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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 Grand Building 26F, 8-47 Kakuta-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0017, Japan
(Nearest Stations: 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
Garden Square Room 770, No. 968 West Beijing Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, China (Nearest Station: West Nanjing Road)
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)
Representatives
Yusuke Inagaki, Taira Sakuma
Established
1 April 2008
Capital
100 million yen (as of December 31, 2023)
Employees
1055 (as of December 31, 2023)
*Permanent and contract employees, including those at consolidated subsidiaries. Part-time employees are excluded.
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
General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, NewsPicks Business
Mami Yoshida
Chief Legal Officer, Speeda Business and Head of Risk Management
Ayaka Takeda
Chief Human Resources Officer, Speeda Business and Head of HR Development
Toshifumi Moriya
Chief Operating Officer, Speeda Business
Tomoyuki Ota
Chief Financial & Human Resources Officer, NewsPicks Business
Motoi Nakazato

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
Eugene Seokjin Hahm
External Director
Yasutaka Fukuda
Part-Time Director
Kazuhiro Yamada

Representative Director and Co-CEO/CTOYusuke Inagaki

After graduating from university, Yusuke joined ABeam Consulting Ltd., where he led projects planning company-wide system strategies as well as designing and building a large-scale database for financial institutions. He founded Uzabase in 2008 together with Ryosuke Niino and Yusuke Umeda. He has been Co-CEO/CTO since 2022.

Born in Aichi, Yusuke is fond of a good chat over drinks. In the summer, he can often be found organizing company BBQ parties.

Representative Director and Co-CEOTaira Sakuma

Taira joined Uzabase in 2013. After serving as head of SPEEDA Japan, CEO of FORCAS and INITIAL, and B2B SaaS Business CEO, he became Co-CEO of Uzabase. Prior to Uzabase, he worked at UBS Securities Investment Banking Division, providing financial strategy advisory including M&A and fundraising projects.

A native of Nagasaki. 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

Shinobu is a Certified Public Accountant. After working at a major Japanese auditing firm, she served as consulting manager of international taxation at PwC Tax Japan. Shinobu joined Uzabase in 2014 to manage corporate operations including HR, administration, and legal affairs. She also led various corporate projects including IPO and M&A. She became head of Uzabase Corporate in 2018, COO in 2019, CPO/CAO in 2020, and served as Board Director from 2021 to February 2023. She has been CHRO since February 2023.

Originaly from Kanagawa, Shinobu spent four and a half years in Turkey for family reasons and considers Istanbul to be like her second home. She was the first working mother at Uzabase. Her family once again took her to Thailand in 2019, where she worked remotely for 18 months.

Chief Financial OfficerDaisuke Chiba

After graduating from university, Daisuke joined JAFCO. He then joined Cookpad Inc. and was involved in IPO, budget management, IR, change in stock market listing, M&A, and new business development. After serving as CFO at VASILY (current ZOZO Technologies), he joined Uzabase in 2018 and assumed his current position in 2019. He oversees the Accounting and Finance operations.

Born in Hokkaido, Daisuke is a football fanatic and uses the sport as a metaphor to explain almost everything.

Chief Digital Transformation Officer and UB Research DirectorSeiji Harikae

Seiji holds a master’s degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science and MBA from the University of Texas. He worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in quantitative analysis, internal control management, and M&A advisory, before joining Uzabase in 2019. After managing corporate operations for FORCAS, he became head of corporate development in charge of the B2B SaaS business and COO. He assumed his current position in February 2023.

Originally from Saitama, Seiji's 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".

General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, NewsPicks BusinessMami Yoshida

Mami graduated from the Faculty of Law at Keio University in 2004 and worked as a medical representative for a major pharmaceutical company at the start of her career. She then earned a law degree from the University of Tokyo and joined TMI Associates in 2011, where she handled litigation, labor, fraud investigation, and M&As. She worked as an in-house lawyer at Philips Japan from 2016 before joining Uzabase in 2019. Having launched the NewsPicks legal team in 2021, she was appointed as CLO of the NewsPicks business in 2022 and assumed her current position in July 2024.

Mami spent her childhood in Osaka and still speaks in the Osaka dialect at home. She likes to play the piano, watch baseball games, go to hot springs, and enjoy nature. Her motto is to approach everything with a smile.

Chief Legal Officer, Speeda Business and Head of Risk ManagementAyaka Takeda

A native of Hokkaido, Ayaka studied law at Hokkaido University and graduated in 2008. She joined Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in 2009, where she was primarily involved in domestic and international litigation and disputes, as well as matters related to labor law. She studied in the United States and was admitted to the New York State Bar before training at an Australian law firm, as well as working at the Ministry of Justice and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. After joining Uzabase in November 2019, she has managed legal issues in SPEEDA and other SaaS businesses. She was assigned Group Executive Officer and CLO of SPEEDA in 2022 before assuming her current position in 2023.

Ayaka worked remotely from Hong Kong for two years amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A fan of cats and delicious food, her dream is to one day open a rescue cat cafe in a hot spring resort.

Chief Human Resources Officer, Speeda Business and Head of HR DevelopmentToshifumi Moriya

A graduate of Waseda University, Toshifumi started his career in sales and new business launch at Intelligence (current Persol Career). Later, he launched a freelancer-supporting startup and led its growth as a sales director. He co-founded MIMIR in 2017 and served as its director, joining the Uzabase Group in 2020 through a merger, and assuming his current position in October 2023.

Originally from Chiba, Toshifumi lives in the Shonan area and enjoys surfing. His dream is to surf around the world with his family.

Chief Operating Officer, Speeda BusinessTomoyuki Ota

Tomoyuki joined Uzabase in January 2017. After leading the SPEEDA business, he managed the acquisition of the US company Quartz Media, becoming its CFO in August 2018. He returned to Uzabase in July 2021. Prior to Uzabase, he worked as an investment banker for 14 years at Morgan Stanley Securities and UBS Securities, including at their Silicon Valley office. Ota holds a master’s degree in chemical system engineering from the University of Tokyo School of Engineering, where he conducted research on fuel cell technology.

Tomoyuki spent his childhood in Singapore, returning to Japan for high school. His hobbies are traveling and airplanes. He still dreams of becoming a pilot.

Chief Financial & Human Resources Officer, NewsPicks BusinessMotoi Nakazato

After graduating from the Keio Graduate School of Science and Technology, specializing in mechanical engineering, Motoi worked as a strategic consultant and project manager at Mercer Japan (M&A advisory services) and Corporate Directions (CDI), a turnaround manager at Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan (current Regional Economy Vitalization Corporation of Japan), and a director of Livesense before joining Uzabase. He is a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Management, Globis University and a partner faculty member of Globis.

Originally from Gunma, Motoi loves trees, wild birds, and ukulele. He usually moves around Tokyo on foot and is a connoisseur of roadside trees and old maps.

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.

2024

May.: Partial carve-out of AlphaDrive, Inc.

Jul.: Alignment of domestic SaaS product names under “Speeda”

In July 2022, we moved our headquarters office to a new location in Marunouchi.
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