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Company Name
Uzabase, Inc.
Location
Headquarters
Mitsubishi Building, 2-5-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-0005, Japan
(Nearest Station: Tokyo Station/Nijubashimae Station/Yurakucho Station)
Branch office
Uzabase, Inc. West Japan Branch
Hankyu Five Annex Building 2F, 1-12 Kakuta-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0017, Japan
(Nearest Station: Umeda Station(Hankyu)/Osaka Station(JR))
Overseas
Uzabase Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
Twenty Anson #11-01, 20 Anson Rd, Singapore 079912(Nearest Station: Tanjong Pagar)
TEL +65-6303-5206
Uzabase China Limited
Room 1601, No.688 Nanjing West Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai(Nearest Station: West Nanjing Road)
TEL +8621-5200-4489
Uzabase, Inc. Sri Lanka Office
Level 17, Access Towers II, 278/4, Union Place, Colombo 02., Sri Lanka
(Nearest Station: Ibbanwala Bus Stop)
Uzabase USA, Inc.
211 East 43rd St, Suite 637 New York,NY 10017(Nearest Station: Grand Central Terminal)
Representative
Yusuke Inagaki, Taira Sakuma
Established
1 April 2008
Capital
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,
Member of Audit &
Supervisory Committee
Jumpei Ogura
External Director,
Member of Audit &
Supervisory Committee
Naoki Hozoji
External Director
Wanlin Liu
External Director
Yasutaka Fukuda
Part-Time Director
Kazuhiro Yamada

Representative Director and Co-CEO/CTOYusuke Inagaki

Born in Aichi, Yusuke worked for ABeam Consulting before co-founding Uzabase in 2008. Well-known for his rapid-fire speaking style (that only a good microphone can pick up), Yusuke is fond of a good chat over a few drinks. In the summer, he can often be found organizing company BBQ parties.

Representative Director and Co-CEOTaira Sakuma

A native of Nagasaki, Taira joined Uzabase in 2013 after working in the Investment Banking Division of UBS Securities. While he may be known for his impressive poker face, Taira's enthusiasm is unrivalled. His passions include manga, mathematics, and SaaS. He also loves sitting down to a good hotpot meal.

Chief Human Resources OfficerShinobu Matsui

Originaly from Kanagawa, Shinobu is a Certified Public Accountant. After working at a major Japanese auditing firm and PwC Tax Japan, she spent four and a half years in Turkey for family reasons before returning to Japan and joining Uzabase. Her family once again took her to Thailand in 2019, where she worked remotely for 18 months before returning to Japan in 2020. Shinobu was the first working mother at Uzabase. She considers Istanbul to be like her second home.

Chief Financial OfficerDaisuke Chiba

Born in Hokkaido, Daisuke worked for JAFCO and CookPad before joining Uzabase in 2018. A football fanatic, he uses the sport as a metaphor to explain almost everything.

Chief Digital Transformation Officer and UB Research DirectorSeiji Harikae

Originally from Saitama, Seiji worked for Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities before joining FORCAS in 2019. His interests include running, space exploration, and academic research. He considers himself to be more of a numbers guy than a wordsmith. His favorite brand of Japanese sake is "Tatsuriki".

Chief Operating Officer, SaaS BusinessTomoyuki Ota

Tomoyuki spent his childhood in Singapore, returning to Japan for high school. After graduating from university, he worked at UBS Securities and Morgan Stanley Securities before joining Uzabase in 2017. He loves Excel. His hobbies are traveling and airplanes. He still dreams of becoming a pilot.

FORCAS Chief Executive OfficerShingo Taguchi

Shingo is from Abashiri, Hokkaido, a port town home to ice floes, good food, and a maximum-security prison. His interests include brain science, the work of Peter Drucker, and Buddhism. Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, travelling, and relaxing in hot springs.

INITIAL Chief Executive OfficerNobuaki Chiba

Born in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture, Nobuaki joined Uzabase in 2018 after working for Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and CyberZ. A former high-school baseball pitcher, he still enjoys playing grass baseball in his free time and loves team play. Nobuaki is a father of two.

MIMIR Chief Executive OfficerSoshi Kawaguchi

Born in Izumo, Shimane, Soshi engaged in research on circadian rhythm at graduate school. After working at an investment bank and traveling around the world, he was involved in the founding of several startups. He founded Mimir in 2017, which became part of the Uzabase Group in 2020. He is a father of one.

AlphaDrive Chief Executive OfficerYoichi Aso

Yoichi was born and raised in the neighbourhood of Yoga in Setagaya, Tokyo, where he was involved in local community activities such as rubbish collection in his youth. Although from the capital, he is passionate about regional development throughout Japan. He has deep ties to Kochi, where AlphaDrive Kochi is located, and Okinawa, where he has long been involved in the creation of a startup ecosystem. Yoichi was a die-hard anime fan in his teenage years.

UB Ventures Chief Executive Officer / Managing PartnerOsamu Iwasawa

Originally from Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, Osamu joined Uzabase in 2011 after working at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Research Institute. His favorite character is Meng Wu from manga “Kingdom”, and his favorite athlete is Dunga, a former Brazilian national soccer team captain. Osamu is the type of person who gets excited about hard things and contingencies. For a long time, he was considered the scariest person at Uzabase, but he has become gentler with the company’s growth.

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.
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