Best Professional Consumer Services Companies in Japan
The 60 best Professional Consumer Services companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Minrevi.
Japan's Professional Consumer Services sector has 60 tracked companies and $62M in disclosed funding, with Minrevi leading the pack at $26M and White Plus close behind at $14M. No unicorns yet, but the funding spread tells you something real: GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON at $12M and Fast Beauty at $8M show capital clustering around beauty and lifestyle verticals. Investors like JAFCO Group and Globis Capital Partners aren't betting randomly here. The global market sits at roughly $12.5B with a 5.4% CAGR, driven by distributed workforces and virtual service delivery, and Japan's slice of that is moving.
So what's the actual momentum signal? Across consumer-adjacent app categories, median install growth is running at roughly plus 19% year-on-year across 1,030 apps, and that kind of digital pull is exactly where Professional Consumer Services in Japan stands to gain. I'd watch the beauty and salon sub-verticals especially closely this quarter. Smaller players like Salon Village ($877,701 raised) and Wowwe ($511,657) are still early, but the active investor roster here, Global Brain and Japan Asia Investment included, suggests the consolidation phase hasn't started yet. That's the window you're looking at right now.
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Ranked: Best Professional Consumer Services companies in Japan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minrevi Retailer of multi-category funeral products | $26M | 24 mo ago | Series E | — | 2017 | SalesforceChannel.ioReact+30 | — |
| 2 | White Plus Provider of residential cleaning services | $14M | 75 mo ago | Series B | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 3 | GO TODAY SHAiRE SALON Provider of salon services | $12M | 70 mo ago | Series A | Kunihiko Ohba CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 4 | Fast Beauty Provider of salon services | $8M | 7 mo ago | Series B | — | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — |
| 5 | Salon Village Provider of salon, beauty, and other personal wellness services | $878K | 55 mo ago | Seed | Yutaka Yamamoto CEO | 2013 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+17 | — |
| 6 | Wowwe Provider of beauty and salon services | $512K | 17 mo ago | Series A | Masatoshi Mushika CEO | 2011 | — | — |
| 7 | MIKAWAYA21 Provider of residential cleaning services | — | 48 mo ago | Seed | Keikyu Aoki CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Lecture Provider of salon services | — | 63 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+5 | — |
Top 12 Professional Consumer Services companies in Japan
#1
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 575 employees$8.4Mraised▾
Operator of a hair color specialty store intended to provide hairstyling-related services. The company specializes in hair coloring and leverages direct insights to create beauty products and services, enabling customers to be treated with professional techniques and minimizing hair damage.
- Nov 2025Conventional Debt—
- Nov 2025Series B$11M
- Apr 2023Series A$8.4M
#2
Series E · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 100 employees$26.4Mraised▾
Minrevi is a retailer of multi-category funeral products. Product catalogue includes flowers, uniforms, reading books and others. The company is based in Gotanda Station, Tokyo.
- Jul 2024Series E$7.6M
- Sep 2019Series A$18.9M
#3
Series A · Nagoya, Aichi · founded 2011$511.7Kraised▾
Provider of beauty and salon services
- Jan 2025Series A$511.7K
#4
Series A · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2016$11.9Mraised▾
Provider of a beauty salon facility intended to offer a private room share salon for freelance hairdressers. The company provides freelance cosmetologists and beauticians with spacious private rooms and well-equipped facilities, enabling hairdressers to create an atmosphere like their own salon.
- Aug 2020Series A$9.4M
- Aug 2019Seed$2.4M
#5
Series B · Shinagawa, Tokyo · founded 2009 · 22 employees$13.6Mraised▾
Operator of an online servicing platform intended to offer home cleaning services. The company connects customers and professionals in lifestyle services such as air conditioning and home delivery and dry cleaning based on detailed reviews and suggestions, enabling families to conduct their day-to-day activities efficiently.
- Mar 2020Series B$13.6M
- Mar 2020Conventional Debt—
#6
Seed · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2013$877.7Kraised▾
Provider of co-working spaces intended for beauticians to work independently and innovate. The company offers flexible plans that can accommodate all work styles, including weekly and monthly plans as well as private room space and equipment and functions required for treatment, enabling clients to work there as per their requirements and needs.
- Nov 2021Seed$877.7K
- Nov 2021Conventional Debt—
#7
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2012—raised▾
Provider of residential cleaning services
- Jun 2022Seed—
#8
Seed · Oita, Oita · founded 2015 · 11 employees—raised▾
Operator of a salon intended for beauty and health care. The company offers shampoo blow spa services, along with hair cutting and styling, hair coloring, and hair washing services, enabling customers to cut and style their hair as per their choice and budget.
- Apr 2021Seed—
#9
Funding Raised · Toyokawa, Aichi · founded 1981 · 70 employees—raised▾
東海典礼 is a company that specializes in funeral and family funeral services in Toyokawa, Gamagori, and Shinshiro cities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as Shizuoka Prefecture. They have been in operation for over 35 years and have conducted over 10,000 funeral services.
- Jun 2019Unattributed—
#10
Seed · Ishinomaki, Miyagi-ken · founded 2011—raised▾
Provider of beauty salon services
- Dec 2017Seed—
#11
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2013—raised▾
Coupe is a service that allows salons/hairdressers to find models. The models go through an examination to get listed on the platform. The platform allows communication between clients and models on the requirement of the assignment. There is no membership fee for clients; they pay when they request for a shooting assignment.
- Feb 2015Seed—
#12
Public · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 1999 · 1194 employees—raised▾
istyle is a group company operating review and retail site of beauty products. It operates two cosmetics focused web portals, cosme.com and cosme.net. These sites sell cosmetics and offer customer reviews of products. Company’s core business is the website’s user database. Information on cross-selling, chronological purchases and the usage-history of users are stored in the database, and this information is then sold as marketing data to product vendors, who are themselves unable to trace their own consumers’ purchase history of competing vendors’ products. Selling this marketing data is now a main source of income for Istyle.
- Jan 2011Series B—
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