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Best Retail Companies in Minato City, Japan

The 39 best Retail companies in Minato City, Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mercari.

39companies tracked
$182.3Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
14have raised

Ranked: Best Retail companies in Minato City

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1aoiShip
Online retailer offering luxury fashion products
———Adam Boujida
Co-Founder & CEO
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2Appify Technologies
Provider of suite solutions for e-commerce businesses
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3Black
Platform providing certification, directory, and resources for Black-owned business support
———Yuta Ogawa
CEO
——3 patents
Specialized data processing systems and methods for targeted application domains
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4Business Net System
Provider of e-commerce support services
——40Shoro Nakata
CEO
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5Creamer
Operates shopping malls & centres for consumer goods
——94Kotaro Marubayashi
CEO & President
BootstrapApache HTTP ServerAmazon Web Services+7Top 5M——
6CS-C
Platform offering retail store analytics software
———Ken Sugihara
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+18Top 5M——
7DFree
Provider of wearable devices for urinary incontinence
———Atsushi Nakanishi
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+22Top 10M2 patents
Non‑invasive ultrasonic bladder volume monitoring and urine output estimation systems.
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8ELLE SHOP
Online retailer of multi-category fashion products
———Duncan Edwards
President & CEO
Cart FunctionalityJavaWorldShopping+30Top 100k——

Top 12 Retail companies in Minato City

#1
Series C · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 19 employees
$16.8Mraised
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TechMagic specializes in developing AI-based food cooking robots. Its offerings include AI cooking robot and AI automation robot. The robots have features such as ordering automation, payment automation, cooking automation, automated waiting, and much more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 390 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Series C$16.8M
  • Oct 2019Seed—
Founders & team
Yuji ShirakiFounder & CEO
Investors
JAFCO Group, Fuji Mac, Oriental Land, Hachijuni Bank, Resona Group, Seibu Shinkin Capital
Tech stack
Alpine.JsApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesElementor
#2
Series A · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2019 · 10 employees
$842.9Kraised
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Online platform to book massage services. It provides a platform to book beauty services at home. It provides oil treatment, foot set, massage loosen, stretch, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series A$842.9K
Investors
AirTrip
Tech stack
All In One SeoAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerCdnjs
#3
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2016 · 111 employees
$15.4Mraised
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Provider of an online platform connecting consumers directly with producers. It offers a platform for producers to sell goods directly to individuals and corporations. Services extend to supporting regional food promotion for government entities. The platform also facilitates corporate gifting and private label offerings.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2023Series B$15.4M
Founders & team
Rina AkimotoCEO
Investors
Ocean Lease, Tottori Capital, NOBUNAGA Capital Village, Higin Capital, WCP, Daishi Hokuetsu Capital Partners
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#4
Mercari 🦄
Public · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2013 · 209 employees
$114.3Mraised
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Online marketplace platform for used multi-category products. The platform allows users to buy and sell products from different categories like fashion, beauty, sports, electronics, books, pet supplies, art supplies, home decor, office supplies, and more. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 118k LinkedIn followers — 99.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Post IPO—
  • Mar 2016Series D$75M
  • Oct 2014Series C$21.8M
  • Mar 2014Series B$14M
Founders & team
John LagerlingChief Executive Officer
Investors
Globis Capital Partners, ITV, GMO Venture Partners, Global Brain, East Ventures, United
Tech stack
A8.NetAccesstradeAdjustAdyenAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3
#5
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2022 · 5 employees
$1.1Mraised
▾

