| 2013 |
Raised a total of $800,000 in seed round funding from three VC firms: STRIVE, GMO Venture Partners, and CyberAgent Ventures. |
| 2013-03 |
Founded in San Francisco as the U.S. corporation 'KAIZEN platform, Inc.' |
| 2013-04 |
Established the Japan branch of KAIZEN platform, Inc. |
| 2013-08 |
Launched the 'Kaizen Platform Enterprise Edition' and began operating the Site Solution Business. |
| 2013-08 |
Raised a total of $800,000 in seed round from three VC firms: STRIVE, GMO Venture Partners, and CyberAgent Ventures. |
| 2014-03 |
Raised a total of $5,000,000 in Series A from two VC firms: Eight Roads Ventures Japan and STRIVE. |
| 2016-02 |
Raised a total of $8,000,000 in Series B. |
| 2016-08 |
Launched 'Kaizen Ad' and began operating the Kaizen Ad business. |
| 2017-04 |
Established Kaizen Platform Co., Ltd. in Minato-ku, Tokyo with a capital of 9 million yen. |
| 2017-04 |
Established Kaizen platform USA, Inc. in San Francisco. |
| 2017-04 |
Established Kaizen Platform Inc. (now our company) in Minato-ku, Tokyo, with capital of 9 million yen, and established Kaizen Platform USA, Inc. in San Francisco. |
| 2017-11 |
The video advertising marketplace 'Kaizen Ad' obtained Facebook/Instagram Marketing Partner certification. |
| 2017-12 |
Raised a total of 530 million yen in Series C. |
| 2017-12 |
Raised a total of 530 million yen in Series C funding (capital of 273,999,672 yen). |
| 2018-05 |
Released 'KAIZEN TEAM for X'. |
| 2018-08 |
Certified as an official partner for Facebook's latest ad format, 'Playable Ads'. |
| 2019-01 |
Entered into a capital and business alliance with NTT Ad Co., Ltd. |
| 2019-01 |
Entered into a capital and business partnership with NTT Ad (capital of 520,399,9547 yen). |
| 2019-03 |
Entered into a capital and business alliance with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. |
| 2019-03 |
Entered into a capital and business partnership with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (capital of 639,399,9547 yen). |
| 2019-06 |
'Kaizen Ad' was selected for Google's 'App Preferred Creative' and obtained partner approval for the YouTube Creative Partner Program. |
| 2019-06 |
'Kaizen Ad' selected for Google's 'App Preferred Creative' partner program, chosen among only 8 companies worldwide. |
| 2019-06 |
Obtained partner approval for Google's 'YouTube Creative Partner' program. |
| 2019-10 |
'Kaizen Ad' was certified as a video creative provider in Amazon's Service Provider Network. |
| 2019-10 |
'Kaizen Ad' certified as a video creative provider in Amazon's 'Service Provider Network'. |
| 2020 |
Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. |
| 2020-02 |
Hosted the large DX event 'DX Drive2020'. |
| 2020-03 |
Published the book 'DX Introduction: Deliver Results in 90 Days'. |
| 2020-04 |
Established DX Catalyst Co., Ltd. in a joint venture with NTT Ad. |
| 2020-04 |
Established DX Catalyst Inc. as a joint venture with NTT Ad. |
| 2020-05 |
Released 'KAIZEN Sales'. |
| 2020-07 |
Co-provided the 'DX Talent Development Course' with NewsPicks. |
| 2020-08 |
Released 'KAIZEN TV'. |
| 2020-12 |
Published '#DX White Paper 2021'. |
| 2020-12 |
Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. |
| 2020-12 |
Released 'KAIZEN School'. |
| 2021-02 |
Hosted the large-scale DX event 'DX Drive 2021'. |
| 2021-03 |
Started providing the taxi advertising package 'KAIZEN Ad for GROWTH' and the YouTube official channel support 'KAIZEN VIDEO for YouTube'. |
| 2021-03 |
Started offering the 'KAIZEN Ad for GROWTH' package for taxi advertising through a business partnership with News Technology. |
| 2021-03 |
Launched 'KAIZEN VIDEO for YouTube', supporting companies' official YouTube channels. |
| 2021-04 |
Started offering 'DXAcademia', a DX support service in collaboration with NewsPicks. |
| 2021-07 |
Launched the official YouTube channel 'DX Career Academy'. |
| 2021-07 |
Officially started providing 'KAIZEN Consulting'. |
| 2021-07 |
'KAIZEN Sales' was certified as a qualifying service for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's 'IT導入補助金 2021' (IT Implementation Subsidy 2021). |
| 2021-08 |
Acquired shares of D-Zero Co., Ltd. and made it a subsidiary. |
| 2021-09 |
Started offering 'KAIZEN Site Renewal' in partnership with D-Zero Inc. |
| 2021-10 |
Revised the corporate identity. |
| 2021-11 |
Published '#Video White Paper 2022'. |
| 2021-12 |
Published '#DX White Paper 2022'. |
| 2022-01 |
Started supporting improvements in web accessibility. |
| 2022-03 |
Joined the Amazon Ads Partner Network. |
| 2022-05 |
Started providing a municipal website construction solution in partnership with KDDI. |
| 2022-07 |
'KAIZEN SALES' was certified as a qualifying tool for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's 'IT導入補助金 2022' (IT Implementation Subsidy 2022). |
| 2022-07 |
Renovated and updated 'KAIZEN ENGINE' and started providing the front-end development team 'UX Dev TEAM'. |
| 2022-07 |
'KAIZEN SALES', a sales DX service, certified as a qualifying tool for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's 'IT Introduction Subsidy 2022'. |
| 2022-09 |
Established the 'Growth Hacker Way', defining a new way of working in the digital-first era. |
| 2022-10 |
Acquired shares of Hiwell Inc. and made it a subsidiary. |
