Also, offers native ad platform called Hike, marketing automation tool called Mary. Has inventory supply partnership with DoubleClick, OpenX, Rubicon, Kauli, Geniee, and Microsoft.
- Mar 2013Series B$5.4M
- Feb 2012Series A$1.5M
#6
Public · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2013 · 53 employees$2.5Mraised▾
AI-based ad analytics solutions provider. The product offered by the company is a data platform that solves client's data utilization issues. The features include landing page optimization, affiliated internet research, and survey, advertising cost management, branding ad rating, etc.
- Dec 2018Series A—
- Aug 2016Series A$2.5M
#7
Public · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2005 · 52 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Fringe81(formerly known as RSS Ads, Inc) provides creative optimization service. Ziogous is an auto-generated advertising delivery platform that improves the CTR of banner ads by accumulating enormous amount of data such as catch copies and main visuals. It enables data analysis of banner ads that has been relied on experience and intuition. In addition Fringe81 also provides RSS advertising business, Twitterbanner business, and social application business.
- Feb 2015Seed$3.5M
#8
Public · Shinjuku City, Tokyo · founded 2010 · 666 employees$2Mraised▾
Geniee's RTB platform allows advertisers to target specific demographics or geographical locations. Geniee offer DSP, SSP, AdExchange, DMP for targeted advertising. Geniee automatically analyzes the keyword on the site content in the URL unit, with its own development technology to deliver AdSense to the policy 'Safe GAURL'. Geniee had partnered with Mediamath and officially certified in the 'Google certified partner for publisher'.
- 2016Series D—
- Dec 2015Series D—
- Oct 2014Series B—
- Feb 2013Series B—
#9
Deadpooled · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2009$1.7Mraised▾
NOBOT provides a smartphone ad-optimization SDK called AdMaker that enables to display the best set from multiple ad networks for the iPhone/Android users. AdMaker enables the mobile app developers to switch between Ad-Networks. Nobot has cooperation with Ad-Networks in various countries, Mojiva (US), Zestadz (US), buzzcity (Asia), and Medialets (Rich Ads/US) along with Japanese domestic Ad-Networks.
- Oct 2010Series A$1.3M
- Mar 2010Seed$341.5K
- Oct 2009Seed$83K
#10
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2015 · 10 employees$1.2Mraised▾
App-CM has developed a video format based on VP9, an open-source video compression codec by Google. Corresponding to in-stream video ads protocol VAST, the new format enables compression of up to one-tenth to one-twentieth in data volume compared to typical formats. A video viewing plug-in compatible to the App-CM format should be installed on a viewer’s mobile web browser to support playing the ads.
- Mar 2016Series A$1.2M
#11
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 25 employees$906.7Kraised▾
Provider of location advertising and marketing services intended to promote small and medium enterprises. The company's services offer location-based advertising that aims to target users with position information data, targeted ads based on wealth and family composition as well as the targeting of ads for application developers and advertising vendors, enabling businesses to increase their brand recognition, establish an online presence and maximize brand value.
- Jun 2018Seed$906.7K
#12
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2015—raised▾
Platform offering AI based retargeting solution. It targets the users that visit the website. The AI performs push delivery communication with conversations personalized for each user.
- Feb 2023Series A—
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