Worked in brand management in the marketing division at P&G. After serving as a product manager at Gree and as the head of a digital marketing consulting firm he joined Meta (then Facebook) as the world’s youngest Head of Vertical and led the launch of an enterprise advertising business division based on AI and machine learning. He also drove the adoption of data-driven marketing in the Japanese market. Founded Minedia in January 2018.
Company
Company
Company Name | Minedia Inc. |
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Address | 107-0052 |
Established | January 11th, 2018 |
Executives | Representative Director and CEO Hiroya SuzukiDirector and CTO Tomoki MatsukuraDirector and CFO Ryota KimuraAuditor Atsushi OgamitaAuditor Mitsushige ItoAuditor Hiroto Shimauchi |
Business Description | providing “Mineds” (integrated SaaS of marketing) |
Legal Counsel | ZeLo, a Foreign Law Joint Enterprise |
Certifications |   |
MISSION
Human data and AI
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After graduating from university he studied in the United States and then returned to Japan. He joined an IT venture at its early stage and took products such as Cyta.jp from system development through monetization. He worked at Gree as a senior engineer on a core product. At Metaps he developed and operated the payment service SPIKE. He joined Minedia as a founder and CTO in 2018.
Joined Dream Incubator after graduating and worked on strategy consulting and M&A advisory for large enterprises and venture companies. Joined Minedia as a founder and CFO in 2018.
History
- 2018
- January
Established
- January
Released the research solution that would become the predecessor of AI Research
- August
Developed a prototype for AI-powered research output generation
- January
- 2019
- January
Began global solution deployment for international business
- September
Conducted R&D for AI-powered research process improvement
- January
- 2020
- February
Enhanced and officially released the remote online qualitative research system
- April
Acquired patent rights for the research solution system
- December
Added AI-powered automatic transcription functionality to the system
- February
- 2021
- August
Released an AI-powered research data accumulation platform co-developed with Shiseido Japan
- September
Began collaboration with Facebook Japan in the data domain Released a data service for visualizing online consumer behavior
- October
Became the first in Japan to publish consumer data on the Snowflake Data Marketplace
- August
- 2022
- January
Minedia's initiatives were featured in Snowflake headquarters' case studies
- April
Launched an industry-academia collaboration project with Nagoya University's Kawaguchi Laboratory in the data domain
- May
Raised 500 million yen in funding from KUSABI and other investors Officially released the data acquisition AI app "Pint"
- January
- 2023
- July
Implemented international support for the AI-powered research solution system Integrated OpenAI's Whisper for transcription in online qualitative research
- August
Achieved the largest volume of email-based cross-conversion data in Japan
- July
- 2024
- April
Became the first in Japan to introduce generative AI-powered research reporting functionality into a research system
- May
Began offering data-driven AI Agent solutions
- October
Presented joint proof-of-concept experiments with Lion Corporation on generative AI-powered marketing solutions and AI Agents at the Japan Marketing Academy
- April
- 2025
- April
Established AI Data Lab. to promote PoC and R&D for advanced technologies
- December
AI Data Lab. announced multiple proprietary AI technology models
- April
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