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Japan’s Mobingi, cloud management automation platform, secures additional seed funding

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See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Mobingi, offering cloud automation service under the same name, announced last November that it had fundraised $125,000 from 500 Startups, and revealed soon afterward that it had additionally secured several tens of million yen (about several hundred thousand dollars) from Archetype Ventures and Draper Nexus Ventures. Adding the 2 million yen (about $18,000) funding from Digital Garage January 2015, Mobingi seems to have raised a total amount of a few tens of million yen (tens of thousand US dollars) in its seed round so far. Mobingi automates management or maintenance (DevOps) of cloud services such as AWS (Amazon Web Services). Targeting SMEs that hardly manage to secure engineers specialized in system management, it provides an environment where engineers may easily focus on development works. Mobingi appeared from the 9th batch of the Open Network Lab accelerator, in addition to also attending a preliminary of Slush, held in Tokyo in October of 2014. Currently it is taking part in 500 Startups’ acceleration batch 15. According to the team, its monthly growth rate has been marking 300%. As of this March, the profit is estimated to be $30,000 and the total profit in 2016 is…

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See the original story in Japanese.

Tokyo-based Mobingi, offering cloud automation service under the same name, announced last November that it had fundraised $125,000 from 500 Startups, and revealed soon afterward that it had additionally secured several tens of million yen (about several hundred thousand dollars) from Archetype Ventures and Draper Nexus Ventures. Adding the 2 million yen (about $18,000) funding from Digital Garage January 2015, Mobingi seems to have raised a total amount of a few tens of million yen (tens of thousand US dollars) in its seed round so far.

Mobingi automates management or maintenance (DevOps) of cloud services such as AWS (Amazon Web Services). Targeting SMEs that hardly manage to secure engineers specialized in system management, it provides an environment where engineers may easily focus on development works.

Mobingi appeared from the 9th batch of the Open Network Lab accelerator, in addition to also attending a preliminary of Slush, held in Tokyo in October of 2014. Currently it is taking part in 500 Startups’ acceleration batch 15. According to the team, its monthly growth rate has been marking 300%. As of this March, the profit is estimated to be $30,000 and the total profit in 2016 is expected to amount to at $1.2 million.

Translated by Taijiro Takeda
Edited by “Tex” Pomeroy

Skydisc lands $855K to enhance detachable sensor packages for agriculture et al.

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Fukuoka-based Skydisc, a Japanese startup focused on developing detachable sensors and cloud services for data management, announced on Wednesday that it has fundraised 100 million yen (about $855,000) from three Japanese VC firms. Participating investors are Nissay Capital (investment arm of Japan’s leading insurance company) , Archetype Ventures (investment arm of Archetype), and Fukuoka-based VC firm Dogan. Since its launch back in October of 2013, Skydisc has been developing a variety of detachable sensor devices and the cloud for storing, then analyzing data from these devices. Prior to founding Skydisc, the company’s founder and CEO Osamu Hashimoto had been committed to the study of data analysis using high-speed distributed processing at Kyushu University. He was also developing sensor devices to acquire data in the study, which led him to launch the Skydisc business. Ginga Box, the company’s flagship sensor product line-up, allows users to choose up to three detachable sensors out of 14 different sensors to plug into a circuit board. Data acquired with these sensors can be monitored on Ginga Cloud, the company’s data management and analysis platform. Skydisc’s devices typically can detect temperature, humidity, three-axis acceleration, carbon dioxide concentration, and PM2.5 (particulate matter 2.5) concentration so that it…

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Skydisc’s Ginga Box detachable sensor series (Image: Fukuoka Startup Selection, Fukuoka City Office)

Fukuoka-based Skydisc, a Japanese startup focused on developing detachable sensors and cloud services for data management, announced on Wednesday that it has fundraised 100 million yen (about $855,000) from three Japanese VC firms. Participating investors are Nissay Capital (investment arm of Japan’s leading insurance company) , Archetype Ventures (investment arm of Archetype), and Fukuoka-based VC firm Dogan. Since its launch back in October of 2013, Skydisc has been developing a variety of detachable sensor devices and the cloud for storing, then analyzing data from these devices.

Prior to founding Skydisc, the company’s founder and CEO Osamu Hashimoto had been committed to the study of data analysis using high-speed distributed processing at Kyushu University. He was also developing sensor devices to acquire data in the study, which led him to launch the Skydisc business.

Ginga Box, the company’s flagship sensor product line-up, allows users to choose up to three detachable sensors out of 14 different sensors to plug into a circuit board. Data acquired with these sensors can be monitored on Ginga Cloud, the company’s data management and analysis platform.

Skydisc’s devices typically can detect temperature, humidity, three-axis acceleration, carbon dioxide concentration, and PM2.5 (particulate matter 2.5) concentration so that it can be applied to environment managing businesses, logistics and distribution, agriculture, and other business sectors. Especially for the agricultural industry, Skydisc already started offering an optimized package called Hatamori, literally meaning vegetable field keeper.

The company claims that they will use the funds to solidify management foundation, hire talents to strengthen developing sensors and analyzing acquired data, in addition to polishing up the product management process for mass-manufactured sensor devices.

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Skydisc CEO Osamu Hashimoto delivers his pitch at Myojo Waraku 2015, Fukuoka, Japan

Via TechCrunch Japan