AI Companies in Japan

Japan is home to 9 AI companies tracked on Awaira. Together, they've raised $1B in funding. 1 of them are unicorns (valued over $1B). The strongest sectors: Foundation Models, Enterprise AI, AI Infrastructure.

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Company⇅

Category

Valuation▼

Raised⇅

Stage

Score⇅

Change⇅

7D Chart

1

Sakana AI

🇯🇵 David Ha

Foundation Models

$2.6B

$479M

Series B

65

+0%

2

Preferred Networks

🇯🇵 Toru Nishikawa

AI Robotics

N/A

$308M

Series B

72

+0%

3

Cogent Labs

🇯🇵 Andrew Hall

NLP

N/A

$50M

Series C

55

+0%

4

ABEJA

🇯🇵 Shoichiro Aoyama

Enterprise AI

N/A

$50M

Series C

55

+0%

5

LayerX

🇯🇵 Fukushima Yo

AI Finance

N/A

$40M

Series C

50

+0%

6

Elyza

🇯🇵 Tetsuya Yamada

Foundation Models

N/A

$30M

Acquired

45

+0%

7

Ridge-i

🇯🇵 Shinya Sasaki

Enterprise AI

N/A

$30M

Series C

50

+0%

8

LeapMind

🇯🇵 Hikaru Inoue

AI Infrastructure

N/A

$20M

Series B

43

+0%

9

Idein

🇯🇵 Akira Nakamura

AI Infrastructure

N/A

$15M

Series B

38

+0%

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