Best Sports Services Companies in Japan
The 33 best Sports Services companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ventus.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Services companies
$3.3b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Services companies in Japan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | App-install YoY | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ventus Provider of fan engagement products for fundraising | $2M | 58 mo ago | Seed | Yuta Umesawa CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 2 | Pestalozzi Technology Provider of tools for professionals to test the physical fitness of students | $2M | 19 mo ago | Series A | Tomotsuna Inoue CEO | 2019 | — | — |
| 3 | HALF TIME Sports business platform that offers recruitment, PR, and branding services in the sports industry | $2M | 63 mo ago | Series A | Yusuke Isoda CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | Link Sports Software solutions for sports companies | $889K | 107 mo ago | Seed | Shinya Koizumi Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | Action Provider of golf course turf and soil management solutions | — | 31 mo ago | Seed | Mamoru Ogata Founder & CEO | 2002 | — | — |
| 6 | Murasaki Sports Brand of products for action sports such as surfing, bodyboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding, and BMX | — | 34 mo ago | Funding Raised | Motoichi Kanayama CEO | 1973 | +19% | — |
| 7 | A-cial Design Provider of sports career support for athletes, offering services to enhance the intersection of sports… | — | 50 mo ago | Seed | Shota Kozono CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | TAFDATA Provider of sports consulting services | — | 71 mo ago | Seed | Masahiro Yamada CEO & Representative Director | 2019 | — | — |
Top 8 Sports Services companies in Japan
#1
Series A · Shinjuku, kanto · founded 2019$2Mraised▾
Provider of tools for professionals to test the physical fitness of students. The company offers an ALPHA system, which can measure and aggregate physical fitness test results across various devices. It can be used by physical education teachers and public health monitoring systems and includes a questionnaire for measuring environmental perceptions related to physical activity.
- Mar 2025Series A$2M
#2
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2017$2.4Mraised▾
Provider of fan engagement products for fundraising. It enables users of sports teams and players to provide fans with electronic trading cards that can be used to support teams and players. It also claims that users get various benefits obtained by collecting trading cards.
- Dec 2021Seed$2.4M
- Sep 2021Seed—
#3
Series A · Minato, Tokyo · founded 2017 · 31 employees$1.8Mraised▾
HALF TIME株式会社 is a sports business company that specializes in recruitment, PR, and branding services in the sports industry. They aim to create a society full of fulfillment through sports.
- Jul 2021Series A$903.8K
- Jul 2020Series A$930.5K
#4
Seed · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014$889Kraised▾
Link Sports is a company providing software solutions for sports companies. It helps in developing web portals and mobile applications for sports communities. Some of the company's products include Teamhub- team management tool and Azrena- sports web portal. Furthermore, it offers consulting services to web and app developers.
- Nov 2017Seed$889K
#5
Seed · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2002—raised▾
Provider of golf course turf and soil management solutions
- Apr 2024Seed—
#6
Funding Raised · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 1973—raised▾
ムラサキスポーツ/MURASAKI SPORTS is a sports shop that offers a wide range of products for action sports such as surfing, bodyboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding, and BMX. They aim to promote sports and its culture as a means of learning and fostering connections between people.
#7
Seed · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 130 employees—raised▾
Acial is a company that specializes in sports content and business integration, aiming to advance the world. They have a strong track record and are known as the number one provider of sports talent job placement support in Japan.
- Aug 2022Seed—
#8
Seed · Osaka, Osaka · founded 2019 · 9 employees—raised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence technologies intended to solve problems for athletes and coaches involved in all sports. The company offers sports consulting and tennis coaching using artificial intelligence that uses algorithms such as skeletal recognition, spatiotemporal analysis, and causal inference, providing users with tailored teaching services according to how they play.
- Nov 2020Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Services coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Sports Technology is moving in Japan
A read on the academic research around Sports Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 31 Japan-affiliated papers.
- The University of Tokyo4
- Keio University4
- University of Tsukuba3
- Juntendo University2
- Nagoya University2
- Inverse dynamics1
- Inertial measurement unit1
- Dynamics (music)1
- Motion analysis1
- Motion (physics)1
- Analytics3
- Athletes3
- Cognition2
- Torso1
- Throwing1
- Biomechanics2
- Statement (logic)1
- Identification (biology)1
- Genetic testing1
- Genetics1
Where sports tech is researched across Japan
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.