Leadership
Leadership team
Aza Kai
CEO9+ years engineering experience at Google, working on Data Science, ML and Cloud infrastructure. Architected large-scale ML solutions and led Data Science teams across APAC.
Hiraku Yanagita
COOA digital marketing veteran with 10+ years at Google Japan, specializing in Brand and Data solutions and enterprise analytics.
Floyd Lam
CTO11+ years in platform architecture and engineering leadership, scaling systems across fintech, martech, and real estate technology.
Team
Nine nationalities.
Engineering across four regions.
Tokyo headquarters
Inspired.Lab, 6F Otemachi Building
1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0004, Japan
Built across borders
Our team brings together nine nationalities, with engineering across Japan, the US, Europe and Asia.
Track record
Milestones
- Jul 2026 — Began delivering DeepFrame to paid pilot customers.
- Jul 2026 — Won the OpenAI pitch contest in Kyoto.
- Jun 2026 — Co-created NARU Bench, an academic benchmark for long-form Japanese video understanding.
- Jun 2026 — First public-sector deployment went live.
- Feb 2026 — Raised our seed round, led by UTEC.
- Dec 2025 — Launched TVPulse, our broadcast analytics product.
- Oct 2025 — Selected for the AWS Generative AI Accelerator.
- Jul 2025 — Selected for GENIAC (METI × NEDO), with joint research at the University of Tokyo.
- Jan 2025 — Joined NVIDIA Inception.
Investors & partners
Backed by leading names.
How we work
Six principles.
01 · Extreme ownership
Own outcomes, end to end.
02 · Player-coach
Build the work and move the team.
03 · AI-fluent generalist
Delegate what AI can do; spend time on judgment.
04 · Honesty over optimism
Own commitments and flag trouble early.
05 · Proximity when it counts
Work together when the work needs it.
06 · Quality earns trust
Raise the bar every release.