Best Sports Tech Companies in Japan
The 46 best Sports Tech companies in Japan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Meleap.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Tech companies in Japan
| # | Company | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chariloto It is a small-sized vehicle based on the bicycle race online voting service | +112% | — | 214 | — | RubyFacebook LoginYouTube+25 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 2 | Sgrum Developer of a diversified sports management platform for sports | +29% | — | — | Hiroshi Hashiguchi Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | SportsBull Digital media company focusing on sports news | +10% | — | 12 | Kuro Fei Giro President & CEO | Cart FunctionalityFacebook LoginVideoJS+30 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 4 | Golf Digest Online Golf-related online services provider | +8% | — | 1,437 | — | Facebook LoginAmazon ALBApache HTTP Server+38 | Top 10k | — | — |
| 5 | AEC Provider of fitness machines, dynamic stretching machines, and pilates equipment | — | $2M | — | Taketake Nakamura CEO | NginxLodashAxios+4 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 6 | Euphoria Provider of sports data management and analysis software | — | $6M | 6 | — | STUDIOFirebaseNode.js+16 | Top 10M | 2 patents Wearable sports assistance technologies for performance monitoring and injury prevention | — |
| 7 | Meleap Developer of augmented reality sports and entertainment experiences for various platforms | — | $13M | 22 | Araki Hitoshi Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | Top 10M | 22 patents Real-time image processing and distribution for head‑mounted AR/VR display systems | — |
| 8 | Ventus Provider of fan engagement products for fundraising | — | $2M | — | Yuta Umesawa CEO | STUDIOApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+10 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 9 | SportMeme Developer of a video-based performance analytics platform for multiple sports | — | $760K | — | Ryota Nagano CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | ECBO Square Provider of B2B sports event management solutions | — | $2M | — | Michito Shiraki CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+13 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 11 | Grand Perfecta Offers fantasy sports and sports gaming | — | $3M | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | NineEdge Developer of AI-integrated sports analytic systems | — | $426K | 10 | Kazuya Watanabe CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 13 | SPLYZA Video based analytics and tools for sports training | — | $540K | 13 | Hiroyuki Doi Co-Founder & CEO | TypeScriptZone.jsAngular+16 | Top 5M | 4 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | 1 launch |
Top 12 Sports Tech companies in Japan
#1
Seed · Nagoya, Aichi · founded 1999$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of fitness machines, dynamic stretching machines, and pilates equipment. It also provides twenty-four-hour unmanned gym services. The company offers a store management system optimized for fitness gyms. Additionally, it provides simulation golf and franchise opportunities. The company supports gym openings and welfare programs.
- Dec 2025Seed$2.2M
#2
Series C · Chiyoda City, Tokyo · founded 2008 · 6 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of sports data management and analysis software. It collects and manages data related to players, teams, and matches and helps to draw a pattern and analysis reports for performance enhancement, injury prevention, treatment planning, nutrition management, physical condition management, and practice or training session scheduling and management, among others.
- May 2025Venture Debt—
- Nov 2023Series C—
- May 2022Series C$5.5M
- Dec 2019Series B—
#3
Series C · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2014 · 22 employees$13Mraised▾
Developer of augmented reality sports and entertainment experiences for various platforms. They provide technology to transform sports competition and viewing styles. The company offers augmented reality activities for users to experience with others. It also develops viewer-participation entertainment applications.
- May 2024Conventional Debt—
- May 2024Series C—
- Nov 2022Series B$3.5M
- Nov 2018Series B$6.3M
#4
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—
#5
Seed · Chofu, Tokyo · founded 2020$760.1Kraised▾
Developer of a video-based performance analytics platform for multiple sports
- Feb 2023Seed$454.6K
- Feb 2021Seed$305.5K
#6
Series B · Shinjuku City, Tokyo · founded 2017$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of B2B sports event management solutions. The company offers solutions for event management services. It includes voucher management, inventory sharing & linkage database, web sales system.
- Apr 2022Series B$1.6M
#7
Deadpooled · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2002 · 1 employees$3Mraised▾
Grand Perfecta is an online gaming company based in Japan and the United States. It offers various services including data analytics, fantasy sports, and online and mobile gaming. It has acquired Just Mobile Sdn. Bhd., doing business as FanXT, a global fantasy sports provider. Through the acquisition of FanXT, Grand Perfecta offered daily, seasonal and commissioner fantasy sports platforms for its customers. It caters to horse racing, sumo wrestling, basketball, soccer, football, motorsports, and baseball etc.
- Jun 2014Post IPO$3M
#8
Seed · Chuo, Tokyo · founded 2020 · 10 employees$426.5Kraised▾
Developer of AI-integrated sports analytic systems. It designs and develops platforms that let users rewatch and analyze the performance of athletes. It allows users to shoot and upload videos to automatically analyze the trajectory, height, tilt, and speed of the body with the help of deep learning.
- Nov 2022Seed$426.5K
#9
Seed · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka · founded 2011 · 13 employees$540Kraised▾
Developer of a video analysis platform intended to provide various digital tools that help amateur athletes improve their game. The company's platform provides game footage that can be easily edited and accessed only by the team members or coaches and also lets users compare videos of different players on an alternate screen, providing users with easy accessibility and privacy of their game plans, performance, and strategies.
#10
Seed · Kyoto, Kyoto · founded 2014$20Kraised▾
Up Performa develops wearable technology solution for sports that can be used for sprint measurement, odometry and heat mapping analysis. The information can then be used by coaches to improve the performance of players. It is a wearable sensor that can be fitted as an armband.
- May 2015Angel$20K
#11
Series A · Tokyo, Tokyo · founded 2018—raised▾
Sports gifting platform
#12
Series A · Shibuya, Tokyo · founded 2018 · 64 employees—raised▾
Provider of real-time video analysis and communication tool for team collaboration. The company offers a video analysis tool to analyze sports data and a baseball video search/analysis application with high-speed scene playback technology.
- Feb 2022Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Tech 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
Sweetie watches where the money and the users are piling in. She covers sector wealth and momentum — the install curves and revenue pools that show which corners of the market are quietly on fire.