Provider of digital solutions for retail stores

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Shunsuke NagaiCEO
Investors
Animoca Brands, JIC Venture Growth Investments
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Browser Insights
#6
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2019 · 25 employees
$1.7Mraised
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Online marketplace offering multi-category products. The product catalog includes fashion apparel, beauty products, fashion accessories, kids' apparel, home improvement products, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2022Seed$1.7M
  • May 2021Seed—
Founders & team
Shun FukuchiCEO
Investors
Nissay Capital, HIRAC FUND, Globe Advisors Ventures
#7
Series B · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2012 · 30 employees
$21.2Mraised
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Bulk Homm is an internet first brand offering natural skincare products. Its product offerings include facial cleansers, lotions, body wash, toner, body lotion, serum suncream, and more. Its integrants include Apple fruit cell, glyceryl glucoside, tea leaf extract, hydrolyzed silk, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2020Conventional Debt—
  • Sep 2020Series B$14.1M
  • Dec 2018Series A$4.4M
  • Nov 2018Seed$2.6M
Investors
Nissay Capital, Kiraboshi Capital, Marui Group, DIMENSION, JFC, Dream Incubator
Tech stack
AhoyAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflare
#8
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2018
$923.9Kraised
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Internet first brand offering mattress for home. The product catalog includes mattresses of various sizes like single, semi-double, double, king, queen, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Seed$923.9K
Founders & team
Aki DoiCEO
Investors
Anobaka, mint, Spring Star Capital
#9
Deadpooled · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2012
$3.7Mraised
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Tamecco has developed IOT based personalization solution for retailers. It uses various geo-spatial technologies inlcuding beacons, wifi and other techlnologies into its SDK that can be integrated in the retailer's app to provide reatime personalization in terms for push messages, coupon delivery etc to shoppers. It also uses machine learning and analytics on app interaction, POS, consumer, location data etc to enrich the personalization delivered to consumers. Started as a app development company, its personalization solution has found traction among restaurant chains in Japan.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2015PE$2.7M
  • Mar 2014Seed$1M
Founders & team
Koichiro TsujinoFounder & CEO
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpW3 Total CacheYoast SeoJquery
#10
Series A · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 41 employees
$4.7Mraised
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Wholesalers of consumer goods

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2016Series A$4.7M
Founders & team
Kazuya OgawaFounder & CEO
Investors
Transcosmos, Adways Ventures
#11
Series A · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2018
$578.5Kraised
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E-distributor offering B2B multi-category products. The product catalog includes beverages, foods, gifting products, household appliances, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2020Series A$578.5K
Founders & team
Taku YamanakaCo-FounderKazuya UchiyamaCEO
Investors
Apricot Venture, INTLOOP
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon Web ServicesBackbone.JsCore-JsEnvoyGoogle Analytics
#12
Seed · Minato City, Tokyo · founded 2013 · 20 employees
$1.2Mraised
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Suvaco is a Tokyo based home design marketplace startup. Suvaco provides a marketplace focused on home designs, where one can easily find interior or exterior designers by browsing their portfolio photos. Through a partnership with 200 home construction companies, to date the marketplace has acquired more than 8,000 examples of home renovation. Suvaco has partnered with media entity company, Fusosha to jointly launch a website that lists home renovation examples and connects potential customers with partnering construction companies. Suvaco charges the construction companies on a monthly or sales performance basis.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2014Seed$1.2M
Investors
Mobile Internet Capital, Fuji Startup Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapCore-JsFacebook Login

Funding & investor landscape

$182.3Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
19disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Daiwa Corporate Investment2 rounds
HIRAC FUND2 rounds
JAFCO Group2 rounds
Nissay Capital2 rounds
31VENTURES1 rounds
Adways Ventures1 rounds
AirTrip1 rounds
Ajinomoto1 rounds
Animoca Brands1 rounds
Anobaka1 rounds

Notable founders

Yuji Shiraki
Founder & CEO · TechMagic
Rina Akimoto
CEO · Vivid Garden
John Lagerling
Chief Executive Officer · Mercari
Shunsuke Nagai
CEO · LMI Group
Shun Fukuchi
CEO · homula
Aki Doi
CEO · NELL
Koichiro Tsujino
Founder & CEO · Tamecco
Kazuya Ogawa
Founder & CEO · Grand Design
Taku Yamanaka
Co-Founder · Aoyama
Kazuya Uchiyama
CEO · Aoyama
Yukiko Taniuchi
CEO · WRAY
Tomohiro Ogitsu
CEO · Ogitsu
Prism market signals · Japan · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,260,450 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Retail coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Retail companies are there in Minato City, Japan?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Retail companies headquartered in Minato City, Japan that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Retail companies in Minato City, Japan?
The Retail companies in Minato City, Japan on this list have raised a combined $182.3M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Retail company in Minato City, Japan?
Mercari is the highest-funded Retail company in Minato City, Japan, with $114.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Retail companies in Minato City, Japan are funded?
12 of the 39 Retail companies in Minato City, Japan on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Retail unicorns are there in Minato City, Japan?
1 Retail company in Minato City, Japan on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Minato City, Japan Retail companies?
The most active investors in Minato City, Japan Retail companies on this list include Daiwa Corporate Investment, HIRAC FUND, JAFCO Group, Nissay Capital, 31VENTURES.
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