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Japanese fish delivery startup Hachimenroppi secures $4.5 million funding

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Tokyo-based startup Hachimenroppi, which operates a fish delivery service for restaurants, announced today that it has fundraised about 450 million yen (or $4.4 million) from Recruit Holdings, YJ Capital, DeNA co-founder Shogo Kawada, DeNA (TSE:2432), and Monex Ventures.[1] This follows their previous funding worth $1.5 million in October. Since its launch in April 2011, the company has acquired over 1,000 restaurants as users. The company will use the funds to strengthen their teams in sales and system development as well as expanding logistics facilities. Coinciding with the funds raised at this time, Hachimenroppi also announced that they have partnered with Recruit Lifestyle, the Internet service-focused company under Recruit Holdings. Through the partnership, the fish delivery company will integrate their solution with Recruit’s tablet-based POS (point of sales) system AirRegi, where more than 20,000 restaurants using the POS system will have easy access to the startup’s fish ordering system. YJ Capital is the investment arm of Yahoo Japan (TSE:4689). Monex Ventures is the investment arm of Japanese online brokerage company Monex Group (TSE:8698).  ↩

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Tokyo-based startup Hachimenroppi, which operates a fish delivery service for restaurants, announced today that it has fundraised about 450 million yen (or $4.4 million) from Recruit Holdings, YJ Capital, DeNA co-founder Shogo Kawada, DeNA (TSE:2432), and Monex Ventures.[1] This follows their previous funding worth $1.5 million in October.

Since its launch in April 2011, the company has acquired over 1,000 restaurants as users. The company will use the funds to strengthen their teams in sales and system development as well as expanding logistics facilities.

Coinciding with the funds raised at this time, Hachimenroppi also announced that they have partnered with Recruit Lifestyle, the Internet service-focused company under Recruit Holdings. Through the partnership, the fish delivery company will integrate their solution with Recruit’s tablet-based POS (point of sales) system AirRegi, where more than 20,000 restaurants using the POS system will have easy access to the startup’s fish ordering system.


  1. YJ Capital is the investment arm of Yahoo Japan (TSE:4689). Monex Ventures is the investment arm of Japanese online brokerage company Monex Group (TSE:8698). 

New partnerships announced in Japanese payments processing space

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Recruit Life Style, a subsidiary of Japan’s Recruit Holdings, and US-based payment processing company Square announced yesterday they will integrate Recruit’s register tablet app AirRegi and Square’s payment service Square Register later this month. Both companies jointly started accepting applications from store owners for a combination of these services. At the same time, Japanese payment company Coiney also announced yesterday that it has partnered with NTT East. Coiney’s card-swiping solution will be integrated NTT East’s tablet-based register app Raku Regi, and through this partnership store owners using a combination of their technologies will no longer need to enter the billing amount into two different terminals. On a related note, tabled-based register app Yubiregi partnered with cloud-based accounting solution Freee last October, providing convenience for their users in a somewhat similar way. These integrations can reduce time-consuming work when closing the register at the end of the day, helping retail store owners concentrate on more primary tasks.

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Recruit Life Style, a subsidiary of Japan’s Recruit Holdings, and US-based payment processing company Square announced yesterday they will integrate Recruit’s register tablet app AirRegi and Square’s payment service Square Register later this month. Both companies jointly started accepting applications from store owners for a combination of these services.

At the same time, Japanese payment company Coiney also announced yesterday that it has partnered with NTT East. Coiney’s card-swiping solution will be integrated NTT East’s tablet-based register app Raku Regi, and through this partnership store owners using a combination of their technologies will no longer need to enter the billing amount into two different terminals.

On a related note, tabled-based register app Yubiregi partnered with cloud-based accounting solution Freee last October, providing convenience for their users in a somewhat similar way. These integrations can reduce time-consuming work when closing the register at the end of the day, helping retail store owners concentrate on more primary tasks.