UPWARD, Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Ryosuke Kaneki; hereinafter “UPWARD”) has conducted a third-party allocation of shares with Draper Nexus Venture Partners Ⅱ, LLC (Location: San Mateo, California), Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of Salesforce.com, Inc. (Japanese corporation: Salesforce Japan Co., Ltd. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & Chairman and CEO: Shinichi Koide)), Japan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Shuichi Okuhara), and Archetype Ventures (Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Jun Nakajima) as subscribers, raising a total of approximately 3 billion yen.
UPWARD is a cloud service for field sales that “makes sales activities easier.” It enables “easy activity management” via smartphones through advanced integration of CRM (Customer Relationship Management System) and maps/location information, and has been implemented in approximately 200 companies, primarily in the large manufacturing industry.
The location information utilization SaaS field is expected to expand rapidly in the future due to improvements in location positioning accuracy through smartphone sensor functions and quasi-zenith satellite systems.
Through this funding, UPWARD will develop functions that support input in the field using artificial intelligence, and aim for further market expansion.
UPWARD CO., LTD. PROVIDES DX SERVICES SPECIALIZED IN SOLVING ISSUES OF FIELD WORKERS WHO VISIT THE FIELD AND CREATE VALUE THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACT WITH CUSTOMERS, BASED ON ITS PURVIEW OF "DRAWING OUT THE CREATIVITY OF FIELD WORKERS AND ACCELERATING THE GROWTH OF COMPANIES AND SOCIETY". BY LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WORKERS CAN PERFORM THEIR TASKS WITH A SINGLE MOBILE DEVICE, WE AIM TO CREATE A WORLD IN WHICH THEY CAN BE ACTIVE REGARDLESS OF WHERE AND HOW THEY WORK.
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