Company Name
Uzabase, Inc.Location
- Headquarters
- Branch office
- Overseas
Representative
Yusuke Inagaki, Taira SakumaEstablished
1 April 2008Capital
100 million yen (as of September 29, 2023)Employee
1134 (as of January 1, 2023)Main Business Activities
Provide business information infrastructure to support decision-making in corporate activities
- Representative Director and Co-CEO/CTO
- Yusuke Inagaki
- Representative Director and Co-CEO
- Taira Sakuma
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Shinobu Matsui
- Chief Financial Officer
- Daisuke Chiba
- Chief Digital Transformation Officer and UB Research Director
- Seiji Harikae
- Chief Operating Officer, SaaS Business
- Tomoyuki Ota
- FORCAS Chief Executive Officer
- Shingo Taguchi
- INITIAL Chief Executive Officer
- Nobuaki Chiba
- MIMIR Chief Executive Officer
- Soshi Kawaguchi
- AlphaDrive Chief Executive Officer
- Yoichi Aso
- UB Ventures Chief Executive Officer / Managing Partner
- Osamu Iwasawa
- External Director,
Member of Audit &
Supervisory Committee - Shintaro Asako
- External Director,
- External Director,
Member of Audit &
Supervisory Committee - Jumpei Ogura
- External Director,
- External Director,
Member of Audit &
Supervisory Committee - Naoki Hozoji
- External Director,
- External Director
- Wanlin Liu
- External Director
- Yasutaka Fukuda
- Part-Time Director
- Kazuhiro Yamada

2008
- Apr.
- Founded Uzabase, Inc.
2009
- May.
- Released “SPEEDA”
2013
- Jan.
- “SPEEDA” expands into Asia (Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong)
- Oct.
- Released “NewsPicks”
2015
- Oct.
- Established NewsPicks, Inc.
2016
- Jan.
- “SPEEDA” Research Center Opens in Sri Lanka
- Oct.
- Listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
2017
- Jan.
- Japan Venture Research Inc. (now INITIAL business) becomes a subsidiary
- May.
- “FORCAS” is released
2018
- Feb.
- Establishes UB Ventures, Inc.
2019
- Mar.
- “SPEEDA China” is released
- Nov.
- Acquired AlphaDrive, Inc. as a subsidiary
2020
- Mar.
- Capital and business alliance with Enquire
- Apr.
- Acquired Mimir, Inc. as a subsidiary
- Oct.
- Launched “FORCAS Sales”
Withdrew from “Quartz” business
2021
- Jan.
- Launched “SPEEDA Edge”
- Apr.
- Absorption-type merger with FORCAS, Inc. and INITIAL, Inc.
- Oct.
- Establishes UB Datatech Inc.
2022
- Dec.
- TOB by the Carlyle Group is completed
2023
- Feb.
- Delisted from the Growth section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to the TOB
- Jul.
- Absorption-type merger with NewsPicks, Inc.
In July 2022, we moved our headquarters office to a new location in Marunouchi. Please check out our photo gallery and concept movie.
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